The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-22
We Make Laws and Break
Them
Them
When They Happen Not to Please Those That Have
Special Influence

We make laws against gambling, but don't enforce
them against the prosperous that enjoy horse racing and
want the little rfaff to pay with their betting
losses
against that afford buy champagne whkey
at bootleggers' prices.
We make laws against lotteries we do enforce them
great and vicious msakaganst those that start
lotteries for some "vrtucuS purpose"
When laws are made they should be made for ALL If
alcohol is forbidden for ONE class should be impossible for
When gambling is forbidden in the Sums should not be
permitted the racrack to obge the very prosperous
lotteries are Illegal they should illegal in church
or Sunday school or fair as they would be run by the old
Louisiana lottery crowd.
As reminder and at the request Of reader we reprint
part Of what said in this column fifteen years ago.
Gambling is vice-the most dangerous Of all vices to
society. The gambler CANNOT REMAIN HONEST. His
family SAFE The vice Of gambling has hold the
man strong any vice of drugs drink
Many boy has been made gambler by buying chance
In lottery or some drawing good
T it is considered legitimate to invest fifty cents in the
church fair in the hope Of getting something worth thou
sand dollars it will right to the young boy to invest
fifty cents in rattle in the corner saloon In the hope Of get
ting five hundred dollars to buy lottery ticket to
gage in some other gambling enterprise
It is regettabls suggest interference with the worthy
for which church lotteries and drawings always
organized.
cergymen enthusiastic and eager to pay church debt or
improve church building have only the best Of intentions in
contributions.
But these gentlemen should realize that GAMBLING rs
GAMBLING just opium eating would be opium eating IN
church OUT Of church. And they should alb
3ou every enterprise that parakes in the slightest degree
character of gambling that tends to stimulate the
appetite for gambling
All the clergy eager to do good in fighting
vice in all its FORMS
offer an opportunity the various churches here to
make important beginning.
Let it not be said hereafter that any young got his
taste for gambling and began his downward the Sun
day school bazaar or church festival.
It may be difficult to raise in legitimate ways the
money needed The easiest way of course to get man
money is to appeal to the vicious side Of his nature
But extra efforts extra inducements earnestness will
get the results-without the gambling annex
The secretary Of the Society for the SUPPRESSION of vice
recently seized nearly 10000 lottery tickets that were being
sold by Sunday school children.
Each Of these tickets be sold for 10 cents and the
holder Of each ticket entitled to participate drawing
for five prizes amounting in all to &c., divided into
Of 500, $40, $40, and So"
It may be said truly that those who bought the tickets
realized that they simply contributing charity The
total value Of the tickets sold would be all were sold
And the ridiculous size Of the prze$60 in aade it an
parent that no real gambling was intended.
BUT SOME CHILD WOULD WIN THE s25 PERHAPS
AND OTHER CHILDREN MIGHT WIN THE OTHER
PRIZES AND, SMALL AS THEY ARE THOSE PRIZES
ARE BIG ENOUGH TO NFLAME, AND EXCITE THE
MIND OF CHILD AND START THE GAMBLING VICE
To risk 10 cents and get $25 is exciting sensation for
young person-and powerful incentive to gambling
The selling Of lottery tickets in this way breeds disregard
for law
What forbidden the gambler of the underworld for
MS Vicious purposes should not be done by the agents of
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