Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 136, 12 June 1894 — Thou Shalt not Gamble. [ARTICLE]

Thou Shalt not Gamble.

It is snpri:dng th*t tbe immie-. oUte p. g- «Uow home-r*cing. Thal sport is one o{ tbe nsost degr»<l ng twl TĪle*t fortn of (f»m- j biing ou recori When Moses | m«de tbe ten Commandments be ■ : bsd evidently been thr ngh tfae j ■niil bimseH. Bot he had not pot his sfaf tels on horses. end be t had not been ne*r KapioUni P*rk. lf be had. tbere woold - have been an eleventb Coinni*nd- ; ments (and eoi an lltfa of June) ( «ud tbat wookl faave stared the j past and coming gener»tious in i ' tbe Uee »nd said, “Thon shah j not gamble." Tbe viciooa i<rck- | eiivities of man mll l»e stisred i ap and awaken«d bv the cfa.mces of »-eiog c< mhats, friendly «»r | j otfaerwise, am<>ng be;ists. W liiie ’ overy man adm:res tfae de\elopmeut of horses, of dogs ;*nd ctfaer animaU wiiieh h»ve Ueoiue domestic and • ; familiar to tfae Luman race he : shrinks l>««ck aud object« to bnllfighting, c«Krk-figbting and even to racmg of horses—especi«lly wh»n fae backs tfae ioser! It īs not c«>ndocive to tbe moralsof ■a—oor yonug rnen to encoorage iiorse-r.scing. lt is not improviug the moral tone of tbis virtoons coDimouity to pnt an official stamp of approval on tbe gambling whieh is not to be avoided ; 011 a ruce-tr.ick. To »ee a bootb j set aside es]iecially for memburs | • >{ tbe constitiitional coiiv**iitioo ' and occopied by tbe bandsomest and most inteUigent raembers of that wonderful Hssembly is not a g»od esample for tbe young. Wbat woahl Moses d«» if Le had seen the uiir.ister «>f f<>reign affuirs lookiitg auco:icecoed ut tbe bors» s hs tliey eaiue io. or tbe Deputy Marsbai marking bis programme wbenever time was recorded from tbe Judgesstand? Moses would bave kicked—and so did ali tbe fe)lows wbo bet on the wrong borse. While the preseut convention is in session s<imetbing siiou!d be done to stop borse-rHcing aud the wicked, wicked gHmbliug oonuect«d witb it. Tbere was, we ure told, a hoise ealle.l Senaior. probabiy named after Emmeh th. He did »11 he eouM iike tbe ceiebcated st«tesman, but he never eanae in. Horaer’ed beings swa«uped tfae inteliigence of the c«»iDiaanity. ’ The Ball and Tyne society was in force, as iu days of old, but the p. g. was si!ent. In the )ast minuie, thoagh, the otficers woke ap and after everybody iiad left. they corral!ed »U tbe bee? and wbisk«y on hand. Ttte Jabiilee in the ststion is yet eoutinaed. Gambiiug on horses sbould be stopped at onee. We hoj>e that Delegite Eobertsou wiii iusert a elauae to tliat etfjct in the uew coustitutioji. (i.»mbliag on tbe wrong hor-e ongi)t Cdrtainly to be stopped.