The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-05-04
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$l6,OOO ahead OF the game IN Sd evening
play" "Did he keep it7" asked the re-
porter. "No. Few people who play on
the outside ever keep their winnings. y
few months after this winning l won
$4,000 from the doctor in one night.
play. He continued losing, and sis
months later" said tho gambler, "w2
picked up tho newspaper one morning
and found that he had committed suicide
after robbing his sisters estate of q large
sum"
Such are the higher institutions Of
gambling where the so called square
game is played. The great majority OF
the gambling institutions are those
wnere rrlcXS ard liquor ana sharpers
and cutthroats and q dissolute winning
are the levers used to fleece their vic
tins. There is no trick too mean to be
resorted to. The man that goes into the
average gambling hell in New York
usually comes out without dollar in
his pockets at last, and he is fortunate
if he can come out the front door.
These men do not hesitate, have not
hesitated again and again, at murder
when the winnings were so large that
they were afraid of possible exposure and
trouble. Again and again do tho papers
in New York report mysterious disap.
pearances Again and again in every
city of America are these disappearance
reported, and again and again do the
tides bring in the bodies of unknown
dead The rivers with their secrets could
tell the story of many life that closed
in play in a gambling hell. How many
men are killed in our cities and spirited
away--thrown into the sewers, thrown
into the rivers-God alone knows. The
work goes on continuously, and the world
is practically mono tho wiser.
There is no brute more heartless than
the confirmed gambler. A group Of
gamblers recently went into church
and broke open q vault, took out dead
body, dragged it to the communion
table, placed it on the table and seated
themselves around this ghastly object.
They played cards, gambling through
the whole night. This is but q specimen
of the spirit Of daredevil and of heartless
brutality, of irTeverence and Of atheistiC
indifference, which is the necessary ac.
compartment to the gambling mania.
But the evil is far wider than this
The gambling spirit today permeates the
atmosphere Of the city. Our very chill
dren in the street breathe it. The papers
are full of it from day to day. It is no
wonder that it should touch all classes.
l was amazed q short time ago to hear
my eldest boy, only years of age, speak
ing with the utmost accuracy the Ian
guage Of the race track. He told me
with glee that he was a starter; that
they had races every day out in the street.
His playground was, near Central park
on Ninety-fourth street. His playmates
were the neighbors' children. They knew
the vocabulary of the gambler complete
ly. They kiew the methods of starting
races, of deciding bets, and had their
race club organized. The truth is, the
air of the city is full Of it.
ALL NEW YORK CLUBS GAMBLING HOLES.
Not only do we breathe the gambling
atmosphere in public, in the streets, in
the shops, in the hotels, but it is part
of our very social organization. There
are 500 social clubs in the city Of New
York, and every one of these clubs that
have their buildings or their rooms is
more or less a gambling institution. The
great clubs are all of them practically
gambling holes, and some of the most
disreputablo gambling holes in the city
of New York are organized on the club
basis in order to avoid the interference
Of the police. dare any member of the
clubs of the city Of New York to deny
this fact. Playing cards for money is
one Of their standard occupations.
When they are not drinking whisky or
wine, they are playing cards.
Nor must we be unfair in our arraign-
ment of the low gambler and neglect
the high toned, swell gambler. The
Stock Exchange, in which margins are
handled from day to day, is simply a
gambling hell. Cur courts of law have
long ago decided that the Stock Exchange
is gambling institution. Our polite,
well dressed, high bred stock gamblers
arc of the same low stripe as Mr.. John
Daily and Mr.. John Morrissey when we
come down to bottom facts. They deal
WIN Dlgger So Ees. Lney pay Tor NOR
money, and they work more ruin. AS
the gambling hell is stained with blood
and murder, so this exchange, with its
bets on grain, its bets ON stock, made by
the trick Of q margin or an option, must
must answer at the bar of God for broken
homes and blasted lives. So every nation
must answer that touches gambling and
tolerates it with its law.
The Panama scandal that threatens
the very existence of the French govern
ment is the result of q gambling scheme
to which the French government lent ita
aid. Is it any wonder that bribery and
corruption were the result Of Panama
lottery? What else could be the RESULT
What else ever has been the result since
the world was foundedi Look where you
please today, and wherever government
touches the trick of the gambler it must
pay for it and in the same coin that the
individual fool pays. Only ruin follows
in the track of every gambling operation,
legalized and unlegalized. The revolu.
ton in the Sandwich Islands followed
close upon II lottery bill. The poverty
and degradation Of the Italian lower
classes can be directly traced to the fact
that they spend $10,000,000 yearly in o
national lottery.
WANTED-A QUARANTINE.
The hope of any nation is its young
men. Let tho nation take warning,
There are no old gamblers. Go into any
gambling hell tonight or tomorrow
night, and you will scarcely see a man
above 40 years of age. Only the young
men gambler Why? Because gamblers
do not grow old. They die young. They