A Bishop on Gambling
In the ' Fortnightly Keview' the ' Bishop of Peterborough, retortiug. •upou the critics of bis -dioue-an cou- ; ference ; address, Bpeaks /some plain" words- on the recent attempts .to, repress gambling 'at.- clubs. "If lam is the >tate acting honpslly in j dealing with oue form of this des- ; tructive vice only, while allowing and even .eu'couraging' another 1 and 'ttiore destructiyie fbriri of it ; th'eii I niusf say • that such dealing tin i the part of the" State is not honest and is hypocritical. To rufi'ln^the^ b'debarat' plaj t «r;auid:Bo confiscate the implements of his gambling? in .some (gambling- den, and. at the same time to spare, the bookmaker who bawls from some gtanu stand the odds on -the fa^orite thai some dishonest jockey isabout to pull, or who •sells tips: to silly shop boys who hardly kuow one end of a horse from another •and know^their names only as pegs which to hang' their beta, and who sprestVhtly^rob then ''masters' tills to ■pay for their losses, seems to me as "thoroughly hypocritical' as itr ia for a iegisla'toVWho freolynndulge's in drink for himself to vote for motions to com;pel other, .people to be total abstaiuero."
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 109, 8 March 1890, Page 4
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199A Bishop on Gambling Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 109, 8 March 1890, Page 4
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