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Show cil. It's the public that encourages tho faro table, the roulette wheel and all other species of chance. Tho public doesn't hunt them out either to ca.st its money In their lieklo laps. It goes there to win just as the man who plays on Wall street. One is legitimate as the other. If ho loses at either lot him take his medicine like a man. Nothing iug is more detestible to manly humanity human-ity than the fellow who rants and squeals at disappointments. If tho public want to wipe out the tiekld thing let the public keep away from its sanctuary. That's the only weapon I know of with which to successfully assail as-sail gambling." A SPIRIT jniOE It Flopa its Wings and Vociferously Declare! De-clare! Against Varietj of Popular Evils. AN ALDERMAN SUMS UP THE Theater, Saloon and Gaming Table as a Bourse of Revenue A Conservative Con-servative View, At a signaffrom Marshal Young tho gambling house keepers went before Judge Limey's shrine and dropped $100 each in the slot. This was a raise of 25 above the old orthodoi ante, and reveals sto the disciples of the fickle goddess that they will in the future be called on to pay the fiddler regularly. "Tha spirit of reform has begun to flop its wing," remarked an alderman last evening, "and there is scarce telling tell-ing to what latitudes it will undertake to soar. I am in hearty sympathy with r anything that contemplates the sup-y sup-y f yressiou of the dive- the academy of Ji crime and the elimination of the tin ij horn, the rounder aud the bum. This fts the source of 00 per cent of the law-I law-I lessness that has made it necessary for tk marshal to resort to heroic meas-and meas-and as the law countenances no discrimination, however much it may tolerate, the aristocratic must suffer with the Mib-stratum. Mib-stratum. There U a serious phase in this whole thing and it is one with which the brightest minds have struggled strug-gled and failed. Here we are today confronted with drafts from every direction. di-rection. The streets must be paved, the sidewalks must be provided for, the sewerage must be extended, the water and gas service must be taken care of, the police and fire departments must be maintained, and these are but a few of . the things that must have feed from true municipal till. Now then, from the saloons and gambling houses there is derived an annual revenue of over $100,000. To discard this would be au enormous tribute to wailing fanaticism. I believe in reform, but I believe that it should be administered in doses that the malady requires. Don't appeal to homtvpatliy when alopathy is the thing, and don't resort to the alopathie when the homti'pathic is required. The question ques-tion of whether we can afford to interfere inter-fere with and curtail the resources of the city at this time is entitled to more attention than that which hasty whim and impulsive prejudice can possibly bestow upon it. Take the Colorado cities that have rashly experimented with the problem and you liud a stern lesson. JS'ow there is the liccuso that was solicited by Reynolds & Co. It was denied them. The question then arises, Ls not that an example of discrimination dis-crimination in the eyes of the law. The interstate law was enacted by congress con-gress to thwart discrimination and towns and cities of every class have raised their voices ngaiust it. For my- elf I am willing to admit, and that too, in open court, that I voted to allow the license; not, however, before I had been to the theater and satisfied my-elf my-elf as to the manner in which it was conducted. I saw nothing that whs any more offensive to my idea of propriety pro-priety than I saw at tho Salt Lake theater when that wilderness of anatomy, anat-omy, some of it decidedly rugged anatomy, too, comes forth and poses before a packed house with nothing be- between the vision and nudity, but a flinsy, almost transparent trappery. Now there is a case where the performance perfor-mance was rendered legitimate by the bourn in which it was produced. It was discretionary with Culchaw that shudders and recoils from such things whether it went the second night but"! observed that there was no falling off in the attendance or the fierce rivalry for seats. Now I confess that 1 never saw at the Franklin avenue theater anything that was suggestive of as much vulgarity as I have seen at many of the play houses of the east and west and for that reason I have said by my vote in open session of the council let it go ahead. It is an enterprise from which the merchant rather than the city derives the revenue. It puts through actual necessity over $")0,00i) ' per annum into the world of commerce. Tho proprietors have invested over !10,030 in it$ Jercction and equipment and so - long as the residents of that locality have not lilod against it is a source of annoyance I can't understand un-derstand how it can .offend the man Vi ho never goes to such places. I am still slanitinj by my record and claim , ns :t principle of fairness that there uliouhi bo absolute Impartiality in the distribution of 11 franchisos." "What is to bu the policy with reference ref-erence to gambling?" . " "That I believe ha not been determined deter-mined through any action of th coun-- coun-- - - '- |