The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-11-29
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Hlat Jacksonville Newspspe. Said
Absut H.rse Racing There.
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Ask the Legislature to Abolish Bet
ting on Horse Racing in South
] Carolina,
The Legislature should net allow
South Carolina to be made the stamp
ing ground for a lot of gamblers who
have been driven out Of New York,
Florida. and other States. They are
now about to locate in Charleston
and other points in South Carolina,
but they should be made to move on
to some more congeEial cline. =.
The Florida Times-Union Of jack
sonVille is a conservative newspaper.
ItIis friendly to, if not controlled by,
the interests which control the Flor
ida East Coast railway and the big
tourist hotels of the Florida East
Coast. It is not a muckraker, nor
a yellow journal, nor a Puritan publi-
cation, or anything of that sort, but
a Straightforward, progressive, con-
sentative newspaper.
While the bill to drive horse rae
ings out Of Florida was pending in
the Florida legislature the bill
passed with only one vote against it
in the house and no votes against it
! in Ethe senate while this bill was
pending, while the Business Mems
Anti-racing association was urging its
passage, the Florida Times Union,
on April 9th, 1911, published the fol-
Ilowing editorial:
''The Fishermen and the Suckers"
'.The people Of Jacksonville have
tried race track gambling for two
years and we believe have gotten
enough of it. We think that public
sentiment here, with scarcely a dis.
|senting voice, will back any efforts
in the legislature to put an end to it.
eve need not discuss gambling in
general. It is against the policy of
the State and Of the city. It is
against the policy of practically all
States and all cities. We seen no
reason why it should be permitted
at race tracks and forbidden every
where else. We do not see why men
should be permitted to play for thou
sands at Moncrief when negroes are
arrested for a sickle crap game in
Jacksonville.
But leaving entirely out Of sight
the moral aspect Of betting On horse
races, it is now pretty generally
, known that it does not pay. 1t does
not pay the amateur who risks his
m oney and generally loses il and Il
does not pay the community that per-
Units it.
| in all sorts OF games and occupa-
tions N which chance plays large
part in the result, those no play are
divided into two classes the suck
ers and those fishing fo, suckers.
The suckers go after the bal. not
! knowing about the hook. Tie fisher
men 90 after the suckers.
s'This is true Of the ST ,ck exchange
of New York, the races at Moncrief,
the gambling Faces where some men
make their living and others supply
it, and Of all so-called games OF
chance. We are not certain that
there is a game in which skill gives
no advantage.
''In the horse racing the men VINO
are fishing for suckers come to Jack
sonville. The suckers are already
here. The race track employees, the
followers Of the races, thousands in
number, are supported out Of the
| pockets OF the people Of Jacksonville.
They don't come here to spend mon
ey; they come here to make money.
Thy don't come to make it by work
that adds to the wealth Of the COM
munity. They come to make it with
out work out OF the earnings Of the
community. The people of Jackson
vile pay their board and buy their
clothing and furnish ~tnem with
spending money They come with
the expectation Of living during the
racing season and leaving with more
money than they brought
We are not condemning these
men They are simply accepting an
Invitation. We are charging them
with crookedness. Betting on races
is their business and they make q
living at it oy being better judges
than the average man Of the merits
Of the horses They don't take dol
lar from any man VINO is rot trying
20 take q dollar from them With no
unkindness to these men, We simply
ask that Jacksonvilie's invitation to
them to come here and live three
months at the expense Of the city be