Show THE GAMBLING PASSION THE respectable public of america la Is pausing so to speak to see am what the respectable public of england and europe is going to say about the prince of wales scandal there is already an audible undertone in american circles which if we interpret it rightly means a mighty revolt against the gambler in all of his guises but america feels that england thanks to the heir apparent to her throne has earned the privilege at least to take the initiation step in the great crusade but whether Ein english glish society takes a aland for the suppression of the iniquity or not the signs of the times portend a roar from this side of the water pretty soon that will be heard even beyond the english channel it was once simply a social disgrace to the people who for years sent their chief gamblers to represent them in the important concerns of the government but the vice is now manifesting the symptoms of a national passion the expense of which is something very much like the burden of a public tax the people may for awhile smile at the disgrace of a vice but when from a disgrace it develops into a system of wholesale robbery and they have to foot the bills the case cam becomes more serious in the hundreds of banks that have been plundered and public treasuries looted by thieving employees gambling in some form has been at the bottom of the crime either speculating in futures or the no avs abominable practice of horse race gambling in which our senators and congressmen take a peculiar interest has led the otherwise capable cashier or treasurer into the use of money not his own and so the people are plundered while the theory of public horse racing may be all right in point of en cou raging the cultivation of valuable stock with the pool selling and bookmaking attachment its reaction on the public morals Js is debauching debau ching no i modern vice receiving th the e sanction of law has done more to degrade the man hood of the present generation |