Show GAMBLING GREAT AND SMALL gambling la Is one of the curses of the present day not merely mercay the small gambling which is car carrieth carri eil on in back alleys and obscure places but the gambling which goes on oil it ic the chambers of commerce the boards of trade and the stock exchanges purchases and sales of commodities anil stocks when the sellers have nothing to sell self and the purchasers have no intonation Inton int tion of receiving the goods this be called business but it is nothing more nor less than gambling ane ani in some respects it Is s worse than danl gambling at the card table first it Is oo 00 a larger scale than the gambling in fit the houses lino known wn as gambling houses and second the men who gamble on tile the markets sometimes control the markets and thus take an unfair advantage of those who enter into the game with them A corporation whose stock rests upon actual value does not furnish much of an opportunity for exploitation what the gambler wants Is a stock whose value Is 13 uncertain because then the market price can be juggled with just as a farm whose value Is to a certain extent fixed I 1 does docs not furnish the same opportunity to the speculator as the mine whose value is undetermined so the railroad stock that rests upon a value to be found in the road itself is not subject to fluctuations like the stock of a road whose dividends depend upon tipon the ability of the manager to raon moll business the evil 0 of gambling in whatever form it may appear Is that it cultivates a desire to get something for nothing and substitutes the law faw of chance for gods law of reward earned by service some bad habits affect only the body at least in their beginning but gambling immediately attacks the will and undermines the character it is a heart disease and paralyzes ones energy the man who becomes addicted to this vice soon ceases to be a producer because he can not content himself with the slow returns of legitimate effort then ho he neglects those dependent upon him and wastes that which ho he has already accumulated by this time he is is ready to KO go a step further an use trust funds and cheat those whom he entices into a game sometimes the cb cheating eating is done with loaded dice or marked marked cards sometimes by shells and sleight of hand sometimes it is ia done on a larger scale by grain corners wash sales or by the manipulation of stocks after swindling comes disgrace and olten often suicide nothing but a higher ideal will nill prevent ones falling into the habit and nothing but moral regeneration will restores one who has fallen into the habit no malady is so difficult to cure as one that attacks the will parents ought to warn their children against gambling ministers ought to warn their congregations against it and newspapers ought to point out its evils to their readers only when one Is willing to give to society a dollars worth of service for a dollars worth of pay and Is as careful to give good measure as he ha is to demand good measure Is he on oil solid ground an honest purpose begets honest methods and the two give peace of 0 mind and tho the best beat assurance of success in every walk valk ot of life W J BRYAN |