Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-01
PROTEST AGAINST GAMBLING.

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Senator Brice Is Unable to Distinguish
Between Bucket Shop and Craps
| Games.
Editor Yorkville Enquirer:
Yorkville Is making progress-in the
wrong direction. Her dispensary Is
manufacturing drunkards, and ner
Bucket Shop" is grinding out gamb-
lers. So far as Yorkville is concerned,
his Satanic Majesty can go on on
long vacation. The Dispensary and
the Bucket Shop" will attend to his
business in this community. The man
who condemns the dispensary and then
patronizes the Bucket Shop is avery
inconsistent citizen. Gambling is as
bad II not worse than drinking. The
| Bucket Shop" will do as much harm
in this community as the dispensary.
II the ignorant, depraved negro who
bets on game of Craps" Is gambling
then the man who bets on the rise or
fall of the stock, grain or cotton
market Is also gambling. One js
little gambler and the other Is big
one. One is an ignorant gambler, the
other an intelligent gambler.
The old Scotch-Irish spirit Of York.
vile Is not dead. Let the people rise
up in their might and suppress these
two twin evils, these two hot-beds OF
vice-the Dispensary and the Bucket
Shop"
Please publish the following editorial
from a recent issue Of the News and
| Courier. J. s. BR1cE.
Yorkville, S. c., March 81, 1904.
Concerning Gamblers.
Mr.. Daniel J. Sully does not, OF
course, think Of himself as being
gambler; neither do the numberless
gentlemen who daily play the game
at which Mr.. Sully has just gone
broke" think Of themselves as gamp-
lers. Gambler Is a term or reproach
in the mouths Of Mr. Sully and MS
followers, no less than In the mouth
Of the great public that works Tor lts
professional card player, race track
follower, or habitue Of a room In
which there is "a faro layout" rou-
lette wheel or some other Of the many
devices, by means Of which persons OF
venturesome disposition are separated
from their cash. These men are gen.
erally thought Of and they are not In
frequently treated as social outlaws.
fIn New York, for instance, no emo OF
to-do Is being made by Mr.. Jerome
Mr.. McAdoo and many others over et.
forts that are making there to keep
them from doing business" One con.
stantly reads of how tightly the lid"
is down in this or that district, and II
a certain law passes Mr.. Jerome pro-
fesses to entertain hopes OF prose-
cutting successfully many prominent
gamblers and their associates In crime.
It Is all very interesting ana very
praiseworthy, doubtless but IT lacks
the ring Of sincerity 1t would have
were the operations Of Mr.. jerome and
Mr., McAdoo directed toward the big
Gamblers as we'll as the little ones.
These gentlemen call themselves n
nanciers. A few Of them go so far as
TO admit that they are SPECTATORS.
But there Is not single requisite lack
ing to make them gamblers OF the
most vicious type. They do not even
play fairly. The man who deals caras
from the bottom Of the deck or VINO
has cards up his sleeve is ca,,eo a,Seoast q
crook or a sharp. He Is an outcast
among his own fraternity even. But
these larger gamblers, those who are
| reckoned respectable and who are ex-
empt from the prosecutions OF the
law, do not hesitate to deal unfairly or
to stack" the cards whenever tney
have a chance to do so. The honor
which Is supposed to exist among
thieves Is frequently unknown to them.
They prey upon the public by prefer
ence. but they prey upon each other
If other victims fail to present them
selves They are a menace to society
and to business alike. Secure In the
Responsibility" which Is popularity
accredited to themselves and their
practices, they go confidently forWara
in their corruption of the public nina,
and in their decentralization OF trace
and commerce. Now and again one
of them comes to financial grief. He
usually carries down to ruin with him
thousands Of duDes. But the disaster
Is of his own making, or the making
Of his associates, not the making OF
| the laws Of the land that profess TO
protect the public against chicanery
and wrong doing.
If justification could be found for
the speculative gamblers. Mr.. Sully'
for instance, Is more entitled to ex.
them. Thousands of farmers through
out the length and breadth or the
south have been benefited by his oper-
ations in cotton. But that Is not the
point. What we wish to say is that
the game" that Mr.. Sully played, and
that a million other men in the United
States play daily is gambling game,
pure and simple. II any gambling
game Is illegal it should be placed on
the black list Of the law with the rest
of them. If 1t Is a reproach to be a
gambler the men who follow it should
be subjected to a loss Of caste and
public confidence. 1t is essentially
] hypocritical to contend otherwise.