SANCTIONING VICE.
’Die new Gaining Act has, on tin* whole, been received with acclaim by social reformers as promising to do away with some of the worst features of the gambling evil. A curious position is, however, brought about by this latest attempt to regu late tin* vice. The ostensible and in many eases real object of* those who were instrumental in legalising the totalisator was riddance of the bookmakers. The objectionable gentleman (we believe we have as yet no woman bookmakers in New Zealand I would, it was fondly hoped, find his occupation gone. As everyone knows, that object has not been attained. The betting machine and the bookmaker have Hourished and fattened side by sid“. the one has fed the other. This latest gaming legislation not only authorises, but insists on the two evils running in double harness. It is a curious position; but then licensing an e\il is apt to bring about curious positions. Necessarily, the Legislr lure’s only sane and ethical course is to re-
fuse absolutely to give its sanction to vice. And the \V.(\T I’., having set its hand to the work, iiiusi not slacken its efforts until both totalisator and bookmaker are placed under legal and social ban-
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White Ribbon, Volume 14, Issue 151, 16 December 1907, Page 7
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