The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-10-13
Gambling.

llefe IS plenty OF Chalk 10 De uhu Ill
the whitened compilations OF gouty knuckles
of the young men of the day." said Mary
Ann. The Irregularities of the watering
places are altogether men's;a few women
really coveting the money, perhaps, and
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 tho
''books," or 20 to the faro table at night and
leave her notes to the figure of thousands
in the boss blackleg's 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, nor
credit, nor habits, nor wife.
SThe gambling element" continued my
belle snur, lis 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, oil 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 -spinners, 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
specializing on advice from some new made
magnate Of Wall street. Yonder is gov
ernor who took Office moderately we'll off;
be lost above $1O0,0O0 by stock gambling:
he gave his note to a banker of ill-repute-
Pagan Of the day-and threw himself af-
ulator, saying, oh, physician, make me
whole! The Speculation 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 woll, and the daily report to the
country will assure every 6reside. 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
introduction of every staple in the land to q
vast pool room which without needing the
thing controls its movements and it's rates,
is to be a 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
phIuSAloo, uO t3cA ''oSAy Alou 0ASA DC" VAAo Adv
ish mple to the land. Habits go to
pieces; it is what Washington Allston' pro-
phetic picture, like q Western SPHINX, has
been expressing all these years-Belshaz-
zar's feast.
"Maryanthar' exclaimed, rising in ad.
miration, "do not proceed a single ster
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.
cluded g..
why, if was man and could find NJ
remedy for, such q state, would 60 ant
hunt some wild bandit of a gambler from {
country fair or by mountain mining camp
some fellow stained with blood and hunt.
ed in outlawry, yet with an honest pack o1
cards, however greasy in his hands.
would set him down as our Lord set 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.
Sam Ward.-The King of the L0bbv.