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THE GREATER EVIL
To the Editor, Sir—
The great outcry against Sunday sport by some of the ministers of religion seems amazing when no voice is raised against the two greatest evils and enemies of the working man and his family—afterhours drinking and public-house betting. It seems incredible that the Ministerial Association has remained silent and let this huge cancer sap the morals of our young men and girls on the one hand, and steel the money from the workers’ women and children and deprive them of the necessaries of life…
There is a bookmaker in practically every hotel and club in Broken Hill to get the cash that should go to feed and clothe the children (in lots of cases) of the workers, and non-workers trying to pick winners with the endowment money. The bookmakers flaunt arou
