| Show LET THE LA LAW aw I 1 we have been asked by several PC persons esons what we meant by our recent cerit strictures on the gambling gamblin 9 dens existing so numerously in this city and enjoying a deplorably frequent patronage both by professionals and by amateurs by the voracious sp spider ider that lurks in the dark corner of her web and the heedless fly that runs agai against dinst and gets entangled in the sli slimy my meshes we meant just what whit we said which was to the purport that the ordinances of the tile city prohibit gambling all law abiding and strictly moral citizens s condemn it kllc police are d determined tor ter suppress it and the respectable press will never relax in ex exposing it and its votaries vot aries be they the designing in abig or headless victims victims of tho the Terni pernicious cious pasteboard practices 1 look at salt lake city which had become overrun with dens in in morals orals are sacrificed on the green clot litof insatiable avaricious passion the police officers are making thorough raids and pull them effectively the citizens approve of thear 1641 the lr r zeal a and bd success the daily journals assist in in exposing the tile evil pla places and evildoers evil doers the tile I 1 I 1 samo stafe of thing sis dawning in 1 th the e jun Junction atio cit city v a an nil 3 it was high time it did it seems to ua us that since the heavy license went into effect which combined with I 1 the general dolln dullness ma of the times and the scarcity of meney money effected a considerable reduction in the revenue denue of the proprietors of such places some efthem of them have added to tc their income by adding side attractions C for the extraction of their customers money at any rate gambling establishments have been on the increase and the number of their patrons has grown alamin alarmingly gly larger lager wo we do not wish to condemn condemn card playing entirely it may bo be indulged in the family circle for the mere sake of amusement and pastime with without out the insidious u s seimu lus of money to arouse the 1 slumbering 1 instincts of greed in that capacity the pasteboard practice is of a character with chess checkers etc although intellectually jt it is infinitely below either of bf the other EL r gam games 03 on oa the tile whole wo ire have F como come to the conclusion that the people who sit down dowl for hours handling the painted oblongs must be deficient in mental development to kill time in so un unprofitable P profitable table a pastime when the inexhaustible treasures of literature art and science are so easily accessible to the poorest bat B it when the manipulation of pa i 1 the aces an and d jacks is co coupled with greed combined with fraud and trimmed with trick sas is invariably the case in the dives known as gambling dens then it ia is colonger no longer an innocent pastime a harmless amusement it become a crime a danger to business and a stain to society homily writing ia is neither our forte nor ambition but every right minded man or womans comans voice must be raised in unanimous us dc do enunciation au notation of the practice which keepe husbands hu from their families and causes them to squander e r the means with which to buy bread and irid dr dresa eza for them on the dirty pack of carda cards tho the practice which tempts and induces the clerk not only to steal bis his employers time but to embezzle his funds and to land him sooner or later late r in in a felons cell the practice which allures the inexperienced youth as the candle flame name does the moth in to its ensnaring grasp to steep him in the very depth of allied and cognate vices until ho he emerges merges e as a wreck and ruin to 0 the desolation of his parental homo home and the dl disgrace grace of society hence we repeat it wo we fully indorse the efforts and will always hail tho su success cem olour of our police officers in busting the dens and bringing the votaries vot aries of the vice to justice if there are laws let lot them be obeyed by everybody high or 5 low rich or poor public official acial or private citizen if there are oui ti sance san colet let them bo be abated instanter if there are lawbreakers let them be ferreted out and punished |
