HORSE-RACING AND OTHER MATTERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 6

HORSE-RACING AND OTHER MATTERS

c;j r _Yom' correspondent Silas Stark should be ashamed of the letter he im written. As for the beneficence ut the racing club that gave profits to patriotic funds, I much doitbt the motive behind Hi© gift, for racing and patriotism do not blend together. Wc want money, but I think we should seek it through clean channels, Racing destroys, we notice, the motive for patriotism, \vhorcn6 a true, patriot despises anything that tends to destroy the morality of tho people. "True sports" wo want

in the community, hut horse-racing and gambling nrc so interwoven that thoy cannot touch it. We should not allow, I submit, money,lo bn raised by unpatriotic methods. Your correspondent then alludes lo the Rev. Jlr. Elliott's propaganda. Well, Sir, in view of certain, telegrams relating to the attitude of 6omo peojilo towards conscription, his remarks are in very bad taste. As to the Prohibitionists, they rank amongst the truest patriots; they believe in n sober community, and in that way show splendid patriotism.' A recent telegram staled that (he fall of Russia was largely "due to the unlimited vodka." If we are going to win this war let us strive' to win "peace with honour."—l am, etc., It. 13. DOWLE. Presbyterian Church, Ekelnhuna.