White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-25
PASSING Of THE
OLD FRONTIER
NEVADA Is NOT WAITING FOR
January FIRST BUT WILL
TURN OVER NEW LEAF ON
OCTOBER 2.

The state of Nevada is scheduled
to turn over a new leaf October 2,
1910, on which date the anti-gambl-
ing law will go into effect.
Not only will this law eliminate
the revenues of the gambling houses
altogether and curtail the revenues
of saloons and cigar stands, but 1t
reaches farther and invades the So
ciety circle, where it is quite the
proper caper to play bridge whist for
prizes.
The new law is no respector of
persons or places. Every indication
of gambling must go, under the law,
which evidently raj framed by a gen.
tleman who believes in avoiding
even the appearance of evil
Faro, roulette, poker, colo. whist
slot machines, dice (for money or for
prizes)-all must be r~elegated to the
wide open days of the past. Nothing
that savors of the filthy lucre will be
permitted.
And while this will e a big loss
to the gambling fraternity, which has
many thousands of dollars invested
III q u ndiids Juoi lhihh Va a
saving 1t will mean to the law abid-
ing hostesses of bridge whist clubs,
or or the contrary, think of the sec
recy With which the prize giving
practice will have to be carried on.
Can you imagine a big, burly Of
ficer, empowered with the authority
o. the law. plunging into a parlor and
then and there %arresting a coterie of
finely dressed ladies and landing the
solid silver prize as evidences OF
guilt,
Now if some ambitious officers de-
sire to prove themselves worthy of
reelection, let them try this out once
or twice between October 2 and No.
vember 8 Ten to one tpardon a Ne
vadian's natural tendency to wage)
the officer wouldn't bring home de
bacon"
The new law is very specific in its
demands upon the gaming habit and
1t covers every conceivable method
by which wagers are laid, prizes are
given. Two men cannot shake dice
to see who buys a drink; nor play a
game OF Billiards to determine who
shall pay for the game; nor indulge
in a quiet game of solo in quest of the
flowing bowl. Merchants are refused
permission to issue tickets whereby
customers secure a prize with pur-
chases.
And thus Nevada will close the
most remarkable epoch in its career
with the passing of gambling. Can
we appreciate the fact that at last the
click of the roulette will be silenced
forever? That at last the faro bank
shall be folded away and to be
part of our civilization? That the
OF the crap game
shall never again pass the lips of the
reckless plunger? That the poker
tables shall be deserted and the chips
piled away in the archives of the no.
torius past? That the tempting slot
machines, the devourers of the nimble
shall be conspicuous by their
absence? That the old familiar faces
at the solo board will have vanished?
That the identity of the gambling fra
shall be lost? That here In
Nevada, where men have had every
license known to the gambling world,
they will be suddenly cut off for
ever from i%ndulging in the least OF
these practices?
Surely, a day OF reckoning has
come in this old sagebrush state; a
decided revolution along moral lines:
and who knows but what in the due
of time this moral uplift may
spread until the saloon, too, shall go,
even from this, the most notoriously
bad state of all, the last to Danish IL
censed gambling. and the only state
permitting prize fighting to the finish.
What is happening to make such a
change In the old frontier.-Rhyoiite
Herald.