El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-11

/ ready money is going Money so far
J diverted from legitimate channels is
/ almost the same as totally lost to the
/ commercial world.
! The calls average s22 every three to
I five minutes, and the games run all
( DAY sunday and long Hours Saturday
I nights, and also every evening in the
week. Not less than 100000 gold OF
FL Paso's money goes over the keno
tables in year, and the amount more
likely runs higher than that-sOme
estimates run as high as $1,000 0O0 but
S5DuOO0 is a very moderate estimate
Is il any wonder FL PasO's 81 "couec-
tons are slow" and the city is hard
Up for ready cash"2
Some day the ''pOcketbook nerve" OF
FL Paso viii be touched, and FL PasO
merchants and bankers viii take rad
I ical steps TO break up the practice Of
FL PasO people taking their wages
and salaries to Juarez every week to
gamble on keno, leaving their FL PasO
bills unpaid and their families unprO-
vided for.
Keno Gambling DisgraeefuI.
Moreover, a way viii be found to
make keno gambling so disgraceful
that no decent respectable man
or. woman, boy or girl, will ever
want to be seen around those
places. 1T is thoroughly dis
graceful, but a lot of people haven't
found it out vet Many people think it
is funny" whereas it is really shame
fUl. Society" cannot afford TO coun-
tenance such ruinOus and destructive
Institutions.
wrong Ideas for Children.
One railroad man was seen to lose
$3.50 at the December fiesta gambling
tables in JuareZ. 1t would be inter
esting to know If this man could at
ford to lose such a sum Many other
wise respectable FL PasOans. men and
women, lost money at the Juarez fiesta
games, and jOked about it. Boys and
girls accompanying them received
dangerous lesson, that will start them
off wrong. n
The idea Of getting something for
nothing is a dangerous one to inn
plant in the mind of any youth Some
FL PasO parents are not careful about
this. IL is not unusual to see men
and women who ought to know better.
gambling for money in the presence OF
their children-in their own homes.
Such careless habits make for grief,
worry, disappointment, and sorrow in
the long run. Better spare the chill
Uren, whatever else you do
FL Pasoans at Junrez Races.
AT the Juarez races. the attendance
is mostly Of FL PasO people, especially
on Sundays and holidays.
Men and women prominent socially
and in the business world are seen to
gamble on the races. Some men who
have warned their employees not to :
gamble on the races, set a bad exam I
pie by gambling themselves
Ell PasO business men, whose credit /
is already shaky. or whose businesses 1
need their whole attention, are seen /
passing over money TO the "bOOkies" /
that really belongs to their bankers. or I
to eastern manufacturers or jObbers.
Clerks, small propretors ana sal
aried employees of corporations are I
seen gambling on the races
Better look out for them.
The end Is certain. /
The virus is a certain and deadly /
DO1gOu and like EanRrHne. TneEe IS no ]
cure but amputation-
Women Are Infected.
The talk around many Ell Paso /
boarding houses is of race gambling /
and keno. Women patronize 9TH
Women who do not care to be seen i
at the Juarez track, or who have not /
the price Of admission, or who have no /
male escort find IL easy TO place bets
on the Ell PasO side Of the river
through the arrangements that have |
been perfected for rObbing the weak \
and guluble public. The qualifications /
of this thing are known fully only to
the experts" who have perfected their
criminal system in other cities. where
they have been Outlawed.
Fl PnsO Has Much to Learn.
The child has to burn itself before
it viii believe. FL Paso must burn
itself. Race gambling is outlawed in /
practically every state in the union.
and in all the important centers Of
population OF course it is outlawed
IN FL Paso, technically speaking,
through the st1tutes Of Texas. but up i
10 this time il has not been morally /
outlaWed Eere, and the race gambling 4
game in Juarez is still looked upon /
by a large proportion of Ell Pasoans as
roth desirable and harmless.
II Faso must burn herself before she
Will belieVe. The light will dawn. Of !
course-it always does. There is no
for the infliction which
has been visited upon this section: III
n FAs9 VIII sooner or later find 1T out
FL PasO cannot override Mexico's laws
ana concessions. but FL Paso can cease
TO palronlze the Juarez race gambling I
establishment
And FL Paso merchants and ba1lrars
an 40 much to make race gambling !
" hat They Are Here For.
The race gamblers tell the truth