The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1908-10-10
Gambling and Betting.
The Evifand Pernicious Con-
sequences of Such Prac-
tees Forcefully Portrayed.
Ed The News:

1st Every device that suddenly
changes money or property from one
person to another without leaving an
equivalent, produces individual en-
barrassment-often extreme misery.
More pernicious is that.plan, ifit changes
property and money from the hands of
the many TO the few.
End 1t inficts injury. Gambling does
this, and often inflicts a still greater in
jury, by poisoning it's victims with vice
that eventually leads to crimes of the
darkest hue. Usually, the money base
ly hiched from it's victims is the small
est part of the injury inflicted. 1t al
most inevitably leads to intemperance.
Every species of offense, on the black
catalogue of crime, may be traced to
the gambling table, as the entering
wedge to its Preparation
3rd Innocent amusement. To the
fashionable of our country, who play
cards and other games as an innocent
amusement, we may trace the most ap-
gravated injuries resulting from gam
bling. 1t is there that young men of
talents, education and wealth, take the
degree of entered apprentice. The ex-
ample of men in high life, men i'm pub
lie stations and responsible Offices, has
apowerful and corrupting influence on
society, and does much to increase the
evil, and forward, as well rs sanction
the high-handed robbery of fine dressed
blacklegs. The gambling hells in our
cities and towns, tolerated and patroniz-
ed, are disgrace to nation bearing a
christian name, and would be banished
from Pagan community.
Variety of forms. Gambling o assumes
great variety of forms, from the flip
ping of a cent to see who paws for
drinks, up to the splendidly furnished
faro bank-room, where men are occa-
sionally swindled TO the tune of ten
Thousand year; and sometimes much
larger amount. In addition to these
varieties, we have legalized lotteries
and fancy stock brokers, and among
those who manage them, professors of
5th Gambling or gaming covers in
darkness, and often blots out all the
nobler powers of the heart, paraliZes its
senslbilities to human woe, sewers the
sacred ties that bind man to man, to
woman, to family, to community, to
morals, to religion, to social order, and
TO country. 1t transforms men into
brutes, desperadoes, maniacs. misan-
thropists, and strips human nature of
all its native dignity. The gamester
forfeits the happiness of this life, and
endures the penalties of sin in both
worlds.
9th Betting on the races. Look for
greatness and goodness on the race
track-where is it to be found! The
men who have paved their way
TO the front in achieving success have
never been the companions of jockies
or gamblers. Those who follow the
races will live TO seriously regret their
folly.
9TH Shun the monster. Let me en-
treat all to shun the monster, under all
his borrowed and deceptive forms. Re-
member that gambling for amusement
is the wicket gate into the labyrinth,
and when once in, you may find it diff
ficult to get out. Ruin is marked in
blazing capitals over the door of the
gambler; his hell is Athe vestibule to
that eternal hell where the worm dieth
not and the fire is not quenched.
3 8th Terrible consequences. The
youth should not forgett that if he is once
taken in the coils of this vice, the hone
of extricatlng himself, or of realizing
his visions of wealth and happiness, is
exceedingly faint. He has no rational
grounds to expect that he can escape
the terrible consequences that are insep-
arably connected with sin. If he does
become bankrupt in property he is sure
to become one in character and i'm
moral principles; he becomes debauch-
ed, debased, friendless vagabond.
"Observer."