The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-04
GAMBLERS must 60
tcoatInaeq nom pass i.

- f-F t~-tSfe MS 4atnef can do
wrong and soon he drinks too. If
the father smokes, the child win saw.
so can ~ An this grows ont 81
the disposition to initiate we are
more or less creatures of Imitat lon
Sunday selling.
Another element IS suuday selling.
The Sabbath Is the day OF rest 81
Is intended to be one Of physical rest
land social quietude, and with no ais
turbance. That was the original ia
tention, when the human race was
told to remember the Sabbath day
to keep It holy" And yet ii Is one
OF the noisiest, most turbulent days
OF the week, and more violence Is
done on the Sabbath than on any
other day. You would be surprised
at the number OF crimes committed
on Sunday. The first term OF Judge
Lynch's tenure two we're tried for
crime on Sunday committed within
three or four hundred yards Of each
other and within an hours time Two
were colored and two. Italian, engage
ed In the struggle One Is now serv-
ing a life sentence. And there are
a graf many crimes committed now
on Sunday. Most Of them are due
to Sunday selling. 81
II one travels Pike street from
Third to Fourth on Sunday, one can
see men swarming around saloons
like bees where liquor is sold on
Sunday as much so as any day in
the week. Why should this state OF
affairs exist or why should It have
existed. is strange TO sayP Judge
Lynch said the grand jury ought not
to adjourn until every one OF these
yiolators was presented to the court.
He insisted that the jury do its part.
Unwilling Witnesses.
Witnesses freely testify about
every thing else. but on liquor yio-
lations II is hard to get any thing
out Of them. The Judge told them
to pump 1t out He said some vol
UNFAIRLY tell every thing else but It
is as hard to get information from
them regarding liquor violations as
1t is to pump oil out of dry hole.
Another feature OF Sunday viola
ton is that where oil well supplies
are handled, where there is no re-
gard for the Sunday law one day,
and where the noise was an annoy
ance to all who were disposed to at
tend church or otherwise observe the
quietude of the day. Judge Lynch
said he regarded 1t to the best inter
est of physical and moral manhood
to observe one day in seven. A
benefit to be derived from this is the
teaching It gives others, besides, II
we violate the Sunday law, 1t leads
us to violations Of other laws.
Gamblers Must Leave.
! Associated with the saloons, some
Of them at least, are gamblers and
perhaps places where innocent but
foolish girls are betrayed. some of
them willingly, hut others not SO
willingly, but who fall victims. We
find gambling houses at these places.
Addressing the Jury he told each
one that his wife his daughter, his
son, all came to the city and he
should be interested IN the sort of
government the city has as a matter
OF protection to him and them. Many
saloons are connected directly or in
directly with gambling houses and
one would be surprised at the amount
of 1t going on and that has been go
ing on for some time. He said 1t
would be no trouble to locate them
as some Of them operated Sunday on
ly 900 or 400 feet from the court
house. There are not only, the pro-
fessional gamblers but the unprofes-
sional here in large numbers, not on
ly 81 years and over but under 81,
boys attending the gambling training
school learning to be professionals.
How Gambler Looks.
1t is easy, said Judge Lynch, to
designate a professional gambler.
Walk between Third and Fourth
streets on Pike street ana there Is
no trouble to pick him out. Usually
he has round face, Is disposed to
be corpdlent, wears diamond ring,
has a diamond Ia mis- scarf pin, mas a
row of diamonds in his shirt front,
is braggart in manner and walks
like he owns the earth and guess he
does own half OF 1t. He has no Wis
ible place OF business, no means Of
livelihood. yet he has the appearance
OF business man. Large pots are
being raked in He makes more
money in an hour than the grand
Jurors made in years in an honest
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