The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-04-23
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Written expressly for the GLOBE REPUBLIcA.
WHIsKEY is good to preserve deaG
things in, but it is death to living tissues
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GAMBLING IS A GREAT EVIL. There
is fascination about it that is bewitch.
ing. There is a hope inspired that is
never realized. This evil is liable to
touch. youth. middle age. and senility
When once entrapped within its May
folds the gambler finds himself within
the Vulcan vice of habit. Days, weeks,
months and years. may not suffice to give
to him release. The gambling habit is
formed by the working of at least three
elements: First, love of adventure; Sec
ond. desire for gain without honest toll ;
third. greed for gain. covetOusness.
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THE LOVE OF ADVENTURE gets many
a man into trouble when he ventures be-
yOnd the eternal law of right and justice.
Love of adventure in the gambler is
made in the interests of self, and
at the risk and hazard of losing what
he has, of gaining what is not his, and
for which he has never tOiled honestly
for an hour. There is fascination about
this venturesOmeness, because of its nov
city, and because of certain indefinable
hopes it raises. The thought of right.
justice. truth. does not seriously enter
into the question. will this venture give
me the advantage and the .'stakes:''
He has not weighed the consequences.
He loses the confidence of self respecting
people; and he loses his own self-respect
by doing that which is mean in his own
eyes. The love of adventure ruins him.
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DESIRE FOR GAIN without honest toll
is very close ally of the above species
of love of adventure. Something for
nothing! No man or boy CANDLES with
out the hope of gain. No gambler ex-
poets TO win bis neighbours money by
honest effort. The ''shuffle of the cards."
The ''throw of the dice" the 'scard in the
Sleeve" the ''set up hands, are each
md all. and mOle than these, used to
axe the money from whom it rightfully
belongs. And these belong to the pro-
ession all the way from "high five'' to
poker" and pool. There can be no
Intention here of an honest game. An
honest game of gambling? Impossible!
The inherent nature of it is dishonesty;
md the wonder is that sensible men and
Joys can be deceived by it. He who tries
o get something for nothing is trying
o steal, no matter by what name he calls
t; and this applies as well to him who
oses as to him who wins. This desire
or gain without honest toll ruins MANY
young man. Be honest. self-respec:-
ng; let us work for what We have, hon
silly.
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GREED FOR GAIN is thus cultivated
Trough the love of adventure and the
esire for gain without honest toll. He
Tho wants dollar without earning it is
ovetous. He who cOvets one dollar will
teal two if he gets the opportunity.
he greed for gain shipwrecks many
YES and characters. Greed for gain de-
ases man from the high position of the
cad of creation to that of a seeker after
elf with which to crafty his passions.
he avaricious man gives play to the
'west elements of his nature, which be-
ONES selfishness, selfishness. 1t is this
reed for gain that leads men to gam
lie. o. if they could see what loss of
,lf-respect, what loss of character, what
'ss of confidence, what degradation. no
ne would ever gamble again!
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GAMBLING. WHAT THE RESULT?
irst, every man that CANDLES must
rown every noble trait of the soul re-
ting to fairness, justice, honesty. His
'nse of fairness is gone; his sense of
stice is perverted; his sense of honesty
buried. Second, conscience, "the
'ice of God in the soul, is scared with
re hot iron of deception; and yet the !.
'mbler will tell it loud and long that he !,
''honest, fair, and conscientious as any
an living;" yet in the last game he
on his opponents money by a trick d
ith the cards, and then threatened to
DOT him for accusing him of unfair 7
SIS. Let one lose his sense of right I
ID wrong and he is then capable of any Il
'stardly act. Third, the loss of the
nfidence of the community, the loss o
self-respect, the loss of char acter are >,
'eparable losses; but they follow in the o
Ike of gambling as sure as the night q
lows the day. -
He WHO Is reckless enough to bet \
ght to lose. and he who is mean =
ough to win ought to pay the penalty. G
'e principle of gambling is robbery d
takes something for nothing. He who I,
lgers is demoralized and he who wins T