The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-07
ONE OF THE GREEKS.
Elk Gambler Quinn Has
Much to Say About the
Sin of Gambling.
SOME AWFUL EXAMPLES
cards, Bucket Shops and Race
Tracks Scored at Trinity
NJ. E. Church.

John Philip Quinn, who is making a
tour of the country In a palace car. talk
ing against the gambling evil, occupied
the pulpit at Trinity M. E. Church last
night. The speaker said:-
Standing upon the eminence of civili-
zation and moral reform, l address you
as one who has been dead and is alive
again, one who has shaken off the old
man Adam and found a new life in
Christ. The story of my suffering and
the experiences of a gamblers life are pre-
sented as a lesson. Upon the surface of
this stormy pulsating life with its ambi-
tions, hopes, failures and achievements,
| look this evening with a larger expert
ence and prouder view than when l Jug
gled with fortune and became the age Mt
and victim of evil. lam urged by the
stormy and disappointing lessons of my
life to a better and wider comprehen :
sion of that which uplitts our existence"
The speaker then advised young men
not TO gamble IL any form. eft is to be
reinen bered," he said, that in all coun-
tries where gambling is carried on there
is a decline III public honor and private
decency in exact, ratio to the spead of
gambling. The business world is rife
with forgerles ana defalcaJions, widows
and orphans estates are ~plundered by
their trustees, corporations wrecked by
their officers. one partner made the vic
tim of another, all because Of this terribls
vice OF gambling. The day has come,
more especially when we are in Il gam
bling house, that you must look your
brother in the face, and ask: Brother, DO
you mean to be honest with me?' Gamb-
IS., l.a laar f6a -, "a 49,
and the eternal damnation of a multitude
of more men u women thar all other
vice combined.
HOW TO PREVENT IT.
NOW, the question is, h shall we do
to lessen this terrible vice? Agitate pub
lie sentiment by giving a practical de-
monstration with the gamblers lmple-
ments. We know that the chief reliance
both in preventing crime aud weaving
from it has been and is, fear. Young
men are anxious 10 investigate for them
selves, to satisfy their curiosity as to what
is concealed behind barred doors. Open
that door and the chief temptation Will
De removed"
The speaker then discussed the Louisiana
lottery which ne said was a gigantic
swindle. The proprietors of the lottery
were millionaires. while the players were
paupers. Ii q person would stop for a
moment and contrast the TWO they would
never play the game. The players re-
minded the speaker of Thoulpson's horse
who swan the river to get a drink.
WHERE THE TROUBLE z
"The great trouble of many of the hu-
nan family" the speaker said, ''is that
they are too lazy to work and too cow
ardIy to steal. There was once a fellow
in a village named Dauson. He was idle
aud vicious. He refused to work and his
family was. on the verge of starvation.
Finally the community became SO dis
gusted with him that they decided to
him along in IN old box to a burying
ground a kind-hearted old farmer met
them and wanted to know the trouble.
1--WE are going to bury Dauson alive.'
they answered. His family have moth
ing to eat and are on the brink Of starva-
tion.'
".Well, hold on said the kind
of corn from me, and don't bury the poor
man this way
"There was a pause, which was broken
by Il voice in the coffin.
-. Is it shelled,' Dauson asked.
"'No,' replied the farmer.
"'WeIl, drive on with the funeral said
Dauson."
mr.. Quinn then spoke of gambling on
race tracks u said that when book.
makers paid 500 q day for the privilege
OF making books it was impossible for
the freQuenters of race track to wi n.
The speaker then told how he began to
gamble. He said he was born in Roanoke.
in the South. in 1916. His mother was a
devoted Christian woman. His father
was a wealthy slave owner and q
gambler. The speaker and his
brother were allowed to play cards
at home for p~astitne nc first and then for
money. "Cards are harmless things in
themselves" Mr.. Quinn said, sibut very
often they become a dangerous amuse-
ment. / nave beaten hundreds of men
playing cards, put l never yet beat a man
that did not know how to play. Some
parents are unconsciously educating their
children to that pernicious habit of gamb-
ling in their ~pariors, making the ZONES
kindergartens for gambling. If the names
of all the boys undone by this act alone
of PLAYING at home We're written upon
these cards every one would be signed
with the blood red autograph of a doomed
soul. Robert McLourie, Chief of
Police of Chicago, says:-"The habit Of
gambling is worse than the drink
Board of Trade. That is bad enough.
worse; nor gambling in gilded palaces,
that Is as bad as can be, but l mean this
penny gambling that takes place in par
Tor socials. Well, the o is small,
but it is a step In the wrong direction. Il
is d great danger to educate a youth that
1t 1s right that he is to receive anything
without giving an equivalent.
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