The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-09-14

q. d. AnderB0n b agent for
"The Pictorial History Of the World"
publiahed BY the National Publishing
Co., which he will introduce 70 our cit
isens iron now On. Il has the appear.
ance of being hne work and incladss .
history of the Eiss and fall Of the Greek
and Roman Empires, the growth Of the
nations Of modern Europe, the middle
ages, the crusades, the feudal system,
the reformation, the discovery and SET
Element of the New World, etc., etc.
Also full history Of the late war be-
tween Russia and Turkey.
The delegates 70 the Convention To-
day, 20 far ~ We have heard are as fol-
lows: Humboldt-S. H. Stevens, p. 3.
Shelley. John Spawr, A. L. Dornberg,
y. u. Kice, Ed. Eldridge, ]. h. Osborn,
w. F. Waggoner, J. +. Duncan, q. w.
Crandall. Salem-D. p. Green. -
Woods. Elsmore,-Wm. Cox, 3. Viii
COX and Berry. One precinct of
Cottage Grove-Ira Noyes, Frank Nye.
Deer Creek. w. Christian, G.. A.
Johns, w. p. Smith and w. Ii. Evans.
Flint. T. Anderson and - English.
Marmat0n-L. H. G0rrell. Geneva
VIM. B0seman, P. 4. Mcclure, VIM.
Hyde, Geo. Inge. lola is given in anoth-
or column.
We respectfully submit 70 the city
authorities that while for the purpose Of
RAISING revenue the licensing Of "snide
games may be legal yet the natural re-
suit is far worse than the licensing Of
saioons-0r billiard halls. Ii we are cor
reclly informed the little game played on
our street last week was licensed by the
city authorities of this place. For the
sum Of five dollars the city of lola guar
anteed TO this swindler immunity from
the Law, recognized his business as legit.
ny aud look upon that which no simpler
or better name could be devised than
grand larceny. The same authorities
place the license upon billiard tables and
such games at a figure that virtually
prohibits. This may be sound law but
is not sound sense. The power exists in
the government of this city TO protect its
citizens (who ale unable to protect them
selves) from the evil results of gambling
holes, dens of prostitution, hell holes
called saloons-ors nide games.
Where they allow a man to be fieeced
upon the public streets whether in one
kind Ut gambling operation or another,
the city fathers of this virtuOus city ofOurs
are m,rally to blame. Ordinance after
ordinance has been tried in, city after
city--all over the State this evil has
existed, and but one way has been found
to stop it. Prohibition. Don't license
of the kind. Make the ordi-
nances so comprehensive that no chance
game can be allowed to open any where
within the corporate limits. Then, and
not till then, will the diseraceful scene
that occurred in lola last week be impos
sib'e. Five times has this same trick
almost identically the same-been ex-
hibited on our most public street. Five
times have the people of this vicinity
(some Of them) lost in various amounts
the total of which would probably foot
up two hundred dollars. And the ely
authorities licensed this game. The
present City Council refused to licecse
saloons, virtually prohibited billiard
halls. etc, and we now call upon them
to prohibit the swindlers of multiform
name and character which may be-
u? under one head-snide.