The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-27
DENOUNCED IN HoBoKEE.
Diviues fail Be- mi matfons Thunder
Axafust Race Tracks,

Hoboken clergymen Numbered forth
their voices yesterday in favor Of the
-anti-gambling amendments and urged
their fiocks to vote as a unit tomorrow
for their adoption. Almost every clergy
man in the city preached on gambling
and the attendance at both morning and
evening services was unusually large. The
Rev. Archdeacon William r. Jenvey,
rector of st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church, spoke on the subject as a pre-
lude to his sermon. He said:-.Sometimes
there are occasions when the world OF
ligieus world to accomplish some special
object. On Tuesday comes before us
something which touches the very heart
of this State is not amended there will
always be danger of legislation opening
the; food gates of crime, vice and wrong
doing. Our bounden duty makes us as
strong as possible against this danger.
We should make all personal sacrifices
and uphold these amendments. / believe
that this parish will be almost a unit in
Rey. Conrad B1uhm, pastor of the First
Reformed Church, understanding is the
prince OF eyil. It lives with the youth and
form Is no palliation- The grab-bag of
the church fair Is as iniquitous as rioting
in futures and corners. Gambling is 2
misaaty octopus. It's f1endfsh laws grind
the victims of many aShome.
Get into the race track, Christian
voter, and bring about a glorious funeral
memory of this foreign Institution. May
the Christian yeomanry of New Jersey on
Tuesday nex sweep into the deep sea the
o~utlandish disgraces Of our
Rev. Henry T.. Beatty, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church said
THE extent Of gambling is the extent
of society. The course bet is heard on
every hand. Newsboys wager their
pennies, little children throw dice in the
streets. In saloons and low dives are
rafting of dice. You meet a horde of in
earnate fevers and thirsts everywhere in
politics, courts of justice. business at the
church fair and in cultured homes.
ssThe nature of gambling favors its
popularity. 1t is the winning or losing of
property by mere chance or by the cum
in wait to deceive. Something for moth
ing. This is the appeal and the infatu-
alton. 1t says to men. Here is a chance
eou gsa 4 ~ q B gaop pSe tr ainaoai pay & ev II
1t lacks the genius Of trade, 1t is contrary
TO nature.
feature. There is no mutual benefit and
the transaction Is immoral The beauty
of trade is q fair return to both parties;
but the gambler gains at the dead loss
of his brother and Is a thief.
"A third element Is a trade of energies.
There is a vast capital wasted In this i'm
moral transaction, but how much of 1t is
put to honest work. to benefit the laborer
Or the honest capitalist? Very little.
Its only mission seems to be to exchange
hands among idlers, to drop from one
| gamblers pocket into another's. Like the
natives who gained a precarious livelihood
by washing one sanother's clothes, the
gamblers gain a precarious livelihood by
going through one anotherss pockets.
The effects of gambling are wide
spread. Prisons and almshouses n
many graves contain its Victims Some
| one says that tWo-thirds OF the crimes OF
| today may be placed to the gambling evil.
The Individual loses interest In honest
toll when he takes to gambling and no
life. He gradually loses his finer sensi-
bElities AND too often ends a drunken
wreck or a successful politician. The
home fs affected. for though he hides
his face and speak no words. the GAM
bier Still ssbiisf1ts the home. How many