The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-21
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THE PROPOSED REPEAL. OF THE
GAMING LICENSE LAW.

GAMING LICENSE LAW.
The meancst and most vicious set
of night providers, mischief-makers
and hoodlums that we know of are
those of San Francisco. They are
the busiest and infernallist thieves
of which we have any knowledge.
This is because they have no means
of employing their time in the least
harmful way to which their inclina-
tions lead them, that is to say, in
gambling. The law there. says no
body shall gamble; and inasmuch as
there are no gambling houses for
these banditti to frequent and pick
up living in. Satan finds some mis-
chief still for idle hands to do, and
SO. like those wharf rats described
in the pun, who "sell old iron and
steal for a living" they in6ict them
selves upon the community in the
more harmful fashions of plumber,
malicious mischief and robbery.
Look at the hosts of oilers in Carson
City. There are at leasttwo hundred
young fellows lying about the sa-
looms and gaming tables here who
are neither regular gamblers nor
cappers, exactly; but who manage.
in a skirmishing and irregular way
to exc out enough money, day by
lay. to keep them from stealing and
enable them to dress we'll enough to
please the fancy of their female as
sociates-without whose kindly Off
yes many of them would be homeless.
And with all this excessively numer-
rus temporary gathering of the more
Troublesome elements OF our peculiar
ociety there is little or no crime OF
which the citizen in legitimate busi-
.ess need to complain. Nobody is gar
oted; no burglaries are committed;
10 acts of violence are committed by
hese lawless fellows save amongst
themselves. Now what is the reason
If their apparent harmlessness I'M
ess it be that they can find enough
interest til, I'm and give them the
OCCASIONAL dollars needed by their
Modest wants in and about the gam
ling rooms? On the other hand,
oppose we were to repeal our pres
Mt admirably working gaming IL
ense law and make the legitimate,
espectable members of the sporting
.aternity amenable to the terms of
utlawry or the alternative of giving
p the pursuit of the only business
which they have been educated;
hat would be the results? We will
nswer the question: Some of the
etter class of gamblers would
oubtless Withdraw their means from
le games in which they are now in
.rested and pursue some other call
~; but the greater proportion
ould open private games and pay
ito the hands of blackmailers, in
.rmers and the palms of Timber fin
sred policemen, something more.
the shape of hush money, than
ey now pay into the State and
unity treasures; and the hoodlums,
myers on and general swell mob
no lay about our towns and who are
,pt straight by the regular gambl-
8. would be turned loose to prey
ION the community in general; and
ime and cussedness would be ram
mt upon the streets night and day.
certain proportion Of mankind
~ gamble-anyhow; and whenever
pass code of laws which dis
inmates in favor of one kind Of
milling against another-as we
all do whatsoever We repeal the
ense law and take no steps against
Stock Board-then shall we be
oeating the statutory fallacy of de-
ring o vice a crime, and then shall
also divert the true nature and
ent of law itself into channel.
ere. to be sustained, itself must
ume postulate which is grounded
uncandor and based upon the
ms of q weak and shifting eva
q. The inside history, the real,
red. unvarnished truth of our
erican civilization finds many a
|allel to this condition toward
ch we have limited in the outset
need of some sort of a safety
We whereby the surplus steam of
penus hocdlum can be blown of.
New England cities, for the
q of maintaining q false respecta-
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