To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuixa Dairy News."
Srr,—Practical experience, couple ed with the daily perusal of your Commerce and Finance Notes, gives one the impression that we are going through very bad times.
Yet there has been and still is plenty of money in Shanghai for gambling. Besides the three Race Clubs in existence, viz: the Shanghai Race Club, the Kiangwan Race Club and the Haskell Race Club, being well patronized, Chinese lotteries are freely sold within and outside the Foreign Settlement, and cards played every evening by people of practically all nationaliies.
Rampancy of gambling cannot but blotch the moral aspect of any place, and that something ought to be done in this Model Settlement with a view to correcting the present state of affairs, goes without saying.
It must be admitted that we have too many races altogether, and that these are just as dangerous, if not more, to the moral welfare of the community as the free playing of cards involving large sums of money.
Many a man in our midst has been ruined and many a family disgraced on account. of stakes foolishly but irresistibly made both in race courses and clubs.
It is only necessary to attend a race meeting to see how useful dollars are wasted in Shanghai, to
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