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Show I ONE NIGHT IN GAMBLING DENS Common Scenes in Life Where Honor Is at a Difi-connt. Difi-connt. I HOW YOUNG MEN ARK DECOYED INTO CRIME Temptations That Leave Poor Laborers Without a Hollar Hol-lar tor Bread. H Two o'clock in the morning' The wind H 1i piercingly cold, the streets and sldc- B walks are covered with hard, frozen HJ Walk up and down Main street; it Is al- mint deserted, here and there u pollce- B' man. a cab-driver, a reporter htirrvlng to cover a "rush" assignment, a little group IH of men who have had so much enjoyment thai they hnve forgotten the hour A few 1 all-night snioons ami Restaurants look H'. cheerful: the remainder of the street I in dui lenesi Into Another World. Go half n block east on Second South street n nd the scene changes so completely com-pletely that It Is like walking Into an-other an-other World. Here are four gambling h..if-- within n few feet of each Other I k In. watch the piny for a little while, then decide for yourself whether or not gambling In Salt I.ulo must stop. Familiar Faces If you have, br en here Ionic enough to get acquainted with the town, to know Iih people thoroughly, you win see. many familiar faces. There ure from forty to 100 patrons in each house, even at this hour of the night, and. If you are pouted, you will know that not one in twenty of tlie.i nii-n who ure throwing awuy Ihelr caah art in circumstances that permit their risking a single dollur, even If all the game were "suuiue.'" and the are not. Gambling In Salt Lake must ' Imh-First Imh-First Step to Crime. I Here n u yourig clerk and bookkeeper, i occupy Ing a position Where he bundles large sums ,,f ni..ney h. longing to other persons, His salary does not exceed jhj per month, lie bought $- worth of I Checks at the "bank." lo.it hit stack In i half an lion s play. Wat furnished three K or four free drinks bj the house and as tii'- liquor begin i work and be reflects f upon the loss of his cash he determines a that lie must get some more money and I get even. Before morning comes he Is & 11"" "to the bad," and ban gone several I Steps down the ladder of self-respect, i high principle and manhood. Gambling BH i In Sail laike m.iM close Needed at Home j Here Is a hard-wot king laborer, lie bus . a large family and Sickly wife ills clothes .ire patched and his face is can-i can-i worn. Just to be a "good fellow" he 1 ..line In early In the evening with a fTlend. staked $1 and won f, More than ; likely Ills winning was b "bait" thrown out to draw hint on. He has lost the $5. lost his week's wages, and now he stands disconsolate, watching the stream of coin flowing Into (he cash drawer, ashamed to I go bom. broke yt not having the price ! of a bed down town. Gambling In Sj.t I Iike meat close. Losses of Plunger. Here is a well-known traveling man i who has many customers In Salt Lake I He hps worked hard all da , sold several I. large bills and, to celebrate his good for- tune. Indulged In several bottles of wine Thi loss of or JT5 means little to him, H- but as the luck Is against him he. with his Judgment weakened by the eham-pagn eham-pagn begins to plunge. In an hour he has lost S5C0. and when the telegraph of-H' of-H' dec opens he will notify his house to H wire him more mon , adding, ' letter following will explain " Gambling In Salt V Lake must close. I Police Know of Evil. Here comes In a blue-oatrd policeman He, better than most men, recognizes and j Understands the extent of the evil wrought by the gambling dens, but policemen, po-licemen, like soldiers, nre trained to "obey orders." and Thief Lynch has i neVer told him to enforce the law. So be watches carelessly the groups of play-j play-j ers, the proprietors, cool and hard-heart- ed. count up their cash and turn the sfe 1 dbor on thfl profits of the day. nods to the night manager and walks downstairs to J nbev the Chief's orders in picking up ' some homeless. friendless. penniless i wreck, whose only chanco for a bed Is B In the city Jail. Gambling In Salt Lake must close. |