The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-10-13
Gambling.

Gambling.
johnny Boqget in the Now York Tribune.
There is plenty of chalk to be had in
the whitened compilations or equity knuckles
of tho young men of the day." said Mary
Ann. The Irregularities of the watering
places are altogether mens;a few women
really coyeting 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
a woman was to buy thousand dollar tick
cts at the auction, or bet thousands in tho
'books," or 60 to the faro table atnigbt and
leave her notes to the figure Of thousands
in the boss blacklegs safe, what would not
be written? Yet that is daily tale Of men
in good standing. The youthful card
sharper, whose every night is a robbery,
and who cultivates good society to play
poker with it, is freely introduced by young
men to their wives, as If they loved his
vices SO much that they must leave nothing
as unstaked upon this game-money, Eor
credit, nor habits, nor wife.
The gambling clement" continued my
belle sGur, lis the real cause Of apprehen-
sion at once the spreading cause of wealth
and Of social decay. Tho widows meal,
the famiIy's -four, tho pork, the oats, the
Negroes cotton picking, oil have become the
gamblers stakes. He corners life and
raiment, and forces trade or necessity to
settle with him on 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 a highly
principled society where the faro dealers,
roulette spinners, and sweat cloth men led
the German
yet wealth day is in The greatest
measure dictated by gamblers" said Mary
antha. There is hardly, probably, a gov
ernor or an American state, who is not
specializing on advice from some now made
magnate of Wall street. Yonder il a gov
ern0r who took Office moderately we'll off;
he lost above $4,000 by stock gambling:
he gave his note to bunker of ill-repute-
q Pagan of the day-and threw himself af-
fectionately and desperately upon spec
ulator, saying, oh, physician, make me
whole? The Spectator gave him a point
and let the governor out again; yet what are
ers for back Office gamblers?"
Yet Wall street is the barometer. Mary
antha."
mo, it is the disease" sa;d my belle
stCuv. You take the president, shot with
bullets and high with fever, and measure
bis warmth by an instrument; tho report is
the fever, it is not the barometer. Make
Wall street we'll, and the daily report to the
country will assure every tireside. 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 tie
introduction of every staple in tho laul to a
vast pool room which without needing the
thing controls it's movements and its 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
soil 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, q certain number of high
traitors against human nature, with their
parasites, do get vastly rich and set tho law
lsh example to the land. Habits go to
pieces; it is what Washington Allston' pro-
phetic picture, like Western SPHINX, has
been expressing all these years-Belshaz-
zar's feast"
AMaryantha" I 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 vas up con-
cluded
why, if was a man and could find no
remedy for such i state, I would 90 and
hunt some wild bandit of a gambler from a
country fair or by mountain mining camp
-some fellow stained with blood and hunt
ed in out!awry, yet with sn honest pack of
cards. however greasy in his hands. l
would set him down as our Lord set little
child amongst tho crowd, and cry aloud,
Here is the first gentleman in America.
Here is the cornerstone of prosperity,
Here is the honest father Of tho fu,ura