Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-01-04
CLOSE THEM ALL UP.
Wholesome Advice for Good Citizens to
Follow.


Hon. John Gibbons, the able lawyer,
gives the following advice to citizens,
anent the injunction granted to l..
Adams & Co. against Cy Jaynes ct al. :
THE course inaugurated by Adams
and Schlossman is perfectly practic-
able, and | believe that, were it sys-
tematically followed it would deal
gambling one of the heaviest blows it
has ever sustained in Chicago. In
common law, a gambling house is a
public nuisance. 1t is so regarded not
because of the unlawfulness of gam
bling in itself. but because a gambling
house is a place to decoy the young
and inconsiderate from a useful and
honorable employment of their time
and further, because it subjects them
to various temptations. The law spe-
eifically states that any person who
suffers from nuisance any special
damage separate and apart from that
suffered by the community in general
may file bill to abate or abolish such
nuisance"
There is no doubt, then, as to the
power of citizens to secure injunc-
tions?"
Within proper limitations, none
whatever A citizen has no right to
appeal to equity to restrain an individ
ual purely in the interest of public
morals, but he has an absolute right
to appeal for the remedy of special
personal grievance Adams and
Schlossman took course in which
they were justified. Mrs. Leopold
Bloom would be legally justified in
canceling the lease given by her to L.
Adams & Co. The law would Justify
and uphold any other occupant of the
building, or the next-door neighbor, or
anybody doing business in the immedi-
ate vicinity, in complaining and pray
ing for an injunction A gambling
house, both by law and bypublic opin-
ion, is held to be a public nuisance.
its influence is recognized to be I'M
wholesome and pernicious Anybody
owning or doing business in the imme-
date vicinity of a gambling resort has
property rights and interests which it
would be easy to prove are injured by
the proximity of the gambling house;
rights and interests which it is the ex-
press purpose and duty of the law to
protect. If the citizens of Chicago
want gambling suppressed they are
independent of the Mayor or other city
officials. They have the power in their
own hands"
But would there not be any Difficult
ty in proving injury?"
mo, l think not. Sentiment is
against the gamblers. Besides, a nui-
sance is about the easiest thing to es-
tablish in law. There might be some
question raised as to the injury, but
that would cut little figure, since in
jury by nuisance can be established by
reputation as well as by direct testi-
mony. Even though the defense should
sickle about the fact that the injury
was not irreparable it would make no
difference. 1t has been decided in the
courts of Illinois that an irreparable
injury is not such an injury as is be-
yond the possibility frepair. Neither
IS 1t one that has no compensation in
damages. Greatness or smallness is
not taken into account. An irrepara-
bic injury, in short, is one that ought
not to be submitted to on the one side
or inflicted on the other. That is what
the law has decided and the gamblers
case would fall within the limits of the
decision. 1t must be noted likewise.
that the injury from nuisances is often
so great or so small that adequate re-
dress cannot be had in courts of law.
The citizens have a stupendous power
over the gamblers if they would only
exercise II