The leader., 1905-05-24

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lThe man who permits gambling
games played 10 his house for
| money is subject to a fine of 500;
1.-THE man who indulges in the game
Imay be fined from 81 to $10O, and
the legislature should allow the
courts to put a man in jail for
gambling that is the most whole
some tonic you can give him;
those who run a gambling house
for a living, where the profits
/ from the game go to the table or
/ the room these are the people
who are subject to term of pun
ishment in the penitentiary.
Why a common gambler or hab-
Iitual drunkard cannot serve on
the grand jury, the latter for the
/ reason that he has not sense
enough and the former because be
lis not honest. / mention these
! things to you, gentlemen, to show
you the legal reason why gam
bling is not permitted, in the State
of Mississippi. OF course, you
lall understand the moral reason
why it should not be done. You
would think it mighty queer if
some man were to take your boy
off and initiate him into all the
mysteries of gambling. Now,
gentlemen, | don't care whether
you find these gamblers in the
country or in the town, let's get
rid of them. And your reason
for getting rid of them, gentle
men, is legal, lawful and moral.
1t is our business to see that your
minds are directed along the right
channels so that you may see what
is best to be done.
There is another thing and the
law of the legislature makes it my
duty to call your attention to it. /
have not looked over my docket
to see if there are any of this class
of cases on it, but the last legisla-
Iture said that every man must
have an honest way Of making a
living and names fourteen classes
of people who can't stay in the
State. We don't mean that we
will run them out, but they must
get to work like you and me and
make their bread by the sweat Of
their face. The vagrants are di-
yided into fourteen classes. If a
man leaves his wife without any
cause and without any support, it
does not make any difference how
much money he has nor how many
friends, be is subject to prosecu-
| ltioh if he abandons his wife.
1t is only reasonable that man
should be engaged in some legiti-
mate, honest labor, whether in
the mercantile line or in the pur-
suit of agriculture or some other
legal employment; in other words,
you have no right to maintain
your child in luxury and idleness
after he has attained his majority.
They must 60 to work. We want
to get rid Of these people who loaf
around town, with their hair part
led in the middle and wearing a
standing collar and a red necktie.
It does not make any difference if
a man is a gambler if he lives
here and plies his trade in New
Orleans. The legislature does not
make any provision for that. He
must be employed in some legiti-
mate business and his work must
be reasonably continuous. Why,
we don't want such man spend
| ling his ill-gotten gains here.
The only way any man can be a
good man is to work. You never
saw an idler who was worth a
chew Of tobacco. No matter what
| his station in life a man who does
mot work is a bad man. He is
naturally bad at heart. There are
fourteen classes. of yagrants and
these take in both coIored and
white. 1t is your duty to see that
you have no negroes loafing
laround here. You know that a
negro who does not work, steals,
| just as we'll as you know it rained
last night without being up to see
Lit. The negro who does not work,
steals. Why, the man who does
not work has to steal unless be is
lying around living on some poor
relative.
now want to call your atten-