Connecticut western news., 1893-05-04


 the whole night. This is but specimen of the spirit of daredevil and of heartless brutality, of irreverence 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 chil- dren in the street breathe it. The papers are full of 1t from day to day It is no wonder that 1t should touch all classes. I was amazed short time ago to hear my eldest boy, only years of age, speak ing with the utmost accuracy the lan- guage of the race track. He told me with glee that he was 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 ly. They knew 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 1t.
 ALI. 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 gambling institution The great clubs are all of them practically gambling holes, and some of the most disreputGble 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 ill 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. Our courts of law have long ago decided that the Stock Exchange is a gambling institution. Our polite, well dressed, high bred stock gamblers arc of the same low stripe as MT. John Daly and Mr. John Morrissey when we come down to bottom facts. They deal with bigger stakes. They play for more 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 a 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 1t with its law.
 The Panama scandal that threatens the very existence of the French govern ment is the result of gambling scheme to which the French government lent it's 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 founded? Look where you please today, and wherever government touches the t',>; of the gambler it must pay for it and ill 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 lottery bill. The poverty and degradation of the Italian lower classes can be directly traced to the fact that they spend $10,000, 900 yearly in 8 national lottery.
 wANTED-A QUARANTINE.
 The hope of any nation is its young men. Let the nation take warning. There are no old gamblers. Go into any gambling hell tonight or tomorrow night, and you will scarcely zee 8 man above 40 years of age. Only the young men gamble? Why? Because gamblers do not grow old. They die young. They are consumed in this he'll on earth. Their average life is so small that it is 8 rare case to find man over 40 years of age at the gambling table. The men who stake and lose are from 90 years to 30 years of age. The rest of them have gone. They have gone to the river. They have gone to the hospital They have gone to the morgue. They have gone to the jail. They have gone to the penitentisry. They have gone to the gal lows and the electric chair. Young man. hood is the hope of the nation and the hope of tie world. If we would save the nation, our cities must have 8 quar- antine not only for cholera, but for the gambler.
 Wanted-a quarantine for the social dynamiter. We are discussing the prob lem of how to save society from the dy- nalnite fend. Piracy we have outlawed. The slave trade we have outlawed. They are punished as offenses against the hu- man race. Laws against them are inter- national; for all the world, except Afri- ca, universal. The pirateer and the slave trader we will not tolerate. The day has come when the dynamiter and the gambler must be added to this black list
 There is no deeper hell on earth than the hell to which the gambler goes, and yet thousands of gates that lead to this hell spring wide open before your eyes today. There are at least 5000 gam bling institutions, counting the bar rooms, that are in blast every night in this city. And other cities have perhaps as high proportion. There is hope for a young man who enters other dissipa- tions. A mothers tears have reclaimed many a wayward boy from drink. A fathers appeal has put his feet again on the road of honesty. A wife's tender love has led the drunkard from his cups; but, alas! for the gambler there should be written across the door, He who enters here is dead to all hope" He has gone to the deepest hell. The cry of wife and child, the cry of home and homelife, no longer hold his heart, and he who cannot hear the cry of his own in cold and hunger is indeed in the deepest hell. Dr. Coates has well said:
 Dark is the night. How dark! No hghtl No
 fire!
 Cold on the hearth the last faint sparks expirel Shtvering she watches by the cradle side
 For him who pledged her love last year a bridei "Can he desert me thusf He knows stay Niohf after night in lnnaliness fn nrav