Show 1 revenue from vice alia alta california Sacra oa gambling licensing ordinance was enforced during the state fair and the newspapers at the capital considered the result very satisfactory twenty three games were licensed for the week of the fair and the revenue there from amounting to for each game was 1160 twelve other games took out quarterly licenses amount amounting ing to each looking a tol total I 1 of 2350 it is estimated that fifteen games of faro and tan tau will run regularly the year round yielding a revenue of which with the additional receipts during fr fair week will make a total of this is quite a revenue to be derived from vice anait and it is admitted that no evil effic effects ts fro from m the licensing sin g of gambling are yet made apparent but it is not to be expected that they would make their appearance so soon IA lending tiding respectability to ga gambling by legalizing it is planting seeds of vice and demoralization but a certain length of time must elapse before the fruits are gathered but they will come in due time for vice vice is is a crop which never fails but the effects of this experiment have also another aspect the rhe pretense of licensing gambling is after all a fraud and a flagrant violation of the state laws the city of sacramento has no more legal right to this money which it gets eta by compounding with the gamblers than if it had been taken by force on the highway 0 what effect i is s this contemptuous deaia defiance nee of authority likely to it have ave on the of respect for law in hi the minds of the coming generas tion will it not implant tha the belief that if the constituted represent representatives of the law can trample upon it it with impunity any individual who chooses may do the same |