Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-06
W. C. 4. u. NOTES.
A HIDDEN DANGER.

ANEXTH Il there Will De terrible
EzE rage for gambling all
over our country in ten
aars, time. American Monacos and
BADEN Badens will be established ana
,,har,l,v patronized-hy whom, do you
ask? Ry our own sons and daughters.
Hardly game is played nowadays
for the mere pleasure of playing; there
n,,st he prizes to give the game zest
80 interest. "Only pretty favors, f"
v,u say. Yes, but anything won by
hazard. by luck or chance, forms a
taste for gambling. The evil is spread
ing into every department. Ihese
nrizes offered by our best papers tend
tn foster this love of CHANGING IL, anu
the writer who is the lucky winner IL
the fifty or one hundred dollar prize'
f,r what ia worth but ten, finds HIM
calf almost unconsciously wishing 1or
ono,ber chance at prize-story OF
article-and looking upon the osua'
pay as pretty slow work.
Gambling, according to Worcester;
ia "playing for money, or any o'nei
stoka or prjze.n Are not commerce
and other kindred games, clearly gam
hing. according to this definition!
"Take nothing you have not earheo'
except as free gift from FRIEND one
man taught his children, and thihA
he was consistent in his teachins
Though he played whist very oi'en
with those children) than many others
who would be shocked at cards, YET
let the children win prizes with soup
bubbles.
The trouble is, very few parents
know how far this thing is carrieo
The Young people are more ana more
left to themselves. If some one al
ious mother ventures to raise ques.
ton as to such prizes, she Is sliehceo
with the pames of half dozen Woneu'
far more advanced in the Christian lie
than she, who allow such prizes III
their own homes.
aye are peculiar people" was once
said of Christians. 1 fear If we are
peeuliar now, it is only peculiarly
worldly.
"But where would you draw the
ljne?" you ask. Not, at any rate
where your neighbor draws it. Try 10
see as God sees. He has told us lie
looketh on the heart"
Now the outward appearance OF
these games is very harmless, but Jus
look in the heart-see how bitterly DIS
appointed those girls were at "gettlng
nothing, "how eager Mary is.to go again
"and win something else" Notice
how fiat and uninteresting they find
game without prizes, and be warned in
time. Do not just forbid such games,
for you may tempt your child to
worse sin-that of deceit, but open your
heart to the young people. Tell them
how insidious the gaming fever is; how
like the appetite for drink it steals in
sensibly upon one, but can almost
never be shaken off, and get their own
moral sense aroused. Then, as you
would give strong coffee to drunk
ard, you may have to make extra eX-
erticns to make the evening pass
pleasantly, with no prizes to give it
spice.
Another practical suggestion. Ifyou
have misgivings tell them to your
friend, and you may find she has had
her share of them, and will stand firm
with you. 1t is the first step that costs
in good as well as bad movements.
William Sunday, the baseball play
or, said in recent speech at Pitts
burgh: "My occupation for the past
few years has carried me over large
portion of the United States. / have
been close observer, and / have
noticed that i'm communities where
the sale of liquor is prohibited, either
10y state laws or local option, there Is
the greatest prosperity, the greatest
happiness and the nearest equality
among the pc ple. There are some
people who are slow to see the virtue
of this movement for temperance.
Why this is so is mystery to me.
There are men coming in here to talk
for prohibition who come from states
where it has been tried. They have
lived under it and like it. is not that
proof of Its virtue? / have lived in
Iowa under license and nder prchihi-
ton, and say of my own knowledge
that Iowa was never more prosperous
than she is to-day. What has done
that? Prohibitiun.'