The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-07-29
A BAN UPON GAMBLING.

An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago says:
AFTER indicting twenty -four book
makers this afternoon the grand jury
ordered Sheriff Barrett to take i'm
mediate steps to stop all gambling at
the race tracks in Cook County. Be-
fore leaving the jury room Sheriff
Barrett promised the jurors that he
would comply with their request in
every detail. If the orders of the grand
jury are carried out it means the alb
soiute suppression of any bookmaking
or gambling whatever at Harlem,
Hawthorne and Worth lace tracks.
With the ban against betting enforced,
1t Is believed the tracks will be COM
PEELED to close their gates, as was the
case at Washington Park when Mayor
Harrison prohibited all forms of bet
ting on the race tracks under his juIis-
diction.
The frown of civilization is upon
the gambling habit and the whiskey
habit. 1t used to be considered
provincial to oppose these evils. And
there are ignorant people in Columbia
now, who never read any but the
sporting page of newspaper, who
think this is the only town where
gamblers and whiskey sellers are
"persecuted. " They have not the
slightest conception of how fast and
how sure the onward march of chris
tian culture and civilization are crush
ing the life out of the gambling fra
te1nity and their twin conspirators in
crime. the liquor dealers.
The world is brought to this thought
by the lncessant din of the pulpit and
the spread of the truth through the
press But now that the world has
taken hold of the thought. 1t will not
be many years before Public Opinion
crystalizas and with one mighty rush
will sweep these evils not only beyond
The pale Of law, but so far beyond
that none but the most abandoned
will be found at the gaming table, or
putting the cup of poison to his
brothers lips.
A few years ago it was common
thing in country print shop for the
paper to wait day OF miss an issue
For the force to get sober. Now the
drunken printer Is hobo, and nobody
will have him but for day or two at I
b time
A few years ago half the members
Of the Columbia Bar were habitual
drinkers, and thought nothing of
bold and brazen into the
drink shops for their drains, Now
they are SO few as to be conspicuous. I
A few years ago it was an unheard Q
81 thing to make up ticket for Alder.
men without one or more saloon keepers !
IN IL. Now the name of any saloon 8
Keeper in town on ticket would
lefeat the ticket.
A few years ago when man ran for
my county Office, the custom was for
him and his friends to flock to the U
Aloons in crowds. There are those
who are none too good to do that
how, but they have better sense. n
The habitual drunkard and gambler i
re becoming almost as much ostra- u
Used by the business world, as the \
allen woman is by the social world. D
Railroad companies won't have them. V
Insurance companies won't take
isks on their lives. College athletic "
lubs bar them. and even professional n
'ase ball clubs Are them from one NJ
line TO another for a season OF so and II
hen drop them. III
About ten years ago writing upon m
his subject, Jour county fairs then "
nd pool sellers and all manner of vi
devices,) the Herald said "