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Show RiciiiHD A. PaocTEK proposes a new plan for stopping gambling. He suggests that a law be paeaed by which gambling debts will be made recoverable within three days, under penalty of imprisonment or flogging. It is certain that such a law would check gaming and put a atop to a good deal ot the seriously injurious playing the playing that ofteneat results in robbery, embezzlement and suicide. Gambling debts cannot be collected by law, but they are debts ol honor, and are more promptly paid than any other class of unsecured obligation?. In order to pay one of these debta not a few men who play win steal, ruD anu violate social irusia. If the jail stood open to them when they went beyond their puree limits, it would deter many from accepting tho risk. However, it would hardly do to adopt Mr. Proctor's plaD, as it would be countenancing, recognizing and even legalizing gambling. |