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ENGLISH IDEA OF GOV HUGHES CRUSADE The KtigHsh folks cannot understand the strange nnllcfs of Governor Hughes ollicials and the police to whicli they dictate and are poking a lot of tun at the liberty of the land of the free and home of the brave Here is a saniitle poke by Garetli a wellkmwii correspondent in the London Referee 1 suppose SOnle American have a little spirit but it is abundantly evident that a gnat many have none or thev would not submit to governed by the tyrannical prigs wli have got the IIPP T Laud In at any rate some of the state The last story is almost Incredible or would be were It not lecognized that American sportsnien will stand any ¬ thing A man was seen sitting placidly in a rail ¬ way station studying his pocketbook Not much harm In that you might think if you did not know how things are allowed to go in the States He was recognized as a visitor to race courses A police ¬ man suspecting that there might be something about betting in the little volume forthwith took hiih toff to prison and finding in the book some notes which suggested that the criminal you see why he was a criminal hod laid the Odds to another man named Smith set off to arrest Smith also I do not suppose that there is any other country in the world except the laud of the free where such a preposterous condition of affairs would he possible A canary in a cage would refuse to stand it How over if American sportsmen submit to be so gov ¬ erned it is their affair What makes the gro ¬ tesque attack on the liberty of the subject in New York and elsewhere across the Atlantic so incon ¬ ceivable to us is that It is known to be actuated and supported by mean and petty spite of a strictly personal character swelled and supported of course bv the antifaddists who are energetic on both sides of the ocean
