The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-03-03

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s22S, 900
You see from the above that you
have a large revenue. Now what to
do with it. Pave your streets; have
brass band to play on the Reserva-
ton every afternoon and night from
April to October, sprinkle your
streets, improve your police and
fire departments. Some of our pres
ent officials win say that you cannot
use the money for paving the streets.
Nonsense! Show me the man that
would be SO foolish as to object to
paving one street when he knows
that his street will soon be paved.
Does gambling properly conducted
help Hot Springs? Certainly 1t does.
From now until May half the people
that come here come for pleasure. If
there is nothing to offer them but
hot water, only the invalids that can
net stay AWAY will come, and invalids
spend only what is necessary He is
not in the right condition mentally or
physically to do otherwise, and he
Is not going to be here in sufficient
numbers for years to come to keep a
town as large as this supported: who
fills the Arlington, the Eastman and
ail of the cottages in our city? It
Is the pleasure seeker and sporting
class If not gamblers. 1t is we'll
known fact taat all of these places
are filed by class OF people that
wotffd not visit Hot Springs If We
did not have something besides the
water to attract them. Every January
and February the doctors bewail the
fact that not over 20 per cent of the
people in Hot Springs are here for
their health. If you stop gambling
who will tapa their places? We will
all starve to death waiting for tle
"Holier than thou" people to do it.
II ! thought this town too wicked for
ME to live in, | think / would be sci
fishness personified IL could only
make it good enough by starving my
neighbor to death. ! would not think
it just to say you move" but would
think it was time for me to go. Some
of the moralists say, look what good
trade we had this summer. Yes.
We did, but the real reason would
never enter their craniums, so / will
state it. The railroads made induce
ments they never made before, and
the business men put their hands in
their pockets and advertised Hot
Springs all over the South. The clos
ing of pool rooms had nothing to do
with it whatever. What are you 60
ing ITO do If you do not get the revenue
from gamblers? You will find script,
city and county, worth soc on the
dollar. We are already overtaxed, so
much so that it amounts to almost a
ccnfiscation OF our property. especi
ally where the street is being paved.
You can see from the above that
| have not referred to poker games
in the hotels. Ii allowed to run,
charge them $500 per month. such
sum will be prohibitive, and will, ii
enforced, force all gambling into the
regular gambling houses that pay the
larger sum of $25,000 year 1t will
at the same time protect the visitor
from being robbed, the gambling
house being under police regulation.
This revenue, If honestly expended,
will make Hot Springs the most beau
tiful and attractive city in the world
In addition to paving our streets, as
time goes by, we can make firstrlass
roads in all directions going out of
the city, and we need them badly.
My views, as presented here, are
made only for the good of Hot
Springs. If it is possible that / am
to be criticised, hope 1t will be by
some one who has the moral courage
to sign his name.
(Advt) c. C. LEMLY.