The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-19

realizing That defeat at TINS Tune Will De
disastrous And at the present writing
it looks as if things had changed and the
Wills-Hendrickson ring is on top.
1T is evident that there will be a battle
royal IN New Jersey before that State ca
pitulates to the disorderly racetrack ele-
ment which has brought upon it such dis
credit in the last eight months. The
moral sentiment of every community will
be appealed to and awakened in the effort
to defeat any candidate for the Legislature
at the polls who was concerned in the
traffic in the States honor which went on
at Trenton last winter. Every such can
didate, and every candidate who does not
plainly avow his purpose to vote for re-
peal of the racing laws, will have to con-
front a great body of voters bound to no
party on question that relates, as this
does, to the moral character of the COM
monwealth. The test will be fair one
between those citizens who believe that
New Jersey should be maintained fit for
the residence of respectable people, who
desire to live and educate their children
in quiet and among refined surroundings,
and those who want the State to become
the property of lottery men and racetrack
gamblers.
New Jersey was carried long way in
the direction agreeable to the gamblers by
the racing laws passed last winter and by
the performances at the racetracks during
the present racing season. These laws
sanctioned gambling and made the State
partner in the profits of betting rings.
They were aimed to level the turf to the
degrading rank of the Guttenburg and
Gloucester tracks, and they succeeded adj
mlrably in their purpose. Monmouth,
which had been the head and front and
the very soul of all the influences that
were working for the elevation and the
betterment of the turf, under the operation
of these laws fell from its high estate.
There is now no remnant in New Jersey
of a high class racing association. All the
tracks are tarred with the same stick.
The victory of Gloucester at Trenton
pulled down all the summer tracks to its
low level, precisely as its owner intended.
The issue between him and the people
cannot therefore be confused. They have
not to deal with various kinds of racing,
but only with the bad kind. nor with va
rious kinds of gambling if there are de-
grees in the moral quality of that business.
There ought to be no trouble in making
plain this sort of issue.
1t is gratifying to observe that the
courts of the State as well as voluntary as
sociations of citizens are moving in the ef-
fort to arouse public sentiment. and to en-
force such little law as is left for the sup
preston of vice. The charges of Judge
Lippincott to the Hudson County Grand
Jury and of Judge Dixon to the Bergen
County Grand Jury show that there is
still disposition in high places to resent
and prevent the occupation of the State
by the gamblers. The greatest need of
those who desire the redemption of New
jersey is organization. They must not
forget that their opponents are thoroughly
organized everywhere, and possess an ar
senal of weapons which honorable and
Christian people can make no use OF.
They must carry the fight into every
school district and bring it clearly home
to the minds and consciences of all the
voters.-NeaO York Tribune.