A Bishop on Gambling.
In the ‘ Fortnightly Review ’ the Bishop of Peterborough, retorting upon the critics of his diocesan conference address, speaks some plain words on the recent attempts to repress gambling at clubs. “If lam asked is the State acting honestly in dealing with one form of this destructive vice only, while allowing and even encouraging another and more destructive form of it, then I must say that such dealing on the part of the State is not honest and is hypocritical. To run in the baccarat player and to confiscate the implements of his gambling in some gambling den, and at the same time to spare the bookmaker who bawls from some grand stand the odds on the favorite that some dishonest jockey is about to pull, or who sells tips to silly shop boys who hardly know one end of a horse from another, and know their names only as pegs on which to hang their bets, and who presently rob their masters’ tills to pay for their losses, seems to me as thoroughly hypocritical as it is for a legislator who freely indulges in drink for himself to vote for motions to compel other people to be total abstainers.”
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Evening Star, Issue 8154, 1 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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