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omblomig takes
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nraoliy ffromm regon pockets
WHO REAPS THIS GOLDEN HARVEST?
Dog and horse wager far exceed the total instructional expense for all elementary
ind secondary schools n Portland the amount gambled on dog races alone is
more than double the total tax bill on all Multnomah County property This
resulting gojden harvest -diverted from productive business channels goes to
line the pockets of out -of state gambltna promoters who own all but 55 of the
1250 shares of greyhound racing stock
PHILANTHROPY OR BRIBERY?
For every well-publicized gambling dollar directed toward socially-approved ends
(such as the :H clubs), twenty fold go to the support, profit maintenance and
expansion of the gambling interests and the promotion of gambling. Figure the
odds' Building and developing the character of Oregon youth with tax income
from our vices is losing proposition
HOW ABOUT PARIMUTUEL BETTING?
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The Kefauver Senate Crime Committee report and every other survey on gambling
document the shocking fact that the inevitable result of professional gambling
legalized or not-is increased crime, corruption and lawlessness. Are the revenues
worth the price Oregon might have to pay for its partnership with professional
gambling interests. How much does t cost to put a boy through reform school?
To send a man to the penitentiary? To maintain tolief rolls?
Here is the
VOTE 326 X
THEY SAY
THE TRUTH
truth about Pari -Mu hi el Gambling
YES to destroy Commercialized gambling
if you cut out pori-mutuel gambling, you'll hike taxes
or kill the Fairs
IS an honest tax to raise every dollar to replace the "tax"
for government and Fairs from gambling in 1951 ($835
799.00) would pmount to .596 per capita per year or
about lc a-week for each Oregonian. What price decen
cy and self-respect? Oregon had sound Fairs and Clubs
before the gambling interests moved in. We are too
proud of our Fairs and character agencies to "give"
them "30 pieces of silver" or 835,799 "pieces of silver"
from gambling.
you'll drive DOG GAMBLING to Washington.
IS Washington prohibits pari-mutucl betting on dogs.
you can't legislate morality.
IS the oldest legislation is on morality. "Thou sholt not
Irfll" "Tfc.. .k.h 4 . i htl.' 1 .1. .11
" wi sicui 1 nou snair nor cover.
Every state legislates against murder, stealing - law is
made to support morality and to restrain and punish
agents of vice.
THEY SAY people will always gamble.
THE TRUTH IS some people will always steal, murderlie - So what?
We do not pass laws licensing thieves, murderers, slan- '
derers. We pass laws to punish and correct offenders -and
to protect law-abiding men. The State dishonors it
self ond prepares for its own destruction when it betrays
justice by licensing, and so protecting from judgement
the lawless, the agents of evil in their brutal struggle
against righteousness. Government, in the words of St.
Paul, is "the servant of God to execute wrath on the
wrong-doer" (Ro. 13). We will not appease the gamb
ling interests.
Oregon parimutuel gambling lawi
were enacted by the legislature with
out any vote of tho ptoole. Now for
tht first tint in history Oregon voters
hove the opportunity to . . .
THEY SAY
THE TRUTH
THEY SAY
THE TRUTH
HERE'S WHAT
E5TES KEFAUVER SAYS:
"Gomblinq profits ore the principal
support of biq-time racketeering ond
qanqsterism ... the history of leool
iied gambling in Nerada ond in other
ports of the country give no assurance
that mobsters ond rocketeers con be
converted into responsible business
men through the simple process of ob
taining state ond locol licenses for
their gambling enterprises."
Senate Crime Committee Report
THEY SAY
THE TRUTH
"history shows pari-mutuel wagering is fair and honorable."
IS "gambling has increased enormously since pori-mut
fuel machines were legalized in 23 states-the problem
of enforcement of laws has increased tremendously,
through legal sanction of race track wagering." -Virgil
A. Peterson, Director, Chicago Crime Commission,
formerly with the FBI.
"The principal argument being utcd by
words, i art being offered a bribe to permit
opponent! is that tht Ion of rocing rtvtnut
will wreck our county ond stott fairt. In other
continuation of legoliied gombling."
Roscburg News-Review
"Stotutory discrimination in fovor of legaliz
ing one form of gombling (parimutuel), with oil
its evils In diverting comings of people of low
income from family use, Is not warronted in
our opinion. We Iherefort rtcommend a YES '
vote." ' '
The Oregon Voter
"Are there two kinds of gombling. In Ore.
gsn one where tht statt splits tht profits with
tht gambling operators ond ont whtrt there
Is no split? . . . this is the first opportunity the
voters have had to pass, on their partnership
with professional gambling. The Journal coun
sels that they vote ... 326 X YES."
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Oregon Doily Journal
"W hed county ond stole fairs e long lime
bfore we hod parimutuel betting and wt
will have them a long time ofttr ptrlmutuel
belting is again obolished."
Elmer McClurt,
Moster, Oregon Statt Grangt
GfetfteniiM) (Mama gib
people
Associotion.
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