The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-26
CHIMMIE FADDEN'S VIEWS
AS TO sEroRMERs AND THE epoLlcE-cAMBLERs, COMBINE
Copyright 1908, by Robert Howard Russell.


is wicked, indeed, to gamble 1 spoke
in jest. SIR
You know dat Whiskers is Mr. Paurs
fadder- in-law, now. and he cuts two
coupons to Mr.. Paul's one: and Mr..
Paul is as polite to him as Duchess is
to Miss Fannie when Miss Fannie is
getting rid of a lot of old hats and
gloves.
Well. Mr.. Paul didn't say noting
while 1 pulled de plug out of a pint,
and filled DER glasses; but when he'd
trun a tautful lip over de edge of his
glass, to see was it de same brand dat
mamma used to buy. he says, careless
like, to Whiskers. How was de mar
ket today, sir?"
Whiskers' whiskers was nearly hid
by de glad smile dat shifted over his
mug like show girls when she sees
Number One in de orchestra, and he
says, Il caught EN- bote ways, today:
going and coming"
Good woik," says Mr. Paul Deere
was. chicken in de tree, eh?"
1.-TWO on en-" says Whiskers. 81
bought Zinc preferred at sixty-tree and
half at de opening. and sold at five
at noon. 1t reached five and a quarter,
which seemed a little expensive, in
view of something 1 heard. so l sold
short at dat, and covered before de
close, at four and matt; clearing on de-
day little to de good of five tousand.
Fannie, me DEAR" he says, you may
order de music room decorated as you
was wanting. and de new twenty-five
hundred dollar rug for de library"
Miss Fannie smiled, and says, Tank
you, papa" and shook her head at Mr..
Paul not to take a fall out ow Whisk-
ers. But he wouldn't see her, and
says. "As you was remarking, sir, de
gambling fever must be checked if ii
has to be sunk in de Harlem. wit a
barge on top of it to keep it cool"
quite So" says Whiskers. People
must be protected from all temptation
to risk DER money in desc ne-faro-
schemes of chance. People must be
taut dat it is not only sinful. but bad
business. for to seek to gain wealth
except by hard. honest toll"
You is more dan right" says Mr..
Paul. you is all right. BY de way"
he says, what was doing in Zinc?"
ooh, noting much" Whiskers says.
comfortable like. 81 heard de rumor
of q dividend, and bought. Den d.
rector told me dere would be no div
idend, but dat dey wouldn't send de-
NAL into de Street until few of us
could get out, and go short enough to
pay us for de trouble of going all de
way down town on a rainy day Not
ting much" he says. Just flyer"
l seen dat Mr.. Paul was croisy to
put a cramp in Whiskers temper, but
Miss Fannie give him a Be good"
look and he sat in at bridge, and lose
a couple of hundred to Whiskers be-
fore 1 quit solving 'em small bottles.
But l was going to put you straight
on de police-and-g gamblers combine.
Who makes that combine? Reformersl
OATS as right as de leg OATS never
left. Honest, l sometimes do a stunt
of wondering if de folks of dis town,
who makes de gambling hollers, know
what dis life old Island of Manhattan
Is. 1t doesn't look a bit like dey really
knows. Listen: dere is tousands Of
men in dis town who can be stopped
from gambling only one way-by bury
ing 'em.
Well, just as sure as men will gam
BILE, men will provide lay-outs for EN-.
De man who wants to do business, see
de Captain of de Precinct where he
want to locates, and agrees on rates.
De man who's to run de house pays a
license. If 1T was let go at dat, Dis
trict Toiney Jerome would only have to
saw wood, and not bodder about de
lime light.
But de Reformers get busy: dSS
makes ii hard for the Captains to keep
de grand stand raiders from getting
gay on de furniture and bric-a-brac
wit dere sledge hammers. Den de mag
what's paid his license registers his
kick. 1t costs good money to buy new
front doors. and lace curtains. to say
noting of tousand dollar vases.
Wouldn't de gambler dat has to refur-
nish his place after every visit OF
rough house raiders RAIDER pay a Ii
cence to de City, and cinch his protec-
ton, dan pay de Captain, and have his
plate glass and rags put on de bum ey-
cry little while?
Remember what elite Fitch says:
Its condition, not theory, we is up
against" Well, if de good folks of dis
burg would get next to de condition,
which is dat gambling can't be stopped,
and license de game deirselves, we'd
have a lot more space in de papers for
baseball news and more money to build
tunnels to de Bronx.
But, my, my! L hasn't hung out no
single as a wise guy on how to run
de ovment, but if 1 don't cop tings
right to you, now and den, you might