Public Officials and Gambling
Public officials, if even only a small part of the newspaper accounts are true, are giving themselves more and more to the various sorts of “sport” which is only a polite way of covering up real gambling. Accounts that certainly are corroborated by the court records are given of several men in public life in San Francisco alone who have recently either been sent to prison or committed suicide because of their failures at the horse-races. They bet on the races and lost; and, hoping to win the next time, they committed frauds in order to bet again. Finally the suicide’s grave or the prison cell is their abode. And the corruption in San Francisco, in this direction of betting on the races, is growing all too common everywhere. These are surely not yet the times of millennial honesty.