Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-25
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San Remo and Genoa. It is a growing pesti-
 fence, real moral plague spot People who ought to know better play away the money | they brought to live with throughout the | winter, and are impoverished throughout | their stay, living on strict necessaries. This ! I hear from the Mentone tradespeople, who | bewail the daily loss they experience from l this cause Many of their most respectable | clients lose so heavily at Monte Carlo in the early part of their stay that they have to live f from hand to mouth during the remainder. | Many who come to the Riviera rom the r north to save life lose all their funds early in | the winter and have to return home to face ! disaasa or 11erhsps death. Other invalids, R better off. send again and again for money, sell, mortgage, borrow, entirely neglect their | baa}Sh. spend the days and evenings in the close, badly ventilated rooms, and die before the end of the season. It is very hard that people going to the South for health should be exposed to such temptation In every ho- tel there is band of gamblers who talk of nothing but rouge and no1r, of numbers, of systems of play These votaries of gam
 bling are not necessarily the young and the
 inexperienced. They are often middle-aged or aged men and women, and noblemen, gen
 try, generals, colonels, barristers, physicians. The demon of gambling has got hold of
 them They come from the four corners of the earth; and the ruin that follows-bank-
 ruptcy, poverty, dishonor, simultaneously falls upon them at home at New York, Rio Janeiro, Batavia, Calcutta, anywhere. It is said that during the winter about a suicide week occurs in and near Monaco. If so, it is only tithe of what occurs elsewhere through Monte Carlo For whom is this roy
 atty of e700,O yearly, this enormous in- come, raised? Merely to subsidize degra- ded prince, and to give colossal incomes and fortunes to half a dozen or a dozen persons, who are ashamed of the source from whence their money comes, whom no respectable 4o as friends, and to whom society only owes punishment as inciters to vice.
 The bishop of Gibraltar is doing his very best to stem the torrent of vice that ema-
 mates from Monte Carlo, to draw attention to the many evils and to the gradual lowering of the moral tone of the inhabitants of the regions that surround this moral pesthouse. He has enlisted all his chaplains in the cru sade and they all try their best to persuade the members of their congregation not to countenance Monte Carlo by their presence, either for musical or for any other purpose. Indeed, may safely say that 8 very large proportion of those who winter on the Rivie- "a for their health ardently look forward to the day when the Monte Carlo hell will be thing of the past. As to compensation to the company or to the prince for it's aboli- tion, we all think that the mere proposal is ridiculous. Contracts, leases, &c., for pa tently immoral purposes are not binding in law. If a house of ill-fame in London is closed by the police, certainly neither the owner nor the leaseholder would have any recognizable claim on the authorities for compensation for the loss of immoral gains. Such is the position of the Monte Carlo es- tablishment. Monaco, virtually annexed to France, has accepted position which leaves it open to French social laws. Moreover, Germany, Italy, the Pope, Spain, the United States of America, and no doubt all other countries, would clap hands and say ''Bra- vol" were Monte Carlo peremptorily abol- ishad