Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-04-03
Card Parties.
[Southern Christian Advocate. I

| Dear Brother wilson: L am
really glad you reproduced DR.. H.
F.. Chreitzburg's article on progress.
sive euchre-in the last issue of the
Advocate. Gard parties in the
home are the means of running
thousands of our young men. Very
often young men cross my path who
say they have "been damned" in this
way.
1t is wise to lift the voice of warn
ing at this point. Here is an article
that will bear republication. 1t is
the experience of man who knows
what he is talking about.
Yours in friendship,
j. Thos. Pate.
At a mass meeting in the Second
Presbyterian church, Portsmouth,
Ohio, on recent Sabbath afternoon,
in the presence Of over two hundred
men, converted gambler and ex-
saloon keeper made the following
statement, which has created pro-
found impression:
81 have been in the saloon bust
ness, with gambling room attached,
for the last four years, and claim to
know something about what | am
now going to tell you. l do not
believe that the gambling den is
nearly so dangerous, nor does it do
anything like the same amount of
harm as the social card party in the
home. give this as my reason: In
the gambling room the windows are
closed tight, the curtains arc pulled
down everything is secretly done
for fear of detection, and none but
gamblers, as rule, enter there ;
while in the parlor all have access to
the game, children are permitted to
watch it, young people are invited
TO partake in it. 1t is made attract
i've and alluring by giving prizes,
serving refreshments and adding
high social enjoyments. For my
part, never could see the difference
between playing for piece of silver
nodded in the shape of money and
silver nodded in the shape of cup
or thimble. The principle is the
same, and whenever the property
changes hands over the luck of
cards, no matter how small is the
value of the prize, / believe it is
gambling. Have you ever thought
of it? Where do all the gamblers
come from? They are not taught
in the gambling dcns. A sgrcener,
unless he is fool, never enters a
gambling hell, because he knows he
will be ilceccd out Of everything he
possesses in less than fifteen minutes.
lie has learned somewhere else
before he sets foot inside of such a
place. When he has played in the
parlor, in the social game of the
home, and has become proficient
enough to win prizes among his
friends, Tic next step with MIN is TO
seek out the gambling room, for he
has learned, and now counts nror
his proficiency to hold his own. ne
saloon men and gamblers chucklc
and smile when they read in the
papers of the parlor games given by
the ladies, for they know that after
% while these same men will become
the patrons of their business. say,
then, the parlor game is the college
whore gamblers are made and cdu-
Gated. In the name OF God, mon,
stop this business in your homes"
After he had taken his seat
another converted cx-gambler, who
led the mems meeting in the Second
Presbyterian Church the following
Sabbath, arose and said 81 endorse
every word which the brother before
me has just uttered. | was n gam
bier. | learned to play cards, not in
the saloon, not in my own home, but
in the homes of my young friends
who invited me to play with them
and taught me how"
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