The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-04-17
Nortg yolpa Giu1ts.

Frauds.
We are in receipt of a letter from JAMES
KNOX CLARK Of Dubuque, exposing Con.
way & Co., for having sold somebody =
Lottery tickst that was "bound to draw
$4,000 at least" Mr.. Clark requests us to
publish the confidential letter from Conway
L. Co., to his friend and his own letter to
us denouncing Conway 4 Co., Wood, Ed
dy 4 Co., Edgerton & c., &C., &c. We
cant obligc Mr. Clark. Wood, Eddy & Co.
pay us promptly for their Adv. and their
business we regard as not less honorable
than that Of many men who hold them
selves in the front rank Of society. If peo-
pie get cheated by dealing with them it is
only mistake in the purchaser, the man
who buys lottery ticket being quite as
willing to get the advantage of them as
they are to get his $1,000 for nothing
When we Sc complaint of being swindled
by lottery dealers we conclude the COM
pfainant had consented to become the decoy
duck for his neighbors and if he could be
furnished with large prize he would set
up the dealer in lotteries to the top notch;
it is only when the dealer traps him that
cirtue conpels an expose to the public.
Churches are built and to some extent
sustained by lotteries, farms are sold in the
same way. Life is lottery; the employ
ment of teacher, a minister, or work
man Of any kind is hazard. You may
throw your money away for nothing or
worse than n6thing; you may take bank
paper to-day which is worthless to morrow;
you may indorse note for q friend and be
obliged to pay it; you insure your property
or your life in bogus company; politicians
arc chosen to public Office, and instead Of
doing as they agreed, they treat with con-
tempt these VINO elevated them to power.
Ministers are employed to preach the Cos
pei of Jesus and they sometimes play the
lowest demagoguism by pandcring to the
prcjudices Of the dominant party in their
parish or district. You love pretty wo-
man and lavish all your hearts devotion
upon her and when her face and form be-
come SO interviewer with your ideas of all
that is noble and beautiful she may 'secede'
with another fellow and leave you to chew
The cud of bitter fancy. II Lottery men
were the only rascals and their victims the
only dupes, or disappointees, we might be
induced to fire a shot at them, but while
the world is full of devilment and deception
while all the departments Of life are crowded
with persons whose food and clothes are
made by successfully deceiying their credu-
lous associates, we shall not play Don
Quixotte by breaking lance against SUCH
yindmills as dealers in prizes and blanks.
In the first place, no one but an adventurer
would buy ticket, and in the second place,
every man of the present age knows that
if he gets $4,000 for TEN, three hundred or
more Of his co-purchasers must lose ten
dollars each! We sometimes buy ticket
in a foreign or a home lottery and fortu-
nately for US we almost invariably lose every
red we invest. We never complain of the
dealers because we do not get the
better of the game; and when we hear of
anybody who growls because luck or fraud
went against him at any kind of gaming
we feel moro like laughing at than plying
him. There is no, way to get money like
honest labor or fair business, and he who
attempts the short cut of scheming should
not gro9l if he fails. Post yourself, Mr..
G. on Lotteries, Retired Physicians" "a
Fortune for postage Stamp" and all such
roads to wealth, put your next ten dollars
in good books or newspapers, and our word
for it you will never be under the necessity
Of confessing that in game Of deception
to be played on the public your confederate
gets the better of you.