The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

GAMBLING; ON TWO TORY ALNI, IN THE

MARINI%

Certain handeale tenanted with thilat. Deny hen
smiled the Utention of the pildie to the ifightful extent
to which gambling prevails through every clams of our
cog:Argon. Seam of the leading London journals
have tired NI • dinharge of periodical and tpastoodie
Indignation, neutralised, as to any geed ellen, by ster.
tain personal allusion.; and new, no doubt, the matter
will drop. But the evil Is too greet, too alarming, too
widely spread, to be paned over, and though at Do,-
thistle we are far removed from the centre of this vast
system of swindling, yet we am an by any means
beyond its pernicious infinnes. It le e molatrotte evil
the* ene man should loses kindred thousand pounds
en • hens nee : it Isa far none evil that he should
have paid it. The feet of his losing It ii sloijily his
own asineern, and brings with it lie din priment ;
his having paid it only atm to keep alive • most
pernicious system, and to support a number of harpies
who, while honester men are toiling for their hard
earned wages, thrive and fatten, keep their hunters
and carriages, upon the reckless folly and mad extra-
vagance of men, whose position and rank ought to place
them above such low and unworthy pursuits.
This slant of gambling is one of the worst signs of
the times, it belongs to the lowest state of eiviliettion,
nay, it is found among the most uneivilleed people. Its
octant increase, therefore, amongt a people, is • sign
of retreginaion in all that main them Inna and
pre:moron It was a vice thet marked the declining
years of the Roman Ilinpre—it Wein More
mon reckless, and mote estesetpult as the
Itself ie: weak. It marked the increasing debility
of the people's mind, and its indulgmee rendered them
weaker end less ablate be a rapport to the tottering
state. Horace 'peaks of the prevalence of this vice
even in his day, and it became infinitely worse in sub-
spirant years. The, falsolons sums that are now loot
and won only weak of an unnatural and unhealthy
anumulatiee of money in the hands of a few silly
=who don't know how to use It: tbe spreading
vil is an evidence of the general dneeraliestiOn
of the whole people.
Oh! but exclaims the respeetatile man of Maraca
this folly le only nalleed to a comparatively small
number of pere.na It is quite true that only few are
known to báhean active part in the on Idnd of gambling,
horse hang, but the same evil spirit is at work in other
nog. What mean these numerous Joint Stock Com.
:VAblown up like so many bubbles, only to Mink
they are really meddled with What mean the
thousands of failures, sad thousands of families ruined,
by speculatioa in railroads that nyver had, or iman have
any trate 1 Khios With nothing at the bottom but
fraud and bitter disappointment? How do the
numerous Shen Agents get their living? Who
a
fisthe tentless adThments scattered hi
ugh the length and breadth of the land, by
the post-office ? The gambling on the turf Is bad:
the sums recklessly eq iandes there ere enormous ;
but what is it comps ed with the whole system of
speculation? The respectable tradesmen is indignant
and virtuous to • marvellous degree in prosecuting the
unhappy extend boy who has lost a few shillings in a
bet, and robbed the till to pay his debt of honour—can
reason with the weeping mother on the impossibility of
pardoninv him—can speak, like • book, en the wicked-
ness of the boy risking what he weld dot pay, without
robbing some one I but a word With you my 'uneatable
friend: Had
_those Mares of yours in the rsilway
turned out Ole those you had in that Joint One
coact* what would have been your awe? You ant
have been bankrupt; you lons it I That Is. you must
have robbed your employer, the jnlitla, or those who
nsaielLoci with your geode. ere then is the
between yeti raspeetability, and your errand
boy's ranality ? except that you ban had the heft..
luck? There is not • town in egland where this
menet gambl.ng is not carried on by men who or.
never suspected until the crash comes, aqd then, "Un-
fortunate speculation" is the emus. Ito wonder if
the clerk has his agent, An 4 letests on some horse,
when the master is 'gully diligent in studying the
share list.
And if on the turf hones are made "safely certain
prettier well known in the profeenne ; It they are
found amiss, when they ought especially to be all right;
if fictitious bets to large amounts are mad* mid pub-.
lined, to =Weed than who are not the know,"
If men, gentlemen, noblemen, can bath air horns hi
public, when by oommisaion they are laying heavily
aphid them ; you renoctable men of buidnais nig not
much behind them. We have lately nen what '*
Bears" ean do when they set ri work. How the
analyst bank must give way before their pressure;
the revelations of °grade eempenies, under the opera-
tion of srindi=, the quarrels of shareholders with
boards of have thrown • clear but starta
light neck the proceeding of respectable mas,
would not have been seen on cram course, et indulged
in • bet of five pounds, on say emixideration.
We do not write thus to aleUle the open and avowed
gambling of the rtie tonne, but merely to show that
li. present teckleseness is only a rip of the times, and
were rafts forbidden to-morrow, like prise fighting, the
evil would not be crushed. They who know anything of
the s ten, of reran, are aware that it is • system of
from .nning to end. Some eight or nine
hundred men called the book makera, are the bank Of
this net gambling house; with nothing of their own,
*cry live by what they Caa pick out of a few rich fool*
who throw themselves, for the oaks of dissipation and
excitement, into this gulf of rurality. It Is painful to
see One young nobleman, or commoner, after another,
Inheriting perhaps a name honoured in the nannys
annals, surrounded by these has-pies; for • year or two
his name figures II the annals of the tad, and then he
Nen like Lord Derby, and the late Duke
!Ima42, who bred houses and ran them simply for
armament, are no loner to be found Lit is nothing
but hard inosesant reckless gambling, whah destroys
every high and proper feeling, and renders • man unit
for any one serial or *Rail duty.
We have said that this nil influents renhes even
Dorehester, and every now then • fast comes to the
'urine, showing that it is so. It would be •
Inquiry, not without its use, in how mow hemaid=
houses, in this town, or JIM rimed *re are "weep"
on every pelt ? tel who the person are that
take Aug in ? We think son an inquiry
would show that the evil is much more widely spread
than men Imes*.
And what can be dime to slink it? "Implants tan
do much, if their nap** tan with their
It would be well that Onereanall eineate should un.
dentand on theirwitipthitment, that detection in an
kind of garnishes followed by intent
Large minis of money pas through their hands; sad in
how 111 Say eases, when some wretched ponoillos
cleric is detected in stesolisinoney letters, Is •
betting lin or , "a f his pan It wil
never benesidered dimnd for the young and
s i to be engaged in born racing, while it is
reasistent with reeportabilay orseidelle
agedlnn of business to be dabbliag in see; the
whole gam is wrong, and until a higher tone of
morality pervades every ideas of society, it is nen to
protest naiad our neighbour's folly, whllsi we carefully
ohmink our own.

hi; ;ma— t deal of the power end responabilitY
of the public pmnn,e. aa spot for the germane of
vies and Mem end aces are so maid in re-
minding Ca of our srorstaPim in this rearm as our
°lanai friends; we trust thsrjre, they wlfl imam us
If we return the complimost for am W. Met own
DOW to dad. to the Fateful fact, that there is severs
°oiler's of me of then =ouspesulationm without
ths mass at mom hid* appearing
wooer the susfartmaas sharcheid:Mthoo opo do
men be ailed* to is this. It is curmitly reported that
the winner of th• lets Darby has gaan £ll,OOO to th.
restoration of Lincoln Cathedral ,• but who has monted
tht4t Tha Chapter of Lincoln ham now an oppor-
of mica( a `lssevy blow and great discourage-
ment to an -penniesm to to sc.
marim after the fan, and plunder.
We can well understand thetr-116—owasr of Hermit
(hem,.. we WM he is lognottblo radatftndio.bui
tlebtay
try and Rant his manse., and justify lasus
fle, by &dimities of port to "pips. uses," but we du
protest against diplesriss of the aura a
such • fearful attempt to mono the turf sadim
the erliA
coadjutors. In ohims M. ea*kedrsl.weasaodub4
built by very gssaimashis mehods si raising the
mossy; but if they are to be restored by such
this sense tion an psnatersd to jela the 0001=
the 'Mani rum of our load the better. This church
hes no right to modems the pre's for alms on thee"
subrielo, if she 11WWWOON the rookies. gambling of the
present day, by asserting • Mrs for herself.