Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-20
WILL ROOSEVELT GET AFTER THE
 GAMBLERS?
Europe Wants Infamous Monte Carlo Suppressed, But Would Like To Have President Stat The Trouble.

LONDON. Sept. 1S-Will Theodore Roosevelt, as President of the United
 States take the initiative in ridding
 the world of its greatest gambling re- sort Monte Carlo?
 mat IS the question which is ust
 now interesting the public in England
 and. mayhap. too. the ehancellories of
 all Europe.
 President Roosevelt has been pub iicly invited to head an international crusade against the Monte Carlo Ca
 sino for letters in the London Times
 and other public prints can be called
 an invitation. if not official, nverthe- less public Judging from such re- quests, Mir. Roosevelt is looked upon as the strong man of the world-a man who is not afraid to mix mp in European affairs of moment because of any danger that he might be of
 lending some near relative among the
 rulers of the various great countries.
 Monte Carlo's gambling hell must gu That is the cry of the moment. It was the cry fifteen years ago when
 a great international petition was
 drawn up and presented to France. But then there was no result. The present peace conference at The
 Hague is due to MT. Roosevelt's ini- l tiative, and now he is again being ] looked to as leader in another move l ment Of intense international i'm | portance.
 Monaco at the present day stinks in ! the nostrils of the world. Its red rec ord of dire tragedy has been empha- i sized with brutal force within the last 1 few weeks. The strocious murder of l Mime. Levin by sir We're and Lady" | Goold followed close on the heels of !, the pitifnI suicide of an Ameciran ! girl bride and her young English hus- i band And these are but two in an appalling list of suicides, of murders, of robberies and of other heartbreak- 1 ing agonies for which the cry of
 ''Rien ne va plus" echoing in the marble halls of the Monte Carlo gam
 bling palace, is responsible
 Monte Carlo. since its establish l ment on All Fools Day, forty-four ,, years ago, has been the forcing bed of crime. Swin6iers. thieves, mur- | derers. dsmi-mondaines from ali the cutthroat haunts of the universe gath
 CT there and wax fat on the spells of | their trade. Men and women, re- | spectacle in the past, have there been | ruined morally and socially, in the
 mad lust for gold stop at nothing. There are innumerable books writ i ten about Monte Carlo. From none of them is omitted the terrible tale of blood. Tn two of these books, written only a short time ago are
 records of suicides and murders. One of these is called "Histoire des l Crimes ct Suicides" a nice title. ceT- tainly. And in that book is an ap- 1 palling list of 5000 known suicides
 and murders committed in Monte Car i 10 in the space of fifteen years. The
 known suicides average fully 200 a
 year and some weeks there have been
 as many as three a day
 | The Casino authorities do every thing to hush up scandals and news 1 of tragedies. A large force of plain 1 clothes men are engaged to either pre- vent suicides or to hurry the body of 1 the dead unfortunate out of the way.
 It is estimated that more than one half of the tragedies of Monte Carlo are never heard of except by the Ca. sino staff
 The corpse is rushed quietly to tha
 morgue-a secret morgue. Here it is kept some time to see whether rela.
 tives or friends are going to inter