THE PREMIER AND THE SPIELERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 3

THE PREMIER AND THE SPIELERS.

Sir,—Tho Premier's reply to the antigamblers would bo amusing were it , not for the deplorable absence of moral judgment displayed. Ho proposes to stop pony'racing! And why ? Is it because he thereby hopes to divert attention from the great evil that the Government Spielers Act is creating? There is no harm in pony racing any more, than in' any other sport. .. If, this . pony racing 'is to be abolished because the Government ' spielers make it a curse, so must football ana boat racing, and various other games and sports, for the slimy tentacles of this "Governmentspieler—octopus" extend into every quarter,' from the unassailable vantage ground on to which/the' Government has thrust it against the opposition and ; desire of'■ racing clubs, educationists, Salvationists, and all dionest men who desire to see the. rising generation free from the damnable influences which the. Government seems determined they, shall bo subjected to. . f- ,Tho amiable efforts of.,the Attorney-General in favour of prison reform' will' not palliato or atone for thp deliberate land determined act of ■ the Government and Parliament in setting up a school .calculated to educate oriminals wholesale, and to bring into the country tho worst typo of gamblers produced m the adjoining colonies. ', ' . Let us not be hoodwinked ; by the promises 'ef such mock.remedies as limiting pony races! i is ,' s ,, no .protection against the accursed school; the legislature -lias, created by ' the operation of ! the Government' Spielers Act. It 13 I'.ot racing, or football, or boat racing, or iponv racing which -has to .be put down, but the Governmeat'spieler,'' who now pervades the i .whole arena of sport.-^-I,am, etc.,, !