Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-23
THE HEAVY HAND OF CALAMITY.


Attorney General Byers is the OBJ
iect of complaint According to the
Sioux City Journal affairs in Council
Bluffs are pretty We'll at skies and
sevens thru interference on the part
of Mr.. Byers. 1t appears from the
Journals story that by reason of
would appear by the attorney general
the lid has settled down on Council
Bluffs and every gambling house in
the city closed"
Matters are in q bad way by rea-
son of Byers and the Church cru
SADIE Complaint is made that l20
"qttaches'-mark the term-l20 at
taches" OF the gambling houses are
thrown out of employment and "wha.
Is more. they are at loss where 10
CO." No other Iowa city it appears IS
bidding for the 12O attaches" as a
desirable addition to It's population. An
industry has been destroyed. one
hundred twenty workers, shell. etc,
have no where to work their game. The
revenues of Council Bluffs are cut In
half. The town is all shot to pieces.
Bycrs did It. The churches did it.
With their little hatchets.
Zone might imagine that Council
Bluffs were a city beneath the hand
of calamity and that honest men were
facing starvation. Here are 120 at
taches deprived of the privilege of pro-
tected robbery. cut off from the easy
money with nowhere to go. Their sense
of outrage is strong, their necessities
great. Who are Byers and the church,
es that they should work this woe?
has Byers! Perish the churches!
This was not a factory, burned,
leaving 12O men out of honest work.
If it were none would ask where are
these men to go?' No doubt in Coun-
ell Bluffs twice that number OF men
have been Laid off, their jobs since
the holidays Where did they go?
Seeking other honest jobs? Then why
not this 100 for whom the heart of the
do not they also hunt a decent job and
the opportunity to eat bread honestly
earned? Why should 1t be assumed
that some men should have license to
steal with brace box, cogged dice and
a crooked wheel, while other men work
for living? Where should the 120
"attaches" go but to work or to Jail?
1t will be hard to work the sympa
thy dodge for these crushed and
ruined attaches" who find their occu-
patton gone by reason of the activity
of the churches and the state admin
away from the present executive and
his attorney general because 100 at
taches" of gambling houses find Iowa
cities hard shedding, see lean and
hungry season ahead and know not
where to turn-faro.
The attitude of the gambling ele-
ment toward the law and local law Of
ficers is arrogantly accusative: Where
shall we go? If we are to be cut out
here, open a city of refuge. You have
permitted us, licensed us, shared our
loot Now where are we to go and in
what community shall we be per-
mitted to rob fools?' The idea that
his nefarous profession is no longer
to be tolerated does not seem to have
entered the gamblers mind or the
mind Of local officials.
However, it looks at present as tho
Council Bluffs will have to raise rev.
enue with some regard to state stat
utes and that the 12O attaches" will
have to go to work IL they stay in
Iowa. or course any newspaper whose
sympathies are sufficiently aroused
can if it chooses, open a public sub
scription fund for the maintenance of
the army of unemployed attaches" in
Council Bluffs.