CHINESE GAMBLERS-AND OTHERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 35, 11 February 1902, Page 2

CHINESE GAMBLERS -AND OTHERS.

Biooff in one of his est*?* said, " that Nature nor the engagement of wu-ds ' are not so forcible m custom"—« remark quite applicable to the polios's efforts to quell the Mongolian, this is not the first protest against the unfairness of the .-aids on fan-tan and pak-e----pno. It appears that the loiqui'y of gambling <s wholly dependent on ths> ncial attribute* of the sinner. Too * police are in no light danger of becoming ridioulous by their rnds on our brother cf the almond-eyes. ▲ praiseworthy Ken? Zealand horror of tlf alien tends to tinge his lapse from virtue with a v'vi.l sunset hue, suoh as is nevir not! «1 in the swarms of Oautasian p. k r-schools and the Utah)* men's i t-ll.otual evaluation of the full-hand and he burst stiaight. People wad of tt e poppy's fearful spirit, l they see ihe awful physiognomy of a nauaeouH race; ergo they guess at some ' devil at the bick of the pak-a-pooj Whatever the Chinaman miy be, however microscopical his morau, however loathly his customs, those things should not be cjnsidered when dealing with bis fan-tan and pack-a-poo. The polio* theory seems to be that the cultmed and unmolested Caucasian's gtmbling is a feast of reason and a flow of sou 1 not to be disturbed by the heavy foot/- . of the guardian of the law, If famb- . 1 ling is immoral (and we offer no opinion jm on the point here), it loses none of iniquity by being played in a drojfMYj suit The polio < will win the rvAwmw of a dixreup ctful community ing to catch a low gallery's M'fmwMwMv cUver raids," or least a policy of impartiality in AVVVVfI sides, -Exchange. VVVVVj