Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-17
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
No More License.

Statement is made that an ordinance is
to be presented to the City Trustees this
morning for passage, to license stud-horse
poker gambling. The Trustees are not to
be blamed for having such an ordinance
presented to them for their consideration,
but they will be culpable if they pass it.
The public has accepted the statement-at
least portion Of the community has-that
the passage of the former ordinance to
license gambling was done with a view to
SO regulate as to greatly lessen a crime,
which, under circumstances then existing,
could not be wholly suppressed. If the
community was at first divided as to the
wisdom of passing the ordinance it is now
unanimous in the knowledge that the at
tempt to regulate " has proved dead fail
ure, and Is equally unanimous for its re-
peal and the cleansing from the city's fair
name of this foul spot. OF this fact
the City Trustees are now fully aware,
and they will not for a moment
think of passing further ordinances
whereby to clothe these deadfalls with
garb of legality, and to make the criminal
aiders and abetters who conduct them re-
spectacle. The former ordinance was
passed squarely in the face of the State
law, and in open defiance of it, Certainly,
with the sad experience of the past week,
the Trustees will not, in opposition to the
public feeling and sentiment, think of add
ing further shame and disgrace by licensing
other gambling pits. If the purpose of the
proposed ordinance to be introduced to-
day is 10 regulate stud-horse poker, by
driving it to upper floors, it will be neces-
Sary 10 make it crime-under the police
powers of the Trustees-to play it elsewhere
than in certain places. 1t follows that it
will better regulate it to make it unlawful
anywhere within the city. 1t at least is a
game that may be stamped out, and it
should be done at once.
In this connection the Alta California, of
San Francisco, says: One of the cOnse-
quences of the defalcatios of A. D. Janu-
airy, the Deputy State Treasurer, is vigor-
RECORD UNION for the repeal of the ordi-
nance which in that city permits the licens-
ing OF gambling games. It was at a faro
table licensed by the municipal government
of the Capital city of the State that young
January lost $1,000 of public money on the
4th Of November and other sums at various
times Over a year ago Sacramento adopted
the plan of licensing gambling, and it was
then claimed that gaming was 10 be made
comparatively innocuous and almost re-
spectacle. But it is difficult to domesticate
the tiger. While the banking games in
Sacramento have been run under an official
sanction of the city which it had no right
to give, numerous petty unlicensed games
have been running day and night, and
training up the youth of the city in the
way they should not go 1t was too incOn-
sistent to make dice and stud-horse poker
illegal while faro is licensed, and hence
there was nothing for it but to let
the boys play on. 1t is
only surprising that the respectable
elements Of society at the State Capt.
tai should have ever thought that the
small sum paid into the CITY Treasury by
the gamblers was a sufficient return for the
evil of tolerating an otfense that is con-
demned by the laws of every civilized State
in the world" The dHG is Il little wild in
the statement in the last line; but that is
immaterial. The Ata, while warming the
ears Of Sacramento should also bear in
mind that young January lost portion OF
his steal at gambling games in San
Francisco, where the respectable ele-
ments of society are unable to suppress
gaming, though they DO manage by peri
70 odiC police raids and the imposition OF fines
to collect 4 species of tax upon gambling.
since the games invariably reopen SO soon
As the imposed fine is paid into the treasury
of san Francisco. But this is not cited Us
at all excusative of the sins of omission or
commission in Sacramento. but rather as a
gentle reminder that good many people
are tarred with the same stick
The Folsom Telegraph in this connection
thus apostrophizes; And now comes
Deputy State Treasurer A D. January, a
detaulter in the sum of $4,000. Cause
gambling. All, glorious harvest are the
fathers and mothers, the wives and children
Of Sacramento reaping from her licensed
and protected gambling hells. 1t should
be Q thought inspiring much pride in the
breast Of every Californian, this knowledge
that orr capital city champions with all
the majesty of her laws the gambler and
card sharp; that she says TO the unwary
and the weak: Play; stake your money
stake your watch stake your credit; stake
your mothers heart your wifes tears and
snatch the bread from your children
mouths and add it to the pile; stake your
honor, your life and your soul. ! viii not
interfere. Why should |? Am not the
silent partner of those who are to despoil
you ?"