The San Francisco call., 1898-05-09
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.
THE CURSE OF OAKLAND.
Rev. E. R. DiIle, DID,, Condemns Fabiola'S Benefit Day at the
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combined, Is aspiring to join the Foul Hundred, for Mammon wins its way where Seraphs might despair. Ana Il proposes to get into respectable soclet' by the use of small portion of its lll- gotten gains A January or W1dpel or a Welburn will steal enough 1roH the public treasury in month to eh- able it to bribe into silence ana con nivance several great Christian cnarl, ties. since money covers multituoe o' sins.
 The Louisiana lottery purchased rol itself immunity from prescription, year after year, by building great library for New Orleans, by substituting the M. c. A. the churches, the pubic charl- ties and the State treasury. But at last public conscience was aroused, an hon- est Legislature and an unprlpaple Christian Governor were elected dnu the foul thing was banished Tn spite oi oi it's offer to the State of a s2o,Ooo'ool bribe
 If MT. Williams wishes to make a donation to the Fabiola, why does he not do 1t outright? Why does he re- ouire the managers to so advertlse ana approve his gambling scheme that they become particeps criminis In every crime 1t produces, and so that 1T thelr own sons are ruined by It. they are
 
 T have no doubt any saloon or gamp- ling hell in Oakland would give the ladies a nights receipts 1T they would stand behind the bar and mix drinks. or preside at the gaming table; ana l should like to be informed in what re- spect this De by day Is morally on higher plane.
 recently driven from New Jersey, Rhode Island, Minnesota Delaware, Pennsvlyania and Illinois, and coming 10 our coast brings from the East horde of human vampires in its train: An institution that has impoVerlshed and ruined multitudes, corrupted thou- sands of young men, and degraded childhood and womanhood. And yet olr society queens in Oakland take this moral leper, this pariah. to their hearts for sweet charity's sake.
 ''Its charity is precisely like that Of a man who should come to me and say, you give me $100 every morning, and will give your sick family one dollar every evening.
 least S25O. 900 a year, and 1t gives back a paltry four or five thousand on con- dition that we give it a certiicat- of responsibility.
 Says the Monitor, the organ of the Roman Catholic Church on the coast gam bling Is rife Tn San fIdhclSco a!!u Oakland because the peOnle are will ing to see their women degraded, their young men debauched and their old men dishonored by the minions of hell whose habi'a at is the race track.
 Ladies, tn re is a difference in money; a $5 gold piece handed you as the fruit of a sons honest labor is one thing, but the same coin handed you as the price of the dishonor of daugh- Jy-i1r 4Tz TOT.
 Blood money is awful coin. Even the hardened Pharisees would not re- oefve it, and even the betrayer of Christ flung 1t from his covetous grasp.
 'I predict that all the money the Fabiola Hospital receives from its Derby day as bribe to connivance and silence will be the most dearly got ten revenue it ever received. for 1t will cost it, I fear, the sympathy of the Christian public and the blessing of God.'