The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-26

who went cutting themselves among
the to9nbs now sit, clothed and In their
right minds; or of the Magdalen asy-
lums, where the lost one of the street
comes to battle the Savior's feet with
her tears and wipe them with the hairs
of her head, confiding in the pardon of
him who said, Let him who is with
out sin cast the first stone at her."
need not speak of the institutions
for the blind, the lame, the deaf and
the dumb, for the incurables, the
widow, the orphan, and the outcast;
or of the thousand armed machinery
that sends streaming down from the
reservoirs the clear, bright, sparkling.
God given water that rushes through
our aqueducts and dashes out of the
hydrants, and tosses up in our fount-
aims, and misses in our steam engines,
and showers out the conhagration, and
sprinkles from the baptisrnal font of
our churches; and with silver note,
and golden sparkle, and crystalline
chime, says to hundreds of thousands
OF our population, in the authentic
words of him who said, II will be thou
cleanw
All this l premise in opening this
course of sermons on the ten plaques
OF these three cities, lest some stupid
man might say am depreciating the
place of my residence l speak to you
today concerning the plague of gam
bling Every man and woman in this
house ought to be interested in this
| theme.
THE PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
Some years ago, when an association
| for the suppression of gambling was or
| gained, an agent of the association
came to a prominent citizen and asked
him to patronize the association. He
said, No, have no interest in such
an organization. l am in no wise af-
fected by that evil" At that very time
| his son, who was his partner in bust
ness, was one of the heaviest players in
Hearnes famous gambling establish
| lishment. Another refused his patron
age on the same ground, not knowing
that his first bookkeeper, though re-
ceiving a salary of only thousand dol
lars, was losing from fifty to one llun-
dred dollars per night. The president
of a railroad company refused to pat
ronize the institution, saying, THAT
society is good for the defense of mer-
chants, but we railroad people are not
injured by this evil, not knowing that
at that very time two of his conductors
were spending three nights OF each
week at faro tables in New York. Di-
rectly or indirectly, this evil strikes at
the whole world.
Gambling is the risking of something
more or less valuable in the hope OF
winning more than you hazard. The
instruments of gaming may differ, but
the principle is the same. The shutting
and dealing cards, however full Of
temptation, is not gambling unles:
stakes are put up; while, on the othel
hand, gambling may be carried On with
out cards or dice, or billiards or ten
pin alley. The man who bets On horses
on elections, on battles-the man who
| deals in fancy stocks, or conducts {
business which hazards extra capital, o.
goes into transactions without founda
ton, but dependent upon what mer
call 'luck," is a gambler.
Whatever you expect to get from
your neighbor without offering a,
equivalent in money or time or skill i
) either the product of theft or gaming
Lottery tickets and lottery policie
come into the same category. Fairs TO
the founding of hospitals, schools ant
churches conducted on the rafting sys
i tenn come under the same denomina
= ton. Do not, therefore, associate gam
bling necessarily with any instrumen
; or game Or time or place or think tn
; principle depends upon whether yo'
> play for glass of wine or one hundre'
e shares of railroad stock. Whether yo1
patronize auction pools" ''Frencl
mutuals" or 'book making" whethe
you employ faro or billiards, rondo ant
J, keno, cards or bagatelle, the very ide
Il of the thing is dishonest, for it pre-
}. fesses to bestow upon you a good fo
Y which you give no equivalent.
L EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS EVERY DAY
s 1t is estimated that every day i
Christendom eighty million dollars pas
u from hand to hand through gamblin
d practices, and every year in Christer
l, dom one hundred and twenty -thre
!" billion one hundred million dollal
!" change hands in that way. There al
y in this cluster of cities about eigt
2 hundred confessed gambling establish
le ments. There are about three thor
Ie sand five hundred professional gan
y blers. Out of the eight hundred gan
=. bling establishments, how many of thei
:. do you suppose profess to be honest
Ten. These ten profess to be hone
= because they are merely the ant
:, chamber to the seven hundred an
~ ninety that are acknowledged fraud,
10 lent
- There are first class gambling estaI
lishments. You go up the marb
= stairs. You ring the bell. The live
- led servant introduces you. The wal
- are lavender tinted. The mantels a
~ Of Vermont marble. The pictures a
:. "Jephthah's Daughter" and Dort
~ "Dante's and Virgils Frozen Region
bo Helr-a most appropriate selectio
~ this last, for the place. There is Il
~ roulette table, the finest, the costlies
~ most exquisite piece of furniture in Il
- United States There is the banqut
ing room where, free of charge to t
- guests, you may find the plate and '
=: ands and wines and cigars sumptuo
beyond parallel.
Then you come to the second Gle
gambling establishment. To it you a
-. introduced by card through sol
Us roper in" Having entered you mi
- either gamble or fight. Sanded carr
- dice loaded with quicksilver, pc