Is The Assertion True?

A citizen approached the writer a day or two since and remarked : "Why don't yon newspaper men do your daty in respect to the nickle-in-lhe-slot gatnhlin-; machines that are aiun ruiiHing at fnll blaat in our city?" The scribe acknowledjíed Iiis ignorance of the fact isserted. "Well, it is tme. There are dozens of those machines running liere now, and they are the worst things that were ever allowed in a place. I have tieard of a saloon keeper receiving $20 a week for simply allowing one of tliem to stand in Iris place. The games of chance are always euticing to tlie young, and tiiin is like all others. Tliese machines were uil rootcd out of town wlien Dr. Darling was mayor, and wlien Ed. Walker followed liim in that office they were kept out, too. But lately they have been allowed to come back again, nul it is wrong, dead wrong. The newspapers of tlie city ought to take up this thing and make it so hot for the officials that they will ent'orce the law Hgainst tliem." The above is substantially what the gentleman siiid. The Courier knows nothing of the facts, but believes that if these machines are at work again here, their owuers should be compelled to take them out.