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MORE ABOUT CANADA LAW AMENDMENT. Mr. Wilcoxs Proposal May Be Mere Forerunner to Plan of Minister of Finance. The Toronto Star mya: "It is probable that the racing legislation proposed by Oliver Wilcox. M. 1.. for South Essex, is aimed at the get-rich-quick promoters, not at the recognized established clubs, but his proposal to limit racing to fourteen days a year in one center is hardly likely to achieve hi- ends. It was expected that the minister of finance would solve the difficulty at. this sessjnn by introducing a measure providing that no racing association Should pay more than seven or ten i er cent dividends to shareholders, the excess going to the government or to the encouragement of breeding, by the increase of purses. Perhaps Mr. Wil-caxa motion is just a forerunner to Sir Thomas Whites proposal." No Need of Exaggeration. In reference to Mr. Wilcoxs statements, quoted in Ottawa dispatches, the Toronto Globe has the following to say: "If Mr. Wilcox is correctly quoted in the Ottawa dispatches as to the conditions surrounding racing in his constituency of South Essex and elsewhere, he has got much of his information from very unreliable sources, and the following statement, ascribed to him. is full of inaccuracies: "The tracks at Windsor are operated by the American Turf Association. They operate in Mexico, just over the boundary line, about a mile from El Iaso. and also in Florida in winter time. In the summer they move their horses to Windsor and Fort Erie. They are not allowed to operate at. all. in such one-time famous racing states as New York, Michigan. Kentucky and Virginia." As a matter of fact, there is no such organization as the "American Turf Association," and none of the tracks at Windsor has the remotest connection with any track in Mexico. Nor is there any racing at all in Florida, winter or summer. There is racing, though, with open betting in New York. Kentucky. Virginia and Michigan, all of the states named by Mr. Wilcox, and if he cared to cross the river to Detroit last summer he could have seen a poolseller dispose of as much as 00,000 in the auction ]x ols on one days racing in Wayne County, apart from the investments in the rnutuels which are operated on the same track. He could also find the Michigan Short-ship Circuit announcing sixteen weeks of racing, with poolselling and bookniaking. pari of the circuit running into the state of Ohio. Mr. Wilcox has in view the very praiseworthy object of patting an end to the indiscriminate licensing of race courses promoted by get-rich-qnick adventurers in Canada, but will not help his cause by exhibiting such a lack of knowledge of conditions. The facta arc ample justification for some action in line with his aim. and they make a case that has no need of exaggeration.
