Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-23
PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
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and woman In this house ought 60 be IN
terested in this theme.
Some years ago, when an association for
the suppression Of gambling was organ
lied an agent of the association came to
prominent citizen and asked him TO patron
ize the society. lie said, mo, can have
no interest in such an organization. am
In no wise affected by that evil" At that
very time his son, who was his partner in
business, was one Of the heaviest players in
Hearne's famous gambling establishment.
Another refused hispatronage on the same
ground, not knowing That his first book
keeper, though receiving a salary of only
a thousand dollars, was losing from fifty to
one hundred dollars per night The presi-
dent of railroad company refused to
patronize the institution, saying, "Ihat
society is good for the defense of merch-
ants, but we railroad people are not in
jured by this eyil;' not knowing that, at
that very time, two OF his conductors were
spending three nights of each week at faro
tables in New York Directly or indirectly,
this evil strikes at the whole world
Gambling is the risking of something
more or less valuable in the hope of win
ming more than you hazard. The instru-
ments Of gaming may differ but the prin
ciple is the same. The shuGlng and deal
ing cards, however full Of temptation, is
not gambling, unless stakes are put up;
while, on the other hand, gambling may
be carried on without cards or dice or bill
lizards or a 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. or goes into transactions without
foundation, but dependent upon what men
call ''luck," is a gambler Whatever you
expect to get from your neighbor without
Offering an equivalent In money or time or
skill is either the product Of theft or gam
ing. Lottery tickets and lottery policies
come into the same category. Fairs for
the founding Of hospitals, schools and
churches, conducted on the railing system
come under the same denomination. Do
not, therefore, associate gambling neces
sarly with any Instrument, or game, or
time or place, or thinl, the principle de-
ponds upon whether you play for glass of
wine or one hundred shares Of railroad
stock. Whether you patronize "auction
pools, }" "French mutuals, " or "book-mak
ing" whether you employ faro or billiards.
rondo and keno, cards or bagatelle the
very idea of the thing is dishonest, for it
processes to bestoW upon you good for
which you give no equivalent.
TEN "noNEsT" GAMBLING HOUSES.
1t is estimated that every day in Chris
tendon eighty million dollars mass from
hand TO hand through gambling practices,
and every wear in Cbristendom one HIM
dred and twenty-three billion one hundred
million dollars change hands i'm tbnt vav
There are in this cluster of cities about
eight hundred confessed GAMBLING estah
lisbments There ara obort tbroe tbousand
five hundred professional gamblers ont
of the EIGHT hundred Gambling establish.
ments how many of them do Won unnose
profess To he honcst2 Ten These fen pro-
fess To be honest because thew arc merely
tbe ante.chambor to fine seven hundred
and ninety that are acl,uovyledprd fraud
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mont nnrbln Nh, pi,trres ora "Tonb-
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