Show A RULE OF RUIN while the supreme court of california is taking vigorous measures for the suppression of stock gambling the council of oakland have been consid ering an ordinance against public pool selling in that city but the ordinance has failed there is a useful pointer in this to the corrupt tendencies of municipal government it adds oakland to the listef list of cities which are ruled by the vicious element an act of the council expressly licensing gambling houses would not more squarely give notice to the world that the gamblers of oakland are running the city the chronicle in speaking of there the re ejected measure declares that a large majority of the citizens were in favor of its passage the experience of other cities that have had bad their struggle with vice shows that an ordinary majority in such a case will not count the vitality of this post pest of society to is such that you may chop the body asunder and with wilh the head intact and the mouth in a vigorous condition it will revive and before you can turn round it will swallow you at a gulp this is what it has done for san ban francisco for chicago for sacramento and for new york cincinnati and denver are in its clutches and we might say in its laws jaws for while they are still making a show of resistance the monster has got a foul grip on them that makes struggling a vain endeavor salt lake city is 18 not exactly turned over into the hands bands of the gamblers the rum sellers and the habitual patrons of vice but it is 18 getting there fast As with oakland the element of decency and good order ts Is in the majority but the minority beems to be invigorated with audacity mure than sufficient to equalize things just now it to is making a liberali liberal effort for supremacy and if it succeeds will in a short time do very much as it pleases pleas |