We have noticed a news bill of the. Daily Herald
on which attention was drawn to the number of winners spotted by the Daily Herald's tipster. On making inquiries we learn that the efficiency of this tipster who calls himself " Templegate " has not been overstated by the • proprietors of the Daily Herald, Apparently he promises to rival even the fame of Captain Coo. Templegate gives his readers every day a " dead snip "—a horse's name with an asterisk attached to it, the asterisk meaning that this is an animal to put your shirt upon. Templegate is also very strong on double events. But what. a curious fatality there seems to be which leads organs of extreme political opinion to turn their newspapers into, so to speak, publics gambling saloons. This attraction is apparently far too strong to be resisted, otherwise we could not account for the fact that the Daily Herald daily denounces capitalism in one part of itself and enthusiastically encourages capitalism in another part of itsself. For if there is any sport which can exist only in a capitalistic State and which in every aspect encourages and glorifies capital, istic ideas, Barely that sport is horse-racing.
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