Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-14
Fruits of Gambling.

In another column this morning is given
| the results of reckless life at the gaming
| table. During the past few days repeated
mention has been made in the RECORD
| UNION concerning the debauchery of the
| boys and young men from the stud-horse
| poker games which are the back ground of
4 large portion of the cigar stands of the
| city, as well as being found in some saloons.
| hotels and other places Attention has
| been called TO the tact that these places are
but so many deadtalls and recruiting pits
| for destruction of boys and young men,
! from which their way to faro and other
vices on the lowest levels of human
| debauchery and ruin is bur a
| short and swift transition. The
young man who is to-day taking his first
| lessons OF gambling at dice or stud-horsc
poker in the rear room of the cigar stand or
other Of the innumeTable hell holes which
abound on every hand in this CITY, with
deadly alluring temptations, will. in a
years time, have become sufficiently under
the control Of the devil and his earthly
conSortS TO be boon companion at faro.
and without the least compunction of con
science will tap his employers till, or en-
bezzle the public or private funds within
his power to reach, and stake all his
money. reputation and life in the mad
gambling race.
4 letter was received at this office dav
before yesterday, and while the statements
contained in it were under investigation.
IN order not to publish anything that
could not be fully substantiated, the
facts came out, with the arrest of the Dep
uty State Treasurer last evening. The let
ter was as follows
SACRAMENTO November 10 1881
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoS There is an effort being
made TO have the Board Of Trustees license stud
horse poker, under prctensc to regulate it. Can
you tell what good that will dog The thing viii
go along the same as ever. Just as many bows
ana young men viii play. Why not Kill the
viper at one blow This IS the only city in Cal
aoEnia where the game is allowed 10 be rlayed
One disgrace IS enough, and that is to license
faro
viii refer to one case, and see what YOU
think OF it \. D. January, the Deputy State
Treasurer lost 81 600 on November 9Th and
sl,000 once before, to my knowledge, and also
smaller sums on other occasions This was ali |
AT Ross Webber's licensed faro game at the |
corner Of second and streets This is all right |
! suppose, because the city receives 500 per |
quarter IS license TO DO that very kind of bisi.
ness Who can tell the number of eases of this |
kind that never come 10 light? Yours, etc
Comment is unnecessary. The sequel is |
shown III another part of this issue in |
L |
imposed victim, Hndcr the death-dealing |
influences of these lesser deadfalls along |
the devils great highway of gambling, to |
the neyer-iMling, engultng and self-de- |
Structiye end.
Tl!e proper steps TO take looking to the
blotting out of this evil is for the CITY |
Trustees 10 pass an ordinance, and see that
it is enforced, making stud-horse poker. |
and sill dice and other games, lot
ieries. etc, misdemcanors, and punishable |
with heavy penalties. But how can
this be done with an ordinance
already IN force, making lawful, so far as it
can, the chief gambling game-faro. The |
object in passing the gambling license orii-
nance was to better control and lessen |
the crime Of gambling and the criminals
who violate the State law by conducting
faro games and dens in defiance of law.
Ii must by this time have become plain
to the weakest intellect, by the example
recorded this morning. and which is but
a repetition in another degree. of the recent
case of Marchant, who lost 5000 at the
same place, and who was since murdered
by a gambling companion, that faro and
other robbing games cannot be made bene-
fetal and respectable, nor can the crime of
gambling and those who engage in it, be
made honorable by the passage of an
crime for stipulated price per quar-
ter. The ordinance fixing a license
fee upon banking games having failed Ct
the purpose for which ii was intended, and
upon grounds of consistency, is now in
the way of an absolutely needed ordinance
TO stamp out stud-horse poker and dice
games-the devils present pet schemes of
starting young men and boys ON the
double-tracked, down-grade road to swift
perdition had better be repealed at once,
and an ordinance passed and enforced that
shall remove much of the present temple
tons of these damnable sink-holes of in
EQUITY, and thereby afford some little OPP
portunity for parents, friends and employers
70 save the young who are in the mad
wmrl of allurements TO vice and crime
about them.
Verdi, the composer, is seveuty-three
Years of age. lie has snow-white hair and