True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-02-20
THE TRUE AMERICAN.
EDITED nv JOHN GIBSON.
FAITHFUL AND BOLD,
NE w OR LIE A MS:
WEDNESDAY,, FEBRUARY 90. 1889.
EDITED nv JOHN GIBSON.

GAMBLING No. III.-lIas not the experience Of the
lew ycare pust. since the penalties imposed on gam
bling, were fixed, and the open houses ordered TO
be closed, proved TINT the existing law is insufficient
protection against this el who ses through society,
planting unseen, the seeds Of disease and death in the
very hearts of families, where but now all was health
and enjoyment! The passion for gaming is as nstinc-
tive as avuricc; and.when il is anal yze avarcc will be
found tue neucleus, arnund which, all the PARTICLES of
foul corruption are gathered How many vticims dai-
y fall sacrifice to the all absorbing vice. All laws to
suppreas it will be unavailing When men cannt wa
ger publicly, they will retire into private aud remote
places, for the purpose they shy Of trng away time,
and the pleasure Of excitement. They should not lay
the "atteruy JUNCTION to their SOULS" but confess they
embark in wild and reckless specuation-(or sai"!-
1t grows by Whit feeds 1t out the virtues,
ill tho heart is left barren waste wtlaut single
generous impulse. opens the por,aso all the other
vices and is in itself. the broad avenue crime 1t is
10 be dcplored but he destroyed by statutory
, cnacmcnls.
If it be allowed that gaming is universal passion,
au is us universal as avarice, or the desire to ac-
uure wealthy aud if the experience OF the pnst proves
that the existing laws available in supprcssmg
the vice, will il not be we'll levy tax those who
TO city for the purpose of drriag e trade,
and who vile the unsnspccns to their ruin snd are
reckless of The misery they cause! There is-there
can he nothing runous the morals of the
.nity secret gaming. Hour after hour, the night
away and still the haggn wretch hangs the
faro table ill his last pnstre is swept into tho general
depository, while at home deserted ones anxious
ly distraclcdly watching his return. While yet the
voice or counsel of friend might win him off from his
mad career there is friend The doors bolt
ed. lie has been marked. lie is doomed man. and
is Ircd on till he has been iccd of all, and then
r,lcly thrust forth besgar-wilh the bitter conso,-
ton that his family is dragged down with him. from III
dependence. TO the depths Of misery throug his foil
and to his eternal infnly.
| We say open the doors of the gambling houses
make it lawful, by the payment of heavy lccncc, tc
keep up such establishments. and alix penalty ali
sI,c, as offend; and enforce the law. Employers will
then have an opportunity Of seeing the propensics Of
those in their service. Friends can obtain sight o
those to whom they attached, and may prevail upon
them beforei is too latc turn back from the vain
shadow they arc pursuing.
| Open gaming is not so rnOus as that which is done
in sesrct. The stakes not large. Men will be
afraid Of in ventures. They will not risk their
credit-ior who would trust him that hazards immense
sums on the turn of card! 1t would initiate agaus,
his business to see any engaged in trade, daily Wis
itinS the gaming table. would put those whose funds
and property must pass through his hands, on the,
guard lie would see at the necessity Of refrain
ing from etaPse Il fiy@wa therefore urge
tile rroprIety OF making the vice swell our revenue