The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-21

drunkenness, and the sanns vAgabonda q,
and the same determination that were 10
be found under the old horse racing EYE
tem.. ~. -y-,
] never knew tnan yet who could give
himself to the pleasures of the turf for a
long reach Of time and not be battered In
morals. They hook up their spanking
team and put on their sporting cap and
light their cigar and take the retns and
dash down on the road to perdition! The
great day at Saratoga and Brighton
Beach and Cape May and nearly all the
other watering places II the day of the
races. The hotels are thronged, every
kind of equipage is taken up at an almost
fabulous price, and there are many re-
spectacle people mingling with jockeys
and gamblers and libertines and foul
mouthed men and fashy women. The
bartender stirs up the brandy smash.
The bets run high. The greenhorns, sup
posing all Is fair, put in their money soon
enough to lose it. Three weeks before the
race takes place the struggle is decided.
and the men In the secret know on which
steed to bet their money. The men on
the horses riding around long ago ar
ranged who shall win. Leaning from the
stand or from the carriages are men and
women so absorbed In the struggle Of
bone and muscle and mettle that they
make grand harvest for the pickpock-
cts, who carry of the pocketbooks and
the portemonnaies. Men looking on see
only string Of horses with their riders
flying around the ring. But there is
many a man on that stand whose honor
and domestic happiness and fortune
white name, white foot. white fank-are
in the ring, racing with inebriety and
with fraud and with profanity and with
ruin--black neck, black foot, black flank.
Neck and neck go the leaders In that
moral Epson. White horse Of honor;
black horse Of ruin. Death says, II will
bet on the black horse" Spectator says,
II will bet on the white horse" The
white horse of honor little way ahead.
The black horse Of ruin, Satan mounted,
all the time gaining on him. Spectator
breathless. They put on the lash, dig in
the spurs. There! They are past the
stand. Sure. Just as l expected. The
black horse Of ruin has won the race, and
all the galleries Of darkness "huzza!
huzza!" and the devils come in to pick
up their wagers. All, my friends, have
nothing to do with horse racing dissipa-
tons this summer.
Against Horse Hacing.
Long ago the English government got
looking to the turf for the dra-
COON and the light cavalry horse. They
found out that the turf depreciates the
stock, and it Is worse, yet for men.
Thomas Hughes, the member Of parlia.
ment and the author known all the world
over hearing that new turf enterprise
was being started In this country, wrote
a letter in which he said, Heaven help
you, then; for of all the cankers Of our
old civilization there Is nothing In this
country approaching in unblushing mean
ness, in rascality holding its head high,
10 this belauded institution of the Brit
lsh turf" Another famous sportsman
writes, "How many fine domains have
been shared among these hosts Of ra-
pacious sharks during the last two hun
ired years; and unless the system be al
tered, how many more are doomed to fall
into the same gulfv' With the bull fights
If Spain and the bear baitings of the pit.
may the Lord God annihilate the in
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