Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-13
BLERS. GAMBLING, SHAM RE.
FORMERS, DE-, Sc.

injustice for the world, styles the APPEAL
"a gamblers organ. This is mistake
an uEintentionai one, 10 doubt-bu. a
mistake, nevertheless. We say this in
justice to the gamblers. We believe
they have no organ Oh this coast. The
nearest they ever cana 10 having one
WAS when ti-ey were negotiating fJr the
silence al the Carca;,,- Failing il those
negotiations, they walked to ecstscy the
living lvTe'' and the CLFoHicic began its
assaults upon then. W sho,.II have
10 hesitatio.ria owning 1 il we wcrs the
gamblers organ; bat it Inii!:I IS almost
impossible for US to enjoy that distinc-
ti1n:-Thc gamblers want their organs TO
lie silent and We wouldn't lie silent even
for thr, e thousand dollars We delight
IN being thus frank; and VS. aGs sure the
Chro1ic3. will give US credit for being Sc,
and not Gistort OR meaning, and DO us
the Injustice of s.gregating any Of OFT
paragraphs, 10 give them A coio.iug net
their ovr, hut is oSn. rather.
IL a long a.tic.. reviewing o1e Of our
criticisms of lis co:.rse, the Ch.'o,,icI. os
Wednesday, by classifying the bushes,
of gambling with the jurisdictions of
thieves. l:shnayEayn aEl ths Ike, al
fords Us an opportunity which we srs
glad to improve, 10 make an ail1sion to
that phase Of the question. We mean
the ,!istirciion-tat i:ltiiitff-leItiy under
stood-between Vice and Crime. Crime
is often tho not always vicious; while
vice Is sometimes hui not always Grimm
Il. Webster defines .ice as ~ moral
fault or failing; customary deviation in |
a single respect, or in general, from
right standard, Implying a defect Of ma
tural character, ur the result of training !
or habits; unworthy or undesirable Gus
tom or wicleGness.' Then he quotes
from Altison's Cato" the wsll-Lnown
hines
when vice prevails and :i=pious men box
sway.
The Dostof honor is 4 private station /
OF the distinction between vice and
crime he says. Thus int=mper-
.nce, unchastity, duplicily. g., arc
riceS; while murder. forgery, &c, which
spring from the Indulgence Of selfish
are cri,aes;;' snI then slyly a.
luding to the Imaginable pretenso of the
{ hrolie!s's being stirred Isy moral mo
tives, the great photographer quotes
from Shakspaare's lines
No v:cs 50 simple but assumes
Some marx Of virtue on lis outward plIts.H
Thus the Issue of the Chronicle IS an
habituai vice, while the issue Of another
kind of bogus paper is a crime. 50 with
is a vice. and very bad
one, but not 50 bad as Islander, or that
habit which
Takes pay for pity
And is ritil.ss.''
And now it becomes our painful task
rs public journalist and, as the late
Richard Rust would have
tritely said, "a sentinel upon
The watchtcwer OF public opinion" to
Expose what we cannot help regarding
IS an exhibition of Inconsistency upon
he part of SO severe moral reformer as
he Chr0Ric,, Turning to the third page
If the issue of that paper for Wetines-
lay and at the bottom OF The fourth col :
INN of the same, we come upon an il :
locent-looking item which reads as fol-
ows, to wit:
The printing OF g Robinson Crusoo :"
n raised letters, for the blind OF Ken G
ucky. is the largest work of the kind a
YER undertaken. 1t was paid for by The l
rolits OF the Third Gift Concert of that !
managed by Gov. Thos E a
'ramlette. of Louisville. The profits of I
be Fourth Gift Concert, which takes n
lace in Louisville il March, will be, in /.
art, devoted to the printing of the a
Pilgrims Progress Kentucky, or Il
nther her citizens, is very liberal IN her {
llaTities. p
Now, in ga gamblers organ" such as i,
he Chronicle says the APPEAL is, that II
1rt of thing might be admissible; but in =,
professed vehicle of religion and moral II
form like the Chronicle it is simply in ii
,cusable That paper has the ear of p