Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-12-28


Inspector of Police, Mr. Ebersold, to
arrest every gambler that was operat-
ing on the good people of Chicago. 1t
seems. however, that Mr.. Ebersold
the boss of the gambling bust
ness, has not got the right
kind of men attending to the
gambling work, for they have very
poor success in finding the places where
this peculiar kind of business is car
ried on. If Mr.. Ebersold will get some
new men and give them each copy of
the EAGLE, with proper instructions,
he will soon have his station-hous
filled with sports, chips, and gam
bling paraphernalia If he does not
do something Mayor Cregier had bet
ter put some one in charge Of the
matter who can and will attend to it,
for the Mayor knows full well that the
people who hired him to be Mayor did
so with the express understanding that
he should enforce the law against all
sorts of rascality. 1t is not for him to
say, as he well knows, whether gam
bling shall be tolerated or not.
The people. the sovereign people,
have already said that it is unlawful to
gamble; and these same people, whom
Mayor Cregier is hired to serve, expect
him to see that their expressed wishes
are carried out. OF course the Mayor,
always a busy man, can not go around
to all these gambling houses and make
them close, but the people have pro-
vided for that. and they allow him to
appoint man and instruct him to see
that their laws are not viciously tram
pied under foot. If the Mayor does not
get a man to attend to this matter
people will begin to think that he is
quite willing to sacrifice the law to his
own persona. wishes.
There are some laws that are to be
looked at by good Mayor with gen
erous eye, but the gambling law is not
one of them. A very few people de-
rive some benefit from gambling, but
a whole lot of men, women, and chill
dren are made to suffer for it. Who
are the people that contribute one
thousand dollars a day to the Hankins
house? They are hardworking men,
who would be good citizens if they
could use the fruits of their labor fOI
the benefit of themselves, their wives,
and their children. That they ought
to know better is not sufficient apology
for the existence of such places, and
the apology does notkeep them out OF
Jail, nor their poor innocent families
out of the poor house.
There are evils against which strong
/ laws are made, that the innocent shall
not be made to suffer. One of these
evils is gambling. No good comes o.
it to the community at large, while the
/ vice entails much suffering, and tends
/ to a general increase of crime. There
are no two sides to this question, anC
there is no reason why the sworn off
GERS of the law should wink at the
crime. Public, "wide-open gam bling
can be stopped, and it is not only the
moral duty Of the Mayor to see that il
is stopped, but it is his sworn obliga
tion to do so.
That there will he little sly gam
bling going on, under the most rigid
enforcement of the law, is probably
true. But what is a little gambling b,
the few to the present wholesale system
of gambling by the many? People vii
steal, but that should not cause tn,
authorities to countenance stealing
Ever since Cain slew Abel people hay,
been committing murder, but becaus
it cannot be wholly stamped out is NJ
reason why it should be permitted.
If the people want public gambling
let them say so, and then let thei
duly elected representative see tina
gamblers are protected but when tn
peoplc have said thev do not want j