, 1891-08-19
IS GAMBLING A CRIME?
Sam Jones Roasts Politicians
and Stock Brokers.
He Pays Some Attention to
Progressive Euchre,
Which is Denounced as a
Gambling Game.

10 III,
I'VE" iohN' mug To- WHY
black.red little Sam Jones talked for
nearly two hours on New York politicians
an , stock hrok and gave tbem n scorcb-
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rug 9unuaS' Suoieo' Vi Tue uay was
advertised as CONSCIENCE. reason and
God, with a few remarks on New York
noliticians and Wall street thrown in
"Eror, mon or - bos aons,;an,o
n 'on.e'
ne said' ana every woman 100. lhose
who try to dodge their conscience aud go
in an opposite direction from what they
would Load ,b.m ora fools and Y;u ooro
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10 grlei.
MIR. Jones went on IN the same strain
for some time bnt finally brancbed off
ond No., 20 ,,lL ahor, namhIors
o.
pie don't seem to think so, but say that
it is. Why don't they think SOP 1t is
because they whom We term the best in
our land are gamblers; that is the proper
definition Tor those people. Men who
virtually rob each other Cay after day.
Men who after specializing for n week in
Wal street, go to church on Sunday, and,
getting on their knees, ask the Lord not
to forgive them, but to show mercy to
other sinners. They don't ask for mercy
themselves, and they wont get any.
They are gamblers, despite the fact that
the public in general believe them en-
gagged in a legitimate business. If we
must have gamblers, | would rather see
things done in the old style-two men at
a table playing with a deck of cards, with
a black bottle between them, Those men
are entitled to a hundred times more re-
spect and consideration than our Wall
street friends who are deacons and elders
in their respective churches. | tell you,
friends, that ii all the criminals in New
York city we're given similar treatment,
poor little Sing Sing would have to have
1000 more square miles added to 1t to
hold them all"
MIR. Jones stopped at this point for a
moment, to mop his brow and take a
drink of water, and then resumed: How
are we going to stop gamblingP 1t will
be a terrible job to do it, for as long as a
paSk OF cards is in existance the evil re
mains. 1t can never be done as long as
those sinful affairs known as progressive
euchre parties are allowed to go on. What
a farce to call them progressive euchre
parties anyway. They are gambling
parties, nothing else, and are doing more
to ruin u young men and than
anything else | know OF. 1t IS sickening
to see the way our church people attend
these affairs. Deacons and elders, who
never miss a Sunday at church, gather in
the parlors OF one of the p~arishioners and
for two or three hours at a time sweat
and struggle for prizes. But if any one
should ask them to sit down and play a
penny ante game of poker they would
raise their hands in holy horror.
'Ahl this is a sad age, when just
because a man pays his bills and wears
good clothes he Is not a sinner. But he
is a SHINE Just the same; and while his
good clothes and good credit VIII carry
MN any distance his character wont
take MIN ten feet:
mr.. Jones SAID a good many other
t1ings anu toiu numerous lunuy stories.
lie ended up MS discourse by talking
ABOUT record and Judgment
Brethren, you cannot escape Judg-
ment' he SAID. Every little thing
which you nave DONE every swear word
which you have uttered Will have to be
accounted Tor. There is a record OF every
thing up ABOVE ana some people are 60
ing 70 pc surprised When they see all the
Dad Things tney nave done You d better
get out brothers and sisters and pastor,
you IL De sorry. You can escape that
record; YOU neeant try. L know a man
VINO triea TO get away from a record once
put ne uldn .. as you shaii see. Ills name
1 Q I mention, out ne was a LAWYER
ana INTO me hapit OF eoing u every
nisht ano not getting nome until early IN
the morning. ms wiie always asked MN
wneIe ne had been u he invariably re-
pred tnat ne nad peen al the once copy-
ing; put that woman was no DOL One
nlenI Just as ne was leaving the mouse
she slippea a pedometer INTO nus vest
pocket, II was ABOUT : o cI9ck tne next