Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
SATAN'S CATERERS

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W L. Noyes by w. P. McComas after
she had tried to burn out his eyes
with vitriol The man who shot the
woman is a married mana few days
ago he would have been insulted If
anyone had suggested that he did not
deserve to be called a respectable"
married man. The woman who disfig-
ured the man was young and wealthy
widow, who lived in her own mag
nificently furnished apartments" Bet
ter for her if she had had to stand
in the bread line during the hungry
days. Better for him if he had known
nothing all his life except how to
handle pick and shovel. The love Of
money may be the root of all evil
but the misuse of money is the imme-
diate cause of most of it. Gambling is
'caused by the love of money. Reck-
less, prof1igate living is the corollary
of gambling. This is one of the most
evident rules of modern society. The
rich man gathers and boards. His son
spends, dissipates, wastes. In the ca
reer of the gambler, the acquisition
and the spending are both done by the
same person. Gambling is more di-
rect form of robbery than many others
in unchecked use, hence the ill-gotten
gains are more quickly dissipated than
those acquired by subtler forms of loot
ing ones neighbor or, if there are no
gains, the jealous spirit of ill-sustained
1rga1
The spiritual law operates in the
natural world with unerring accu-
racy. Given certain premises, it is
possible for a man understanding to
make deductive forecasts that are al
most prophetic. If he were thorough
circumstances, if he had insight and
information enough, such a man could
become absolutely prophetic, for, after
all, the guiding rule is one that is
easy to remember. Human nature,
fundamentally and essentially, is al
varying and invariabe. Therefore,
similar causes produce similar efforts
in all ages of the worlds history and
in all tribes and nations of human So
ciety subject only to the variations
caused by local and temporary condi-
tions.
These facts being recognized and ac
cepted when will society become adroit
enough and thoughtful enough to miti-
gate or abolish some of the more OBJ
vious evils that are constant causes
of equally constant and unvarying eff
fects?
WHAT killed Charlotte Noyes and
wrecked McComas morally and phys
ically? What disfgured his character
long before his face was disfigured by
a maddened shrew? That particularly
ugly phase of the spirit of greed and
gain called gambling was the prime
devil, the chief melting cause of the
irreparable mischief-of the death of
the woman, of the soaring of the man,
and of the wounding. the deep wound
ing, of society Shame upon us, for
the evil is a remedial evil. Apologists
for race track gambling or any other
vicious form of gambling, here, in
the latest gambling tragedy recorded
in Los Angeles is an example of the
motive which prompts a good citizen
to ask, Why tolerate that which at
it's best is not of any value, and that
at its worst is a dark menace to So
ciety, wreclsing homes, enticing to
murder and suicide, blasting reputa-
tions, running character, ministering to
depravity, encouraging vice, and cater
ing to the devil in many other forms
that may be as easily imagined as
described?