| Show II fashionable GAMBLING IT is stated by those who claim to have m made ade a study of the subject that the mode of life the means by which it is made comfortable or otherwise its uncertainties vicissitudes and kaleidoscopic unfold unfolding inge constitute a practice which when engaged in with TV cards pr other entities of a gameos chance we call gambling it is asserted with due solemnity one who is pushing along in the avenues avenues of life expects to give las as much as he gets but his expectations are reversed often enough to maintain something like a social equipoise and this is all so much gambling looking out for something good to come whish has not been feuy earned and a strong hope for chance if not as a belief plate inextricably with honest effort and per stent toil the disposition in man which prompts him to invest money time or labor in an enterprise th athas no legitimate basis to rest upon and abd the only profits expected are those which result from others losses vis the incentive and indulged in leads to gambling no matter what it may ie be call called edgr or how skillfully fully it maybe mas quera ded this desire to increase ones gains and acquire money through the avenues of mere against 0 others who have the same expectation is never to be feared when viewed from a distance it is only when it is dabbled in that it begins to take hold bold and the acquaintance is more easily formed than broken off like other vices it is a monster of such hideous mien to be despised needs only to be seen seed L but bat once beheld familiar with its face we first andare then pity then embrace but when en to the gravamen of the case Is s added such adornments and allure ments as are unobjectionable in ia themselves and by means of which those who would acorn the idea of engaging in gambling moling ga when conducted as such per se are drawn into the toils it is then cven even worse then w when eu conducted under ats its proper name and in ia places devoted to that exclusive purpose P ose tatie T 11 recent break in comstock shares and t the lie great tumble in wall street eniti only a day or two ago illustrate the vice in its sugar coated condition speculators Invest edS largely in the chares of some particular mining company not because they expected legitimate returns from the mine by means of which their investments vestments ha would be increased but because they looked for the little flurry occasioned on change by reason of finding a small quantity of ore 19 it what were justifiably considered exhausted fissures to hold bold on a short time thus keeping up the ascending movement until it got as high in their judgment as it would go when they would unload their stocks upon the market pocket the original investments with the profits added and let somebody else look toward the nadir while they whistled in glee of course a few won of course also agrest a great many more lost in order order that the few might winand in all this proceeding from first to last a dozen bozen men made a million each and a hundred tao thousand usand lost the last dollar thus presenting the appearance of a perhaps hundred meion dollar transaction toe tae mount remount of real value on which the exchanges were effected riot not amounting to a hundredth part of it that oat was gambling in new york where here many men think of nothing else but the flood and ebb tide of stock quotations where every investment is simply so much betting that the eular calar stock drawn upon will rise on the board and where yesterday so many speculators got squeezed in short purchases which ibid to lo be brought vp up to 10 a certain r point by direct payments thal throwing lw good money after bad that cash corm command band ed the phenomenal figure of a dollar slid and a half premium on a d dollar 01 they simply gambled gamble donly only that and d nothing in more ore nor less but the law ta w does not oppose it how could it when law makes law expounders ex an and d law practitioners are engaged engage in I 1 n the business as earnestly and zealously as those who know no better and quit it if they did |
