Show E TILE THE T PRESENT PRESET LA LAWS S It Is rather puzzling to read of or a minister of ot tho the gospel advocating the l licensing of ot gambling houses It I is s till still more curious to know he puts 11 It I o on n the ground gound that under uner present c the laws are evaded and andi t the he i public receives no revenue from practiced crime Yet the papers ring bring the tho ator story of a minister in Ogden who holds to the these e doctrines doctrInes We Ve e do not beJ believe ve th tho difficulty is 15 correctly state stated Gambling is wrong wrong- wrong morally and economically wrong Men en who engage in It I for a bU business vie vie- late ate law and members of Ul the tha community They injure society by their heir operations S Tho The community cannot afford to permit perit gambling with or without a license And Aud it I being morally wrong they certainly cannot consistently li license 11 1 cense censo it i. i That means not only approval ap ap- ap but the th partnership of or the reputable with wih tho the disreputable elements elements ele ele- ehe- ehe ments of or society ty Tho The worst admission mon men can cn make Is that they do not enforce a n law They Thoy made ade It and they are bound to to enforce it If It they cannot then thoy they I are are equally bound und to repeal It I. I Buto But EO o 0 lon long as a it Is on their statute books bool It I is the edict of ot tho people the recorded recorded re recorded re- re corded purpose and sentiment of ot tho the whole hole community But laws Ins against gambling should not be repealed because they thoy are right Tho The experience of at tho the nations tho the observation of the thc raco race through all al time Ume forces tho the conviction that that gambling is 11 wrong that it I Is harmful That law should bo ho enforced Arid if Ir the people aro worth worthy at all 31 tho they thoy can en and 1 enforce it lt When they admit thoy cannot tho they publish their own shameful Incapacity We Vo do not believe bellevo the people of Ogdon Ogden Og Og- Og- Og don den aro uro that kind They he can en enforce enCore that that- law They ey can ca clean up th the town They Thoy can make mako an end ond o ot of gambling there thero And no man alive alive alive- above all 01 no minister should minister for a minute concede the they better beter do otherwise other other- wise |