The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-17
LOCALIZED P0OL-SELLING.
AN EARNEST ADDRESS BY REV, MIR,
HUNT OF ORANGE.

In Reference to the Evils of Gambling
Refers to the Mason Investigation.
The following remarks prefaced the
sermon delivered by Rev, Fl. w. Hunt
yesterday morning in his pulpit in the
Congregational church in Orange, the
text being 1 Corinthians, 2-2O, first
clause, viz:
For We were bought with a price"
The question naturally arises how
were we bought with a price.
We may be pardoned if we say that
Ill is to be hoped that it was not in
the same way that legislators are some-
times bought, paid price to- make
bad laws.
Not all legislators are thus bought;
many are most true and honorable
men; but in too many instances it is to
he feared that this is not so.
1t seems strange, indeed, that ma
jority of the highest legislative assem-
bly, of Connecticut could recently vote
Ito legalize for twelve days each year
pool selling or form of gambling at
fairs and horse races. Gambling, as we
well know, is form of stealing. 1t
ing. 1t has well been said to be the
saddest day in a young mans expert
ence when he sets out to get something
for nothing.
1t means the end of that honest toll
so essential to manly achievement and
development, it means the cessation of
honorable enterprise.
The only honest, honorable way, the
only safe and ultimately truly success
full course is to seek always to render
an equivalent in money or service for
all which we receive.
In the excitement of gambling, in
the eagerness to get some greater thing
for little or nothing many will hazard
all they possess, and in many instances
much more than they really possess,
thus robbing their families of the neces-
saries of life, defrauding their creditors
of their just dues, misappropriating
trust funds, and stealing from en-
ployers and others. Moreover this Of
ten issues in disappointment, bitter
ness strife, drunkenness and the very
worst crimes, running multitudes, many
of them the very flower of our youth,
in character and fortune, in soul and
body, for time and eternity, and bring
ing measure of blight to every porthy
human interest
The Connecticut senators who could
vote for that order of thugs must be
either positively bad men, or very
thoughtless, morally weak men, men
who have grown exceedingly slovenly
in their ethical distinctions, and who
are no honor neither to themselves NOR
Ito the commonwealth. They ought not
to complain if storm of righteous
indignation has been aroused and the
suspicion, at least, that they were being
bought ''like cattle in the shambles"
by the powers Of evil that would reign
and ruin.
Having drawn this suspicion upon
themselves by overt acts, and appar-
emily not having had the good sense to
get in out of the rain until they were
very, very wet, and having been most
summarily and soundly rebuked by the
lower branch of the same legislature, |
these honorable senators, forsooth, with |
their high and mighty authority pounce
upon a minister of the gospel, as true
hearted and clean handed a man as
threads Connecticut's soil, and whose |
only crime is an indiscreton of speech |
in an outburst of righteous indignation. |
This man they summarily summon |
before them to answer for his misde- |
meanors. 1t remains to be seen how |
sincere and thorough they are in their |
proposed investigation. AT present 1t |
looks very much like an attempt to |
smirch, if possible, the character of |
very worthy man as though that might |
cover up little the footprints of Satan |
in the Legislature OF 1895.