The Wheeling Intelligencer

AS TO GAMBLING.

A few days ago, a player who had lost his money in a gambling house in the City of Wheeling, made complaint, caused the arrest of a gambler and was himself fined by the astute Judge of the Police Court. The Court ventures the wise remark "that the gambler was just as bad as the man who conducted the gambling house." The question of relative morality of the two parties engaged in this transaction, necessarily would not seem to be pertinent. The effect of the Court's action, necessarily would be to discourage anybody else who might seek to give information relative to gambling. If every man who should make complaint against gambling, is made to feel that he is likely to be fined himself, there will be few such complaints.

This happy condition of affairs is exactly what the gamblers want. The wise and virtuous Court probably did not realize this, but it is nonetheless true.

Entirely aside from this phase of the case, however, it is interesting to know that testimony in a Court of justice reveals the fact that gambling is going on again in the City of Wheeling. We have had many promises from the chief of Police, from the Prosecuting Attorney, and from other officials that gambling would be stopped. We have had many positive assurances that it had been stopped, but here comes the evidence into Court, showing that it has not been stopped, but that it is being winked at by the authorities. Is the chief of Police and the Prosecuting Attorney of Ohio county know that gambling is going on in Wheeling. If they know that a number of resorts are being conducted wide open, what is their reason for allowing them so to continue?