A CHANGE NEEDED.

Hastings Standard, Issue 75, 23 July 1896, Page 3

A CHANGE NEEDED.

[To t;ij; Editoi:,] Si.*:.—Your paper of late has boon overflowing with effcrreseont leaders asd more or less frothy letters on the subject of what you are pleased to term Napier's usurpation of our privi--1 "mr correspondents with all their c-fiom to appear public spirited aim uiMuierested cannot conceal from me, nor indeed from any observant man, the cloven foot of bare eltishness beneath. Who are to be benefitted by the removal of the Jockey Club head - quarters to here'? The public'? Certainly not, the general public arc too sensible to care one whit where the meetings are held, so long as good sport is provided for them ; the rest is" a matter of the merest sentiment. The trainers and jockeys ? Again no, the trainers and jockeys have never ohjected to the present system, and as a class they can be generally trusted to look after their own interests without the unwarrantable interference of pretended friends whose only object is to use the general public as a tool for the advancement of their own ends. No ; the only persons who would benefit by the change in question are a few bloated publicans who, like social vampires, ever sucking the life-blood of our manhood, and fattening upon the degradation of their fellows, are eagerly thirsting for more. J3ah! I lose all patience. The smear of their filthy fingers is discernable in every letter that has been written, and I regret, indeed, that so early in your career you should have permitted your paper to be a catspaw in the hands of a few beer-sellers. The public as a rule are not to be caught with chaff; nevertheless it is no harm to point out to them that the writers of these letters, the hotelkeepers or their agents, have their own axe to grind and are not quite so unselfish as they would have it appear.—l am, &c., Straight Out.