Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-31
READING FOR BRUISERS.
llss for Those Who Gamble %
Fights, and for Others.
4 csvrssponAsnt Expresses His Views
on the Priz, ring and Associ'
ate Prococ dings.
KINGSTON, Pluto Co, Utah,
Nferch 2Sth, 1897.

Merch 2Sth, 1897.
To the Editor:
, I am sorry to SEQ 60 much talk In The
papers about the prIzs fights, and
ram bling on tho results. II led me to
Nnas reflections about gambling. how
many arc stalking the most II not the
whoIs OF their earnings on some
what doubtful result? Too many are
In = hurry 10 get rich, regardless oil
results, either to themselves. their
families, or the welfare OF the other
party. My feelings are that gamblers.
perhaps without thinking II, are
iimpiy robbers. II they iose, they rob
themselves and their tamiiles OF the
means OF subsistence and comfort;
they win, they rob the losers OF the
means Of subsistence. The evil OIL
gambling breeds spirit Of cruel
speculation, svarice and Bpollation,
hard to approve of In an enlightened
community. II renders the winners
csllous to the wants and suffering OF
their fellow men. By trying to double
and treble their fortune In quick
wsy,thsy violate the divine command,
Thou shall eat thy bread by The
sweat Of thy brow. The old pro.
verb "quiok come quick goes" applies
tritely 10 such. BY looking In the
annals OF history, we find very few u
any gamblers ito q happy end. The
lives Of the great majority OF them enu
in disaster and misery; while these
that have earned their property BY the
honest means alluded above, mostly
have d happy end, happy homes and
families, that 10 II they. let the nend
drink alone also. Most gamblers ore
drunk ards. more or less.
There Ia no sound sense and no
morality In gambling. Thuse who
gamble are apt 10 have the blood OF
theie fellows ON their garments, either
directly or Indirectly. Their guilt
would be the same. Happy are those
who gain their earning by the product
OF their labor, be they large OF small.
Their couscieace 10 clear Of the misery
and blood OF their fellow beings.
1t Ia pitiful to know that Corbett and
his family are ruined, and perhaps
on tho verge of starvation as the dis
patches have stated. Suppose come OF
that family happened to be- sick snd In
want OF something to make them COM
fortable and well and they die through
lack Of mesps to help them TO get
well, to whom Will the guilt OF that
person's death DO II not on those
who risked everything and forgot to
lay something by for q stormy day.
They may say that they might be
sure to get nelp from their noighbors
and fellows. This ia not certain, and
1t 10 unfortunately the rule of this
world to look down ON the fallen. No.
body has a moral right to rick ME
means In such foolish ventures. /
know OF one not very far from here
who gamblec sverytbiug, horse, cows,
wagon, all but the clothing on the back
Of himself and family. Ia iact, they
came pretty near starving; they had
one child which which sickened AMI
died; whereas as there had not been n
gsmDling away OF everything they
might have hau something TO make the
little one more comfortable. and por-
haps we'll.
Drunkenness ia . very bad thing,
and gambling comes next as n bal
thing too.
Newspapers that publish dearrip-
tions OF fight and have pictures Of
semi.ncde personages are guilty Of
indecency ond OF correct principle OF
mOIRUtys Ibeto ought 70 DC law 10
send the publishers OF such TO the
penetentiary as corruptors OF tue
training and morals OF the lyoung
generation.
1t may be said that 1 am too cen.
serious, but when see such n picture
in the hands OF our young girls und
b iys IL seems to me that II tends u
make their minaB callous to the prin-
eiples Of rnouesty and dscency.
Hopiog that 1 may be psIdoned for
this diatribo on gambling will oioas
by mentioning that We have lots Of
snow in the mountains. 1t lie reported
that there are lots of snow in John
valley, at the head OF the south fork oil
the East SEWER river; AMI unlets the
snow thaws gradually curing April
We may expect big foods and lots oil
damage in May.
Farmers arc as yet unable TO farm
and the prospects are not very cheer.
Ing for carly farming. believe tina
IL Will behoove our farmers to wofh
and manuie their land well and Re
good, clean seed, II they expect to rniss
anything to pay them well enough ioi
their LAHORE. Poor farming must &c
out Of fashion or ruin and poverty
will stare us In the face.
II Ennv.pn ntsI W t.a