Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-26 | Page 4 | A Tragedy's Lesson Section

A LESSON the vice of gambling was never mora forcibly presented to a community than on yesterday when a young man at one time of excellent habits and good character brooding over the misfortunes that the games of chance had brought upon him madly deliberately murdered hi wife and then turned the pistol of destruction upon himself the disordered mind made so by gambling is a mind capable of remorse and therefore sensitive to wrong doing and when properly trained can aspire to noble achievements yet when allowed to run riot because of tempha eions weakly met how shameful and terrible can be the ending the laws of the land provide that individual has committed a rob bery he ia guilty of a crime puni habla b y detention la a place of confinement the criminal is enmeshed by the law nd made to realize that a wrong has been committed tho beat inter ests of society oci ety but when a married man relaxing self control and self givs himself up to the demon of chance and night after night neglecting his family plays away the money is needed to clotho and feed his wife and children why is it that the law atals in this ita greater duty to sternly intervene and roughly taking hold ot wayward man to shake a aeise of responsibility into his anatomy him that the community demands that he leave 0 ff hia vicious and take care of those dependent on him for a livelihood some men become so entranced walh the games of chance that they have not alie wirer within themselves to stop then la when an aiding helping hand should be held out ich eldodt in time how flinch misery bow much shame low bauch that is horrible might be avoided