Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-08
GAMBLING
NOT A CURSE
So Says a Former Prominent
Business Woman of Living.
stOn, Now in Billings

Can no one speak a word for the
gamblers? We hear so much about
gambling being curse and gambler
being black spot on the face of the
earth, it might prove interesting to
some readers of The Times to hear
something new concerning this vile,
profane, licentious, pestilential, sim
full profession.
To begin, am like Jerry Simpson.
1 have thirty reasons why gambling
makes town better. First-The
town needs the money. have forgot
ten the other twenty nine.
Let us handle those wouldbe crimi-
nails honestly for once, and let them
be seen in a new light. Show them
up as they are-how they spend their
money; how they live; how, after
gaining thousands, they leave the
town broke-how they give to the
poor, the churches and their friends.
The Rev Mccullough states that
Christ died for our Sins and the sol
diers gambled for pieces of His
garment. There are quite a few people
who are not gamblers and who never
associated with gamblers, who do not
believe that Christ died for our sins.
| Christ was a good teacher and those
following His teachings cannot go
wrong, but we will leave the dying
part out of this argument.
Hubbard says: "Ministers are lot
of good men in very poor business. -
To turn that sentence around would
be echoing a little truth.
The state law is against gambling.
If it is state law, it must be light.
Men at the head of the state have
never erred! They must be right.
Still, there have been men who have
fought a life long battle for a chance.
have absolute faith in humanity.
Man does not take wanton delight i'll
breaking others hearts and blighting
their lives. They do it, but seek the
cause. 1t is his environment which
makes him do today what he would
scorn to do tomorrow. He does not
even want to hear Of his past.
do not look down on Mohammed
I think him great philosopher of his
time.
1 deny that good citizens have to
pay for the indulgence OF gamblers.
Quite the contrary. Every mere H.
ant l have ever met says: Business
is dull since they closed gambling.
Denver swarmed with starving
people eight years ago and today Den
yer is wide open and what do you
hear? Why, Denver was never bet
ter What have they said of Butte?
That it never was better than it has
been this winter. The poor had a
chance to live; but now the good peo-
pie have closed all and the poor can
depend on some charitable institution.
1 challenge any man to prove to me
that times are worse and people starv-
ing in gambling town. True, a
wife and children of ten lose hus.
bands wages, but that husband can
get up in the morning and he will
have ten chances to make a dollar in
all open town where he would not
have one in dead town.
7. 1 can give the names of churchmen
/ in Livingston who were in favor OF
gambling after it closed, as the town
was no good after.
i "a boy played marbles and wor
money and killed MANI How sad
; If boys keep OIL playing marbles
there won't be any men left. Another
. blamed gambling for killing Jew
1 wonder if there are any Jews left
: Another played cards in his mother.
house, and, oh, my! He did some
| thing awful! forgot what.
5 We must have new regime. L
t will be born in mind when this tall
and bowling about vice and sin il
e stopped.
5 Christian Science teaches tina
t there is no sin, and that is where
e Mary Eddy has one foot ahead of al
n Christianity.
f sayyou do get returns for you
r money, and 1 stand firm. 1t is per
: fectly right and legitimate to gamble
:, When two or six men sit down ant
y try their level best to beat the other
!. fair and square, it is not wrong or