THE BOOKMAKER.
It is an universally-recognised legal principle that no law that conflicts with public .sentiment can be administered with integrity. When, therefore, we find the bookmaker flourishing in every town and hamlet in NewZealand, in spite of the law that makes -bookm.ak.ing illegal, we are forced to the conclusion that the legislation on the gambling* question is elusive. If gambling is an evil that is imperilling the nation, it should be wiped out, lock, stock, and barrel. If, on the other hand, it is a social custom that no earthly power can eradicate, then there should be no absurd discriminations as to the methods employed in gambling. To say that a man may bet to his heart's content on a racecourse, and be hauled before the Court* if he.makes a bet in an adjoining paddock, is to prostitute the law and render it irksome. While the totalizator is-allowed to-flourish, it is as impossible to suppress the bookmaker as it'is to regulate the tides of the ocean. Ome form of betting is no better and not a bit worse than. another, from a moral I standpoint. The fact that the bookmakers exist 19 evadence that the law which was intended to s\ippress them '< is an unutterable farce..
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 April 1913, Page 4
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207THE BOOKMAKER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 April 1913, Page 4
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