Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-01

in sorrow, and made loving cheeks to blush
with shame. 1t has turned honest, indus
trious young men into scheming khaves,
and for all these sins it is an enemy which
should be fought to the death.
We wish our opinion upon this subject to
be too distinctly defined to be misunderstood.
We are not opposing the race coarse, but
day almost become a necessary part of a
trotting or running meeting. We oppose
the tendency to turn the county fair into a
Paradise for gamblers, and make the annual
gathering Of friends and %neigEibors other
than what it was in the good old days when
people were more simple in their wants. We
earnestly adjure the managers of agricultu-
raj associations throughout the country to
forbid gambling in all its forms, and thus
prevent the blacklegs from attending their
meetings by taking away the magnet which
attracts them. We candilly tell the lovers
of a good horse that if they do not want to
bring the race course down to the level OF a
prize ring or a cockpit, they must troWn
upon and prevent the presence Of the men
who only regard a thoror ghbred animal as
a means of fleeing the yerdant, and who
will resort to any %dishonorable trick which
may aid their purpose. This is where we
stand, and we feel assured that our position
will be defended by e%veryhonest breeder in
the land.
But there are considerations other than
those pertaining to the re~spectability of rae
ing which move us to our present course.
We assert, and without any fear of contra
for evil extends into so many directions as
that Of gambling. 1t is q serpent which
rarely surrenders a victim until the ruin is
complete, and one that is the more danger
Gus because it is SO fascinating. Gambling
and drunkenness so hand in hand, and the
two are inveterate enemies of honest indus
try. The first of them fosters an Elusive
hope of obtaining wealth suddenly, and the
second deadens the moral sense, and hides
the disgrace which attaches to the means.
And even should success attend the effort,
what then? The triumph is .buta barren
one, fori S makes the victim OF the passion
an outcast from the pale of respectable soci-
ETY., and gives him the poor return of being
called a successful sharper, who is sufficient
ly shrewd and INSCRIPTIONS to make his
living by taking advantage of the infirmities
of his fellow-men. But what Of the unsuc-
cessfll ones? The answer would be a tragic.
tale of young lives ruined and tender hearts
embittered. Tt would lift the curtain and
are %scollndrels and their prey, the vampires
OF society feeding upon the budding man
hood which shouldbe its strength, and heart
broken mothers weeping at the sudden and
complete destruction which has fallen upon
the hopes with which they had followed
their sons out of an innocent childhood into
a manly boyhood, and out Of boyhood into
what should have been a useful, honorable
life.
We appeal to the breeders for their opinion
upon this subject we ask the parents of the
country to write us an expression of their
adherence of its demoralizinggr influence;
and, above all, we request the managers Of
racing associations to give it an earnest ex-
animation, and to prevent one of the noblest
of sports from becoming, a vehicle in which
to carry blacklegs to prosperity. If the
honor Of the turf is to be upheld, the pool
must be stopped; if it il not stopped,
it will become a weight heavy enough to
sink racing as far beneath responsibility as
prize fighting is to day.
WE had the pleasure Of meeting s. Il.
Drace, late of Franklin county, Mo-, who is