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CORRIGANS VIEW OF "MORAL WAVES." "If all Hie iKM.kniakers were going to heaven on a straight track most of them would be kicking because some other fellows were in the lead." said Ed Corrigan. the veteran horseman, at the Grand Hotel yesterday. He stopped over on his way home from New Orleans, and was speaking of the meeting There. ••The races are just as good as they ever were, but there is not as much money in sight. There is not in any place in the country, so far as I can.learu. but no matter what the conditions were the bo tkmakers would be kicking. •We cant all join the Salvation Army, you know, for then- would not be room for us if we did. and • I . - : . | , , : . I [ , ■ . . . — — "— — —— — — I .dont believe they are going to abolish horse t Iso racing. So far as New York is concerned, I do not look for any material change to be made by the - present legislature, nor am I looking for any very • great change in other places. I hear that the new judge who is to be appointed will close the poolrooms across the river.. Well, so far as that is I concerned, the best thing for racing would be to close up all the poolrooms. It is the poolrooms, more than anything else, that cause the trouble i and agitation against racing. "I expect to live a few years longer and con- Unite to see horse racing as long as 1 do live here, and when I go up above I am going to try to get 1 one of these long spy glasses so I can take a peep 1 down at the tracks occasionally. I do not believe tltat people who love outdoor sports, and especially people who love horse racing, are going to change and be satisfied playing checkers or even lawn l tennis. There is no danger, so far as I can see. of stopping horse racing. "They call them moral reforms," but I have never yet found anything "moral about them. I I have a great respect for ministers, and take off » my hat when I meet them, but I never yet knew t of a case of a minister who pushed himself forward to abolish racing who had a clean record. I know of thcni. and of tiacing them down, and 1 1 never knew one of that kind of minister who was s not wrong, either where he had come from or t where he was when he started In to do his moral 1 reforming. "mis is still a free country, and we do not all 1 need guardians. There are some men who like to 0 visit beer gardens, drink a couple of steins of beer r and meet their friends. I do not do so myself. but this is no reason why I should obect and say 1 that other men shall not do so. And I do not allow k any man to say that I sUall not go to a race I track so long as I know how to behave myself. • It is about as bad as these minsters who want t to stop all outdoor sports, and particularly baseball, on Sundays. They can go out and play their games, if they want to, six days in the week, but a great majority of the men and boys, and the « girls and women, too, have to work six days in the e week, and Sunday is the only day they have to do any playing. It seems these moral waves are e spreading away beyond the old temperance wave e and taking in almost everything, but when they ., get square up against the wall of American per- " sonal freedom, they are going to stop and go i. backward. And dont forget that we are going , J to continue having horse races, just as they had 1 thousands of years before such a thing as a "moral 1 wave was ever invented.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
