Daily Republican., 1882-11-29
Produce Gamblers.

Produce Gamblers.
With the labors Of the New Yorl
Legislative committee now investigating
the causes of corners il meat and brea'
stufs, we would indulge the hope tina
aome plan will be devised and enactet
into law. to punish these product
gamblers. Had the American people
mot been long suffering, slow to anger
and lenient, they would long ago have
arisen in their might and put a summa
ry end to this pernicious produce gam
bling, the evils and sufterings OF which
are the very essance of the blaokness o,
crime when compared to the card pack
the dice box, the shu file board and
sweat cloths of vice and immortality
that are already outlawed. The LegiS-
laUure that will pass law punis hing
these "corner" gamblers in produce
with imprisonment for a term Of years
and take away the pardoning power OF
the Governor of Stats in such cases
will earn and be entitled to the graft
tude of an outraged people. 1t is of no
use for us to appeal to Republican Leg
islatures to redress this grievous wrong
for in the face of. the late political whirl-
wind there are but few left. Demo-
cratic Legislatures, If they would make
themselves popular with the people.
will Immediately take hold of this mat
ter. They could deal with no more
popular subject. The people are ripe
for revolution, and they will be driven
to the latter if produce gambling Is to
be permitted to be carried on by heart.
less gamblers, that they may become
rich and live in prohigacy and ease'
while thousands OF hard working pOo-
pie are suffering for bread. Such Ian
Ruage may sound a little like revolu
tion, but 1t cannot be helped. The
people will not starve while there il
plenty in the land. They will not see
their wives and children become prey
for the "wolt" at the door, while there
is grain enough in the country to feed
America and the half of Europe.
There is law that is higher than pa
per statutes, and the Vanderbilts and
Jay Goulds that prey like greedy cor
morants upon the sufferings of the peo-
pile, will find it out If they still persist in |
turning on the thumb screws Of oppres- |
sion. This seems to be gambling age, |
Legislators who enact laws against
gambling, are the first to violate the
laws they make and with a deliberate
intent to override the will Of the peo-
pie. Millionaires and stuck up pick
sAiffian traders gamble in grain and
meat, while millions suffer for those
necessaries of life. Legitimate busi.
ness is crushed and driven from our
marts of trade and the giant gamblers
with faces of flint and hearts of steel,
are rolling in their i'll gotten gains.
They play millions against millions in
grain. They increase the cost of every
loaf of bread and pound Of meat In the
land, not because thers is cause to do
SO, but because it IS their will to do 30,
and the cries of distress that reach their
ears from the poorly paid laborer, his
Jnyifa aud nhilJran Tho rnalry EnnW
where the next loaf is to come from, are
the sweetest strains of music to their
ears. What care they for the poor ?
What care they for the cry of distress
and hunger? They have plenty. Their
wives rattle the costliest silks. Their
children nestle in the warmest furs.
"The poor, be 3D." Vanderbilt is
represented as saying in Puck's carica.
ture, and who that has watched the |
course of this defiant millionaire, will !
say that he is not truly represented?
How long will this state of affairs
continue? They have had their way
too long already. By the all of their
party organs they have reVolutionized
business; they pooled their wealth,
locked up the currency, robbed the
people-innocent investors in grain and
stocks as we'll as speculatOrs-of scores
of millions of dollars and they have
brought distress and want to thousands
of households. How long will it last ?
Such gigantic gambling effects the
whole fifty millions of our people. How
GOrbearing they are that they submit to
the initiation or depression Of the values
of the country al the mere interest or
caprice of q set of greedy stuffed up
who own or control hun {
dreds of millions without ever having 4
honestly earned dollar. Bat let these
gamblers beware. Forbearancs may
cease to be virtue with long suffer-
ing people. This gambling in grain
and other necessaries Of life cannot last Il
and the sooner the great gambling 1
Of the country lock that fact !
In the face, the safer 1t may be with t
their own property and the property of 6
She people they are trying to rob.
THE CECIL Democrat forsees COM h
ing storm when it says: ''The present I