St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-07
TIGE'S TAIL TURNED.
Rev. G. L. Morrill, Gave 1t Sew
eral Twists in Yesterdays
Sermon.
Gethsemane Parish Celebrate
the Thirty-Fifth Year Of
Its Life.
Venice, and the Lessons 1t
Teaches, Discussed by Rev.
William Wilkinson.
The Press Club and Conven-
tion--ConcuSsion OF the
Brain.

A large audience of "men only"
principally young men. assembled in
the lecture room of Westminster church
yesterday afternoon to hear Rev. q. l..
MOrrilPs experience and views in rela-
ton to gambling.
BY way Of introduction Mr.. Morrill,
stated that the subject of his discourse
had not been suggested by the recent
expose in an evening paper, but that it
had been prescribed by those who had
asked him TO address this meeting He
then proceeded to relate his expert
ences during recent tour of the West,
when he saw in Butte City and Helena,
Mont. public gambling places open as
the day. over the door of which appeared
the bold declaration, Licensed gam
bling house." He then went on to ex-
press himself somewhat as follows:
When man or a woman boldly at
tacks this and its kindred vices there
are cries of sensationalism.
Say better SenSationalism than the
stagnation which closes its eyes by day
and boots and bowls by night.
Here may combine the pulpit and the
press to make this world q better place
to live In" beginning with Minneapolis.
Minneapolis may be fair as the moon
anu lNl IOuo % lLC Oull, UuI Sic Is
spotted in places. WHY'S il necessary
for private citizens to secure evidence
against the gambling places and saloons
that keep open Sunday, when we have
mayor and public officers whose duty
1t is to look after them? Have they for
gotten that their oath of Office was taken
III higher place than saloon or q
gambling place?
1t takes no Darwin to trace the rela-
tionship between the gamblers outfit
and the burglars jimmieS and counter
feiter's dies.
A few years since burglars robbed the
postoffice and the papers were filled
with advertisements offering rewards
for their recapture, while az the same
time these more serious crimes were
going OH in our very midst
1t would be highly consistent if
prayers were offered in our churches
that our city fathers should be given
backbone to stand up and say 10 the
gamblers, ''Shut up or we will place you
behind the bars which make a good
cage for tigers. Gambling is contrary
TO good law. 1t entOrces an idleness
which breeds vice. Some people call it
robbery, but do not. 1t differs from
robbery as duelling does from assassina-
ton In defining gambling he was
particular to state that he referred not
only to ia TO, roulette, stud poker and
craps, but also TO the SO-called respecta-
bic gambling, such as lotteries and
speculationS in stocks. In this connec-
ton, he expressed great regret at the
fact that many of the pillars of the
church were also pillars Of the system
Of sO-called respectable gambling.
Gambling" he said, ''unfitS mans
mind for the sober duties of life. 1t
leads to the habit of incompetence and
ID time almost inevitably to dishOnesty.'
he condemned progressive euchre in
the strongest terms, saying:
Men Of culture and women of intelli-
gence participate in it, but that cannot
dignity it. There is no danger in cards
alone, any more than there IS danger in
powder alone. The danger is in the
point of contact.
Many youth dates his downfall to
the day when he first bet the cigars
upon the result of the election, or
whether Minnesota would go Repub-
Ican or DemOcl attic. OF whether Min
neapolis would get the Republican ma
tiOnal convention.
He paid his respects to the gambler in
the following terms: THE gambler is
an outrage upon fraternity, commerce
and civilization. He is an Ishmaelite
His hand is against every man, and
every mans hand is against him, and
over the door of his sumptuous parlOrs
should be inscribed Dante's motto.
Leave hope behind, all those who enter
here"