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INEFFECTUAL REMEDY TO STOP NEW TRACKS. The action proposed in a dispatch from Quebec, announcing the intention of the government to impose a tax of four per cent on all AA-agering transactions at race courses in that province, has one feature to recommend it as compared with Ontario racing taxation. The funds so collected in Quebec are to go to patriotic purposes, Avhile here they go into the general reA-enue of the province. As a remedy for the danger which threatens racing in Canada from the greed of gct-rich-quick promoters, the Quebec proposal amounts to nothing. They aa-HI simply pass it on to the patient public. And neAV tracks will be established Avithout limit so long as no restriction is placed on the amount of money they may collect from the public and retain for themselves. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe;
