Chapter VIII: Part 8

Why are Betting and Gambling Wrong? Rev. Arthur T. Barnett.
Economic Review.

On Betting. Prof. Marcus Dods. Good Words.

Gambling at Monte Carlo. Lady’s Realm.

The Latter-day Wager. Badminton Magazine.

1899

Gambling as it Was and Is. Lawrence Irwell. New Century Review.

Lotteries, Luck, and Chance. J. Holt Schooling. Pall Mall
Magazine.

Betting Symposium. Leisure Hour.

The Gambling Question. A Puritan Crusade. F. A. Mackenzie.
Puritan.

Ocean Gambling. Chambers’ Journal.

Paying an Election Bet. Strand Magazine.

Ethics of Horse Racing. Lieut.-Col. R. F. Meysey-Thompson.
National Review.

1900

Lotteries, Luck, and Chance. J. Holt Schooling. Pall Mall
Magazine.

Speculation and Gambling. Archdeacon Diggle. Help.

Gambling and Aids to Gambling. C. E. Russell and E. T.
Champagne. Economic Review.

1901

Investment, Trade, and Gambling. Monthly Review.

The Gambling Habits of Society Women. Woman at Home.

Gambling on Board Ship. Nautical Magazine.

The Gambling Hells of Paris. Crampton’s Magazine.

Licensed Gambling in Belgium. Geo. F. Babbitt. Fortnightly
Review.

The Great Lottery Campaign in Louisiana. Reed Carradine.
Munsey’s Magazine.

1902

A Terrible Danger. F. M. Holmes. Quiver.

Evils of Betting. Rev. J. W. Horsley. Sunday Strand.

Betting Evil. John Hawke. Great Thoughts.

The Gambling Impulse. C. J. France. American Journal of
Psychology.

Money Lost by Gambling. W. Greenwood. Sunday Strand.

The Results of Play at Monte Carlo. Rev. R. P. Downes. Great
Thoughts.

The Wheel of Fortune, and how French State Lotteries are
Worked. E. Charles. Wide Wide World Magazine.

The Gospel on the Race course. A. Wallace Myers. Quiver.

1903

River Gamblers of Old Steamboat Days. George Ogden. Everybody’s
Magazine.

The Totalisator in New Zealand. Sir Robert Stout. Australian
Review of Reviews.

Can a Modern Man of Business be a Saint? F. Ballard. Young Man.

Race-course Swindles. W. J. Wintle. Harmsworth’s Magazine.

Betting and Gambling. W. R. Sorley. International Journal of
Ethics.

The Maëlstrom of the Betting Ring. J. F. Marsten. Munsey’s
Magazine.

The Tipster and the Trade. Lieut.-Col. D. C. Peddie. Monthly
Review.

1904.

Starters and Starting. A Starter. Badminton.

Behind the Scenes at Monte Carlo. C. N. and A. M. Williamson.
Pearson’s Magazine.

Racegoers and Racegoing. A Racegoer. Badminton.

Tipsters and Tipping. A Tipster. Badminton.

Gambling in Futures, Options, and Warrants. Wm. Field. Magazine
of Commerce.

Is Bridge Immoral? Lady’s Realm.

FOOTNOTES

[1] W. D. Mackenzie, _The Ethics of Gambling_, p. 64.

[2] The gambling habits of the rich who do not know how to “fill in their time” also arise from _ennui_, but in this paper I do not discuss the problem which they present. It is: How can we compel them to find occupations of social value?

[3] Cf. _Nineteenth Century_, January 1903, art. “Is Society worse than it was?”

[4] Recent London balls in aid of hospital funds, for instance, where the sufferings of the poor were sought to be alleviated by orgies of the rich.

[5] _Early History of Charles James Fox_, pp. 100-1.

[6] Cf. Martineau’s _History of England_, 1800-1815, p. 196 (Bohn’s edition).

[7] _Mental and Moral Science_, p. 229.

[8] A somewhat dangerous extension of the powers of an intelligence-carrying agency, and one which should not be made if it can be avoided.

[9] Cf. Krapotkine’s _Factories, Fields, and Workshops_; and H. Rider Haggard’s _Rural England_.

[10] Cf. Rowntree and Sherwell’s _The Temperance Problem and Social Reform_, especially pp. 560-587.

[11] _Vide_ Appendix.

[12] London: S.P.C.K., Northumberland Avenue, W.C.

[13] The writer is aware that to provide adequate counter-attractions would entail a very heavy expenditure. It has been estimated that, to provide adequate counter-attractions to public-houses would require annually £1000 for every 10,000 of the population, a sum which cannot be raised by private subscription. A scheme of Constructive Temperance Reform has been before the country for some time, under which the public-house trade would be taken out of private hands, and the profits given to the National Exchequer to be used for certain specified purposes. The first charge throughout the country would, however, be the provision of adequate counter-attractions to the public-house. In so far as the profits of the public-house trade are probably not less than £20,000,000 per annum, and since, upon the estimate given above, £4,000,000 would furnish the sum required for counter-attractions, it will be seen that under this scheme there would be no difficulty as to funds.

[14] 1900.

[15] See conviction for Betting Coupon Competitions (E. Hulton and Co., Ltd.) in Manchester, November 1901.

[16] The paper selected to show the value of sporting tips is the _Morning Advertiser_, an organ of the liquor trade which devotes much attention to sport.

INDEX

Advertising Act (1874), 211

Albert Club, case against, 143

Allen (Russell), _Manchester Evening News_, evidence before Lords’
Commission, 208

Allotments, a counter-attraction to public-houses, 184

Alverstone (Lord Chief-Justice), on betting and gambling, 215

Anti-gambling League, National, recommendations made by, 205

Anti-social desires, gambling induces, 13

Art Unions, 139

Ascot Heath, betting shed, 21

Athletic grounds, betting at, 197

Australian licensed bookmakers, 193

Automatic machines, gambling by, 137

Averages, law of, 103

Bain (J.), evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210

Bank Act, 1867, restrains speculation in bank shares, 147
proposed extension of restriction to all stocks and shares, 159

Bank of England and National Debt, 46

Bankruptcy, betting a cause of, 90

Bath, Recorder of (Mr. H. C. Folkard), on effects of gambling, 216

Battenberg, Prince Louis of, on effects of gambling, 216

Bazaar raffles illegal, but not subjected to prosecution, 139

Beaconsfield (Lord), on the turf, 168

Bell, M.P. (Richard), on gambling, 217

Bennett (Curtis), on street betting, 214

Beresford (Lord Charles), on gambling, 38, 215

Beston, exposed by _Truth_, 225

Betting-house Act (1853), 24, 199
amendments suggested by Lords’ Commission, 196
amendments proposed to, 156
coupon gambling outside the meaning of the Act, 140
effect of, 191
new decision _re_, 140

Betting-houses abroad evade the Act, 142

Betting Act (1874), 199, 202
Lords’ suggested amendments to, 196

Betting and Loans (Infants’) Act (1892), 197
Lords’ suggested amendments to, 201

Betting at athletic grounds, 197

Betting, legislation against, 148
proposed Bill, 156

Betting statistics, 232

Bill, proposed street betting, 156

Bill, to make bets in public-houses illegal, 157

Birmingham, Official Receiver, on street betting, 214

Bookmakers, appeal against bye-laws, 205
army of, 28
street, 195
suppression of, would extinguish betting, 204
turnover of, 28

Bradford School Board, resolution on betting, 214

Bridge-playing, 40

Brighton, scene on the race-course, 32

Bros (Mr.), London Stipendiary Magistrate, embezzlement caused by
gambling, 214

Bucknill (Justice), on betting and gambling, 217

“Bulling and Bearing” on the Stock Exchange, 59

Butcher, M.P. (J. G.), on gambling, 216

Bye-laws against betting, Municipal and County, 154

Campbell-Bannerman (Sir Henry), on gambling, 218

Card-playing, 136

Cards, gambling with, 40

Cash-betting stopped, 25

Certainties, betting on, 2

Chances all for the bank, 3

Chester Cup Race (1852), 25

Children betting, 203

Chisholm (Lord Provost of Glasgow), evidence before the Lords’
Commission, 209

Citizenship, gambling and, 116

Civil Service, gambling in, 37

Clubs, gambling, 143, 163

Commons, House of, Select Committee on Betting and Gambling (1844), 23

Coroner for Mid-Surrey and backing horses, 214

Cost of Stock Exchange dealing, 66

Cottage, a week’s betting transactions in a working man’s, 80

Counter-attractions from gambling, 183

County authorities, bye-laws of, 154

Coupon-gambling, 140, 162

Crime and gambling (Canon Horsley), 85

Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act (1887), 202

Croydon Bench, chairman of, _re_ gambling, 215

_Daily Mail_, racing tips, 106

_Daily News_, week’s betting results, 180

Daily settlement of bets, 23

Darling (Mr. Justice), _re_ betting, 213

Davey’s Street Betting Bill 1903, Lord, 199

_Davis_ v. _Stoddart_, deposit of money for betting illegal, 153

Dealings before allotment forbidden 56

Devonshire, Duke of, _re_ betting, 166
Evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 211

Doncaster Grand Stand, 21

_Downes_ v. _Johnson_, Gambling Club Case, 143

Durham Lord, on tipsters, 222

Education, more adequate, to counteract gambling tendency, 185

Embezzlement due to betting, 30, 88

Epsom, 22

_Field, The_, strictures on racing, 32

_Fielding_ v. _Turner_, decision _re_ gambling by machines, 138

Fines for betting, recommendation by Lords’ Commission, 195

“Fish-ponds” illegal lotteries, 139

Flat-racing and tipsters, 225

Fludyer, Colonel, evidence of, 206

Fox’s gambling habits, 125

France, Government of, and press gambling, 143

Gambling—
definition, 1
by automatic machines, 137
clubs, 143, 163
clubs and the Licensing Act (1903), 144
coupon, 140, 162
organised Sunday, 147
pure and mixed, 1
repression of, 170

Gaming, industrial, 159
machines, 137, 160

Giffen, Sir Robert, estimate of bookmaker’s profits, 31

Gissing, George, description of Turf ruffianism, 34

Glasgow, betting in workshops, 29
Chief Constable’s evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209
Lord Provost’s evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Globe and Liberation Companies, 18

Goodwood, 22

Gould, J.P. (Chas.), Epsom, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 208

Grantham, Mr., Justice, on gambling, 213

Halsbury, Lord Chancellor, _Powell_ v. _Kempton Park_, 150

Harrow, Master of, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207

Hawke, John, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 203
on gambling, 218

Hawkins, Mr. Justice, on betting, 213
decision in _Hawke_ v. _Dunn_, 149

Hawkins, Mr. Justice, decision in _Jenks_ v. _Turpin_, 164

Hereford, Bishop of, betting among women, 71

Herschell’s Act, Lord, 197

Hodgman, George, _Sixty years on the Turf_, 35

Holland, Admiral Swinton, gambling at sports, 216

Hope, Adrian, and the anti-gambling league, 161

Horsley, Rev. J. W., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 212
on tipsters, 234

House-to-house betting, 72

Hulton, junr., Edward, evidence before the Lords’ Committee, 210

Hunter, Sir Robert, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 211

Illegal games, 136, 159

Immorality of gambling, 9

Increase of betting, present, 26

Industrial gaming unconnected with trade, 159

“Jail, Jottings from,” 84

Japan, gamblers ostracised, 43

_Jenks_ v. _Turpin_, 164

Jockey Club and betting, 115
cash betting, 26
and tipsters, 223
_Powell_ v. _Kempton Park_, 157

Joint Stock Company Law Amendment, is ineffective, 64

Kingsley, Charles, letter to young men on betting and gambling, 179

Knight, J.P. (Robert), evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 211
women betting, 72

Lamb, Charles, 11

Lamb, Mr., Second Secretary Post Office, evidence before the Lords’
Commission, 210

Lambeth, workshop betting in, 29

Law of gambling, 135

Law relating to betting, 135

Law, suggested amendments in betting, 155

Leeman’s Act (1866) stops speculation in bank shares, 62

Lefroy, Dean, on Bridge, 80

Legislation as to gambling, existing, 135

_Lennox_ v. _Stoddart_, deposit of money for betting illegal, 153

Liberator and Globe Companies, 18

Licence for bookmakers, 111

Licensed bookmakers in Australia, 193, 194

Licensing Act (1903), 144
and gambling, 204

Limited Liability Act (1862) increases stock gambling, 50

Liverpool, Bishop of (Dr. Chavasse), on betting, 215

London, Common Serjeant of, on betting, 217

Lords, House of, Report of Committee (1844), 27
Select Committee of (1901-2), Report, 28, 38
summary of, 203
betting among artisans, 155
press and betting, 166
recommendations of, 191
women gamblers, 69

Loria and elections, 127

Lotteries abolished, public, 138
and sweepstakes, 138, 161
newspaper, protected by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 74; 140
put down by Parliament, 63

Lowther, M.P., James; evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Luck in gambling, 8

Luton Town Councillors and betting, 215

Machines, gaming, 137

Maclaren, Ian, on Bridge, 81

Magistrates, a Chairman of, on embezzlement and betting, 214

Manchester, Chief Constable, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 206

Marginal groups, gambling prevails among people classed in, 118

Miscellaneous gambling, 23

Monte Carlo tables average daily profit, £500, 181

Moseley Commission, 155

Municipal bye-laws against betting, 154

National Debt, stockbroking begins with, 46

Newmarket betting-posts, 22

Newspaper lotteries protected by 8 and 9 Vict. c. 74; 140

Newspapers encourage small betting, 113

Odds against the backer, 104

One pound shares and Stock Exchange gambling, 51

“Options,” 56

“Pari Mutuel,” 193, 194

Pauperism, betting next to intemperance a cause of, 91

Pedestrianism, a note on, 219

_Petit Parisien_, competition forbidden in, 142

Philip of Macedon and gambling, 124

Play a factor in life, 11

Police abet gambling in clubs, 145

Portland, Duke of, about tipsters, 135

Postmaster-General, powers _re_ betting circulars, 197

Post Office, monetary interest in betting of the, 31
powers over lottery matter, 141
proposed increase of powers, 161

_Powell_ v. _Kempton Park_, 149, 154

Press competitions and coupon gambling, 140, 142, 143, 162
gives facilities for betting, 191

_Prisons and Provinces_, 84

Produce Exchange gambling, 41

Prohibitive Acts insufficient to prevent gambling, 130

Property, right of, 4

Public excluded from betting circles, the general, 22

Public-houses, proposed Bill to make betting in, illegal, 157

Public opinion, the necessity for creating a sound, 174

Pure gambling, 16

Race-horses, poisoning of, 210

Raffles, Government inaction in the matter of, 176
really illegal, 139

Rawson, Admiral, on gambling, 38, 216

Remedy, bookmaker’s suggestions for a remedy, 110

Renals, Alderman Sir J., on street betting, 215

Repression of gambling, 170

Richmond, the Duke of, on cash betting, 26

Ridley, Mr. Justice, on betting, 217

Roulette, 137

Russell, Chief-Justice, on street betting, 213

Rutzen, Sir Alfred de, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 90, 206

Salford, embezzlements in, 20

Schools and betting, 214, 215

Scotland Yard, conviction of three inspectors of, 85

Secret gambling in modern commerce, 19

Shannon, Superintendent Metropolitan Police, evidence before the Lords’
Commission, 208

Sharp, Luke, on women betting, 71
evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207

Signalmen as bookmakers, 36

_Sixty Years on the Turf_, by George Hodgman, 35

“Small man” in stock and share gambling, 52

Smith, Horace, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207
embezzlement caused by betting, 213

Social disease, gambling a, 119

Souch, Charles, gambling at athletic clubs, 219

Southampton, Church Congress on betting, 214

Sport, betting in connection with, 39

_Sportsman_ prosecuted, 141, 156

_Sportsman, The Deluded_, by a Bookmaker, 92

Spruce, F. W., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207

Starting-price bookmaker, 112

Starting-price odds, 166, 192, 204

Stephen, Sir Fitzjames, on betting agents, 205

Stephenson, Sir W. H., gambling among boys, 147

Stock Exchange gambling, 41, 45, 147, 158

_Stoddart_ v. _Sagar_, Decision _re_ coupon gambling, 140

Street betting, 203

Street betting, “a respectable trade,” 208

Street Betting Bill (Lord Davey’s), 199

Street bookmakers, 195

“Street” defined as in Public Health Act (1875), 201

Stutfield, G. H., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 203

Suicide resulting from gambling, 86

Supports of gambling, real, 12

Sutters, James, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207

Sutton, Alderman (Newcastle), on betting, 214

Sweepstakes, 138, 161

“Systems” in gambling, 8, 224

Tattersall’s Subscription Rooms established, 21

Thomas, Bryan, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Tipsters’ advertisements, suppression of, 114, 222
and the Jockey Club, 223

“Totalisator,” its introduction suggested, 193, 194

Trevelyan, Lady, on Bridge, 41

Trevelyan, Sir George, gambling as it affects politics, 125

_Truth_ on turf tipsters, betting agents, and system-mongers, 224

“Vendors’ shares,” their part in share gambling, 58

Village betting, 31

Wages to working men, better; a counter influence to gambling, 185

Walker, Colonel Tannett evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210

Watts, G. F., on betting and gambling, 218

Wavell, General, on gambling, 38, 214

Wells, Superintendent of Limehouse Division, evidence before the Lords’
Commission, 208

White, Sir George, on gambling, 38, 218

Wills, Mr. Justice, on illegitimate speculation, 213

Women bookmakers, 70, 218

Women, gambling among, 69, 203
worse gamblers than men, 73

Woodgate, W. B., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210

Workshops, betting in Glasgow, 29

York, Archbishop of, on gambling, 217

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