[To Tax EDISOn or Ire "Srecmon.-1
have only now read your number of May 23rd, which has a long article on the Star and gambling. May I, as an old reader who has frequently missed a recognition of the principle in your economic articles, suggest that there is a real moral rule against betting ? You say it is impossible to formulate any. It appears to me that the objections to waste and to betting—it is rather old-fashioned to oppose either— are the same. With all property there ought to be responsi- bility for its use. All wealth or money represents energy stored up by work. It is, or at least has, potential energy just as pumped-up water or an electric accumulator has. Will you, or will any reasonable person, arguo that such energy is the absolute property of the person in whose power it happens to be P If you can be got to admit that there is responsibility on the part of the bolder of such energy—as I have known you to do when writing of waste—and betting is proven immoral, you will also, I think, attack the various problems of poverty with even greater advantage than usual to your readers, at the same time adding more life to the dead hones of economics.— I am, Sir, 8:o., ALEX. GUTHRIE, Hill House, Black Nancy, Essex.
Previous page
