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 '1nsiduous
and pernfcious 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 a
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
Inc same man conducts another gam
ping house In another building on Wa
known as "house men, In the same
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 on the first floor Minors are per-
united to congregate here and gamble.
some boys OF fourteen years were found
mere; At Eighth and Wabasha there is a
IS in full view of the bar This place has
been IN operation for the past eighteen
months
hOr, VII,
a den. Here there is a 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 a den con
tanning two tables that has been run
openly for the past three years On East
Third street there is public gambling
On West Third street. within about
a half block of the Bethel, a policy or
twice day At II 80 a. m and $50 D.
m. large number of people come to-
gether here and watch the drawing. This
put in glass wheel. From this wheel
a colored boy of about fourteen years
draws twelve numbers, and if any of those
three OF the numbers they had chosen
pave been taken from the wheel The
proprietor is known as the policy king"
AT this place Honduras and Mexican lot
terry tickets are sold.
Girl Policy Writer
On Minnesota street there is a policy
Shop, where white girl is employed to
write the plays. This place purports to
De real estate office. On East Seventh
street there is a policy shop. At Seventh
and Jackson there is another shop, run
by colOred man. Besides these there
are large number of handbooks, which
boys, bootblacks and others play the
game. Girls working for department
stores, 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
Here they are conducted with impunity,
and with the apparent knowledge of the
police.
OF the social evil he said:
The Social Evil.
I will speak specifically Of Seventh
street only. Taking this thoroughfare
from Seven corners to the bridge there
are thirty immoral houses, but I would
not think of giving here some of the
particulars that are within my knowI-
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
souls This exists t to some TSeo extent be-
as much as 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 I'M
scrupulous partisanship CT it's appeal the
harangue of cheap demagogy. then the
pulpit is no place for it, but if the
Christian pulpit is to remain the high
throne of a prophet who fears God so
much that it fears nothing else, then the
arraignment of evildoers and the social
excuses of which they are guilty is as
much it's prerogative as the dispensation
of the holy supper or the preaching of
a sermon on the character of heaven.
We ought not 1t is very true, take poll
ties in technical sense, into our reli-
gion-it is very certain we ought to take
religion into our politics. Christian citi-
ity.