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Show Slot Machines Must Go. Under tbe above caption is an editorial in the Deseret News of Wed nesday which reads : "The decision of tha Supreme court of the State, denying the application for a rehearing iu the slot machine case, should be the end of the evil in this city. The machines, as The News has always contended, are gambling devices and as such they have been operated in violation of the law. But under a former administration adminis-tration they were tolerated, as were other illegal institutions, and it was even pretended that the anti-gambl-iug law did not refer to slot machines There, is dow no longer any excuse whatever for tolerating them. Salt Lake City will then be rid of that evil at least. "Slot machiues, like candy and turkey raffling, are, of course, devices for getting money from people for nothing. They thrive because many have an insatiable desire to make a lot of liiouey on a small investment. But to encourage this is to kill the spirit of industry and thrift which is so essential to real prosperity and happiness. We are glad, therefore, that the slot maohioe gambling will no longer be tolerated iu this city. Those who go abroad can poiut with Dride to the successful ellurts that are being mads to redeem Salt Lake from the odium of the past." Rafflea and the like are of common occurrence, without heed seemingly to the statute which provides : ''A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance, among poisons who have paid or promised to pay any valuable consideration for, the, chance cof obtaining ob-taining such property or a portion of it. or for any share, or any interest in such property, upon any agreement, understanding, or expectation that it is to be distributed or disposed of by lot or chance, whether called a lottery, lot-tery, baffle, or gilt enterprise, or by whatever name the same may be j known." |
