The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-04

also. She began TO smell a mouse
and soon found they were running a
regular gambling table in her house.
With a dread OF appearing in court,
she decided not to call the police but
ordered them out OF her house.
We are also confronted with fake
Investment schemes galore. All kinds
OF stock companies, subdivisions, and
money grabbing. 1t is no wonder that
prudent men are losing faith In all
sorts Of schemes which offer to invest
money for the people. They so often
invest it where the people can never
find It any more! Recently have re-
ceived two letters from distant states
asking me to give them my opinion
about the value OF certain lots.
found one lot here had been offered by
some one. presumably out west, to a
man OF that section for more than It
would be worth in ten years from now.
The other had been offered to school
teacher ''at a bargain" and I found
through investigation it was priced at
more than It viii be worth when the
canal is completed and ships are pass
ing through it!
Portions of our country seem to be
as full of gamblers as the Jericho road
was Of thieves.
Now 1t is hard to persuade a man
who has to work hard for his bread
that his rich neighbor did not make his
money by some lucky chance 1t is
easy to say that no honest man will
gamble, but the man who sees poverty
staring him in the face. his children In
danger of want and lacking an educa-
tion which might lift them out of pow
erty, and the cost of living going up at
rate with which his earnings cannot
possibly keep pace, may be forgiven If
he sometimes yields to a subtle temp
tation to get something for nothing,
in certain plausible ways. And then
every man is just as indolent as he
dares to be. A successful man admit
ted that he was just as lazy as he had
the courage to be.
But as the world grows larger and
competition sharper, and it becomes
harder and harder to rise above the level
of an ordinary citizen, mans caution
should increase with his difficulties.
There will always be plenty Of saws
ready to hand to drop him into the
river where the grimly humorous croc-
OuICS WIN SWdIlOW
A cartoon in an English paper called
Home From the Derby" represented
carriage being driven by the devil
down hill. In the carriage was a gen.
tleman with the coronet of a marquis;
in one hand he held a glass of cham
payne, which was being filled by a
skeleton from behind; with the other
hand he was throwing away dolls
marked Dignity, honor, ETC." A fast
woman and two low men were also
seated in the vehicle. The finger post
on the road contained the words, ITO
He'll"
This road is full Of thieves and muir
derers and no man can afford to put
foot upon it.
It is sometimes argued that 'the
gambler does not seek his victim" and
that whenever one comes along he is
free to choose. As well might you
argue that the snake coiled up at the
mouth OF the prairie dog burrow does
not seek its victim. Well he knows
that the animal will sooner or later
come along.
Exterminate the Boodlers.
The only safety to the prairie dog is
in killing the snake. The only way
to protect good government is to ex-
terminate the boodlers of every class.
I glory in the work of the man with
the big stick.
The reform started has revealed 90
us in nearly every big city investi-
gated a perfect system Of loot going
on. know not whether Pensacola
would show anything crooked or not.
know that to a newcomer 1t looks
strange to go into the city hall and
find all of the finest polished oak and
bronze. To see one Of the biggest
jails in the south being built, and
gilded barrooms on every hand, and
bawdy houses well protected, and race
track gambling allowed, and then take
turn through the city and see the
old wooden school buildings for the
instruction of our youth which are
antebellum in their nature and regular
fre-traps beside. Go into the city
sanitarium and see the poor inmates
crowded into a too small wooden
house with only room enough for ono
good big residence, and the teachers
struggling with small and insufficient
salaries, whilst the cry goes up, there
is not enough money in the treasury
to do these things" Good citizens owe
It to their homes and their churches
and their children to put in men OF
unquestioned integrity. There Is nc
time for idle Sinking over wrong