Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-07

and the closing of saloons on Sunday will
be the next, undoubtedly to receive the at
tention of the police.
CONCLUSION.
All this Hooks like new broom which
always sweeps clean. This particular one
seems to start in to sweep unusually
clean.
WHAT THE GAMBLERS SAY.
The wholesale, clean-cut, comprehensive
and unrelentlng order of the chief of po-
lice. to close up Immediately, was a sur
prise to the knights of the green cloth and
the takers in of the shekels. From the
nomination of the present mayor to the
present time they have all been satisfied
that if Mayor OBrien was elected, some
thing would be done in regard to gamb-
ling. Many of them believed he would
compel the fraternity to close their doors
againsSminors and men who had but little
money, and none to lose in gambling, to
put door-keepers in, and generally to con-
duct the business so that it would be as
little offensive as such a profession could
be made. A few were of the opinion. or
rather hoped, he would do nothing
about the matter. None of the
fraternity thought he would cause
the whole business to be wiped
out and the gambling places closed
up. All were therefore much surprised
yesterday when they got the order to shut
up Immediately. Many of the gamblers
were interviewed last evening by repre-
sentative of the GLOBE as to what they
proposed to do about it. When they were
confronted by this well-known interroga-
ton of Boss Tweed, the universal reply
was that they should comply with the
order and not attempt to fight the city
| authorities They said that it would be
| useless to attempt to keep their houses
open with the mayor, the police and the
whole city government against them.
They expressed the opinion that if the city
could stand it they could, but that in their
opinion it would be a barren victory, and
| that the result would be very different from
what the city authorities appear to expect.
While gambling would be ostensibly sup
pressed it would be simply scattered and
| driven into secret places, where all sorts of
cheating, robbing games would be
played, to which boys, clerks, and men
broken down in business would be ad-
mltted, and skinned, so that the injury
sought to be suppressed would really be
increased, and the community would suffer
great deal more from what was supposed
| to be an evil than it has while gambling
| was carried on under such regulations as
kept it within reasonable bounds. This is
| the general line of argument used by the
gamblers.
ANOTHER VIEW OF IT.
One gentleman of the chips was en-
countered who took quite different view
of the matter, and regarded the action of
the mayor as a wrong, inasmuch as the
suppression of gambling deprived him of
the only means he had of getting living
for himself and family. I have lived in
st. Paul, he said, for thirty years. My
birth, bringing up and associations were,
and have been such that I have no way to
support my family except by gambling
If 1 am not allowed to do that what shall
l do? No man wants to hire me for any
kind of business, for if man should en-
ploy me, if anything was stolen from his
place the theft would at once be
charged upon me simply because
1 was gambler, and every one would be-
| lieve the charge to be true. In this re-
spect we, as class, are regarded the same
as the class known as prostitutes. No
family wants to employ one of these.
suppose L SuOuIQ go W NIL " Drl6u To-
| morrow, and tell him l am poor and want
work. l am willing to sweep out and clean
up your Office. Suppose Mr.. O'Brien hires
me, and few days after go to work for
him he loses a gold pen, or some other
valuable article, who will be suspected of
stealing it? OF course, the gambler, and
! I will be discharged. This black mark is
upon us individually and as class, and
VI
have no other means of getting living
for ourselves and our families. We are
shut out from all the ways of making a
living. Every door is closed against u.s.
and we are compelled to starve or beg
Besides all this, the city gains nothing by
closing up of the houses. There will be
just as much gambling in st. Paul this
} ear - FHere was last year. The above may
be regarded as the aesthetic view of the
| matter. 1t certainly is a novel one.
q WILL SKIN GAMES FLOURISH?
''What do you think the effect will be?"
was asked last night of an old Chicago
sport, who has called the turn, coppered
| the winning card, pulled out his roll, and
gone broke in every city in the country
l''What do I think the effect will be?
Why, what do you think it will be-"
NOI pSluS III Iu0 Charmed C1rcl6 OF those
who forecast the future, nor yet /. the
seventh daughter, the reporter gave it up.
| and asked if it would cause scattering of
the boys to points less oppressed by the
majesty of the law
Il think good many of the boys Will
leave" he replied
will the commands of the mayor be
complied with?'
They certainly will be, so far as am
concerned; but in my opinion games will
be dealt all the same.''
| mot openly, of course?"
| mot openly, but in out of the way
places, and the majority of them will be
skin games, the support of which will be
derived from the contributions of chumps
and suckers. You know and I know, and
so does the chief of police and mayor, if
he knows anything, that under the system
he has suppressed, skin games and double
card games cannot be dealt. Faro will be
played in spite of him and the police, and
in seeking to prevent it, he only sharpens
the desire for the sport. AS result. the
honest banker and dealer will be retired
to give opportunity to the banker and
| dealer who brings the honest man INTO