Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-26


ers, asks you to license and make respect
able his business. You do so. He rope
In the next evening some young man VIII,
leaves 81 800 with them. They can vel
afford to pay you your license, and sent
you around a cigar apiece, and say, ."Oh
your license business works bully" Th,
Mayor lays considerable stress upon tina
section OF the ordinance that forbids minor
to play at the game. | think in most cases
yes, in the majority of cases, the response
bility comes after the person is of matur,
years. 1t is during the time that he is il
business for himself, or for Others intrusteC
with funds, that the victim falls at tn,
gaming table. How many
MEN HAVE FALLEN FROM HIGH ESTATE,
Who were in the full enjoyment of honor
position and society, between the ages of .;
and 30 years If the rats of this town, thu
vermln, are going to run it, the quicker W,
ascertain that fact the better.
Mayor Brown said he did not think there
was a city in the Union that is as moral as
Sacramento. The rats do not run the city
government at least not since he had beer
in the Board of Trustees This city was
run by political bosses and rats for a number
of years, but there was none of that now
He said we stand as city to-day
THE PEER OF ANY CITY ON THE COAST
In point of morality. Show me another
city in the Union which has population
of 700 and police force of only eight
men. We are as intelligent, moral, re-
ligious and virtuous community as can
be found on the earth. | am being misin-
terpreted. want to blot gambling out in
a public way. Some men will take glass
behind a door, but would not be seen
drinking in public.
Mr.. Milliken-We believe in keeping the
waters at the fountain-head pure.
Mayor Brown-Then let the State stop it.
That is the fountain head.
Mr.. Milliken-Two wrongs never makes
a right. If you would, you could suppress
gambling.
Trustee Nielsen said: We are trying to
suppress all kinds of vice and crime. Our
methods, we think, are the best, and SO far
have worked well. Mr.. Milliken says only
five per cent. OF the community gam Die.
think, if he had said 50 per cent, it
would be more like it. He said gambling
in one form or another was practiced by
almost every one. He referred to the fact
that children when they first go to school
learn to gamble for pins, marbles etc. The
betting on election to large amounts was
INDUCED by many, who would scorn to be
called gamblers. He said he himself never
gambled, neither did either of the other
members of the Board.
Rev. DR.. Frost said he would like to ask
the Mayor question. Did | understand
you to say that gambling had decreased
since it was licensed?"
You mean regulated"
NO; mean licensed. know you wish
me to say regulated"
The regulated games have fallen off in
business one-half."
''Then, if licensing a crime kills it, why
would not the licensing of thieves stop
They are hardly parallel cases."
There is State law against gambling
and another against stealing. If the license
works so admirably in one, why not extend
the same courtesy to the other, and in this
way get rid of them
Mr. Milliken, IN reply to the remarks of
Trustee Nielsen, said it was libel on Sac
ramento city to say that 95 per cent. of her
population were gamblers.
Rev. Mr.. Mckelvey, of the Kingsley
Chapel, said he with several other divines
had called, not at the request of the citi
zens', or any other committee, but of their
own volition. They represented in this city
some 200 or 300 families, had member
bership of about 1000, and had $500 chill
dren under their care. We believe gambling
to be curse and crime. 1t is crime
against humanity,
A CRIME AGAINST THE HOMES OF OUR PEG
PIE.
In face of the statutory laws there appears
a city ordinance licensing faro. 1t is now
proposed to extend it to other and more
Ill Al
a disposition on the part of our boys to
learn that which they should not learn
This is very true of gambling and it is
strange how soon they learn the games of
chance. We are very much-yes, deeply
in this question. Our hearts
will be broken, the gray hairs of fathers
and mothers bowed i'll grief in consequence
We dropped in here this morning to see
what you are going to do about it. We
believe it can be suppressed. We know it
ought to be suppressed, and we think
you will suppress it. We don't believe for
a moment, however, that it will ever be
as long as you keep encirciing
it's hideous form with the protection of the
law. You have the moral support of every
person in this community in your endeav-
ors to stop it. If it cannot be stopped in
any other way the people will have to rise
in their might and crush it out
Trustee Nielsen-Mr McKelvey, when
you have a church fair or festival at your
church, don't you have lotteries, grab-bags,
fish ponds and kindred amusements, that
are species of gambling?
Mr.. McKelvey-I am proud to be able,
sir, to say no.
Mayor Brown-We believe we are on the
right track We are trying to kill out
gambling. We will try this ordinance, and
if it does not prove to be successful, why,
then, we will try something else. We have
succeeded in our efforts so far, and we are
of the opinion that the proposed ordinance
will work well.
Mr.. Leitch said from the remarks made
by the members of the Board he Judged
they were going to pass the ordinance.
That being the case, he would like to ask
them to put the license at $500 a month.
Trustee Gutenberger said he had been
thinking of offering to make the license
$500.
Trustee Nielsen said he thought that $3.50
would amount to prohibition.
Mayor Brown said g Place it at $500, or
even $3.50, and there would be three times
as many games running as now, and they
would all defy the ordinance"
Mr. McKelvey-If that is the condition
of affairs in this city at present, then |
think it high time that the people should
rise in their might and crush it out. l say
this: If the gambling element can success
fully defy the moral sentiment, the
churches, the law and officers, then there
should be revolution in this city of 10000
souls that would shake it like an earth
quake.
The ordinance was then read and passed
nv the following vote AVes-BrOWn and
Nielsen. No-Gutenberger.
In explanation of his vote Mr.. Guten-
berger said he would vote for the ordi-
nance, provided they would make the
license $500 per month.
THE ORDINANCE.
The following is the ordinance, rs passed:
The Board of Trustees of the city of Sacra-
mento do ordain as follows:
Section /. 1t shall be unlawful for any person
to maintain, carry on, open, conduct, deal, or
play any percentage game of stud-hoTse poker,
or any other percentage game either with cards,
dice, CT any other device, for money, checks, or
other representative of value, unless the same
shall be carried on, conducted, dealt, or played,
in accordance with the following regulations
First-For conducting, carrying on, or play
ing. or dealing any such game, there shall be
obtained by the person so conducting carrying
on, playing, or dealing such game from the
City Collector of said city, license therefor, for
which license he shall pay the sam of 500 per
month, in advance, which said sum shall be
paid into the General Fund of said city.
Second-No person under the age OF twenty
one years shall be permitted to play at any such
game, and any proprietor, manager. or dealer
of any such game permitting any. such minor
10 play at any such game, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdcmeanor and punished as here
in after provided.
Third-It shall be the duty of the Chief of
Police to, and at any and all times, inspect such
games and these regulations enforced. and