San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-27
PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE.


Gust street, near Compton avenue, of
the evils, as he saw them in the so
cial game Of cards." Before common
cling his sermon, the Doctor read that
part of the Scriptures telling how the
four soldiers who crucified Christ cast
for his coat.
A social game of cards and gambling
are so closely related to each other,
said the preacher, that it is difficult
determine where the one ends and the
other begins. Many a young man and
women find after long years of trav-
ell, along the downward path that their
evil doing had its origin in a game of
cards played solely for amusement
AS day by day, child grows strong
er, so one game of cards played after
another increases the pleasure of the
player in the amusement, and, before
he is aware of it, little something is
put up just to make the game little
tie more interesting; A little later the
social player has become an habitual
gambler.
The doctor claimed that gambling
diseased the mind, corroded the
heart and withered up all good and
kindly feelings of mankind" He cited
the case of whist club in one of the
large cities. The fascination of card
playing so grew upon the members
that when death claimed one Of them,
a, beautiful young lady, the men and
women with whom she had often
played, found it impossible to keep a
way from the club on the night other
demise, although they professed great
admiration for the departed.
Another instance of the fascination
of card playing, DR.. Foster said, hap
pened in his own acquaintance. A
man had become so addicted to it
that within a few minutes after the
death of one of the members Of his
immediate family, he was in card
room, and he spent half the night
there "And this merely for the
pleasure of social game"
Progressive euchre playing for pri-
yes was condemned as a moderate
form of gambling. The speaker held
that the police had the right to enter
the houses of the rich and prosperous
residents of the West End and arrest
every particular in a game Of prog
ressive euchre as they had to modest
the little negro boy on the street shoot
ing craps. And they should exercise
it, too, declared the speaker.
In a town in Indiana forty society
ladies had been summoned before the
Grand jury to answer the charge OF
gambling. They had been playing
progressive euchre for prizes. Such
hue and cry was raised by the cit
liens by the action of the authorities
that the cases were dropped. In this a
great crime was committed and DIR.
Foster held that every other criminal
who had been sited to appear before
the Grand jury had reasonable cause
for complaint.
An almost similar case happened in
Chicago. There the Civic federation
discussed the advisability Of making
a raid upon the fashionable residence
section of the town and arresting per-
sons they found indulging in games of
chance, but so much talk about a
mans home being his castle was a.
reused that the scheme was dropped
DIR. Foster could not see the justice of
having the laws to govern the acts of
one class of people while another class
was allowed to disregard them with
impunity.
The gambler aims to get his oppon-
ent's money without giving him any
return for it, said DR.. Foster, unless
he counts the experience Of value. A
thief who steals a purse ia arrested
and heavily fined or sent to Jail, and
vet the gambler who steals hundreds
of dollars to the robbers one, is sell
dom arrested by the police officials.
DR.. Foster dwelt upon the fact that
card playing was INDUCED in to an al
most incredible extent by alleged
Christians and church members. He
regretted that this was so. and be-
sought his hearers to reform and give
up the evil practice. 1t might be pos
sible for the Christian to play cards
and remain Christian, but it was a
dangerous thing to try. Card-playing
church members made a bad impress