Theatrical Amusements And Horse-Racing
Theatrical Amusements And Horse-Racing
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As in the theatre so on the race-course, the moral atmosphere is tainted ; and under the contagious excitement, the com- paratively innocent, lured on by gamblers and other profligate characters, often risk stake after stake until involved in harassing debt, and betrayed, it may be, into other violations of morality, they finally cover themselvas with disgrace and ruin. To gratify the taste for this cruel pastime, agricultural societies have, of^ late, introduced trotting at their exhibitions, ...osten- sibly for the purpose of improving the breed of horses ; but even under their supervision, the temptation to wagering is too strong for prevention, and it may well be feared that, instead of promoting the original design of such fairs, they have thus become means of demoral- izing a portion of our rural population.
In the early days of this Commonwealth, theatres and similar places of dissipation as well as horse-racing, were prohibited by law ; but in process of time, at the solicitation of men of corrupt minds, and to secure an increase of revenue, the Ix^gislature was induced to grant the issuing of licenses for such exhibitions.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As in the theatre so on the race-course, the moral atmosphere is tainted ; and under the contagious excitement, the com- paratively innocent, lured on by gamblers and other profligate characters, often risk stake after stake until involved in harassing debt, and betrayed, it may be, into other violations of morality, they finally cover themselvas with disgrace and ruin. To gratify the taste for this cruel pastime, agricultural societies have, of^ late, introduced trotting at their exhibitions, ...osten- sibly for the purpose of improving the breed of horses ; but even under their supervision, the temptation to wagering is too strong for prevention, and it may well be feared that, instead of promoting the original design of such fairs, they have thus become means of demoral- izing a portion of our rural population.
In the early days of this Commonwealth, theatres and similar places of dissipation as well as horse-racing, were prohibited by law ; but in process of time, at the solicitation of men of corrupt minds, and to secure an increase of revenue, the Ix^gislature was induced to grant the issuing of licenses for such exhibitions.
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