Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-19

Money is representative word.
Money translated into the ordinary
language of life means work and blood
and sweat and exhausted energy Mon
ey. Why, that represents the woman
scrubbing at the tub and the book
keeper compiling his figures and the
nurse pouring out the medicines and
flowers for the sick aud the gospel for
the ignorant and the depraved. Do
you mean to tell me- O man. that at
the gambling table you have q right
to squander your mothers and ia
theirs substance like that? And yet
go into any one of the postgraduate
schools and colleges today and you
will find young men at the gaming ia
bic not more surely destroying them
selves than squandering the money
that was won by the self denying sac
rifices of parental lives.
But" some one else says. 1.-The mon
ey | have is mine. Why: | did not in
herit it or have it given to me. made it.
Therefore | have a right to do with it
as | please" Oh, no. my brother, you
have not That money which you
made is not yours. 1t belongs to your
children. When your little children
came into the world they brought to
you certain moral obligations. You
had no right to become father unless
you were ready to the best of your
ability to look after your babies. That
money which you squander at the gam
bling table means more than money.
1t means your children's clothes, your
children's schooling. your children's
proper start in life. DR.. Mott, believe
it was, who said, "A gamblers heart
after awhile will become so dead to all
love that If necessary he will be will
ing to gamble upon his own mothers
coffin lid" You say that is a mon
strous statement. l say it is not He
may not do that. but the gambler will
do worse. He will destroy his chill
dren. 1t would be infinitely more hui
name for me to gamble upon my moth
er's coffin lid than to gamble away my
children's education and opportunities.
The cold lips of my dead mother could
not rebuke me, while the cracked. bis
tering tongue of the outraged and dis
honored and disgraced child of heart
less gambler might curse my soul into
the black pit of eternal woe.
A Rule With No Exceptions.
But" says some one again. lit is
not certain that l should lose. If |
win at the gambling table | am guilt
less of the wrongs against parents and
children that you are denouncing.'
Well, my brother. with a gambling
tendency you have no right to suppose
any such case. All gamblers-Shal |
say all? Yes, practically all-ultimate-
Fortuna's altar. There are practically
no exceptions to this rule Fortuna 5
temple was built for the goddess Of
chance. but is gambling there is no
chance; the devotee practically loses
ALL If this statement is not true how
can you account for the fact that every
year the annual expenditures to run
Monte Carlo are S5,000,0OO. and yet
| each year the shareholders of that evil
resort divide nearly 100000 profits
| If this statement is not true how can
you account for the fact that the Lou
| isiana lottery was able to expend mil
| lions upon millions of dollars every
year for corruption and bribery and
| public improvements" and taxes and
| yet was able to make its owners mil
| lionaires many times over? If this is
| not true how can the great gambling
establishments of the large cities pay
| to the police departments thousands
| upon thousands of dollars as a sop fol-
| them to keep their hands off. for nc
| gambling den is ever run in a large
| city without the connivance of the pc
lice, and also to furnish their patrons
course dinners, with wine. all free OF
charge. and yet make hundreds OF
thousands of dollars besides? Over
every gambling den of the world yor
can write the words. 'Only the deluded
enter here" Over every gambling ia
BILE you can see the trembling hands
of dying men lifted not to take money
but ultimately to leave their all.
All systems which have ever beer
devised to break the bank of chance
were failures. and they are always sure
to be failures. In a Chinese temple
have seen the poor invalids before {
hideous idol of wood make prayer tt
their god of health and then selec
at random an arrow out of a wampun
with certain medicine marked upoI
it, and expect that that medicine would
cure them of their disease. So | have
seen poor dupes in Monte Carlo in thu
same foolish way trying to work out /;
system" by which the god of chance
would give to them unlimited wealth
AS all such systems" are failures anC
will always be failures | would toda.
give you System" which. if worked
out, Will bring compentency and eter
nal happiness, if not unlimited good
This is my system: Never in your lif