Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-24
GAMING SUPPRESSED.

Our erratic evening contemporary has
ways past finding out But its cheek is
thing too apparent to be mistaken and
an unauthorized example of it is at hand.
In this city large number of unlawful
games were being conducted To give
them seeming Of legality, under the plea
of regulation, the city authorities Welded
TO the views of those who held a license
system TO be wise, and 50, dispute prohibi-
tory State laws, gambling in nearly all
forms was licensed, and the games went
on, with the exception Of a few not sufIi-
GENTLY rich to pay the license tax. Still,
even thus reduced. there were games IN
plenty and to spare, something over
forty paving tribute to the city, and
stigma of disgrace in consequence attached
to Sacramento. The State, through its
representative body, passed a law that
under the penal menace compelled the
city to abandon the system, and cease the
cloaking of unlawful acts Thereupon
that which it was said by our contempo-
rary could never be done, the games were
closed out" and certain quarters made
active by gambling became suddenly silent
and are now deserted. When "regula-
ton ceased, and prohibition and enforce
ment of the law were substituted, there
were thirteen lottery games, twenty-four
tan games and five faro games in full blast
and licensed, and in addition, five stud
horse poker games, which must cease May
9TH, when the law prohibiting them
goes into effect Thus regulation
by license was proven to be deception.
and regulation by prohibition to be fact,
and 'tcre Is not to-day "a uHiorfui game raa-
ming IN he city. In short, it has been
demonstrated, Is the RHcoRD-C MON
has constantly maintained, that any
community that chooses 10 grapple
with the task can stop unlawful
gaming As has been done here.
On the heels Of this fact, and ~ the very
teeth Of the evidence cited, our esteemed
contemporary has the insuherable impu-
dence to insult the decent sentiment of the
city by quoting the following from an up
country paper, and by double-leadiug it
and by editing the headlines gives it the
prominence of Endorsement:
from the Sacramento Bee of April 22dl
tHE PEOPLE or SACRAMENTO HAVE FOUND THAT
OFT.
Chico Chronicle. April nd
Il Is now plain to everybody that the best way
10 regulate gambling is TO license il Put the
taS up so hlsh that small games will be closed
out AT the present state of affairs, ANYBODY
who can get hold Of It layout runs n gaming
institution.
Ii this is not the double-disilled essence
of bull-headedness and the coolest exam
pie on record Of case-hardened, copper
lined and double.rivetted cheek. then in
deed the moon is made of green cheese aud
the earth is Hat. This people for given
number of weeks without licensed gam
bling games, have lived, moved and Lad
their being, and vet we are told that "the
people Of Sacramento have found out"
that the best way TO regulate is to license
gaming. 1t will be replied that the gam
bling games have simply been removed
across the river, and are as accessible as
before. But this is not true. One only |
has been moved across a county line, but
it remains that the others ceased. and I
the shame of legalizing that which the
laws of the State condemn, no longer at
taehes TO Sacramento. If sister counties
fail of their duty, it is not reproach to
this city, the example of which proves
that the laws against gaming can be, en-