Show FROM A BUSINESS STANDPOINT For the consideration of oC the business businessmen businessmen men of oC the tho City wo we respectfully sub Bub suit the question whether In their opinion legitimate business can be supposed to be stimulated b by the n fine In souls that centers In the lire stock stockade ado ade and has Its ramifications all through the City As an illustration It is s well known t that an any form or of gambling gambling on a large lare scale Is ruinous to the legitimate business of oC nn any community In which It Is tolerated For that reason It has lIas been Inter Interdicted almost ever every everywhere where the hotel keepers and an another other business men of oC Nice have havo dl n a petition to the French premier pre premier mier askinG for Cor restriction of o that particular form of oC evil and It may maybe maybe be get et down as IL a fact that thal the poll pell from a business standpoint f j know whereof the they spoke It was not co clence but actual loss that I prompted them They rhey showed that during the past paste year e r eight gambling houses netted t I I and that so o many man v visitors were ruined mined that the hotels hotch and mer merchants merchants chants are arc unable to collect their Ii II Last Jast y year ar the number of oC failures In Nice ran up to an Increase of oC lit HiO compared with the preceding ln year ear Among the victim thus forced Into were tailors dressmakers dressmaker I restaurant and others dependent ent more or 01 less on travelers and tourists to for I their patronage They showed In other words that which ought to have been cn spent for hotel blue bills food clothing souvenIrs Irs etc WWI was wasted In dime tho of oC that are arc open da day and night and frequented by both men Inca and wom women women en enThis This Is true about gambling dens They rhey are aro n a detriment to business But 1 la It not equally true truo of oC mho tho dispensaries of oC other forms forma of oC sin The young non num who Is Induced to spend his wages and his manhood In tho nests of oC harlots Is not tho upon whom can depend for progress and material advancement The man who Is sober anI and who takes taro enro of oC his earnings and buys buB a horns homo for himself and n a wife who rears children to become useful citizens aid church Is the tho man on whom business must depend Licensed vice Is n a poison polson that penetrates tes to every part o of the body bOd politic and business feels tho effects or of It Tho only kind of oC business that Is stimulated b by thu operation of oC the dons dens of oC the tho under underworld underworld world are arc those which are nIC a 11 curse cured to the tho community As l a matter or of self seU protection It seems to us the business businessmen men of Sull Sall Lake Lako ought to demand of oC the SL the tho maintenance ot of the tho law protected vIce |