, 1870-11-13
weekly. monthly, aud Sunday nsvsospers

weekly. monthly, aud Sunday newspapers
have. in great degree, supers-dedit. T,uog
people will not 50 miles to public Gtrary. |
to rad stories, when they can uy'iust ~ | :
good for four cents in tho seeklea, Liter.
stn1r has chespencd aud a,n1tiriied until It
has became Tree as wafer, Light A. air, aud
No dne need 50 here Oh. there to SEEK it, for
it is thrust upon him sve1y~hare, snd lies
as waste paper Oh every hand. The sen.
tiu,ent. therefore, In favor OF public I
Libraries is not based upon that strong ne-
ecfsisy on the pnrt of. any class which was
fei, by the intellectual clnsscs Il hundred,
fifty, or even twenty, Years ago. And. ii
will sill further diminish. as private
Libraries become more numerous, and our
monthly and weekly literature more cheap
and universal.
+. Ne state these facts, uos to discourage
any legitimate effort TO do the bookless
class beEef.,, by placing hooks within
Their reach.. But We do wish to negative
dik;i:c,ly the plea TINT the absence of an
e.ter.It public library, arising from the
gens-al plus OF books We hase indicated,
is 10 he held up as disgrace or q huu,ilia-
t1on, which We ought to get mp a grand
Wholesale violation of law anda local crime,
on alargc scale, 10 remove A lottery is, of
all schemes, tie least in harmony with the
objects and IMPOSES Of a public library,
1t is as fiat a crime rs il the vaults of our
Ea,ional Denks should be broken into to
/ ol,tdin the funds to endow q church We
doubt if the laws against burglary deserve
enforcement mnch more strenuously than
those against lotter1es- A lottery is an In
~itatiou to millions Of people to gamble.
It sends The, gambling spirit into every
home in the land, filling old and young
with the morbid hope Of graspiug sudden
wealth hy chance, and to that extent un-
fttipg them for patient work aud honest
industry. The victim who draws
prize Of unearned wealth in nearly every
instance, Immediately shows how unfit a
man is to dispose of .we.lth for whose
proper use he has neither been prepared
by education OF habit, nor by the expe-
] 1fence gained in aocunulating it by his
own industry. The victim who draws no
,:.ize feels himself TO be either unlucky or
defranded- There Is no heresy so destac-
tive to society as fata1ism-the belief that
chance governs destiny. 1t saps all energy,
rnde1mines all morals, wastes every means
sf wealth, and reduces a race to beggary
a. easily rs IN individual. Lotteries ara
horn Of. fatalizp, and begat 1t in thsir turn:
: They are the great curse of Spanish, It'll
i'm, Mexican, Cuban, and South American
|. society. They invite laziness, theft, and
rrbbery, and provoke into1icaton and 80
ride. It was not an accident that Emf
/ ! Eirsch blew ont his btAins on the morning
i utter the San Francisco drawing. Suicide
; is an inseparable accompaniment of h'
gambling spirit Its argument is, "Iife
. with all its pleasures, depends on luck
. some have it; have it not. Why, then
: should live ?" In the famous gambling
9 l.aElors of Homhurg, in Germany
[ carringe Is KEEP. Always waiting at th
= door, and an experienced gentleman, wh
Il can read suicide in the eye, watches th
q losers carefully. II one rises from the tabl
,, in desperation be is politely but adzoitl
It hustled away to blow out his brains in
= private apartment where they vill not SO
ss the tables and mar the harmony and quiz
e, Of the scene. One OF tbs drawbacks q
a the pleasure Of the accomplished and pr
t, fessionaI gambler is this rude tendency {
er occasional losers to tterthcir brains oy'
in the same tables where they have seattere
10 their money! ::
d There is no righteousness In any plea fl
ut gambling, snd the lottery is one of Il
most insidious and pernicious forms !.
ut that vice. When IL WAS resorted to in
,p half of the Crosby Opera House, ve allo,
h ed our own strong convictions on ii
% question to be overbotae by Difference
u the'views of large number of the mo
IL respectable men in ouz city, SO that, VIII
10. we did not endorse, We did not condemn
Ic But the result convinced US that there q
X be no exception to the rule that a lottery
It great public nuisance and crime, and th
Is the laws against it ought at all times to
h | strictly enforced