The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-31
WE ARE ALL GAMBLERS.
So Says Chauncey NJ. Depew, New
York's Senator.
New York WorldO

"All men and women are gamblers
women more So"
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew made
this remarkable statement at the din
ner TO Governor Dyer on Tuesday
night. He repeated it yesterday and
gave some equally remarkable reasons
for his assertion. Mr.. Depew was at
first inclined TO be evasive.
Did l say that?" he queried nervous
~.
Yes. you did" replied.
How do you know" Mr.. Depew
asked, eYincing some hope. for he knew
there were no women at the banquet.
Because 1 saw it in the World" I
replied exultantly.
Mr. DepeWs patrician features fell
and be said shyly, Yes. I did say it,
and, what is worse. it was the truth.
My mail bears ample evidence Of it.
Letters are served UP to me by the
bushel-basketful from gamblers all
over the country"
But you're not running a.
No, interrupted the senator
promptly; "bUt if i were 1 might be the
richest man in America. Men women
and fools send me letters daily asking
for lists Of the best places to put their
money in order to double or treble it in
a week. They don't want anything less
than 100 per cent investments, and few
of them make the limit for waiting
more than a fortnight"
What kind of investments do they
ask for?" ..
"Oh, they don't care anything about
the means" said the doctor, smiling,
the end is the only thing they're in
terested in. The rest they leave all to
me, Offering to send on their money"
And women"
why, the women are worse than the
men. They would not be satisfied with
something for nothing; they want a
whole lot for nothing. The fact that
this is an impossibility, however, is a
sort of knowledge that nearly always
comes late in life, like gray hairs or
wrinkles. Like these, however, it Occa-
siOnally comes prematurely, but never
with women.
Il don't believe any woman ever died
who didn't die thinking about certain
great bargains that were a possibility
if she had only gone to the right place.
Woman applies the same notions to
speculation and the stock market, and
in this she is not alone.
1T isn't only in America, however,
that this condition exists. It's every
where. The whole human race are
gamblers. They're all looking for
something for nothing. The hardest
workers among US are constantly on
the qui vive for something We can get
/ without having to work for it.
In America the spirit of gambling
amounts to a fever 1t is more intense
here because there are more instances
of quick fortunes and lucky specula-
tons.
THE country boy leaves his fathers
farm with his clothes in a bandanna,
and ten or fifteen years later pops up
in q big city with a fortune of millions.
A lucky beggar starts in life with
couple OF hundred dollars, invests it
properly, works hard and finishes a
capitalist. It's a terrible example"
Mr.. Depew glanced hOpelessly toward
his mail basket
THE lucky beggar and farmer boys
are the cause of it ALL" he said, sigh
ing. "They insist upon making them
selves exceptions to the rule
What rule?"
'"The rule that you can't win on a
gamble. There's nothing in it. You
can't get anything you don't work for
I never knew a gambler, a man who
depended on luck and risks for his
money, to die rich.
"A little money is a terrible thing"
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of peace and good intentions. No one
is ever satisfied with it. Its only mis-
sion is to create a thirst, an Unsuitable
longing for more. And by reason Of
the bad precedents here in America,
the recipients Of small fortunes, are,
nine times out of ten, willing to risk it
all for a very slim chance to double it.
zone of the saddest cases of the dis
! II
was that of a man who had worked all
his life in a little town up the state
until he had swelled the income from
his business to $4,000 a year. He was
a great man in his town.
IF he had been satisfied to continue
working for what he got he might have
been a millionaire now, but he wanted
to do it too quickly.
"He heard the men talk over the
hotel ticker. Several had put up 81, 900
and made $1,000, and it took them but
two days to do it.
-Four thousand dollars a day, he fig
ured, and 965 days in a year makes
| $4,000 year.
80 he came to town, and that was
the beginning of the end. In three
months everything was gone.
Men of 40 and more should be care
full how they take chances; they are
getting past the age for a new start.
AZ so the man who CANDLES his Iife's
| earnings is a criminal He hasn't a
chance in a thousand to pull himself
/ together"
Then you don't believe in Nothing
venture, nothing gained?"
I believe in everything ventured
nothing gained" said Mr.. Depew.
but you see the gambling fever is one
whose heat We can not regulate; the
gambler knows no caution. He almost
/ invariably puts all his eggs I'm one
/ basket, and there's only one market
where that sort Of reckless game
counts
And which is that?"
"The marriage market" said the
4 doctor, smiling; that is the only spec
uIatiOn that justifies plunging, and I'm
not the first one who has thought so.
who was the fellow who said:
He either fears his fate too much.
Or his deserts are small.
That GaTes not put II to the touch,
To win or lose it all
well, he was a wise one. whoever
| he was" said Mr.. Depew, looking sage,
land I have every reason to. be sure
/ of it,
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