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Show A Priuorly dnuibler. . f' New York Wur.d. Baccarat is uot a game like whist or euchre, played primarily for amusement. amuse-ment. It is a gambling gamo, like faro, played solely for money. It is a game of the "professional," "blackleg" kind. The Prince of Wales is supposed to ba not only a gentleman, but the social chief of Hritisli aristocratic life, the ex-ntnplar ex-ntnplar and maker of manners. He will presently become the head of the nation and also of the church both the Episcopal establishment of England and the Presbyterian establisniueut of Scotland, lit! is born to represent law and religion in bis own person. Nevertheless, when he is a guest in a countrvhouse he opens "a quiot game" of baccarat as any othergaiubler might do. He becomes the baccarat banker as he might become the faro banker, and with him men and women play for stakes so high that the value of single counters H fixed at 10 or jriQ. No magistrate thinks of arresting him for doing what au ordinary gambler would be sent to prison for doing. When he enters court to give testimony concerning his law-breaking tha entire audience rises to receive him and he is placed upon the bench beside the judge as an honored guest. And when his gambling losses nud his othersquander-ings othersquander-ings bring him into trouble he asks the bread-earners of Great Britain to pay his debts for him. How long are. the "plain people" of Great Britain going to stand the false system which makes of this gambler, j debauchee and idler their destined rulor j aud exalts him to the headghip of both the church and the state? |