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BETTING TAX.

THURSDAY, JUNE 17,

yet when a thing is morally wrong Government should only take cognisanes of it to punish and to AN OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM suppress, never to regalate it or

draw a revenue from it

Interest:

WAR DEBTS.

AMERICA'S RECEIPTS.

THE COAL STRIKE.

LOOKING ABROAD FOR.

SUPPLIES.

In view of the fact that a Bill

The Total Turnuver.

Washington, June 16, to impono a tax on botting in now But while we are opposed to the

Foreign war debt payments, going through the House of Comtaxation of betting on principle we amounting to 877/788,000, were mone, the following outspoken are especially opposed to the made to the United States Trea criticism of the proposal, by considered proposals of the pre-sury yesterday comprising Bri Canon Peter Green, is of special sont Budget. If Mr. Churchill is tain's half yearly instalment of right in saying that a 5 per cent. $67,950,000, and $6,000,000 from When opposing a tax on betting tax will ultimately bring in six

Italy, both in United States we may start from the admitted millions, and that so-called legal securities, helping the Treasury fact that gambling is a great,, and betting is nine-tenths of the whole constantly increasing, social, evil, volume, that whole volume must to withdraw $330,000,000 worth of It, withdraws millions of money be about 182 million. But the maturing securities. The balance froin useful industry; it has been 1923 report put the whole turnover of the total is made up of payments estimated that it reduces (by (quite arbitrarily) at 200 million, in cash from Belgium and other waste of time, spoilt material, bad and the expert of the Board of European countries. Reuter, work, and friction in the work-Inland Revenue estimated it at 417 shops) the national output of millions, with a margin of error wealth by 20 per cent per annum of 16 per cent. (That la to apy it is a fruitful source of embezzle 355 million aga minimum. maximum.) ment and of theft on the part of and 479 as a people previously honest; it is the And it is worth noting that cause of much violent crime, and in New Zealand, where there hangers-on of the racecoursò is a great volume of illicit

Berlin, June 16. steadily recruit the ranks of the gambling alongside of the Totalí

Since the beginning of the coal criminal classes; it corrupts every sator, the suma passing through sport it touches; it causes untold the Totalisator in a year, would strike in Britain, pithend stocks misery among dependent women amount, if New Zealand had a in the Ruhr have been reduced by and children; it is a griey population equal to Great Britain, about 900,000 tons," and new long term contracts with home and ous burden on struggling shop to about 350 million..

So that the total turnover for foreign consumers are being con- keepers who have to give credit if they are to compete with the big Great Britain is probably much cluded daily. ready-money stores, and who then nearer 400 million than Mr. The stoppage, if it lasta much see the money due to them wasted Churchill's. 132. In addition the longor, will result in increasing in betting: and, finally, it is the idea that ready money and street production of coal, not merely in, cause of much corruption among betting is only 10 per cent. of the the Ruhr but also in Silesia. the police. Also, though much total is simply ridiculous to any that the street-corner orator ignorone who has any first-hand know antly denounces as gambling is ledge of the facts. Between 60 legitimate business, it is, nover per cont. and 70 per cent, is' a theless, true that there is much much more probable figure. gambling in business, and that the taxation of credit betting will betting shops, open every night in such gambling is an intolerable put a premium on street betting.the week but Sunday until 10 p.m., nuisance and a hindrance to logi- But what will be the result when suggested by one witness before timate trading.

Chancellors of the Exchequer, ace the recent Commission.

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very little public opinion against gambling. The first step, then, is to create that pubile opinion. It is a common-place. In morals, and one that every page of history proves to be ue, that the first step in all reform is the creation of a healthy public opinion. If we could so educate the public can science that to take money without rendering some corresponding service to the cominunity would be recognised as an anti-social, and therefore an immoral, act there would still be gamblers, just as there are now thieves, drunkards, and murderers, but the battle would, for all practical purposes,

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To thx betting would tend to produce exactly the oppositu effect. The statement, so fre quently made by the chairman of the recent Commission, that "bet- ting is not illegal," is not, so much true (or false) as meaningless. Betting at present is neither legal nor illegal, for the simple reason that the law refuses to recognise It at all. It is in exactly the same position as any other private vice, of which, the law takes no cognis ance till some added circumstance makes it a public. nuisance.

"Neither Legal Nor Illegal." Thus drunkenness is neither legal nor illegal. You cannot. be arrested for being drunk, unless the offence is complicated by dis-i order, being in charge of a vehicle, being on licensed premises, etc. But a contract to make a man drunk would not be enforceable by law. Fornication is a vice..but it is not legal crime. No woman can be arrested for being a pros-. titute unless she can be proved to have accosted to the annoyance of passersby, or caused obstruc- tion, or kept a disorderly house. But she cannot sue for her earn- ings. So gambling is a vice; it is not a crime unless complicated by some other circumstance. But a betting man cannot sue for his winninga

or be sued for his losses. It will be quite impossible to maintain this position with re- gard to betting when it is taxed. What the 'Government recognises,

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70 per cent. of betting escaping opens a prospect at which every taxation? Will there not be religious and social worker would un

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taxation be appalled. the

The proposed, tax is bad from and therefore legalisation) of credit betting? With, perhaps, every point of view and must be the setting up of those licensed resisted.

to tax it, the law must take counter with shidagi!

sance of, to protect and direct it dete in de

Already the Chancellor of the Exchequer la talking in Parlia ment (in deflance of all law) of credit betting and course betting as "legal betting."

But it is not merely as purists In legal and moral theory that we object to the taxation of betting. Such taxing, with the inevitable ragulation which must go with it, will produce on the minds of the ordinary man and woman the be Jief that gambling is a natural part of every man's life, a thing right and proper, Here, as in other spheres which I need not discuss at this point, young people will say, and think, "It must be all right. Sce, the Government makes provision for it." It is 'sound maxim" of political theory, and one that experience proves to. be well grounded, that though Governments need not take cogni- sance of every private ovil, or sin,

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