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Show THE DHSKKKT 10 after dinner cigars lias created EAC-5L- of his hard earned savings. love for gambling. Influenced by Again gambling shows its demor-alizin- g effects. The passion for it the seeming recklessness of t liostt about him, he wafers a small sum. makes easy victims to those Say he wins. Ik might possibly "professionals" of the successwin tlu lirst few times. The lire ful business men of both country The successful busiof his passion has heen fed by iir and town. ness men are the social and polilaiiimable success. He makes other ami costlier itical leaders. When this immoral ventures. The 0(hls are too many pussion is entrenched in the souls of against him for eon tinned success, the leaders it must to a greater or and the time soon comes when his less decree influence the followers. own earnings fail to satisfy that Gambling ruins those attributes of craving for games of chance. lie character that make men most neglects his work, and perhaps manly, and in doing this it strikes appropriates the funds of his em- at law and justice and all the best ployer, and then is the old story of interests of society. To gambling thousands of young wrong and suffering and the downfall of a bright youth. men in this country annually owe In such case we have presented their ruin. Perhaps just as many one of the most demoralizing effects are ruined every year through specof gambling. Gmnblhuj vs a cruitf ulating in so called legitimate bus. nesses that are t: u with incsanu-huhwkr. It not only demoralizes of getting something for noth-ing- . habits, it leads its victim to commit thefts, embezzlements, People whose conscience will dcfalaelions, breaches of trust, and not allow them to bet on a horse as a result there are wretched homes, race or a gnne of cards gratify the ir heartbroken women, beggarded speculative tendencies by dabbling in town lots and in mining shares, children. Tho business man wafers money or by purchases in the stock exon the polite games; while feeding change. The "puts" ami "calls," the this passion he is neglecting his purchases and sales on "margins" business. The "bunco men" en- of the stock exchange's are forms of courage his visits till they have bis gambling just as much as roulette notes for nearly all he is worth. He and faro are forms of gambling, and usually pays these notes and is thev even lack the interest of these ruined. If he fails to to pay them latter forms for the game played at he is advertised as a gambler and it is out of sight. A few Jay Goulds, loses the respect of both gamblers invest money in Wall Street, and and honest menby forcing the market are comparaThe professional gamblers tively sure of winning. "Exchange" frequent these haunts because their merchants of this class have money avowed profession is gambling and enough at their backs to "boom" or To the they make their living there, (iamb-lin- "pull" things their way. with this class is reduced to a great majority there is no game. It science. They figure the game is simply an intangible, out. of sight, before they start, and usually bet something in which they have no their money on a ''solid thing." interest save as a means of winning Thev claim to be "gentlemen of or losing money. honor. " They take pride in declarThis purely "chance" form of ing that theii ."word is as good as a gambling exists again in the lottery. merchant's bond.'' And vet thev Lottery tickets have been sold in are the "fleecers," the ones who almost every town; they have pilot the "lamb" the rural moneyed reached all e? asses of society. They man, into their dens and relieve him take the hard earnings of the poor a -- in-dustri- v-L- - g a- e as well as the hoarded wealth of the rich. The lottery is a "chance" (and seldom an honest one), only to the the buyer, The seller's profits are assured when the lottery company is organized. This form of gambling secured such a hold upon the people in certain of our states a few years ago that the lottery companies were able to control elections, bribe legislators, and successfully defy laws of Their enormous fortunes, justice. without giving anv due equivaleMit therefor, enabled them to expend millions of dollars every year for these unholy purposes. For over twentv-liv- e years the Louisiana State Lottery carried on a systematic scheme of robbing in the United States ami elsewhere. Wherever the tickets of that firm secured a hold. industrial habits were paralized and public morals corrupted. In the State of Louisiana the poor were made beggars, the relation of man to man profaned, social laws and order destroyed. So corrupt did the institution become that it publicly offered bribes to lawmakers to pass laws in- its favor, and publicly boasted that its officers could escape the penalty of laws already exist iug. It is pleasing to note that human nature at last revolted against the disgrace, that the manhood of the people of Louisiana finally asserted itself. In 1K92 the legislature to renew the, charter legalizing the crime, and the Louisiana Lottery Company was forced to seek other amassed - re-fus- ed tiwlds. Every crime seeks to entrench itself by bribery and dishonest means. The enormous gains of g houses ami lottery companies enable them to offer sums that tempt the best men in the country. What the lottery companies do in the South the gambling dens do in New York and other nothern cities. They bribe law makers and control police officers. The natural growth of the evil does not ruin morals fast enough; its advocates use every dishonest method conceivable to perpe- w ml miu-blin- |