Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1908 — Harness Racing Part of Education. [ARTICLE]

Harness Racing Part of Education.

“Encourage good, clean ‘boss’ racing and cut out all vulgar shows, and you will have better attendance all around,’* said Norman J. Colman, former lieutenant governor of Missouri, at the convention of the American Association of Fairs and Expositions in Chicago recently. “God so made man that he wants to see contests,” Mr. Colman continued. “He will stop in the street to witness a dog fight and will watch two boys battle. Ministers of the gospel and others of high moral tone will witness a horse race that is purely a contest for speed for a purse where there is no pool selling or other form of gambling. Nothing will draw so well as good, legitimate harness racing. The fair is a great educational Institution, and no boy’s education is complete without it. At college he merely gets a diploma. At the fair he is educated horticulturally, agriculturally and minerally. Let the boy study these things in the morning, and for the afternoon dessert give him good, clean horse racing.”