The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-06

lottery policies come into the same cat
egory- Fairs Of the founding OF hos
pitals. schools and churches, conducted
on the railing system. come under the
same denomination Do not therefore,
associate gambling necessarily with any
instrument or game or time or place,
or think the principle depends upon
whether you play for a glass Of wine or
100 shares of railroad stock
1t is estimated that every day in
C~hristendom $50. 600. 900 pass from hand
TO hand through gambling practices,
and every year in Christendom sl23,-
100, 600. 600 change hands In that way.
There are in this cluster Of cities about
500 confessed gambling establishments
There are about Z, 800 professional gam
blerS Out Of the 500 gambling estab-
lishments, how many Of them do you
suppose profess TO be honest? Ten
These ten protesting 10 be honest be-
cause they are merely the ante-chamber
70 the $50 that are acknowledged fraud
ulent.
lishments. You go up the marble
stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried
servant introduces you. The walls are
lavender tinted. The man,els are Of
Vermont marble. The pictures are
"Jephthah's Daughter" and Dore's
"Dsnte's and Virgils Frozen Region Of
He'll" a most appropriate selection,
this last, for the place. There is the
roulette table, the finest, the costliest,
Z a.. most .-n,,fgts. nf... ~ Frr,tssYra in
the United States- There is the ban
quoting room where. free of charge 20
the guests. you may find the plate and
viands and wines and cigars, sumptuous
beyond parallel
Then you ON 20 the second-class
gambling establishment To il you are
introduced by a card through some
roper in" Having entered you must
either gamble or fight Sanded cards,
dice loaded with quicksilver, poor
drinks, will soon help you TO get rid of
all your money To a tune in short meter
with staccato passages. You wanted
20 see. You saw. The low villains of
the place watch you as You come in
Does not the panther, squat in the grass,
know a calf when he sees il? Wranglc
not for your rights in that place CT
your body will be thrown bloody into
the street, or dead into the East river.
You 90 along a little further and find
the policy establishment. In that place
you bet on numbers. betting on two
numbers is called a saddle" betting
on three numbers is called a gig" bet
ting on four numbers is called a
horse" and there are thousands OF
young men leaping into that saddle"
and mounting that gig" and behind
that 'horse," riding 10 perdition.
A young man. having suddenly heired
a large property, sits at h hazard
table and takes up in a dice box the es-
tate won by a fathers lifetime sweat
and shakes il and losses il away. In
temperance oon ~stigInatizes its victim
kicking him out, a slavering fool. into
the ditch or sending him, with the
drunkard's ~hiccough, staggering up the
street where his family lives. But
gambling does not in that way cxpose
its victims The gambler may be eaten
up by the gamblers passion yet you
only discover it 10y the greed in his
eyes, the harshness of his features, the
nervous rcstlessness, the threadbare
coat and his embarrassed business Yet
he is on the road Ia hell and no preach
er's voice II startling warning or wife's
entreaty can make him stay for a mo-
ment his headlonC career. The Internal
spell is on him; a giant is aroused
within: and though you bind him with
A.. liz .Ln- ,...if ,,.rt I'll. ,lr..l.
and though you fastened him seven
times round with chains they would
snap like rustcd wire; and though YOU
piled up in his path h~cavcn-high Bibles.
tracts and and on the top
should set the cross OF the Son of God,
over them all the gambler would leap.
like n roe over the rocks, on his way to
perdition.
Again. this sin works ruin by killing
industry. A man used to rcaping
scores, or hundreds, or thousands of
dollars from the gaming table will not
Ice content with slow work. What is
the use of TRYING Ia make these fifty
dollars in my store when ! can get FIVE
times that in half an hour down ut
'iiillv's'?' You never knew aconfrmed
gambler who was Industrious. The
very first idea at gaming il at wax with
all the industries Of society.
This crime is getting its lever under !
many a mercantile house in our great |
cities, and before long down will come |
the great establishment, crushing repu-
~tation, home. comfort and immortal
souls. How il divcrts and sinks capital |
may Toe inferred from some authentic
statement before us The ten gaming
houses that once were authorized in
Paris passed through the banks yearly |
325. 600. 600 francs Where hoes all the
money come from? The whole world is
robbed. What is most sad. there SIRE no
consultations FOR the loss and suffering
entailcd 10y gaming. IL men fail in law
full business God pitics and society com
miserates; but where in the Bible or in
society Is there any consolation for the
gambler? From hat tree of the forest
coZes there a balm thar can soothc the
gamester's heart? In that bottle " here
God keeps h tears of his children. are
there any tears Of the gambler? Do
the winds that came Ia kiss the faded
cheek Of sickness, and - cool the heated
brow of the laborer. whisper hope and
cheer 10 the emaciated victim of the
game Of hazard? When an honest mar
is in trouble he has sympathy. Poor
fellow" they say. But do gamblers
come TO weep at the agunies of the
gambler?
Furthermore. this sin is the source OF
u~ncounted diShones;ics- The game of
hazard itself j. often n cheat How
many tricks and receptions in the deal
ings of the cards The opponents hand
i oftiimes found out by fraud. Cards
are marked 10 that they NAV be desiy-
mated from the back. Expert games;ers
have their accomplices and one wink
may decide the game.
The dice have been found loaded with
p~latina- ~ that 'doublets" came up
every time. These dice are introduced
by the gamblers unobserved by homes.
men who have come into the play. and
this accounts for the fact that ninety
min u Of n hundred who gamble.