The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1908, Page 18

Ea aes | Tori, | Pupisn8a Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Cempany, Nos. 58 te @ Park Row, New York. 4 | JOSEPM PULITZER, Pres., 1 Kast 124 Street, J. ANGUS AAW, Goe.-Treas,, #01 Weet 11¢th Street ew York as Second-Class Mail Matter. and the Continent an@ Entered at the Post-Office at scription Rates Evening | For England nent World for the U States ‘All Countries in the International Postal U One Year One Month “THE BENEFITS OF GAMBLING. HREATS have been made by the stock gamblers of Wall street that if their “business” is interfered wit! by law they will do their gambling in London or Montreal. They point out that an enormous amount of capital is “invested” in stock speculation. The attacks upon stock gambling have already depreciated the market value of Stock Exchange seats and lowered Wall street rentals, The memberships of the Stock! Exchange, which a year or so ago were selling at $90,000 to $95,000 apiecd, have sold as low as $52,000, a wiping out of more than $40,000,- « 000.in their valuations, The Wall street landlords are having difficulty in securing brokers to make long-term leases at high rentals. This affects | the income of such families as the Astors and Schermerhorns. | William Waldorf Astor, who has renounced his American citizenship to curry favor in English society, is one of the principal sufferers. | The brokers further argue that the abolition of Wall street gambling would throw out of work the chauffeurs who operate their automobiles, the crews of their yachts, the hundreds of telegraphers and clerks in their offices, and would diminish the jewelry ornamentation of the best known | choruses and the nightly receipts of the lobster palaces of the Great} White Way. | aA AAS a Moe Me we gp The abolition of stock gambling would do this and more. It would also diminish the number of bank defalcations and mer- | *cantilé embezzlements, It would make more punctual the payment of | + rent by thousands of clerks, lawyers, doctors, merchants and farmers who | are now paying brokers’ rents instead of their own. It would clothe wives and children. factories and stores. # would protect savings. ss It costs from $30,000 to $100,000 a year to run a well equipped) stock gambling house. The members of the firm count on making 150] Per cent. profit. If stock gambling were abolished these tens of millions! of dollars would stay in the pockets of the rest of the community. The threat of these gamblers to go to London or Montreal would be » a great boon to the community if carried out. If gambling is good for! the city, the best thing to do would be to establish a Monte Carlo here. If gambling brings prosperity through providing the gamblers with money 2° to spend lavishly, there should be a lifting of the lid from all kinds of gambling. Its benefits should not be restricted to stock gamblers. Ordi- nary workingmen should have gambling facilities provided for them. Lotteries shou'd be revived. The policy game, by which a child with a penny stood one chance in a thousand of winning $1, should be started ‘ again. Faro tables and roulette wheels should be installed in the back} - room. of every saloon. Think of how many thousands of men this would give employment to! Every pool-room provides work » and.wages for eight or ten men. If only half the saloons in New York ran a gambling wheel in the back room 10,000 or 12,000 men could be put to work. The Wall street brokers are selfish in their claims of the good their “business” does to New York. They make prosperous only a dozen or so-restaurants and a score or two of jewellers and automobile agents. Everybody should participate in prosperity. Letters from the People. eranily Obwerved, Caltor of The Bvening Worl ere any legal ho throughout the United S' CHARLE! These Boys W. To the Tiltor of The Hvening World: I have two strong boys, one seven teen and one fifteen, who will neit work nor study, Will some of your r kind enough to tell me wh do with them? It would give employment i It would make bank deposits more secure. It this! to have been used thing, practical 1 exception ork, consumer ey have id cold: stor are ‘good labor and t I should ANXIOUS, West Hoboken, of the Fish, NORTH 1 Beer 1 sas long How jong ja the fish? VEJOY, that the discovery is a “new” or eatat § % the future ofthe ¢ be have personally known thes same _ ar te y [l, Hann, | Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday’. | with | dear it's ba. Mar Came In Like a Lion, Goes Out Like a Lamb. By Maurice Ketten. “You Ought to See How the Money Goes!” Says Careful Mrs. Jarr, and Jarr Isn’t the Only Man in New York Has a Chance to See It Go. asked Mr, t the brass bed on inst na » too, did you?” talking in ge: uid I get it? How else could I get anything?” sald Mra, Jarr, to see how the money goes. After I pay the grocer and after I pay the butcher and after I pay the milkman, I'm lucky enough if I have the dollar down to ment plan. Besides, we | have them, haven't we? that way I couldn't get them “Nobody of any interest to you,” sald Mrs, Jarr, ‘You at all, so t you go making a fuss about it; I'm doing the best I can." wouldn't have given me two dollars if I had asked you?” | “I’m not ging to make a fuss about ft," sald Mr, Jarr in a more kindly At the words “two dollars" Mr. Jarr gave his pockets tone, “but it !s a matter of fact that one has to pay for the accommodation. what {= known in the vernacular as ‘‘e frisk,” and then | They tack on to what they sell you part of what other people owe them.” By Roy L. McCardell, | “ HO was that?” asked Mr. Jarr, as Mrs. Jarr W returned to the breakfast table, after a visit to the door subsequent to mysterious algnallings ervant girl that there was a caller, fro: accommodation, and we might not have had many things if we didn't get them |that way, but now that we have got about everything we need, let us firmly | resolve not to inour any more obligations of that kind. “All right,” sniffed Mrs, Jarr. ‘T'm sure {t isn't me that wants this and that. My tastes are modest. I only wanted our home to look nice." “It looks nice, all right, and I'm satisfied as it fs," said Mr, Jarr. “And everything {s nearly paid for," said Mrs, Jarr, brightening up. I won't get another thing, not another thing that way!’ On that basis happiness reigned supreme for a few days, Jarr came home !n great a deposit on a fine fur coat for herself next winter. “Tt was reduced down from forty dollars to elghteen; they don’t like to put away furs!” she declared. "So, as we agreed not to get anything on Instal- ments any more, I want you to give me two or three dollars every week or so and I can pay something on the coat, and by next fall I will have paid for tt and won't feel it!" “T don't know that I can help you out, old lady,” said Mr. Jarr, ruefully. “I just got a nice set of Ki 11 know I've always wanted a complete set, and I've got to pay four a month on that." here this morning, and I wanted to pay him. ness, he’s very near through with.’ ‘Doggone tt! What do you get things on the ins! ment plan for? Im all the time asking you not snorted Mr, Jarr. “It's the only way I know of getting things that oost anything much. that way we wouldn't have them at all. Thank good- lov DME CamoeeD rr Ome doesn't feel two “And sa week. t if it's only two dol rs a week for th’ for the other, the: “Now, I suppose and then Mrs. rs a week alone, ala Mr. Jarr. “But when {t's and five dollars a week for that and three dollars mu feel it.'" going to have me miserable all day by fussing sald Mr. Jarr, recovering himself. ‘But, don’t you see, my ess to be getting things that way. Better not have them at allthan to) a brass bed for thirty dollars—a dollar down and a dollar a week for the reat of your natural life.” “That tsn't so! said Mrs. Jarr quickly, much cheaper If I had paid cash." Juvenile Courtship YAASH) ISE LEMME TRY JT ON MA S078 Hi EN ine AN’ SEE HOW Ms (LAH Looks AS ER CONSTABLISH- REAL, ARITHIIE® im \CRATIC LADY. *T couldn't have gotten that hed LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM IN DARKTOWN. | \¢ By F. G. Long AM SPY5 YoU WIF DAT 6. BAN! BOX, AUS TOM (x 4 CHOLMON DELY- AN? YOU'S GOIN TER. SHOW YoOH LAD GAL WAS IN. a Pal AINT DAT DE 4” SWELL CONFECs/ON- ARY? DAT AM ER Y GENUWINE MAD- ( AM LOOEEZA/) W755 ——— “ug Ce ~L2 = exclaimed: ‘You've been through my pockets again!" *I don’t see how that |. said Mrs, Jarr, “they get all that's coming to, “You were asleep and I didn’t want to disturb you,” |them. I know I never escape. said Mrs. Jarr. ‘I knew that instalment man would be| ‘There's others that do,” said Mr. Jarr. ‘“HoWwever, as you say, it 4s an {ta from a shopping tour and told how she'd paid ch 27; 19087 The Story of The Presidents manner—speedily made his presence felt in Government circles when , he began his work as Washington's Secretary of State, Having come back from France full of the bellef in the Repubiican- Democratic rule by the majority, he found Alexander Hamilton (Washing- ton’s Secretary of the Treasury) an aggressive believer in more aristocratic forms of government. Hamilton even doubted that a republic could win permanent success. From the first these two men clashed. Their disagree- ments grew 6o bitter that all Washington’s tact could not preserve peace in the Cabinet. Other old friends of Jefferson’s, too, looked askance at this |zeal of his for the people's rights. At last the Secretary of State found |matters 6o unpleasant that (on plea that his salary of $3,500 a year was too smali, ue resigned and went home to Monticello. There he busied him- self in writing a “Manual of Parliamentary Practice,” whose wise rulings jare still in general legislative use toroughout the land. Jefferson and John Adams had been dear friends from early manhood. But Adamss doctrines of the privileges of “the well-born” con..ctei with | Jefferson's ideas on the nights of the majority. Political differences widen- |ed the breach and the two friends became foes. Then, in 1796, they were |vival candidates for President. Adams won; and Jefferson, by the custom |of the time, became Vice-President. Four years later. Jefferson was elected President, with Aaron Burr (who was second in the race and who tied with him in the electoral vote) |as Vice-President. So close was the contest that it was c-rried for settle- jment into the House of Representatives. Adams, who had received 65 elec- \. ral votes to Jefferson's 73, was furious at the outcome. But later we two (patcneu up their long dispute and renewed their old friendship and mutual | admiration. Jefferson's first administration was a triumph. He quieted sectional strife, smoothed over difficulties that had baffled other minds and drew down upon himself an avalanche of mingled praise ® and blame by inaugurating “Jeffersonian Sim- plicity."" In other words, he did away with the stiff formalities and court etiquette that had been hith- erto in use at the White House. The solemn weekly “levees” (state receptions) were stopped. Instead of making speeches to Congress on matters of importance, he originated the idea (ever since followed) of sending messages to that body. He re- | fused to allow public honors to be lavished on himself. He also abolished | secret sessions of Congress and Cabinet, and allowed the newspapers to print all Government happenings. That he carried “simplicity” too far, by re- ceiving foreign Ministers in down-at-the-heel carpet slippers, dusty, wrink- | led clothes, dishevelled hair and unshaven face ‘s an undoubted fact. One of these Ambassadors went so far as to declare his Government insulted because {ts correctly attired representative was welcomed at the White | House by a President who was dressed like a tramp. But the effect on the plain people was great, and the dangerous tide of monarchical tendency was checked. Jefferson was leader of the original Republican party (from which the Democratic party of to-day claims descent). His opponents, the Federalists (headed by such men as Adams and Ramilton), daily grew weaker under his beneficent administration. It was during this golden period that he |secured for the United States, in 1803, the vast tract of land known as the | Louisiana Porchase; overawed the Barbary pirates, and instituted other great improvements and reforms. Then began his second term as ~’resi- dent, and with it a darker era of histc | France and England were at war. ch of them, England especially, | eantonly injured our Commerce and insulted our flag. Jingoism was ram- punt, yet we were in no condition to fight. Sorely beset on every side, Jefferson undertook to steer the safe middle course by which alone our young republic's prestige and safety could be presery He afterward said: “I had only to open my hand to let havoc loose!” So brutally did Fngland continue to insult the United States that strong measures became necessary. So Jefferson hit on the {dea of an embargo; in other words, to sland to terms by not letting any of our products (cotton, tobacco, &c.,) on which Great Britain relied, be shipped from our shores, Jeffer- son's own income came chiefly from tobacco. By decreeing and obeying \the embargo, he cut his own fortune down by two-thirds. Had every other | American followed his patriotic example, the subsequent War of 1812 need \yever has been fought, and England as well as all other European powers would have gained a wholesome respect for our courage. But the almighty dollar overcame patriotism. Merchants (often alded ‘by Government officials) found ways to elude the embargo, and the wise ie measure failed of effect because of the petty, short- J enser-spetty and untidy in drese, graceful and magnetic in a “Jeffersonian Simplicity.” bee sighted greed of the very people {t was intended. Patriotism } to help. and “the Dollar.” { When his second term expired, Jefferson, after 0 years of steady service for his country, , d to private fe, So poor was he, at this time, that he is sald to have left the Capital by stealth in order to avoid being arrested and jailed for debt. He sold everything that would bring a good price, but blow after blow was struck at his finances until he was utterly penniless. bee Thus {t was that the man who had risked life and thrown away his fortune for his fatherland, spent his decliring years in dire poverty, helped cut now and then by the charity of friends, a bitterly fitting example of the gratitude of republics. On July 4, 1826, just a half century to the day, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, in the elghty-third year of his age, the im- poverished old ex-President died. John Adams, his ancient friend (and fue) died the same day, his last words being the exultant ery; “Thomas Jefferson still live: tet Ske | obtained on application cle to “The Evening World numbers of this sertes may 1 & a one-cent stamp for each Circulation Department.’ DODDGDOSOOGOOMHPOOSGOHGIOOOOOIGOE POVOOLOG Nixola Greeley-Smith = ON TOPICS OF THE DAY The Jealous Husband. I’ is announced that Mr, and Mrs, W. Gould Brokaw, who, quite In the manner of the sensational novelist, were parted on their honeymoon, have been reconctled and are going to Europe together. The bride's father has explained that the differences of the couple were due entirely to the unreasoning Jealousy of the husband. Many honeymoons have been made miserable in the same manner. In this case the husband was more than forty years of age, the wife twenty-one. Perhaps the worst punishment meted out to the man who has Ived the life of a New York bachelor tor twenty, years ja that he loses absolutely all faith in women, Them when he comes to love one woman very much, and to marry her, all her charms, mental and physical, which should prove his happiness, become his torment. Madame Calve once sald to me that every human being seeks an {deal, but that some find it in the mire, others in the stars, ‘The man of forty who, following Browning's advice, hitches his wagon to a star of pure and radiant womanhood, 1s generally unable to refrain trom gpattering it with mud the wagon wheels have traversed. For this reason every, man with a past !s Jealous of his wife unless he be profoundly indifferent her, ‘ ey young people imagine that it 1s impossible to love without {deals. They, assume that when they lose thelr illusions they will lose their love, Nothing could he more untrue, Love survives Ideals, it survives trust, it survives respect even, and the worst torment a man or woman can know {s to go on loving after every excuse for loving has been taken away from them, What is called a man of the world has no {deals, not half so many indeed an the woman of similar life who 1s known by a less flattering title. By the time he is forty he 18 generally too disillusioned to be able to love anybody. But when he does he is Hable to make the unfortunate victim of his affection very miserable. ‘Any woman mrho marries him must make up her mind to endure the jealousy ‘and suspicion which he cannot help, The only way to treat him—or any other Jealous person—ts to Jaugh #o long as dt 1s possible or seems worth while to do 80, ee) —_—— + | The Dinner Guest Paid Dearly. | | HE markets of Milan have been famed all over Italy for many centurtes, | Once a Veronese guest of a Milan nobleman for a joke bought out the Milan markets three times in one day #0 his host could not give him a dinner, but in spite of that the hucksters and butchers supplied the host with material for the best dinner the guest, ever had. Ree Te é