Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-11-05
Lottery Gambling.

-"e'e'"'i'e Iipruy ASSOCIATION oil San
Francisco. Two hundred thousand tickets
were sold at S. each; CPS prizes, accrc.
eating $500, OC0. and 1882 blanks were
drawn-over 300 blanks to every prize
with profit to the Association of $780,.
600, minus expenses. The managers OF
this grand gambling scheme were all gen.
tlemen ofthe highest social standing, whose
names are associated with many of the
most notable moral and religious associa.
lions and enterprises, in a city famed
throughout the world for its magnifceu,
charities and generous philanthropy
Among the purchasers of the two hundred
thousand tickets, every phase and condi.
ton of society was represented ministers,
priests, dcacous, rabbis, and moral reform
lecturers, staked their money upon the
game of chance with professional gamblers,
thieves and prostitutes, all actuated by an
unhallowed greed for the acquisition of
money without toll, of appropriatiug to
their own use the earnings of others with
out returning an equivalent in value. Hon.
Addison Gardner, Judge of the Superior
of New York, in one of his decisions, BY
way Of illustration, mentions the case of " a
thief, who, in order to buy lottery ticket,
picked his companions pocket, leaving a
written pledge, without signature, that if
he drew prize he would faithfully repay
the money" Who can estimate the mum.
Der Of like cases created by this grand lot.
terry scheme; how many debts deferred !;
how many wives and children robbed of
their just dues by the husband and father /;
how much money obtained by fraud and
false prctcnses, for the purpose of indul-
glng in the inordinate propensity for gam
bling developed by this scheme for making
one of the most dcmoralizing passions trib.
utary to worthy object? In our estima-
ton, the very worst feature of this scheme
was the high responsibility of the parties
engaged in it. If all the gambling houses,
houses Of ill-famc and dens of vice upon
tbs coast had been licensed to practice
their vacations upon condition of sharing
their profits with some public bencfaction,
the consequences to public morals would
not have been so damaging or widespread
as has been this gambling device under
legislative enactment and religious endorse
ment. Gambling is the bcsetting sin of
the people and the predominant vice of the
times; the social, moral and religious sen.
timents are subordinatcd to the overpow-
ering passion for acquisition-to hasten to
be rich. No moral suasion can check it +:
no legislative enactment can restrain it.
All who believe in Divine guidance and
the necessity of moral restraint to the hap.
piness of man, should set their faces against
this vice as against moral pestilence, in
stead OF attempting to profit by encourag-
ing and fostering the evil. 1t is not too
much to anticipate that the temptation to
acquire riches by gambling which this
scheme has offered to thousands who were
never tempted before, will prove like the
planting Of dragons teeth in the crop of
decentralization and vicious propensities it
will devclopc.
OREGON LEGIsLATIoS.-The Lesisla.
ture of Oregon adjourned on the 10Th d,v
Of October.
The Governor vetoed the bill to increase
the salary of the Supreme judges; also
the bill to authorize the City of Portland
to issue bonds 10 the amount Of 5000 600
to aid in the construction Of the Willamette
Valley Railroad.
An appropriation of so. 900 vas passed
to bald peniteutiary, and Joseph Hol-
man and McAlexander we're elected Com
m'ss'oners TO superintend the building.
Acts we're passed creating the Offices of
Superintendent Of Public Instruction. Re-
gisser Of the Land Oahee, and Supreme
Court Reporter and Clerk. T. C. Camp
bell was elected Superintendent, L. L.
Mcicouus, Register, an c. @. Curl. Re-
porter and Clerk
An act vas passed to increase tie salary
OF Private Secretary of the Governor 10
81, 200, and to allow the Secretary of State
600 = year for clerk hire.
A memorial was passed asking Congress
Tor land grant in aid Of . rad from
Grsyis Harbor to Siaslav.
Joha Adair. ". III. Lane, and ". Rodr-
ers were elected Pilot Commissioners. and
George II. Ryan State Librariaa.
BrRGLARr--0u Tuesday eEeaiag last
the house Of Lewis Bettman vas catered
by buYrisr~ and . s,,l1 ~,s~h . $500 -.