[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
Spa,—Assuming that the chief object of such a tax is to (* . courage betting (as I hope it is); why should we not begin by prohibiting the publication of the " odds " in......
• [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sin,—the Suggestion Made
in the article "A Tax on Betting New' Suggestion" is certainly ingenious, but I confess to Considerable doubt whether any Government could impose a new tax on any such partial......
Abraham Lincoln's Wisdom And Reticence [to The Editor Of The
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. A. G. Gardiner in his Life of Sir William Harcourt makes a serious historical blunder. In Chapter VII of his first volume, referring to the beginning of the......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] '
SIR,—I am sorry that a paper of the standing of the Spectator should lend its support to the 'discredited proposal to tax betting. Herbert Spencer described gambling as "an......
A Tax On Betting
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As Canon Green includes me in - his betting invectiVe, will you allow me to 'try to define my terms ? My ethics are simply these : that......
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