Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-27

always prosecuted. And village newspapers
at least one, conducted by public officials
print the advertisements of lotteries.
When things get so far as this in the rural
state Of Vermont, may not even a rural jour
nalst raise his voice in warning2
We ought to begin at the beginning In
these things, aud nip every manifestation of
the gambling spirit, in the church, in socie.
ty, and in ourselves, as It arises. No bless
ing can possibly attend money so acquired.
This fact is 80 old that the oldest proverbs of
every nation embody the idea, what is got
over the DEVILS back" will always slip away
beneath him; and " Easy won, easy lost, " has
its mate as a popular saying in every Lam
guage under the sun.
The great danger, the great seductiveness
Of this kind of gain, is its poisonous, paralyz-
ing effect upon the spirit of industry. 1t
not only gives the winner a contempt for the
small Tut steady and enduring gains of la
Dor, but it has an eject upon others who
witness his LUCK" and repine that another
can win more money in,an hour than labor
will earn in month. See to it, then that
such demoralizing examples are few in the
sight of your children.
1t is strange indeed that people do not
perceive the identity Of the different sorts Of
gambling, under their various DISCUSSES. The
stock gambling Of Wall street is IN no way
different, except in the extensive scale upon
which it is carried on, from betting OF q
throw of Dice a deal Of cards, or the issue
Of horse-race or cock-fght. 1t is sim.
ply bet contingent upon the future price Of
corporate shares, public stocks, or gold, fol-
lowed by strenuous and often successful ef
forts, by bulling" or bearing" to brins
about the fluctuation favorable to either par
ty. The leaders Of this game have great
advantages over outsiders who play it Will
them; very often it is sure thing will
them, because they possess the power t.
raise or lower prices at their pleasure
Sometimes they push the game too far, ant
then We see in the city journals paragraphs
like the following, which we cut from lat,
number Of the Boston Journal:
MORE CAPITAL NEEDED.-The promi
| nent brokers in the street complain that the,
do not receive any orders from the interior
and the local spectators have been so Sc
vcrcly punished that they hesitate in thei
impecunious way about new ventures ON OF
| Their side of tho account Fresh capital i
the present great want and need of Wal
street, but this will not he obtained until tn,
market has dropped low enough tn bccom,
| specially attractive to the general public
| There will not then be any lack of leader,
to manipulate or of pools TO keep specuator
| active.
Can anything be palmer than that2 But
says the reader, what is that to us ? lf thes
city men gamble away their money or stocks
how does that concern the farmers, who nei
Their have the money to spare nor the incl
nation to gamble with it? 1t concerns yo
greatly, my friend. In these days city an,
country life are so easily exchanged one 70
the other that few families are exempt frur
the chances OF such dangers. Sons, o
daughters husbands, may fall among thes
thieves. in highways where good Samaritan
are scarce. But that is far from being al
the danger or loss. This Wall street gan
bling draws capital from all parts of til
country, makes money scarce, and puts u
the rate Of interest and the price of nearl
every commodity farmer buys. Gamblin
in railroad shares, and the bad managemer
OF railroads in consequence of their falin
into the hands Of gamblers, enhance til
price of transportation, and take all the di
ference out Of the hands of the laborer VIII
produces, or the laborer who consume
Gambling in gold prevents the return to spc
Gle payments, ana gives us fluctuating cui
rcncy which at every rise and fall pays to
to the gambler at the cos. of honest labo
Gambling in government securities demora
ICES the public service, and gives us " Cred
Mobilier" scandals, and many worse thing
not yet unearthod. Gambling has now e,
tended its sphere to the great staples of AZ
rieultural industry, and the gamblers ever
season make corners in wheat, corn, WOO
and pork, taking their margins out of ii
money that rightly belongs to the toilir
men and women on our farms. Has ii
farmer no interest in all this? Aud ha,
not the farmers the strength, if they choo
to use it, to scatter these gamblers to ii
ends of the earth, or break up their game
and put them to some useful producti'
work, inside or outside of stone walls2 Po
der it in your hearts, brother farmers.