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Show 1 Tho gambler's llfo Is not a happy ono. In Salt Lake at least that Is true. Ho Is made tho buffer of political ' and other schemers, whlted sepul chres, who maintain a semblanco of respectability, but within aro lllled with urcleauncss. Tho gambler Is an acknowledged outlaw and thore-( thore-( foro cannot protect himself against thoso who while presenting tho appearance ap-pearance of decency and respectability aro not above making tho gambler their prey. Yet many of tho open and self confessed gamblers are bettor than thoso who assumo tho holler than thou I attitudes. Tho same thing npplles to tho publicans and sinners who aro. designated as saloon keepers and who dispense liquid damnation to the "holler" than thou people who con-1 con-1 sumo It In secret. In every election tho gambler nnd tho saloon keeper Is made an Issue. All parties want their votes but nt tho samo time they want tho votes of tho "holler than thou" pooplo nnd nlso tho votes of tho honest, genuine, substantial, well meaning portion of tho community. Tho scheme of tho politician is to j1) "con" both elements. That's what tho il politicians have been doing moro or j less successfully In Salt Lako for years and years. Tho lato Democratic administration was elcted partly on tho expressed understanding that It would give the city a good, clean, moral and honest government, while-. while-. at tho same tlmo It hnd n secret understanding un-derstanding with tho gnmblors nnd " others of tho "half world" that tholr business would not bo molested. Tho if result was that for two years Salt j -Lako was a "wide open town." j Gambling wns net only not dlscour- ( . .aged, but wns fostered and protected. Tho saloons ran openly seven days l and seven nights a week. Games of chanco of all kinds went not only unmolested, un-molested, but encouraged and tho profits were participated in by thoso whoso duty It was to suppress lawbreakers law-breakers and particularly to uphold tho municipal ordinances. Last autumn au-tumn tho "American" party posed as a party of reform, a party that stood for good government, tho purity of tho homo and the observance' of tho Sabbath Sab-bath and above all as the invetrato enemy en-emy of gambling. When tho "Americans" "Amer-icans" took the reins of government the only thing they did in the direction of good government was to make a bluff at suppressing gambling. It was only a bluff, however. Nothing serious was done nnd nothing serious was intended. in-tended. Gambling went on as of yore. So did tho other ovils which nourished under tho fostering caro of tho previous pre-vious administration. Now comes tho oi-gans of tho two parties which opposed op-posed tho "Americans" and scores tho administration and holds it up to ignominy ig-nominy and scorn for doing exactly what their parties did when In power. Tho Herald and tho Inter-Mountain Re-ubllcan Re-ubllcan da'ly prato about gambling and Sunday liquor selling which wore permitted per-mitted nnd fostered by tho parties they represent when they were in power. Tho "Americans" as a consequence, have been goaded into doing something some-thing In crder to keep tholr standing with the so-called religious element and after much prodding tho city authorities au-thorities are making a renewed bluff at stopping gambling. Tho gambler Is considered tho legitimate prey of all political parties and they don't neglect to proy upon him for campaign asses-ments asses-ments nnd to make political capital out of him in every possible way. A gambler's life is not a happy ono. Any unbiased and disinterested person per-son who reads the two reports of the committee of tho United States senate sen-ate on privileges and elections in tht caso of United States Senator Smoot can reach but one conclusion, that is that tho Justice of tho matter and tho brains of the committee Is contained in tho minority report. Tho majority report, to use a slang but at tho same tlmo an expression expressive, Is "faked." Suberfugo, cunning, assumption assump-tion that things have been proved which were not only not proved, but postively disproved aro the basis of tho majority report. It Is such a report ns might bo oxpected to ominatc from' fakirs liko Dubois and Burrows. The minority report on" tho contrary Is a clear, clean cut, logical presentation presenta-tion of tho issues. Tho master minds of Senators Knox and Foraker aro dls-f2rned dls-f2rned In It. It Is incisive, goes to tho root of tho matter, and from a legal and constitutional standpoint leaves not ovon ono leg for the majority report re-port to stand upon nnd demonstrates that Mr. Smoot is as clearly and Justly Just-ly entitled to his seat as any senator who was over elected to tho United States senate. There is no doubt as to tho outcome. Mr. Smoot will bo retained by a very decisive vote. It Is a groat pity that the senate cannot, bo prevailed upon to take It up and pottle it at tho present session of corgress, as everybody is tired of tho whole business. Burrows and Dubois, tho prosecutors, who If thoy were endowed en-dowed with half of common decency would decline to act on tho committee, aro responsible for tho delay in tho final adjudication of tho matter. They know their caso is lost and they aro sparring for tlmo and have been doing do-ing so far a year. Tho fact. that Senator Burrows is. of a Mormon fnmily, virtually an apostate Mormon, was n rovelation to most people. But It Is true and tho Herald scored a scoop of considerable proportions when it made the first announcement of It. It accounts largely for tho virulent attitude of Burrows against Mr. Smoot. |