Kansas City daily journal., 1895-10-21

TO Imagine il is humbiy pious TO drive q
spayined, CALLED Flandered. spring halted,
| blind-staggered Jade There ts not 80 much
| virtue In Rosinante as in a Buchephalus.
We want swifter horses. and swfter men,
God needs to get on It's Jog trot Quick
| tempests, quick lightnlngs. quick streamsi
Why not quick horses .,.,,.. .o.,,,,
| does the most execution, and as the battles
! Of the world are probably not all past. our
Interested in eguinai velocity. We might
as well have poorer guns In our arsenals
| other nations. as to have under our cav
airy saddles and before our parks OF ar;
the the M,acedonian Infantry into the river.
s,ear down TO the horses on which Philip
! the fray, this arm OF the military service
l,ai, has been reeo,e,nized, Hamilear, Hannibal.
en-. Charles les, ,Martel AZ the battle rot poiiers
| ginian cavalry, with the loss Of only 700
| men, overthrew the Roman army with the
cavalry ' drove back Sf the MaSorisb MSS i as hordss
ab5 ahf pest m way oy to keep peace in this country
war. and there is no success IN such con-
chargers. our Christian. patriotism ana
| horse. and then, after that, that we develop
nj. ms hsetness IS and his grandeur and his mai
But what shall / say Of the effort being
| this splendid creature of God, this divineiy
honered being an Instrument Of atrocous
syii IN make t", no indisGriminqte assault
| gan be conducted on right principles and
tor the swiitest racer than there is harm
| at an agricultural fair in Offering a prize
to to ihe he farmer arm who has the best wheat Or
10 the irnit grower who has the largest
pear. or TO the nachnist who presents the
pest nr,5 corn thresher, or u school Offering
| best render, or in a household giving a
lump OF sugar to the best behaved young
g1c9' ncsrs Fr,TTss Ts oy all means rewards by all
| race. Rewards for all kinds of well doing,
Heaven Itself Is called a prize: "'rhe prize
| So what Is right In one direction is right in
another direction. And without the prizes
srenrS Srsy vii neSer neStrefs IS , and beauty and
| 1t cost SleO or 5000 or $4,000 and the re-
suit be achieved, It is cheap. But the sin
| begins where the betting begins, for that
| is gambling. or the effort TO get that for
SMnIish SIns Sy. you , give no equivaient. and gam,
soslg' otinlg' wheither on large scale or small
II VIII be accursed OF God. II you have
won 80 cents or 5000 as wager. you had
away Give II to some one who lost in a
| pet, or give 1t TO some great reformatory
institution. or II you do not like that, go
docks. You cannot afford TO keep 1t. 1t
viii burn hole in your purse, II will burn
that-perhaps ten thousand times more
| perhaps you will lose all Gambling blasts
a a. man or or II blasts his children. Generally
What a spectacle when at Saratoga, or
at Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach, or
at sSheebshead Bay the horses start. and In
| change hands! Multtudes ruined by los
Ing ne bet, Others worse, ruined by gain
ihs the pet; Tor IL a man lose in a bet AT a
horse race, he may be discouraged and
| quit, but If he win the bet he is very ant
TO go straight on to hell!
An intimate friend a Journalist who in
| the line of his profession investigated this
| e.Xll; tells me that there are three different
| are about equally leprous: by auction
| pools, by French mutuals," by what is
6sd 6Seilea d :, bookmalkingZail gambling, all
| word that needs to be written on the brow
of every poolseller as he sits deducting his
or per cent, and slyly ringing up
| more tickets than were sold on the win
nins norse[a word TO be written also on
| ira nducement scratches a horse off Of the
| race, and on the brow of every jockey who
slackens pace, that, according to agree
every judges stand, and written on every
r Doara or The snIrrounding SURF fences. That
| Lawyers bet. Judges OF courts bet. Mem
bers of the legislature bet. Members of
congress bet, Professors Of religion bet.
Teachers and superntendents of Sunday
| schools / am told, bet. Ladies bet, not
| directly, but through agents. Yesterday
| and every day they bet, tney gain, they
lose and this summer. while the parasols
| swing and the hands clap, and the huzzas
deaten; there will be a multitude Of people
| Will at the races go neck and neck, neck
| and neck to perdition. Cultivate the horse,
| by all means: drive him fast az you
| desire, provided you do not injure him or
| endanger yourself others: but be care
ful and do not harness the horse to the
| of morality under the flying hoof. DO not.
| under the pretext of improving the horse,
destroy man. Do not have your name
! of those who are ruined for both worlds by
the dssipations Of the American race
;. They r.s; say that an honest racecogrse Is a
the parlance abroad; hut I tell you that
every race track, surrounded by betting
toms, is straight ,track--I mean straight
down. Christ asked in one of his gospels:
say, Yes, and md he is better tier than G"Vei ali the
steeds that with lathered Hanks ever shot
a Very Very poor jos by which man man in or order r.
to get a horse to come out fun length
own morals that he comes out a whole
length behind in the race set before him
money without earning, it? That is the
earning 1t. and as other forms OF stealing
are not respectable, they go into these
| gambling practices, preach this SER
| mon on square old-fashoned honesty. |
| have said nothing against the horse,
have said nothing against the turf. have
| said everything against their prostitution.
Young men, you go into straightforward
| industries and you will have better live
lihood and you will have larger perna-
nent success than you can ever get by
| a wager; but you get In with some of the
! whisky rum-hlotched crew which | see
| going down on the houlevards though /
never bet, ! will risk this wager, five mill
| ion 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 has any speed in him; but be-
| always tell what direction man is driving
| in by the way his horses head. In my how
hood, We rode three miles every Sabbath
| morning to the country church. We were
drawn by two .hne horses Ny father
| drove, He knew them, and they knew HIM
| They were friends. Sometimes they loved
| to go rapidly. and he did not interfere with
| their happiness He had all OF us in the
| wagon with him, HI drove to the country
| church. The fact is. that for eiFhty-two
| years he drove I'm the same direction. The
| roam span ! speak OF here was long ago
| unhitched and the driver put up his whp
| in the wagon house never again to take fl
| down; but in those good old times learn ed
| something that | never forgot, that man
| may admire a horse and love n horse and
he proud of a horse and not always he will