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Traps for the Young (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
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Traps for the Young (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
Series: John Harvard Library (Hardcover), 42
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1883 Excerpt: ...son wants to break off this habit, but is so
infatu?ted and crazed that he cannot. When he gets in with his
youthful companions he seems to lose all control over himself."
There is a remedy required. The proper enforcement of the law can
and will check this evil. If this be not soon done, society must
give up the reins of government to the gamblers and criminals of
the State. They are fast usurping a controlling influence. They are
coining money from the masses, and they turn about and use their
pilferings as a lash to secure the means for their nefarious
schemes, and to perpetuate their infamous practices. A prosecuting
officer who sees no harm in gambling and fraternizes with gamblers
is not the proper one to administer the laws. That which
healloweth, how can he condemn? With the winnings in his pocket,
how shall such an one justly punish the one from whom he has won,
or destroy the scheme that has brought him gain? These men,
moreover, claim to be able to have their candidates appointed to
office, and of course do not appoint a man who will enforce the
laws. What they want and mean to have is non-interference. Business
men, a clerk who frequents these places, and is brought under these
seductive influences, is not to be trusted in office or store. The
wild excitement that fires his brain will unman him. The things he
would not do will he do. Your interests are jeopardized; your
property stolen; you are impoverished in proportion as the gambler
is enriched by your employes thus crazed. Let the laws be rigidly
enforced. Wherein present laws are defective or weak, let
Legislatures promptly amend and strengthen them. Then let the
public arouse themselves and demand that these laws be vigorously
enforced and the encroachments of this and kindred evils b...
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