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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal . Of Sa...

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      No. Io&] London, Ma Y 29, 186 9. [Price ...

      No . io &] LONDON , MA Y 29 , 186 9 . [ Price Twopence .

      A Voice From Tmb Ming.

      A VOICE FROM TMB MING .

      It Seems The Fashion, Mr. Tomahawk, To A...

      It seems the fashion , Mr . Tomahawk , to abuse the professional betting- men as being the main cause of the corruption of " the Turf" as an institution , and of the great abuses that have gradually grown up around Horse-Racing . I don ' t mean to say but -what many of us Ring-men are — sharp fellowsand

      • r 9 G 9 . a . , take an advantage when we can . I don ' t mean to say but what there aren ' t some black sheep , or may be black-legs , among us ; but what I means to say , and to stick to , is as the noblemen and gentlemen what are on the turf is no better , if they aren't worse , than we are ; and as people might abuse us less , for many of us

      try to get our living honestly ; though we do get it by calculation and speculation , which the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange may call gambling if they please . If you'll excuse me , I'll take myself as an example , because I know — more ___^_ - -v- about _ -v —_ - ~^_ _^_ v myself _____ - ^ _ ^_ . v 11 1 than w ^»^^* vm ^ I ^ h do - ^^ B ^ pr of ^ p * h any — ipj — < m j one ^ prp » # B ^ vr else ^ pr ^ ppF ^ w . I p »» began P ^ Pr ^^^^ m

      life with about a hundred pounds . I never went beyond my capital ; that is to say , if I lost I could always pay ; and I ' m worth how about fifty thousand pounds . I should be worth a good bit more if some of my friends , and some noblemen too , had — — paid r ^ " ^ " ^ me ' — ' ^^ what ~ ~ " —~~ —~ — they ^ - —™ - ^^ ^— owe - ^^ v w ^^ me ^ m ^ mwm ^^ . w wv I have ^ m ^^^^ w ^ p ^ worked w V ^ ¦¦¦ ^* m *^ pr ^ ppa hard mm ^^ r ^ r ^ m - ™^ , » very w ^ pp ^ m

      hard , for that money . It mayn't be a very noble profession , but I have always tried to act on the square , and I don ' t think as anybody can say as I have ever acted otherwise . I might have gone into some other profession , but I knew more about horses — — than — ^— I did — " — about — ^ " ^ ™^~^ ^ " ^ anything ^^^^ " ^^ ^ m ^^ ^^ " ^ m ^ m ^^ p ^^ V else ^^^ «^^^» ^ p ^ , ^ so *^^ ^^^ I *^^™ took ^ P ^ p * ^ p ^ * m ^^ to ^ r ^ p ^ betting W ** ^^» ^^ ^ y ^^»^»^ p ^ . » ^ Of " ^^^ ^^

      course I have won money of people as could not afford to lose it , but it seems to me that that was their look outand not mine . I have always given time to them as were willing , to pay but could not . I have had many a gentleman come and ask me for time , and I gave it them ; but when I was hard hit in the Marquis year nobody gave me any time . I had to raise the money , and , being known as an honest man , I got some one to lend itand waBB good 0 interest MkVA he got for his M 10 benevolent action

      ^~ HW ; ^ w very ww « ^ ww * VW * ** W ^ £ S * m AW * WVUV f V * V * l W MV * lV < kil . I only know one noblemanand he ' s deadas I then owed , , money to , what came and said to me , " J obson , says he , " you owe me fourteen hundred , but don ' t you mind paying me till I ask you for it . " And when everyone was a reviling of forg that et nobleman his kindness , the la t te o Marquis me , I am of thankful Hastings , to I did say . not I think if accounts were made between the Ring

      ^ — —™ ¦ wvwv ^««« w * f w * v AAAWMV up V » hP MVvTf WVU VMV Jb « A *« b and the gentlemen , it would be found that we have not had always the best of it . There is some excuse for a man as beh gins ard with for his no money education , trying and on no a bit capital of a , plant and ; has but to when work gentle very - men and noblemen as have been brought up in luxury , and been

      to college , and had every advantage as birth and fortune can give them ; when they gets bolstering up horses in the market as they knows is dead ones , in order as they may be able to lay against them on the quiet ; or when they has private trials , and keeps it dark as the favourite is no usetill they ' ve got their

      , money on the right one ; why , I think as it does come rather hard on us as has got no estates to sell , and no wives' fortunes to borrow , and no entails or reversions to dispose of . When a gentleman comes among us I don ' t expect him to copy what ' s bad W ^^ ^ V ^ F ^ B ^ B ^ in B 4 V ^ H the ^ F * H ^ H ^^^ Ring HM ^^ iM ^ J ^ , H but ^^ v ^ p ^ ^ pr to ^ pi - ^^ p try ^^ mm W ^ and V ^ P ^^^ V ^ V . V set ^^ 7 ^^ ^^ them ^ v ^^^ BV ^^ p ^ V ^ B ^ V ^ an ^^^^ h ^ v example ^^^^^ " ^ » ^ ¦ *¦ ^ v ~ of strai — g ^^^ p ht — -

      forward and honest conduct , as may make them ashamed of anything like cheating . I know a duke or two that would not cheat at cards or pick a pocket , because he stands a very good chance of being found out ; but he would not make any bones of keep ^ ing a - horse . _ in - the _ market ___ as favourite __ though he knew

      — — _ — j ^ ( j- ^ _ — . _ — — , ^^ he was as lame as a duck with one leg . I am very much amused , when I have time to be amused at all , by seeing how these gentlemen , when they don ' t want to make use of us , turns up their nose at us Ring-men , and calls us low fellows . I often meets a swell in the park who chucks a

      nod at me , just as he'd chuck a penny at a beggar ; but when we meet in the Ring or at the Corner , and he wants to know what horse to be on , when he has not got any private information of his own , then its " Halloa ! Jobson , how are you ? " and he shakes my hand as if I was his own brother . I should be

      sorry to be his brother , though , if I wanted to borrow five pounds of my father ' s eldest son . When I do want a hundred or so , 1 never go to the gentlemen ; I go to the Ring . They will help a fellow in distress ; but when a nobleman gets it hot , he — never — — tries his own kinsfolk or friends ; r he goes m ^ to the Jews ,

      and perhaps he's right . I don't pretend to say that the Betting Ring is a very good institution . Perhaps it would be better if there was no betting or gambling . There are some other institutions which we could ¦¦ do ^ fV ^ P without V W ^ F « P ^ ^ tr »• ^ F equall ^ PF ^*« W ^^•^^ m ^ m y w well v w ^ P «" i « w ; V but P ^ r w ^ , V unfortunately » ^^^ ^^ ^» v H ¦ ^ B ^ w ^ m ^ p ^*"" , _ r J ¦¦ human ¦ ' w ^ " -r »™^ - — — ¦ natu - — — — re — is -- — a

      little too strong for us . All as we can do is to try and keep the Ring free from cheats and bloodsuckers , and I believe the Ringmen do as much towards that as the gentlemen do . I don ' t belong to the Portland or the Arlington Club , but I know some ¦ gentlemen h ¦ ¦ hbw as doand all ¦ " ¦—¦ I say isI ¦ would ¦¦ ¦—~ w ¦ rather i sit down to

      dcarte ^ pr ^ m ^ m W ^ P ^^ vm with ^ m ^ m ^ p ^ the «^ p ^ sharpest r ^ ^^ , j w ^^ ™ ~ trainer ™ —— " " ^ — , ^ m or ~ " - ^ betting , j " — " — ' ^ — man , —r- as ever - — — breathed than with one of these gentlemen . Bless you , they'd clean you out betore you knew where you were . Of course it ' s all fair ; but if skill is to have the advantage in the card-room , why should it pjb not in the Ring ?

      p ^ vpvk ^ T pvjpxpj ^ pjpj w vBpp ^ pt ^ ^ w ^ ww ^ pr ^^ "" * p 3 | I never like to see a young man of great position and wealth , with grand estates , and a lot of tenants on them to look after ,

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 29, 1869, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_29051869/page/3/