The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-11

In his sermon at the House of Hope
Presbyterian church last evening the
Rev. w. H. w. Boyle took his text from
John xviii, 40, Then cried they all
again saying, not this man but Bar
rabas. Now, Barrabas was a robber."
And then the House of Hope pastor
severely criticised the municipal evils.
After declaring that the 'insiduOuS
and pernicious habit of gambling is
encouraged and permitted to be prac-
ticed within the city of st. Paul." Rev.
Mr.. Boyle read the statutes governing
such offenses, and called particular at
tention to the fact that the owners of
the property where the games are per-
mitted are also liable He then pro-
ceeded to specify where the gambling
is done, saying:
On Wabasha, near Eighth, there is
gambling den. In this place there are six
tables DRINKS are sold in the gambling
rooms at all hours, business being best
from the standpoint of the gambler Sat
urday night and Sunday. In a room con-
nected with the establishment there is
a safe in which is stored articles that
may be pledged for gambling chips.
The same man conducts another gam
ping house in another building on Wa
Pasha; There are four or five men here,
block is another gambling room in the
rear OF cigar store, where two tables are
run.
Boys Found Playing.
On Wabasha there is also a gambling
house house on the hTst floor; Minors are per
mltted. to cOngregate here and gamble.
Some boys of fourteen years were found
here AT Eighth and Wabasha there is
gambling N ling house. The gambling done here
is IN full view of the bar. This place has
been in operation for the past eighteen
months.
At about Third and Minnesota there is
a den. Here there is crap game, black
jack poker and other gambling games
conducted openly. Another place of
like character is to be found on Minnesota
craps. black jack and poker are played.
On East Seventh street there is den con-
tanning tive, tables that has been run
Third street t fb Pst 9 n6 years I'm East
On West Third street, within about
a half block Of the Bethel, policy or
lottery t8feay drawing is % openly carried out
m. a large number of people come to-
gether here and watch the drawing. This
consists OF seventy eight numbers being
a colored boy of about fourteen years
draws twelve numbers. and if any Of those
present have been lucky, as thew term it.
three of the numbers they had chosen
have been taken from the wheel. The
proprietor is known as the 'policy king"
At this place Honduras and Me- Mexican lot
I0ly t4chetS are sold.
Girl Policy Writer.
On Minnesota street there is a policy
shop, where white girl is employed to
be real estate office On East Seventh
street there Is policy shop. At Seventh
and Jackson there is another shop, run
by cOlored man. Besides these there
are a large number Of handbooIs, which
are carried around by the writer's News
boys, bootblacks and others play the
stores, I am told, play as do high school
pupils. The department store girl en-
ployes have a place that is handy for
them.
In no other city of the United States
are public policy drawings permitted.
Here they are conducted with impunity,
and with the apparent knowledge of the
police.
OF the social evil he said:
The Social Evil.
1 will speak specifically of Seventh
street only. Taking this thoroughfare
are thirty immoral houses, but 1 would
not think of giving here. some of the
particulars that are within my knowl-
edge of the traffic in souls carried on in
these places. In one rooming house there
are ten women who go down to the streets
to apply for living by the sale of their
cause the vote of a Judas Iscariot counts
as much as a Jesus of Nazareth.
We are sometimes told the pulpit has
nothing to do with politics. So much the
worse for politics. Manifestly, if the
good word politics has come by debase-
ment to mean the power of a corrupt
clique or the conscious trickery Of un-
scrupulous partisanship, CT its appeal the
harangue Of cheap demagogy, then the
pulpit is no place for it, but if the
Christian pulpit is to remain the high
much that it fears nothing else, then the
arraignment of evildoers and the social
excuses of which they are guilty is as
of the holy supper or the preaching Of
a sermon on the character of heaven.
We ought not, it is very true. take poll
gion-ft is very certain we ought to take
religion into our politics. Christian citi
zenship always involves Christian activ-
ity.