Morris tribune., 1881-10-13
Gambling.

There is plenty of chalk to be had in
the whitened compilations or equity knuckles
of the young men of the day." said Mary
Ann. The irregularities of the watering
places are altogether mems; Il few women
really coveting the money, perhaps, and
first led into it by their husbands or
brothers, buy French pool ticket each,
and this being seen, the cry is raised that
the women are all gambling. But suppose
woman was to buy thousand dollar tick
cts at the auction, or bet thousands in the
books" or 60 to the faro table atnight and
leave her note, to the figure of thousands
in the boss blackleg's safe, what would not
he written? Yet that is a daily tale of men
in good standing. The youthful card
sharper, whose every night is q robbery,
and who cultivates good society to play
poker with it, is freely introduced by young
man to their wives, as if they loved his
| vices so much that they must leave nothing
as unstaked upon this game-money, nor
| credit, nor habits, nor wife.
The gambling element" continued my
| belle s9ur, "is the real cause of apprehen-
sion at once the spreading cause of wealth
and of social decay. The widows meal,
the family's -four, the pork, the oats, the
negro's cotton picking, all have become the
gamblers stakes. He corners life and
raiment, and forces trade or necessity to
settle with him OF some basis by which he
is made rich. That is the prolific cause of
so many rich men, and of the evils in pas
| sing society; that those who deal the game
make the millionaires, and everything is
| the game"
Indeed, my friend" said that could
hardly be an economical nor yet highly
principled society where the faro dealers,
roulette spinrers, and sweat cloth men led
the German
yet wealth to-day is in the greatest
measure dictated by gamblers" said Mary
antha. There is hardly, probably, gov
ernor or an American state, who is not
magnate of Wall street Yonder is gov
ernor who took Office moderately well off;
he lost above 100000 by stock gambling;
he gave his note to banker of ill repute-
a Pagan of the day-and threw himself af-
fectionately and desperately upon spec
ulator, saying, oh, physician, make me
whole' The Spectator gave him point
and let the governor out again; yet what are
we to think of governors who become steer
ers for back office gamblers?"
"Yet Wall street is the barometer, Mary
antha."
mo, it is the disease" said my belle
sGur. you take the president, shot with
bullets and high with fever, and measure
his warmth by an instrument; the report is
the fever, it is not the barometer. Make
Wall street well, and the daily report to the
country will assure every Preside. The
country is not diseased unless it becomes
all Wall street"
What is YOUR remedy for Wall street,
| That is the province of men and states
men, to apply the remedy, woman can see
the sorrow. My women can see that the
1 introduction of every staple i'll the land to a
vast pool room which without needing the
thing controls its movements and it's rates,
is to be cause of national ruin. You may
play with the bread, meat, shirt, and mush
of half the world, and call your play the
barometer. You dam up the vast sources
of those things by gambling with their quo
tations at one outlet, like Chicago, itself
communicating with every pool room. You
sell futures upon the widows cruise of oil.
Fleets of ships lie waiting for grain
and cannot load it, because the arti-
fetal price at Chicago is higher than
the real price at Liverpool. Yet by thus
throtting the channels it has cost so much
wealth to open, a certain number of high
traitors against human nature, with their
parasites, do get vastly rich and set the Law
ish example to the land. Habits 60 to
pieces; it is what Washington Allston' pro-
phetic picture, like Western SPHINX, has
been expressing all these years-Belshaz-
zar's feast"
"Maryanthar exclaimed, rising in ad-
miration, "do not proceed single step
further. Let down your back hair. Take
off your bangles. Breathe freer and give
me the remedy for all this combustion.
"Maryantha, whose blood was up con-
Guided:
why, if I was man and could find no
remedy for such state, would go and
hunt some wild bandit of a gambler from q
country fair or by mountain mining camp
some fellow stained with blood and hunt
ed in outlawry, yet with an honest pack of
cards, however greasy in his hands. l
would set him down as our Lord set o little
child amongst the crowd, and cry aloud,
Here is the first gentleman in America.
Here is the cornerstone of prosperity
| Here is the honest father of the future.