Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
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A FeW Remarks
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BY WALTER B. HILTON


IT-MIGIIT STRENGTHEN the Of the prosecu-
tors ohe Turf Exchange to consider it IN its true 1gnt
as means and not end That the public has gnt
to end the Turf Exchange will be questioned only by those
who ret byts operation, either directly as owners or
indirectly mental prostitutes who hire themselves to
the owners attoneys to aid them in violating the
law. ~
Neither can it he questioned that the public the
right to enforce the anti gambling law against form
and wink at violations in other forms. Many laws are
upon books dead letters because the people
do not WANT them enforced The people constitute the
final power and they have the right to overlook their
laws if they WISH and to indignant whenever they
please
Their indignation the result of perceivng particu
arly heinous results of this form Their thoughts
along this ne well their thoughts upon all other
lines do not burst forth within their craniums IN sort
of spontaneous combustion but only the impressions
that received from outside In this the
outside source is chiefly the newspapers The news
papers do not tell them of other pernicous things such
as the citys participation in the profits of white slavery
or that the church is gambling in Steel stocks that
there flourish hereabout poker games IN which the editors
themselves engage So the thoughts of the people have
not aroused along these lines.
&c. let reason together and ask ourselves why the
attack this form Of evil and omit the rest
It is but business, children; just business The bust
figured that the liquor traffic took money that
their lines of business might just we'll get and SO
public sentiment aroused to the nquty OF the hquo1
traffic Now the business interests figure that the Turf Elk
change takes hundreds Of thousands Of dollars out Of the
city they could themselves otherwise cabbage, and public
sentiment is being aroused accordingly just soon as the
business interests be made to that the houses OF
prostitution in Wheeling taking money that the bust
ness could get it is but to be expected that there will
be moral wave that will sweep every thing clean-ex
cept possibly, paved Streets
- This last however, will be rather difficult for the bus
mess it the other way round, The madams
and inmates Of these houses heavy patrons OF the
chants who soak the tariff in these cases. and gather
to themselves much Of the wages Of sin they car
squeeze from the miserable unfortunates.
It is shOrsg htedness yes but the business men have
always been shortsighted The argument they used to
have in favor Of the liquor business that it brought
money to town, and to them
When they thought that way the Voice of Conscience
was the side Of booze that they have the
other way the Voice Of Conscience is against BOOZE Sc
the Voice of Conscience has switched from side the
other Of the Turf Exchange With the great majority
ofpeople particularly business people, the Voice Of Con
scince which is the Voice Of Goodwill be found the
side Of the cash register
Hence hear much Of the Nervousness of Mayor
RQeder Of Fulton accepting money from the wages OF
gambling for the city Golfers Of Fulton but hear moth
ng the Nervousness of the action Of Mayor Kirk
accepting money from the wages Of prostitution for the
city Golfers Of Wheeling