The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-08-06

ments. | ought to have better wines.
ought to have more richly favored CT
CARS. I ought to be able to entertain mn
friends more extensively. Iwon t stanC
this any longer. / can with one bril-
liant stroke make a fortune. Now, herr
goes, principle or no principle, HEAVIER
Or hell. Who cares?"
When a young man makes up hi
mind to live beyond his income, sata1
has bought him out and out, and it i!
only question of time when the goods
are to be delivered. The thing is done
You may plant in the way all the bat
teries of truth and righteousness; that
man is bound to go on. When a mar
makes 81, 900 year and spends 81, 200,
when a young man makes $1,000 and
spends 81, ZOO, all the harpies of dark
ness cry out, "Ha! ha! we have him p
And they have. How to get the extra
$500 or the extra $4,000 is the question.
He says: Here is my friend who start
ed out the other day with but little
money, aDd in one night, so great was
his luck, he rolled up hundreds and
thousands of dollars If he got it, why
not l? Tt is such dull work, this adding
up of long lines of figures in the count
ing house, this pulling down Of hun
dred yards of goods and selling a rem
nant, this always waiting upon some
body else when I could put 800 on the
ace and pick up $1,000"
An Insidious Sin.
This sin works very insidiously.
Other sins sound the drum, and haunt
the flag, and gather their recruits with
wild huzza, but this marches its process
sion of pale victims in dead of night, in
silence, and when they drop into the
grave there is not so much sound as the
click of a dice Oh how many have
gone down under it! Look at those men
who were once highly prOspered, Now
their forehead is licked by tongue of
fame that will never 60 out. In their
souls are plunged the beaks which will
never be lifted. Swing open the door of
that man s heart and you see a coil of
adders wrlggling their indescrlbabl
horror until you turn away and hiu
your face and ask God to help you to
forget it. The most of this evil is unad-
vertised. The community does not hear
of it, Men defrauded in gaming estab-
lishments are not fools enough to tell of
it. Once in awhile, however, there is
an exposure, as when in Boston the po-
lice swoopSd upon gaming establish
ment and found in it the representatives
of all classes of citizens, from the first
merchants on State street to the low
Ann street gambler; as when Bullock,
the cashier of the Central Railroad of
Georgia, was found to have stolen
SOB, 600 for the purpose of carrying on
gaming practices; as when young man
in one of the savings banks of Brooklyn
many years ago was found to have stO-
len $40, 600 to carry Oh gaming prac-
tees; as when a man connected with a
Wall street insurance company was
found to have stolen sos, 600 to carry
on his gaming practices. But that is
exceptional.
The Last Dollar.
Generally the money leaks silently
from the merchants till into the game
ster's wallet. l believe that one of the
main pipes leading to this sewer of in
iquity is the excitement of business
life. Is it not significant fact that !
the majority of the day gambling houses
in New York are in proximity to Wall .
street? Men go into the excitement of .
stock gambling, and from that they
plunge into the gambling houses, as,
when men are intoxicated, they go into
4 liquor saloon to get more drink. The
agitation that is witnessed in the stock
market when the chair announced the
word Northwestern, or Fort
Wayne, - or Rock Island" or New
York Central" and the rat, tat, tat, of
he auCtioneer's hammer, and the ex-
element of making CORNERS, and
getting up "pools," and carrying
stock, and "break" from 80 to 70,
and the excitement of rushing around
n curbstone brokerage, and the sud
len cries of Buyer three!" Buyer
en!" Take 'em! p "How many?" and
he making or losing of $40, 900 by one
operation, units man to go home, and
70 he goes up the flight of stairs, amid
business offices, to the darkly curtained,
wooden shattered room, gayly fur
lished inside, and takes his place at the
oulette or the faro table. But cannot
ell all the process by which men get
ntO this evil. A man went to New
York. He was a western merchant. He
vent into a gaming house on Park
lace. Before morning he had lost all
lis money save 81, and he moved
round about with that dollar in his
and, and after awhile, caught still
1Ore powerfully under the Internal in
he came up and put down
he dollar and cried out until they
card him through the saloon, lone
thousand miles from home, and my last
Ollar on the gaming table. "
Lost Property and Souls.
Many years ago for sermonio pur-
oses and in company with the chief
f police of New York visited one of
ne most brilliant gambling houses in
nat city. 1t was night, and as we came
p in front all seemed dark. The blinds
'ere down, the door was guarded, but
fter whispering of the officer with {
le guard at the door we were admitted {
ito the hall, and thence into the par I
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