. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . gestive of everything that is improving in the artof farming. But under these deceptive titles are the samecheating, and the same betting, and the same drunkenness,and the same vagabondage, and the same abomination thatwere to be found under the old horse-racing system. I neverknew a man yet who could give himself to the pleasures ofthe turf for a long reach of time and not be battered inmorals. They hook up their spanking team, and put ontheir sporting cap, and take the reins and dash down the road
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . gestive of everything that is improving in the artof farming. But under these deceptive titles are the samecheating, and the same betting, and the same drunkenness,and the same vagabondage, and the same abomination thatwere to be found under the old horse-racing system. I neverknew a man yet who could give himself to the pleasures ofthe turf for a long reach of time and not be battered inmorals. They hook up their spanking team, and put ontheir sporting cap, and take the reins and dash down the roadto perdition! The great day at Saratoga, and Long Branch,and. Atlantic City, and nearly all the other watering-places isthe day of the races. The hotels are thronged, every kind ofequipage is taken up at at an almost fabulous price; and thereare many respectable people mingling with jockeys and gamblers 288 WATEBING-PLACES. andlibertines and foul-mouthed men women. Thebar-tender stirs up the brandy-smash. The bets run greenhorns, supposing all is fair, put in their money. scenes at Atlantic city, new jeesey. soon enough to lose it. Three weeks before the race takesplace the struggle is decided, and the men in the secret knowon which steed to bet their money. The two men on thehorses riding around, long ago arranged who shall win. WATERING-PLACES. 289 Leaning from the stand, or from the carriage, are men andwomen so absorbed in the struggle of bone and muscle andmettle, that they make a grand harvest for the pickpocketswho carry off the pocketbooks and the portemonnaies. Men,looking on, see only two horses with two riders flying aroundthe ring; but there is many a man on that stand whosehonor and domestic happiness and fortune—white mane, whitefoot, white flank—are in the ring, racing with inebriety, andwith fraud, and with profanity, and with ruin,—black neck,black foot, black flank. Neck and neck they go in thatmoral Epsom. White horse of honor; black
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