The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-08

wholesale decentralization, by converting the
boys into dog catchers, hog and geese
drivers for the pittance received in the dis
reputable calling. The business should be
transacted outside of the marshal's office,
and that officer should not be compelled 20
have anything to do with the business, UNI
less to see that men engaged are paid for
the work done, but no encouragement gwen
TO steal hogs, geese or dogs, in trying to get
tees"
1t is an amusing study just now to note
the comments of American newspapers on
the winning of the Derby by an American
horse. All the newspapers have tlippant
remarks at the expense of the British lion;
but, though such reading must be rather
irritating to Englishmen, it is not really
half so vain-glorious as it seems. The
American tendency to the whimsical is
greater even than the tendency to brag,
and the writer's of headlines for the news
papers seized the opportunity the Derby
afforded to out do themselves in a grotesque
way. The Chicago Times, for instance,
starts off its headlines over the event as fol-
lows:
| EPSON SALTS.
A Whole Dose Give the Cockneys Who
Think the "Hamerican 'Orses Cawn't
Run, Ye Knaw."
The "Blue Ribbon" of the English Turf,
the Classic Derby, Captured bya
Blawsted Yankee.
Other headline writer's frolic about in
the same wild abandon of allegory, the
American eagle fighting largely as a mat
ter of course, and some of the fancies orig
mated are exceedingly bright and clever.
What Engishmen think of all this can be
but inferred, but, as already said, 1t is less
a desire for boastiug than an evidence of
the national tendency to fun which is indi-
Gated by these barbaric whoops in type.
The new ordinance recently passed by
the city council of Cairo giving the mayor
the right to revoke the license of any Ii
censed business man who may be suspect
ed of allowing gambling in his establish
ment, fills want that has been felt
by the law abiding citizens
of Cairo. 1t has, even now, before
the mayor has been called upon to act I'm
der it, been in a manner instrumental in
working reform; for persons that were for
merly quite careless as to whether or not
they were suspected of keeping gambling
places, have visibly reformed or at least be-
come very careful. 1t is said by some that
the ordinance is too severe; that it gives
the mayor too much power and that it Is
unjust In that it may subject persons to the
power thus welded by the mayor without
any redress from the city council until its
next regular meeting, which may be a
month. The first proposition, that the or
dinance is too severe, is hardly true. The
evil with which it has to deal is very
great one and requires a severe remedy
Nothing less than the most stringent meas
ures and heavy penalty can crush
the mania for this most de-
moralizing pastime, and it is
certainly not too great punishment for
one who permits its practice in his place OF
business to make him stop it. But does
the ordinance give the mayor too much
powerG The experience OF the past answers
this question in the negative. 1t is well
known that in years gone by men have been
guilty of gambling and keeping
glambling places in spite OF
the law and its officers and courts
Some means other than the law had to be
supplied in order to enable the mayor to
treach the perpetrators of this crime and
to give him the power to act upon we'll
founded suspicion, was the least that the
council could do. The argument that the
ordinance is unjust in its operation upon
those who may fall victims to 1t seems to
be founded upon some truth and would
seem to command the respectful
attention of the city council. The mayor
has power, upon being satisfied that gam
bling is permitted in any licensed place of
business, to revoke the license and close the
place of business and that he shall report
his action to the council at Its "next regular
meeting" which shall then either annull or
confirm such action. Thus it will be seen
that the mayor may close a mans place of
business at any time and it must remain
closed until the next regular meeting Of the
council, which may be whole month
afterwards. This, to man who may be
guilty of the crime of which he is sus-
pected, would be all right but to one who
may be innocent and can satisfy the council