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The Chicago newspapers have done what they could wherever they could to ruin the horse breeding interests of Illinois They are still at it The most active in the work I is the more than usually intelligent Record and the normal ¬ ly fair Evening jNews News The matter of racing does not receive the general newspaper consid consider ¬ eration aeration it deserves Understrappers are allowed to write villainously unfair criticisms about something they do not understand understandThe understand The news too that tells of a bribery fund in the interest of a racing bill at Springfield is fake news and lying news The comment that pictures the Washington Park track as the gathering place for bad charactersja characters spitofuL spiteful and unfair If it was every pubac pubic resort should be so considered and reportedrfi reported A letter was sent to each member of the Illi Ill ¬ nois noirs Senate and House of Representatives Saturday It stated the situation as to racing and its bearing on Chicago and Illinois fairly The Record denounced it Tuesday morning as an exhibition of cheek and mendacity and the production of persons to whom it also re ¬ fers fears to as race track gamblers in the course of five inches or so of printed words wordsA words A statement that damage had been done to real estate adjacent to race track property is made in The Records comment Some figures as the 1894 and 1897 land values on property near to the Washington Park Hawthorne and Harlem tracks would have carried more weight than false statement The Record also ques quest ¬ tions ions the declaration recently made about loss to Chicago merchants through the prohibition of racing The amateur who wrote the edito editor ¬ rial rail might serve The Record better if he would better learn Chicago movement He can get a list of local merchants who might toll him about such doings at this office He can also be fur ¬ nished noshed with a list of breeders and horsemen good citizens of Illinois who have been pinched by the recent reign of terror the result of prejudice against reasonable and well regulated racing caused by moan ignorant and unfair newspaper comment
