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GOVERNMENT VIEWS NOT DISCLOSED. It will not he surprising if the tax* jiaid by race courses iu Ontario, which now amounts to 2,000 a year, is considerably increased when the provincial treasurer rei orts his budget to the legislature early in the coining year. We are all paving new-taxes, and increased obi levies to the federal government, besides the imposts to the provincial authorities. Their needs have not been lessened, and treasurers must cast aliout for sources of increased revenue. Race courses and their operations are certain to be among these, but the story of a twenty per cent, tax on their gross income", to be collected from seven tracks in Ontario, provokes the merriment of an Ottawa paper. It is pointed out that there are not seven tracks in Ontario, that Connaught Park is not one of them, and there are no new tracks building in this province. Apart from these things, it is admitted that there may be something in the story. The fact is that nobodv knows the intentions of the government in the matter of the means to be taken to increase the provincial revenues, and one guesser is as good as the other until the right time comes. — Francis Nelson iu Toronto Globe.
