The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-09-25
THE LEADER MAN on rHn WING
BITTER CREEK VALLEY,
SpDfpmhar % 1917

september, -, 1870.
To the LEADER:
a recent number of the LEADER con-
tains an account of a wanton assault,
by n of the gambling fraternity,
upon Judge Mclaughlin, who favors
the LEADER occasionally with contri-
buttons on leading and interesting
topics. 1t is a surprise to us to learn
that Cheyenne harbors n set Of men
who think hat by browbeating the
editor Of the LEADER or his assistants,
they can divert the paper from its
chosen path. If hat gambler had re-
sided in Cheyenne during the past six
years, experience would have taught
HIM, as it has some corrupt politicians
we know of, that the very course be
was pursuing would only amr m the
editor in his opposition to what they
term their interests" and in the de-
termination to annihilate the gambling
bells in this Territory, If printers ink
and moral suasion can do 1t.
During our two weeks trip among
the bills and dales of Wyoming, we
have met one universal sentiment of
approval of the LEADERS, course in
relation TO the repeal Of the lottery
and gambling license laws. We have
been met cordially at every hand, and
words of encouragement and praise
have been given US by women and
men, many of whom we did not know
personally, but who did know the
LEADER, and wished to express their
qualification that at least one newspa-
per in WS oming dared to throw the
gauntlet TO the gambling fraternity.
Traders, boarding house keepers,
bankers, and business men generally,
declare that the law licensing gam
bling has the most perniciuus effect
upon all who in a business way come
into contact with the various classes of
our people. Men, young and old, are
enticed to the gamblers den and lose
the money which should be used in
liquidating their honest debts, or in
furnishing the necessaTies and COM
forts of life to their suffering families.
Men will throw away their hard earn
ings at the gaming table, and thus
support in idleness and profligacy a
set of gentlemen gamblers, while they
''stand OFF, their boarding house
keeper and the merchant who have
given them credit. and while their
wives and children often suffer for the
want of their daily bread. Is there in
Wyoming a man or n woman, outside
OF the gambling fraternity and the
small circle supported by the latter,
who desire to have a law which legal
ICES a fragrant wrong, upon our statute
books? We say, No! The scales
have fallen from the eyes of our peo-
pie and they are beginning to appre-
ciate the thorough r~ottenness of the
judicial system fastened upon lis by
that celebrated body Of statesmen, the
unanimously Democratic first legisla-
tive assembly of Wyoming Territory.
Even our newly elected Legislators,
without regard to party, and who are
generally very reticent on all topics
relating TO legislation, admit That the
real interests of the people of the Ter
ritory, require the repeal of the gam
bling and lottery license laws.
We started out in this crusade
against all gambling, conscious of be-
ing in the right, and having the sup
port of all right minded men; and in
this consciousness lies our strength
and u support. BY heaping person
al abuse upon the editor of the LEAD
Err the gamblers acknowledge his
power; but, being men of some pene-
t~ration, they ought to know that a
newspaper derives all its power from
the support of public opinion. If the
the voice of the people sustains the
LEADEs, even the voices and hands of
the gamblers lifted up in condemua-
ton of its ~utterances, will be of no
avail. Josh Billings, in his homely
way, says. 1.-The only way to git thru
this world and escape censure and
abuse, is to take some back road. You
kant travel the main turnpike and do
it," But censure and abuse do not de-
ter the man who is conscious of the
rectitude of his motives. The storm
of personal invectives heaped upon the
editor of the LEADER, will purify the