The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-10-24


0OO In the same way the Spanish chivalry
| drove back the Moorish hordes. The best
way to keep peace In this country and in all
countries is to be prepared for war and there
Is no success in such n contest unless there
| be plenty OF light footed chargers. Our
Christian patriotism and our instruction
| from the word Of God demand that first Of
| all we kindly treat the horse, and then after
that. that we develop his neetness and his
grandeur and his majesty and his strength.
But what shall ! say Of the effort being
made in this day ON q large scale to make
this splendid creature of God. this divinely
honored being, an instrument of atrocious
evilg j make no indiscriminate assault
| against the turf. believe I'm the turf If il
can be conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There Is no more harm in
onering prize Tor the swlftest racer than
there is harm Mt an agricultural fair in offer.
ing prize to the farmer who has the best
wheat. or to the fruit grower who has the
largest pear. or Co the machinist who pre-
sents the best corn thrasher. or in school
Offering prize of copy Of Shakespeare 60
the best reader. or in household giving u
lump OF sugar to the best behaved voungSter.
Prizes by all means. rewards by all means
That is the way God develops the race Re-
wards for all kinds OF well doing. Heaven
itself is called prize, 'tho prizc of
the high calling ot God in Christ Jr.
sus." SO what is right in one direction il
right in another direction. And without thr
prizes the horses heetncss and beauty and
strength will never bc fully developed. lit
cost $1,000 or $4,000 or sI0. COO and the result
be achieved. II II cheap. But the sin begins
where the betting begins. for that il gam
bling. or the effort To- get that for which YOU
give no equivalent. and gambling, whether
on large scale NJ u small scale ought 20 he
denounced OF ..'1 rs II will be- accur.od of
God. IL you have won fifty cents or 5000
~ wager, you had better get rid oi IT, Get
- a ..N III. -.
who lost in bot or give II to some great
rnformntory institution. or II you do not like
that, 20 down to the river and pitch It of
the docks. lou cannot AFFORD to keep IL. II
will burn hole in your purse. Il will burn Il
hole In your estate, and you will lose all thnt.
perhaps 1000 times morc-perhaps you will
lose all. Gambling blasts II man or It blasts
his children. generally both and ALL
What spectacle when ut Saratoga, or at
Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach. or AT
Shrepshead Bay, the horses start aud In "a
flash $4,000 or 100000 change hands,
Mfutitudes ruined by losing the bet. Others
worse ruined 10y gaining the bet, for II man
lose bet nj horse race he may bee dis
couraged AMI quit. but II he win the bet he
is very apt 10 60 straight on 90 hell
An intimate friend, u journalist. who in
the line OF his profession investigated this
evil. tells me that there are three different
kinds of betting NJ horse races. and they ar'
about equally leprouS-by "auction pools"
by "French mutuals." by what IL called
'bookmaking gambling. all bad, all
rotten with iniquity. There is one word
that needs to be written on the brow Of every
poolseller a. he sits dciur,iug his three or
1--WE per cent. aud slyly "ringing up" more
tickets than were sold on the winning horse
IA word Ia be- written also ON the brow
OF every bookkecper who AT extra in
ducement scratches horse or of the race.
and on the brow n every jockey who slack
ems pace that, according To- agreement. an
other may win. and wridng over every
judges stand. and writing on every board Of
the surrounding fences. That word is
"swindler!' Yet thousands bet. LAWYERS
bet. Judges Of courts bet. Members of tho
Legislature bet. Members OF Congress bet
Professors Of religion bet. Teachers aud SUI
perntendents OF Sunday-schools, | am told.
be-. Ladies bet. not directly but through
agents. Yesterday and every day they bet,
they gain. they lose; and this summer, while
the parasols swing, and the hands clap, and
the huzzas deafen. there will be multitude
of people cajoled and deceived and cheated,
who will at the races go neck and neck, neck
and neck to pcrdition.
Cultivate the horse by all means. drive
him ~ fast rs you desire, provided you do
not injure him or endanger yourself or
Others, bat be careful and do not harness tho
horse 10 the chariot of sin. Do not throw
your jewels ofmorality under the flying hool.
horse destroy man. Do not have your name
put down in the ever increasing catalogue
OF those who are ruined for both worlds
by the dissipI.'ons OF the American race
course. They say that m honest race course
Is n straight track and that a dishonest
race COURSE il "crOoked' trick-that l.
the parlance abroad-butl tell you that every
race track surrounded by betting men and
betting women and betting customs H. u
straight trHck-l mean straight down, Christ
asked I'm one Of II gospels Is not man
better than sheep?" | say, yes. aud he is
better than nll the stee Is that with lathercl
Hanks ever shot around tho ring nt u race
course. That Is very poor JOB by which a
man i'm or .er 20 get u horse to come out Il
fun length ahead OF some other racer SO
lanes his own morals that he comes out n
whole length behind in the rae, set before
hial. ~
mighty effort on all sides today TO get
money without earning ~ That is the curse
Of all the cities; IL l. the curse OF America
the effort to get money without earning it,
and rs other forms OF stealing are not re-
spectacle, they go into these gambling prac-
tices, ! preach this sermon on square old
fashioned honesty. / have said nothing
against the horse, l have said nothing
against the turf. l have said everything
against their prostitution. Young men, YOU
go into straightforward industries and
you will have better livelihood, and you
will have larger permanent success than you
can ever get by u wager, but you get In with
some OF the whisky. rum blotched crew
which l see going down on the bouleyards,
though never bet, will risk this wager,
$4,000, 900 TO nothing. you will be debauched
and damned.
Cultivate the horse, own him II you can
AFFORD TO own him, test all the speed he has,
II he have any speed In him, but be careful
which way you drive. You cannot always
tell what direction II man IL driving in by the
way his horses head. In my boyhood we
rode three miles every Sabbath morning to
the country church. We were drawn by two
fine horses. My father drove. He knew
them, and they knew him. They were
friends. Sometimes they loved to 90 rapid I,
ly, aud he did not interfere with their hap |
piness. He had all Of us In the |
wagon with him. He drove to the country |
church. The fact is that for eighty-two |
years he drove in the same direction. The |
roam span that speak OF was long ago un- |
hitched, and the driver put up his whip ia |
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