The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-22
AGAINST GAMBLING.
THE FORT WORTH RESOLUTIONS.
A Terrible State of Affairs Alleged to
Exist in the City of Heights,
Which the Warriors Pro-
pose TO Have Changed.

Fort Worm, Aug. 90 Correspond
ence. The following are the preamble
and resolutions passed at the citizens
meeting held in the courthouse last
Tuesday evening:
WHEREAS, 1t is apparent that vice and
immortality are assuming such shape in
the city of Fort Worth, and has taken
such hold on certain interests in our
midst as to cause men who naturally
shun all such to become timid and fear
full lest their personal interests should
suffer by an outspoken condemnation of
the wrongs; and
WHEREAS, Bold robbery has become
bOlder, and murder arson, rape, gam
bling and houses OF prostitution have
become so common and riotiOus that it
is now actually asserted that it will in
jure the the best interests of Fort Worth
to put down gambling and these pala Il $
Of sin; and
WHEREAS, There are men in our
midst, of our best class of citizens, who
deem it to their best personal interests
to speak in bated breath about these
evils lest they offend the bold and vi
cious who ply their vocation openly and
in violation Of all law and order; there
fore, be it resolved
first-That life. liberty and property
can only be secure where the laws of
the community are properly enforced,
and that now at this time, in the city of
Fort Worth, we are called upon and il
is made our duty to the community in
which we live to assert as a melancholy
fact that murder and robbery and its
concOmitantS of crime, gambling and
WhOredom, have become so frequent
and riotous that only last week it ap-
pears as testimony sworn to i'm court of
Justice that visitor to our city had not
only been deliberately robbed in the city
limits but that the robbers had the leis-
IRE to strip their victim stark naked and
chase him in this manner to his hotel by
way Of diversion.
Second-We say that if it is calculated
to iniure the best interests of Fort
Worth to let these things be known, we
think that the injury should come now
in modified shape while knowledge
of these horrors may be made public in
time to prevent worse consequences in
the shape of outraged human nature
rising up and Selling the very paving
stones that support these iniquities and
by opposing end them.
Third-We affirm that evils can be
corrected by being published and dis
cussed, and in the midst of reason and
good judgment we can arrive ut that
which is best for the society in which
we live.
Fourth--We affirm that the many
houses of prostitution that rear their
polluted fronts all over the city should
he abated as nuisances of the most vie
ious ORDER and that most appallinglv
prominent among these is one of the
most costly proportions now being
reared near the cemetery of our dead,
the shadows of whose baleful form will
tall athwart the graves of our loved
ones, and whose horrid bachannalian
orgies will soon make night hideous
around the peaceful slumbcrs of our
dead.
Fifth While we are aware that man
Is lmperiectiOn by nature and cannot
hope that perfection can be attained in
this life, yet we do say that the vicious
can be so controlled that they may not
congregrate in swarms on our principal
thoroughfarcs, plying their unlawful
vacations In defiance of the officers of
the law, entrapping the laboring poor
of our city ana wringing from them
the last cent for their suffering little
ones at home.