Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-09

would not see the law violated wan
tonly. 1 felt hat the State was
absolutely safe, Nand that your rights
would be fully protected. Under those
circumstances, l say, it was a pleas
ure to the Court to preside, where
such men had the final word to say,
the final destiny to determine in
the case.
You are convicted of serious
offense. Gambling is regarded near
ly everywhere as a serious crime
against society, largely because it
is Turing; Turing to the young; lur-
ing to the old apparently. A gamb-
ling house is like trap. 1t appeals
to people to enter, and after enter
ing to spend their money on a
game or games upon which, in the
end, they have no chance. They
have absolutely no chance If they
stay with it. A man may win a lit
tie but he loses it again. He may
win large sums, and If he quits then
he may go off with it, but the trou-
BILE is he will not quit; he will want
to win still larger sums, and, If he
does, from whom does he win them?
From those who cannot afford to
lose; it is the poor children. Men
sometimes; yes, frequently under
the influence of intoxicating liquors
they stand around in the rooms
where gambling is being conducted,
and it often happens that these
gambling rooms are located close to
saloons and places where liquor is
sold, and these men, becoming the
victims of drink, obtained upon the
premises, their reason dethroned.
fall easy prey to the lure of the
gambling vice. These men go home
without their. money; their weeks
or months wages are gone; their
wives are suffering in want; their
children are poorly fed and clad
and unable to attend school. And
that home is deserted and why? Sim
ply because the husband and the
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into the gambling houses, where
his weakness has been taken ad-
vantage of by the man who runs
the wheel, the man who deals the
faro, and the man who shakes the
dice. And 1t is when we look at it
in this light that we see what a
serious offense gambling Is against
society. With these institutions of
gambling done away with, men are
far more likely to carry their wages
home to their wives and to their
families. The children are better
clothed and there Is food in the
house. The wife will have the dis
position of the weekly or monthly
wage, the children will attend
school, and the merchants bills will
be paid; groceries are more plenti-
full in the house, and they are more
likely to be paid for. While the
gambler may get rich the COM
munity becomes poorer. -"
1t may seem to some, who have no
looked into the question, that it
makes money more plentiful, but
1t does not. On the contrary, we
find penury In the home, and money
withdrawn from the legitimate chan.
nels. The gambler may spend
money in lavish manner while in
our towns and cities, but that does
not make it plentiful. The little
children at home are the victims
and they go hungry through no fault
of theirs. Consequently, the people
who have looked into this question
OF gabmling know that In the legi-
innate channels of trade money is
not more plentiful.
Gambling is morally wrong, and
the people all over the entire civiliz.
cd world are beginning to realize II,
and the legislature of this State
has at last, at last, 1 say, passed
law againt 1t. A few men have at
tempted boldly and have succeeded
In violating the law, but think
In nearly every case they got into
trouble-trouble of a serious kind
too. These prosecutions are evil
dence that the people will not stand