St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-06

gambling spirit there. How many
wrecked hopes are the result of this
dire evil no man knows, but its
track is printed In tears and
blood, and pain and death, and
unSpeakable disgrace. The public
gambling houses ought to be, in every
city, closed promptly, effectually and
forever. 1t is easy to say, 'Oh, but men
ought not to 20 to Them True this is,
but not less true that facility for the
doing of wrong makes wrong deeds
done. This is the proved experience of
all time and of most men. There is
law that says any man may recover
money paid as the result of bets on
games. but it is practically dead let
ter. IL man should take legal meas
ures to get back his cash, he would, in
the most instances, be laughed at; and,
in other cases, men who play and lose
money dare not take such action. Often
the play is done in clandeStine way.
and the man who loses, if honestly or
suffers the loss, and it is never known
by the public, except by some accident,
ut is not clerks and men on salaries
alone who keep up the gambling spirit,
who help the growth of this deadly upaS
tree. The Monte Carlos of this land are
the Chicago Board of Trade, the New
York Stock Exchange and Produce EX-
change-inStitutionS which began in
noble idea. which serve important pur-
poses in many ways. But alas! useful
things can be prostituted to ignoble
service. Going down to business, it is
often called, when what is intended is
going to back mans judgment on the
rise or fall in the price OF stocks or
grain OF other food, and going down
with cool, deliberate plan to make these
lions, no matter who suffers. Can this
be right? Is it honest? Ought not this
to meet the swift reprobation of any
just man? We may glaze it over with
fine names, call it by the rustic word
corner or 'combination,' or 'manipu-
lating the Market or 'Shrewd policy
but it is dishonest, and hence dlsrepu-
table and vile.
deep at the roots of this vice are
many other vices-greed, love of some
thing for nothing. Men want to grow
rich at bound. They will not take the
just methods of trade; they want to
shine and to be thought eminently sue
cessful, or very wealthy, to live in
greater or grander style. than their
neighbors. And to do this they just
tthN % ho u III nliSuls tiiS iA'O'iSs
they speculate with has flown. Then to
get even they try their luck again, with
results similar. And so on, with now
and then bright spot, to the bitter
end. When money, credit, honor, char
acter and prospects are all gone. when
home is, instead of being a joy,
black desolation and relatives
are distracted with grief, the victim,
sinner and foolish as he is and has
been, eXclams in anguish, How have
hated instruction and despised reproof.'
Never has it been more needful for the
pulpit to declaim against gambling in
each and all forms because it is against
the law of God and against the good.
the peace and prosperity alike Of the
individual and the public, because no
permanent good and much present and
future evil reside its practice. | for
one speak in the ciearest, strongest and
most trenchant words at my command
against this frightful sin, and say pass
by it. though it charm never so seduct-
lively, for i'll its path is the way of death
and its doors lead from the way of life"