Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — Polite Gambling. [ARTICLE]

Polite Gambling.

Nothing has caused the ruin of more happy homes and honorable reputations than polite gambling. Of, course, a man has a right to use his money in any speculation he may choose, but he has no right to use money intrusted in his care in such speculation, even-if he does feel safe in risking his own, and in staking the welfare of the loved ones at home m any speculative venture. Where there is nothing at stake but the one man’s personal interests, his own money and reputation, no one but himself must suffer from an unlooked-for turn in the wheel of fortune. It may be considered his own lookout, bnt, under other circumstances, he has no moral right to take the risk, and nothing bnt a selfish disposition would permit liim to do it— Peck’s Sun.