Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-28

And gambling inevitably leads 10 dis
aster. moral as we'll as pcCuuiary. 20
those who indulge in a. The gambling
fever is fastening its hold like a fieud
on England.
NOTHING BUT A BUBBLE
THE rubber boom. To- my mind. is
Co large extent "a bubble boom And
as soap bubble. To- the children who
pursue IT, looks fun OF beauty and
promise till 10 bursts, leaving behind 10
"a small rcsidium OF unIoyely suds 80
this rubber bubble. which now wears
such golden hues. viii, when o.
bursts, leave behind II disaster and
ruin. all the more difficult to- bear
because born OF idiocy welded 10
gulubility. / do not pity the city man
who ought 20 know better but / do
compassionate the nursery maid whose
horius have been drawn from her by
specious advertisements In her half
penny paper"
How. in your opinion. could this
species OF gambling be checked ?"
By our leading newspapers II they
could Doe got Go look nlguer than their
own prouts ana faithfully discharge
their functions as puuuc guides and
mentors 80 lar as the ruuper boom
Is concerned tuey nave with rare eX-
Cepuuns sadly sulrkeu their duty. In
stead of warning Bullble puuuc they
nave lent themselves TO the process OF
suluug gamblers IN AN walhs OF lie.
Ihey are the principal mediums
through which the promoters OF THESE
new rubber companies Jnat are spring
ing up every day make their appca.s
To- the public.
NEWSPAPERS TO BLAME.
"A rubber boom was inevitable. the
demand being u excess OF the supply,
but without the aid and cooperation
Of the papers it never would nave de-
veIoped INTO the bubble boom IL ac-
tually has Columns OF the great
dauies are nlled with alluriug uuvcr-
tlsemeuts calling ON all and sundry 10
invest in rubber shares and get rich
while YOU wait. These papers employ
financial editors who are supposed 10
possess the expert knowledge whieh
enables them 90 discriminate between
wild cat schemes, however cunuH5g
disguised, ana those enterprises whlcn
are conducted ON sound business
principles. That the general pubic
can't Internationally When 10 Us seized
with the gambling mania. but d. mas
been noticeable tuat throughout thla
rubber boom these uuanclul editors
have not very actively exercised lnei
discriminating faculties on lupuet
shares They appear Co nave beeh run
her muzzIed. Why Is 30 because II
they were unmuzzIcd-if they were lelt
free 10 criticize the prospeetuses ad-
yartisgd ln their own columns tll
uapcrs would lose some of the adNer-
tIsemcuts that now pay them so hano-
somely3
"lt is not for me To suggest that
the proprietors OF Eusland's greatest
and most respectable duilits can ne
bribed 20 maintain silence py Dig ad-
yertisemeuts when the public veal de-
mands that the truth should pe toi'
fearlcssly and uunlnchiugl\, nut uo
emphatlcally maintain tuat there are
occasions when silence ls Wl'ns anu
warning Is right--wheu DO ls am lm-
lucrative duty 90 speak uut
"If YOU were the proprietor of
big daily sd,
Eli 1 were the proprietor OF a big
daily newspaper. instead of being what
ann. a priest" answered Father
Vaughan before I had finished the sem
teuce. IL hope that / should make u
clear to every member ul m} sldH
that the truth must never Doe suppress
sed In order Co gain or retain adNtI-
tfaen1euts Especially would | warn
them against company prospe'tnses.
even should their advertisements hll
"A whole page of nay paper. Then-nuI
my work calls nae and ] fear that
am late ,,.-..
So saving Father Vaughan diN'd into
"a bsrI. street where he was Doc search
,f "a uoor EIu who i- the nrrad-Win-
nor of her family Pos making straw
hats TO be trimmed iu the West thd
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