Show congressional gamblers rev dr hawks in his thanksgiving sermon in on esterday yesterday thus referred to a subject which aghas i hab has awakened a fie flesh tiesh sh interest inheres t jn in the them public mind nitice the late reports of the auction at Pendle tons cod oon congressional r gambling Z house in washington within wilbin ih the p last few weeks only we have had bad appalling evidence odthe of the downward tendency dene y I 1 of that at course gil bil on which we are are traveling and n 1 ft t requires but a childs foresight io to see the certain end 1 in the ghigli places of the land aye and even among those who bitin the highest councils I 1 almost under the eave caves ii of the he very capitol and in a city bearing a name which ch of itself alone one might was wab sufficient to kindle the warmest glow of patriotism what hat have we not s een seen the revelations of a gambling hell have hilve told a fearful story there were found the obligations unpaid of some of our highest t legislators fordest for debts debt contracted contract edat at the gaming table and of same bome some of ot the public prints is no obscure 9 one h that thai en cn important questions I 1 of the deepest n national a t I 1 orial interest vote shave snave been controlled by byrhe bynie means ans of the power powe r which a professed gambler gaall er h has as wielded vi 1 elded in the pos possession sessi on of the moneyed obligations ligat ions of so called i we have no doubt of the accuracy of the picture here bei presented the ile gambling bells of Pennsylvania aVenue are the et andin bk i attractions t tr of t the e national capital the halls hails a ils of Pend pendleton letory arld ot others hers bers have been forbears for lor years constantly attended by senators and representatives senta tives w whose 0 S e success or ill success in in fighting the tiger as it i is s called calle d would account for not a few of the e eccentricities of federal legislation about two years years ago when ihn ehn allegan allegations torie toris of corruption against melk mern members beri berk of congress were the subject of investigation we remember hearing it stated A that at the members whose votes on land grants and nd other schemes were mo most sl suspected erle were efte the most assiduous attendants tend ants at the faro table some of them were heads of families and held respectable positions in society and in the church butche temptations of the gambler were too strong for the virtue of men giving away from the restraining influences of home of course course men who have been plucked to the last penny b by y shar pers and who see ruin and degradation staring them in the face are aret in just the condition tobe tampered with their personal independence and i elf respect are gone and their official integrity necessarily follows forgetting their accountability to their constituents they become the retained attorneys and loby agents of speculators and jobbers in public corruption and aud sell their votes to the highest bidder it was recently recent fy stated by a washington correspondent that the fa fate te of the kansas bill was settled over the tables of pendleton and alid not without a certain degree of probability for a great many measures of less moment have undoubtedly been thus determined we hive have always alays questioned the efficacy of I 1 laws aws against gambli gambling g without however questioning in the right to legislate against gambling hou houses ses as nuisances to the community when however these establishments are able 0 to o corrupt the source of public law and to interfere with momentous public interests the nuisance attains a magnitude demanding the gravest attention there is not virtue enough in a congress som some e of whose most influential members are so deeply implicated nor in their pliant and be 1 servitor the mob of the district of columbia to suppress the disgrace and perhaps the trie only resource is in holding the more distinguished gamblers up to reprehension by name in other words lo 10 make a rogues gallery 1 ery of congressional portraits N Y evening post nov kov 25 |