New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-19
JOHNNY BOUQUET ON CLIMBING.

"There is plenty of chalk to be had in the
whitened compilations gouty knncklcs of the
young of the day" said Mary Ann. THE ir-
Irregularities at the watering places altogether
mems few women really coveting the money, per
haps and first led INTO it 10y their husbands or
brothers, buy a French pool ticket each and this
being seen, the cry is raised that the all
gambling But suppose u woman was TO buy thon-
sand dollar tickets AT the ancton bet thousands
IN the books or 60 to the faro table at night and
leave her notes to the figure of thousands in the boss
blacklegs safe, what would not be writtenf Yet
that is daily tale of men in good standing The
youthful card sharper whose every night is "A rob-
berry, aud who culvates good society to play poker
with it, is freely introduced by young to their
WIVES if they loved his vices 40 much that they
must leave nothing as unstaked upon his game
money, nor credit, nor habits. nor wife.
THE gambling element" concluded my belie snur
us the real cause of apprehcnsi"n-a nuce tho
spreading of wealth aud of social decay The
widows meal, the iamilys flour thu pork the oats
the Negroes cotton picking, all have hccon,e tho
gamblers stakes He corncrs' hfe aud raimellt and
forces trade necessity to settle with hun Some
basis by which he is made rich. That lis the prolific
cause of 50 many rich men, and of the evils pass
ing society; that those who deal the game make the
millionajres, and everything is the gamc."
Indeed, my friend" said |. that could hardly
be an economical noryet a hghlypnnciplcd society
whore the farodealers roulette-spinnors and sweat
cloth men led the german"
Yet wealth to-day is in the greatest measure die
tated by gamblers" said Maryantha. 'Thore is
hardly, probably Governor of an American State
who is not specializing advices from some new
made magnate of Wall Street. Yondcr Is a Cover or
who took Office moderateyswel of; he lost above
100000 by stock gambling; he gave his notes to a
banker of il-repute-a Pagan of the day-and threw
himself affectionately aud desperately upon spec
srla 10
The speculator gave him point and let the Cover
nor ont again; yet what are we to think of Cover
nors who become steerers for bacK-Ofce gamblers 7"
Yet Wall Street is the barometer, Maryantha"
No. 1t is he disease" said my belle sew. "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 barometer Make
Wall Street well and the daily report to the country
Will assure every freslde. The country is not dis
eased unless it becomes all Wall Street"
What is your remedy for Wall Street,"
That Is the province OF men md Statement to ap-
ply the remedy; women can see the sorrow. MY
women that the introduction Of every staple
IN the land to a vast poo-room which without need
ing the thing controls its movements and rates is to
be cause of national You 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 quotations at one outlet, like Chicago
itself communicating with every pool-room. You
cell futures upon the widows of OIL Fleets of
ships lie waiting for grain and cannot load it, be-
cause the artificial price at Chicago is higher than
the real price at Liverpool. Yet by thus throttlng
he channels it has cost much wealth to open.
a certain number of hiGh-traitors against human
nature, with their parasites, do get vastly rich and
set the lavish example of the land. Habits 90 to
pieces; it is what Washington Allston's prophetic
picture like Western Sphynx, has been ex-
pressing all these years-Belshazzar's feast"
"Maryanthaw / exclaimed rising in admiration
do proceed single step further Let down your
back hair! Take off your bangles Breathe freer
and give me the remedy for all this combustion p
Maryantha, whose blood was up concluded:
why If | was man and could find 10 remedy
for such state. would go and hunt some wlld
bandit OF a gambler from country fair or by "A
mountain mining eamP-sOme fellow stained with
blood and hunted In outlawry, yet with an honest
pack of cards. however greasy, in his hands I
would set him down our Lord set a 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
race y"