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; DAMAGE TO HORSE BREEDING IN ONTARIO. Toronto Globe Editorially Speaks of Injury to Sport by Gambling Element. Toronto, Out.. March 20. — The Globe savs editorially: "Men who know the horse-breeding industry, and who are engaged in it. declare with gieat plainness that the whole race track fraternity, as now organized and operating in Ontario, is damage and nothing but damage to horse breeding. Men who love the horse, and who enjoy the sport of horse racing, are strong and insistent that in recent years tin gambling element has utterly destroyed the sport. And men who profess to know the inner facts of the jockey clubs affirm that, instead of profits Of seven per cent, on their real investments, the actual profits last year far exceeded seven hundred per cent. ••Those matters Involve questions of fact which rennet be dismissed by any mans general statement or denial. They call for thorough and impartial investigation by a responsible committee of the legis lature. If any gambling interest, any club or any individual, opposes such public investigation by a committee of the legislature, and opposes it secretly, the plain Inference is justified that the most searching investigation is needed. Such investiga tion must be demanded, and must be demanded at once. • "Is it true that the race track business in Ontario has become a burden and a curse to the horse breeding industry V "Is it true that the race track sport has been turned into a colossal gambling machine, utterly bedeviling to all 1-gitimutc sport Bad absolutely des tractive of every principle of morality, and a flat contradiction of every law of sound economical "Is it true, as has been publicly alleged, that certain of the jockey clubs have so manipulated their finances as to evade their proportion of the War taxes if Canada. and that certain of these racing clubs last year flatly refused to furnish Provincial Treasurer MeGarry statements of their profits, and that without such necessary information Mr. McGarty increased their tax. against their pretests, from 00 for each lacing day to 81,2801 He had been demanding ,000. "These are questions which are being asked by informed and resolute men and women in all parts of Ontario. Such questions members of the legislature on both tides are keen to have answered by a committee authorized to investigate the situation and to report on the facts. The facts can he ascertained. Out with these. Race track graft and race track gambling can no longer be done in a corner. Turn on the light."
