El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-20

i the flag, and gather their recruits wit
e wild huzza, but this marches its pre-
D cession of pole victims in dead of mig hi
4 in silence, and when they drop int
the grave there is not so much soun'
as the click of dice. Oh, how man.
have gone down under it. Look h
those men who were once highly pros
) pered. Now their forehead is licked
by tongue of flame that will never gt
out. La their souls are plunged the
: beaks which Will never be lifted
Swing open the door of that man:
heart and you see a coil of adders
wrigging their indescribab'e horror
until you turn away and de your face
AID ask God to help you to forget it.
The most of this evil is unadvertised
The community does not hear of it.
Men defrauded in gaming establish
ments are not fools enough to tell of it
Once in awhile, however, there is an
exposure, when in Boston the police
swoOped upon a gaming esta blishment
ard found in it the representatives of
al classes of citizens, from the first
| merchants of State street to the low
J Ann street gambler: as when Bullock,
| the cashier of the Central Railroad of
| Georgia, was found to have stolen S1O3,-
| 600 for the purpose of carrying on gam
ing practices; as when young man In
| one of the savings banks of Brooklyn,
many years ago, was found to have
stolen 100000 to carry on gaming
practices; as when a man connected
with Wall street insurance company
was found to have stolen $4,000 TO
carry on his gaming practices. But
that is exceptional.
Generally the money leaks silently
from the merchants till iD to the game
S er's wallet. [ believe III It one of the
IL Nf
iquity is the excitement of business life.
Is it not a significant fact that the ma
'rity of the day gambling houses of
New York are in proximity to Wall
street? Men go into the excitement of
stock gam bling, and from that they
plunge into the gambling houses, as,
when men are excited, they go into a
agitation that is witnessed in the stock
market when the chair announces the
word Northwestern, or Fort
Wayne" or "Rock Island" or New
York Central" and the rat. tat. tat.
of the auctioueer's hammer, and the |
excitement of making corners and |
getting up '.pools,''' and carrying
seventy, and the excitement of rushing |
around in curb stone brokerage, and |
the sudden cries of buyer three!'
Buyer tenr' "Take 'em.' :'How |
many?' and the making or losing of |
800, 900 by one operation units man
to go home, and so he goes up the flight |
of stairs, amid business Offices to the |
darklys curtaiued, wooden-shuttered |
room, gayly furnished inside, and takes
table. But can not tell all the pro-
cess by which men get into this evil.
A man went to New York. He was
western merchant. He went into q |
gaming house on Park place. Before
morning he had lost all his money save
81. AID he moved around about with
tn at 81 in his hand. and after awhile,
caught still more powerfully nder the
infatuatOn, he came up and
pat down the dollar and cried out until
they heard him through the saloon:
"One thousand miles from home, and
my last dollar on the gambling table"
| arraign before God the gift enter
p Uses of our cities, which have a ten
dency to make this nation of gam
b'ers. Whatever you get, young man,
in such a place as that, without giving
your own soul and robbery of the
Yet, how we are appalled,
to see men who have failed in other
s go into g fit concerts, where
the chief attraction is not music, but
the prizes distributed among the audi
ence: or to sell books where the chief
attraction is not the book. but the
p sckage that goes with the book. To-
oacco dealers advertise that on a GER
ain day they will put money into their
papers. so that the purchaser of this
johacco in Cincinnati or New York
nay unexpectedly come upon magnif-
cent grat uity. Boys hawking through
The cars packages containing nobody
Knows what, until yon open them and
ind they contain nothing. Christian
men with pictures on their wall gotten
q lottery, and the brain of the COM
nuniry taxed to find out some new way
hem. Oh, young man, these are the
threads that make the cart
Ope, and when young man consents
o these practices, he Is being bound
land and foot by habit which has al
eady destroyed "a great multitude
hat no man can number Sometimes
hese gift enterprises are carried on in
emem Der at the close OF our civil war
low many gift enterprises were op
DOT. the proceeds to go to the orphans
md widows of the soldiers and sailors.
What did the men who had charge of
h Sc gift enterprises care for the or
,hans aud widows? Why, they would
lave allowed them to freeze to death
lpon their steps. l have no faith in
marty which, for The sake of reliev-
ng present suffering opens gaping
sw that has swallowed down so much |
# the virtue and good principle of the
community. Young man, have moth
ug to do with these things. They only
harpen your appetite for games of
chance. Do one of two things: be hon
est or die.
President Robinson's View. |,