Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-03-19

Dr.. custer Raps Hard
Against Card
Games

ar the young man caught with $40
aid pieces 1t the tables in the saloon
\ . gambler and criminal and is sent
= prison, what about the women with,
these same values In other forms play
tnr at cards In any homer"
such was the statement made in the
pulpit Of the n. =. church last night
~ Rev. w. r. Custer. who addressed
: large congregation on the subject Of
ACards. Gard Parties and the Gambl-
inr Mania His text was taken from
Luke 23:s4. and the speaker said in.
part:
.Theys gambled right at the foot Of
IN agony there. Now tonight, want
10 ret down to solid reason and pure
facts. know we are safe when we
appeal altogether to fact ana to reason,
You win 1nd that gambling is defined
BY all dictionaries AZ playing at some
game Of chance with money value as
consideration, and It means in plain
words two persons putting up money
or its equivalent upon some game of
chance IN order that one may win It all
ana the other lost It all.
] Il love to see good horses run but the
race course has been ruined by the
gambling mania with two men maxi
ing bull dogs Of themselves it is other
wise. Dogs night naturally and one
might be excused for watching two
dogs fight. II ii not thus with men
who descend to the dog nature.
Appetite Must Bs Created.
Nov this must be true, that you
cannot change the real essence Of
thing by changing Its environment, and
this is also true that an appetite must
4 be created for vice before 1t can be
attained. II you hold that your sons
and your daughters will learn to gam
bic in the saloons II. you do not allow
them to learn to gamble in the home,
why do you not carry that out all the
way through ana All your cellar with
! liquors, your parlor with bad women
and your home with the machinery for
I every vice and every sin known to the
calendar?
Nov rum II the same In the guided
saloon, in the low down GROCERY and
in the church saloon. It will have the
same effects II drunk In one place as
IN the other and you cannot change the
nature and the essence Of the thing nor
its results when taken freely by simply
changing the surroundings. And what
u true Of rum ID Just 40 true Of gam
bling. The laws Of the states make
gambling crime and the prison bars
pass before those who are convicted
Of this crime.
All gamblers are criminals In the
sight Of the law. and now II you look
Ut the essence Of the thing and what
constitutes gambler and then realize
that all gamblers are criminals, what
about your cards. which are tools Of
the devil and your games where values
which pass from one to the other and
E where every feature Of the gambling
mania 10 created. although ladies may
deal the pack and sit at the table and
coax young men to play.
II the four young men caught with
twenty dollar gold pieces at the table
N the saloon are criminals and are
sent to the prison what about the ladies
with these same values In other forms
playing at cards IN any home? Are
they gamblers and are they criminals?
Club Rooms for Momsn.
IT is said that the gambling mania
among women has Increased SIX hun-
dred fold. What IN astonishing rec
ORD. They have ladies' club rooms
where they carry out the mania which
tney cannot fully carry out IN their
homes at pink card parties and st other
thinss which We ~ read about quite
frequently. Il the tendency II bad and
tne taste ACQUIRED u downward. why
tnen not deny self enough to- rive /,
4 up. ss
But You ny these society Iadiea
never would give up anything for ths
sood Of others they are 3 terribly sel-
ssn: Well. suppose ycu havs ! pack d