The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
GAMBLERS.
The wretchad and Precautions Ex1stsnce
LED by Gentry Of the ~Pasteboard.

New York Tribune.
The gamblers Of New York have led q
precarious and on the whole wretched
existence for two or three years past.
These places have been raided by both
the public and private police, and when
ever the attitude Of the law is decided
toward them they read the handwriting
on the wall and take c holiday. Per-
haps the least self-sasisfed oounse-
nance to be seenar round our hotels and
public resorts are the oldgamblers who
long had complete immunity, and to
this day preserve a little hold on the
police and even the police Justices.
Cases are not ~infrequent of gamblers
sitting on our minor benches or being
clerks of the court. Hence q certain
latent sympathy in the prosecution Of
prised. The best thing q gambler can
do to satisfy himself isto get out of the
business altogether. The occasional
funds OF money he raises by his danger
Gus and outlawed trade hardly ever
stay by him, and q godo deal of it goes
to the police and the lawyers and other
parasites who hold vice to be their nat
ural banker and side patron. Our ho-
tells are also Indifferent to the presence
of the gambling community right among
their guests, and it seems TO me to be
a poor thing to do with a guest who
comes to town with money, which he
might otherwise spend In the proper
Office of hospitality, to allow him to be
taken In hand by some gamblers roper
in and escorted TO SOME place in the
neighborhood where he can be picked
clean and has . draw mis- check im0Ta
or less uncertain, to pay his bill and get
speedily out OF town.
A sufficient number of gamblers will
devastate any territory on the globe.
Long Island city, though il is the capt.
tai of q county and with the seat OF
justice, has been kept back, notwlth-
standing long witted men like Eliphar
let Mott thought IL had such admirable
opportunities that q half q century ago
or more they made investments there
for the benefit of Union College and
other trusts. The gamblers found it
q convenient spot to halt between the
rows of tracks and the city, and in q
little while the whole city government
became the creature of gamblers. De-
falcation began, violence wa not un-
common and the tone of that suburb be-
gan to grow lower. There is hardly an
old racing track on Long Island OK in
thu general vicinity Of New York which
has not collapsed and left behind il a
long pile of old board fences and
some old hotel oveS whieh fate
and ghosts seem to hover. There
are at least two courses on Long Island,
and in every old city their vistiges are
to be seen; and the Elysian Fields In
Hoboken seem never to have recovered
from the gamblers visitation there half
q century ago. Intruth, there can be
no occupation so unworthy of o right
thinking man as Co live by temptation
and advantage, refusing work, being in
perpetual watch for men of means or
youths with legacies and prospects, and
thus corrupting at the fountains of So
ciety lives meant to be fully lived out
with credit and composure. A man
who expects to play this kind Of a game
and be q permanently happy man is
f~ortifying his wretched conscience with
apparent examples in regular life which
he will find on investigation he has "
er understood.
&H