Show I Racing at State Fair FairI 1 I The most enthusiastic exponent of racing horse cannot contro controvert ert these facts he cannot answer the moral economic and commercial reasons which arc advanced for the tho prevention of racetrack gambling g I I and the other improper concomitants of the racing game If they argue that the few dollars dol I l lars lam rs placed in circulation overbalance the disadvantages disadvantages vantages they might as well include in the same game I ar argument the brothel the gambling hell heIl and the opium den since all these places inject mone money into I the arteries of trade even the thief who picks your r pocket or robs your office safe immediately spends I some of the loot I It has that the pl prohibition of racetrack race race- tra track k gambling will the races at the state I fair If we understand correctly the ends to be gained these contests of speed and endurance en at atthe o the annual state exposition are arc for the entertainment entertain entertain- ment merit of the crowds and to encourage the breeding I of good horses in Utah As such the they ought to tobe be continued continue and aud if tha that be their object an in inhibition inhibition int in- in t h against gambling will not prevent them I If it injures them to stop wrongful practices then I it must be because they are gambling devices ec s in which event even racing horse-racing at the fair should be suppress suppressed d. d The gambler has displaced the horse in I racing meets the proposed law will oust the gamester gamester gamester game game- ster and restore eminence to the better animal of the two There are few states in the tile union union where racetrack racetrack racetrack race race- track gambling and are permitted Utah o ought not to be one of them The Herald lican has never believed in compulsory righteousness righteous righteous- ness in an attempt to legislate people into the kingi king- king i I dom dam of heaven We e believe in the of the inI iu- iu uI u- u I so far as is consistent with law and order and the best best- interests ts of society but so strong are arc the reasons against ag further sub submission to being plucked semiannually by a coterie of men who ho have ha exhausted other means of living without working t that nt the Utah legislature should pass the proposed law now pending and stop the practice once and for nil ll |