LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CROCER V. BOOKMAKER. Sir,—Tbo loiter of "Anti-Farco" in J'hb Dominion is a vory tnio 0110 in— ileod; but, tbo Chinese lire Jiol tlio only ones llio liirco business applies to. Look linck at, I,lm recent prosecutions for Uitalisutor oclclk, and your readers Will I'm] to lind tlio names of tlio big "tol-o" men in tlio Court list. The small bettor mid (ho harmless Cliineo uro niado scapogbals, wbile tlio thriving "toto" odds bookmaker sails along iinmolostod by tlio iron grip, of tlio law. As a tradesman, 1 havo seen men who would not pay Uieir grocer for fcho necessaries of lifo who can go to tbo Lambton Quay "loto"-odds men, and put pound after pound on overy raco meeting openly; yet when sued in Court to pay for groceries, they generally manago to get oil scott free. Bookmakers don't pay wages, rent, ratos, taxca, incomo tax, or anything, and il they can bluff their silly hotting clionts, will shuffle out of paying—biding behind the law. Why does tho Imv übiold theso illegal people? The polijo are not so blind. "Anti-Farce" is quite correct. They hnunt hot-els in tho city, mid tho polico seem bliud to their presence. Why should tho bookmakor get all the profit aud tho grocer all the loss? —I am, etc., GROCEtt.