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Show STOCKS VS. FARO. A Ulstlctlon Without a Difference. There is somothiug amusing to a comprehensive moralist in the rage of law against gambling, and its toleration tolera-tion of gambling in ita worst, its most demoralizing, its most destructive form. Everybody knows that the money lost and gained in the gambling hells is as nothing compared with the money lo.t and gained every day on California street the most horrible gambling hell on the American continent, with the exception, perhaps, of Wall street, New York. Let it be granted that the ' professional gambler che;its; but there is nothing so utterly base, dishonest and inhuman, as the cheating of a stock "ring," which runs up or down the stock of a particular mine, merely to . tempt outsiders into tho trap, and then mercilessly to rob them of their money. And wo know that while the professional profes-sional gambler the furo-dcaler is a person watched by tho police, the "cornercrs" of stocks are among tho richest, most fashionable, most powerful, power-ful, most "enterprising," most respectable, respec-table, most church-going men of the city. Robbery, in the cyo of the law, is a serious offence. To pick the pocket or break into the house of a private individual, is a crime punishable punish-able by imprisonment. But it is well ff known that a stock "ring" may "bull" or bear stock, lor tue purpose or plundering the community, with the greatest impunity. California Republican. |