Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04
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0AMBLiN0 IS VIDE OPEN

Try to hide II rs they will. by cheap
bunconibe and demogoguery. the ciov.
en- foot Of the present city administer.
tlon Is bound to show itself.
II Is now fully aud plainly In evi.
dcncc In regard to the gambling ques.
ton.
The City Of Chicago IL honeycombcd
with gambling hells; fruitful breeding
places aud hatcheries of all other forms
Of crime.
In u recent edition tho Chicago
Eagle drew public attention TO this
appalling fact.
Since then even the organs of IInr.
risOn In the daily press have been un.
able to hide or cloak IT,
Gambling, wide open gambling OF
the kind most dangerous to the youth.
and indeed to all ages and conditions
Of tho citizens Of Chicago IL flourish.
Ing like n nOxIOus weed In nll parts
Of this city.
HarrlsOn's organs admit II. They
even name the saloons ana other
Joints" In which 1t Is permitted by
the police.
And vet Mayor Harrison ana his
chief OF police. Mr.. Francis ONeIll,
pretend to be In ignorance OF 1t.
What II fine exhibition OF official by.
prOcrlsy II thus presented.
Mayor Harrison. whose virtuOus In.
dignatiOn goes ablaze ut the mere men.
tion OF breakdown Of u cable Cur. or
of the collection Of fund to help on Il
movement for little better wages for
the police and firemen. does not think
II worth while to find out whether
there IL gambling going on In Chicago
or not.
At least that IL what he says by I'm.
plicatlOn when cOrnered about the
gambling question.
He pleads ignorance.
| But this IL no defense. II there IL
gambling going on IN Chicago. II IL the
Mayors duty to know about II. and,
knowing about II. to put nm end to It..
Ignorance In such case IL no ex-
cuse for the Mayor. On the con-
trnry. 1t IL. to shy the least. highly
reprehensible.
But this IL the only refuge the May
or can seek
His Honor doesn't know about It.
| The clOven foot sticks ont right
there,
And then there Is the great AMI good
Francis O'Neill, general superintend.
ent of police. The man whose immacu.
late purity could not for I'M instant
tolerate the presence of a man upon
the police force like Luke y. COller,n.
who could be base enough to book n
criminal under arrest, thereby fulfill
ing the requirements OF the law, but
affOrtling u chance for an evil instinu.
alton.
Chief ONeill who knows II all.
| The policeman with the allpiercing
eye. the invulnerable sword against
all criminals and wrongdOers. the man
of classics and of pOesy. the scholar
whose Greek and Latin didn't help
him to his present office, but which
constitute nevertheless u portion of his
many and varied requirements. the
man who could not dream for mo.
mcnt of tempOrizlng with law-brcak-
crs, this great chief, cOnfesses admits,
that gambling honeycomhs Chicago,
hut he doesn't know where il Is eX,
actly,
Well, who would have thought this
Why, we believed when the immac,
ulatc Chief O'Neill took hold of the
reins in the police department, that the
millennium was at last at hand.
But 1t seems, after all, that there
was not so much to the howl about the
front Office the demolition of which
was undertaken with so much brass
band music by the Mayor and his chief
of police.
Who Is now to account for the rot
ten state OF affairs disclosed by this
'cSpOsure Of gambling!