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horses, so is it helping to ruin the nation by develop- 

 ing an idle, gambling spirit, in doing which it in- 

 creases the deterioration of the horse. Ten years 

 or more ago, Mr. Goschen (now Lord Goschen) 

 warned young Englishmen to check their love of 

 sport, and pointed out that it was that which enabled 

 the studious young German to beat the Englishman 

 in the race for life ; and so recently as September 8, 

 1903, the Times, drawing a contrast between the 

 American young men who had flocked to the new 

 wheat-lands of Canada and ' the ten or fifteen-dollar 

 amateurs from the old country,' pointed out that the 

 fallacy was still much in favour in some parts of 

 England and Scotland, ' that an athletic young man 

 who wears gaiters and riding-breeches on all occa- 

 sions was necessarily qualifying himself to be a 

 successful colonist' Under the influence of the 

 racing gamble, the Australian young man is tending 

 in the same direction, if, indeed, he has not already 

 beaten his English contemporary. These youths, 

 of course, affect to be horsey, which is the reason 

 why they wear gaiters and breeches. 



After I had written most of the above, a Governor 

 gets into print by way of corroborating me on this 

 — a great Governor, too. And in corroborating me 

 he corroborates the Socialist and the Poet, the 

 Parson and the Sport, above referred to. It is 

 pleasant to be corroborated by a Governor ! The 

 Melbourne telegram in an Adelaide paper of 

 October 16, 1903, states that Governor Sir George 



