The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-25

lin i kEA OANNs
BOYS ARE RUINED.
Sights Seen by a Herald Repre-
sentative Lately.
A FEW PLACES ONLY VISITED.
Some Sunday Reading for the Good Liberal
Who Voted Year Ago for Candidates
Who Promised to Reform Things"
ice and poverty 90 hand in hand.

street corner only asks for your purse.
The keeper of the gambling den asks the
same, but instead of holding you up at the
end of a revolver he entices you into his
den, amuses you with games while he re-
lieves you of your cash by the shuttle of a
card, the flip of marble or the toss of dice
Both are enemies to every legitimate in
dustry of commerce; destroying your pro-
perty, Staying you and sending your wife
to beg for bread
The one should be stunned as well as the
other
There are laws against gambling as well
as against thuggery.
Are they enforced?
Every other day the people are assured
in bold headlines that Chief of Police
Youngis
THE TERROR OF THUGS AND GAMBLERsl
Breezy, amt it,
AT period during the late unpleasant
ness the country was informed that Little
Mac was about to move on Richmond. But
someway the army didn't move until the
chief was removed.
The hint may be pat.
All great generals of police as well as
armies have their heads in the sling
more by inaction than in the thick of the
fight.
1.-THE TERROR OF THUGS AND GAMBLERS
Let's see.
More men visit the gambling dens of the
city every night in the week than would
pack the Salt Lake theatre from pit to
dome.
During the week just closed more men
and boys visited the gambling dens than
will attend all the Protestant and Catholic
churches in this city combined, at the regu-
lar morning and evening services on this
Sabbath day.
Gambling goes on most gloriously
No one doubts the sincerity of tue Her
culean efforts of the chief of police in
suppressing the gambling dens in the Chi
nese quarter, unless it is the chief himself.
though the results up to date show no dim
mutton of the gaming, but rather percep-
tible increase
Be it forever to the credit of the majesty
of the law, that fan tan places in the Chi
nese quarter have been suppressed. and
/ pursue
his pleasures unmolested in his own house.
but must shrink from the shadows CO the
rookeries on Commercial street. and walk
boldly up, in the full effulgence of the cleo
trio light, abreast with the Mclean man.
the front steps Of the Main street man
sions.
Chief Young is entitled to the everlast-
ing gratitude of the Main street gambling
house keepers, for driving the Chinese out
Of his own lair to ply his favorite game tc
the profit of the white man. 1t is in this
way that the yellow" metal pays tribute
to the white
When the populace raised their hats to
John NJ. Young Tor his war on vice in the
Chinese row, it perhaps was not aware
what profitable patron of gambling the
Hing Lung is, and how grateful the keen
ers of the Legitimate" joints were for
turning that trade their way
At faro table in the rooms over the
Gaity saloon the other night there were nc
less than six Mongolians betting their shirt
money against the percentage of the keeper
of the place.
Not only has the chief suppressed the
Chinese joints, but he has cleaned out the
skin game den that used TO hold forth back
of the Arcade
Tne missionary service of this became
a sort OF enforced necessity, as the keeper
OF that place came very near clearing ont
the police. The recent board of police
commissioners which sat on the cases of
certain tried and true members of the SIN
est' heard some very starGiing evidence
a a ntnt i'm ~. rol.l ,
crisp $50 bills for quieting suckers tina
were silly enough TO complain at headauar-
tiers Of being skinned out of a little matter
like Sl,5OO While trying to beat the Arcad e
game. The chief of police saw very clearly
that this thing was coming very close to
| headquarters and that an example must be
made OF the men who would dare to try tn
! DO business IN such roundabout way as
hlllng the pockets OF a member of the force
without saying nything about it to tne
| chief.
This may be little distorted, as it was
not made clear in the star chamber session
whether the, chief plead for the heads OF his
aids off or ''on.n
Another skin game was running over the
! Crystal, but some way this one did not
seem to call for the same heroic measures
TO stamp 1t out that dealt such swift and
terrible destruction to the keeper of the
Arcade. There is choice of evils and even
in gambling, in the grand plan of the sur
/ viyal of the fttest, the keepers who stand
best in the eyes of the chief executor of the
law continue to wax and grow fat, piy then
business with open doors and in the full
knowledge OF any man VINO cares to walk
upstairs, look in or fork out.
But what the authorities failed to do fol-
the favored joint the Nemesis of flame and
fire accomplished. ltcame in flash and
did that which might have disturbed the
entente cOrdidIe of the authorities and the
keeper of it.
f or so much good work the chief of police
| has warrant on the affection of the law
| ana order mem bers of this community He
has performed a great work in routing the
Chinese; with putting to flight the film
Hammers, and by the aid of fire and Chief
Stanton, extinguishing g place which was
created with detailed force of fly coppers
But how much has all this work told on
the gambling business.
The Chinee has been driven to pay his
laundry tribute to the keepers of the white
joints.
The old patrons of the Arcade and the
crystal have a dozen or more places fully
equipped with all the losing games, from
roulette and faro to keno and stud poker.
But, OF course, the chief of police knows
nothing OF these places they are too gilt
edged to be seen. When fighting the Chi
nese washerman and ''feather-tiuffer, the
chief was a hero, but when it came to
boarding the lions of roulette in their dens.
the proud flesh of the majesty of brass
buttons qualls, quivers and beaches.
There area large number people who feel
kindly to the chief, and The HERALD.