The gambling house is a station on the road to crime. In proportion to population there are, perhaps, more negro gamblers than of any other race.
A LITTLE GAME IN THE ALLEY AT NOON
Many boys and young men spend their noon hour in cultivating bad habits that lead to nights of gambling; and then come crimes to get money that they may gamble more.
A RESTING PLACE ON THE ROAD TO CRIME.
The gilded saloon is the club-room of the crook. Here he hatches his plots; here he drinks to get desperate courage to carry them out; and here he returns when the crime has been committed to drown remorse and harden conscience.