The Grange advance., 1874-03-11
demand 4, better. .syatems of sfarming.s-which:
can scarcely be afforded without cheaper
rates Of transportation, especially in the
far west. =
Humbugs.

Sayler ) Ullt GuLeEpTlSe Nlu uOt come on
on the 22d ult., as promised. and the Man.
kato Union thinks the affair looks like
fraud. We were 80 suspicious that all was
not right, after printing his advertisement
couple Of times that we notified him to
call and see us and make satisfactory ex-
planation or we should discontinue adver-
tising for him. but he never deigned to
notice US and we dropped him out. We
understand that the drawing is postponed
until June lst. but we advise our readers
not to invest in the enterprise-at all events,
not unless the very best guarantees are
made.-St Peter Tribune.
But why would the Tribune have its
reader invest in any lottery humbug, what
ever guarantees it may offer. Why does it
not warn its readers that all lotteries are
humbugs and swindle:s. Large prizes are
held out to tempt men to invest money, the
create. portion Of which goes into the
pockets Of the managers and to pay ex-
penses. and the balance to pay the very few
lucky or unlucky individuals who draw the
prizes. At Least 992 men loose their money
where one gets any considerable prize
and il must no: be supposed that the one
gets tie whole or the greate2: part OF what
the 99:' nave put into the concern In
the frs; place a very large per cen1age Of
The proceeds Of the tickets is paid to agents,
and for advertising. Then the managers
must make / big thing, and the prize aol;I-
ers take the ba lance The man wiio draws
prize IS generally supposed TO be Il lucky
man. .n,l 10 have come BY his moae; honest
ly, but we do not 80 regard it. What right
has any man TO get 500 for 800 invested:
Has he given any just consideration for this
money: Certainly not. The whole theo-
ry. tendency. and results of the lottery
business are opposed TO sound morality and
the best interests Of society. We call
upon the grangers especially to discoun-
tenance this species Of humbug. This
reckless spirit speculations is answerable
for much of the evil that they are striving
to remedy. We clip the following from
the 1aericu'turalist which is right on the
point:
ALL LOTTERIES ARE HUMBUGs,
no matter how fairly managed. Their
main object is to make money for their pro-
prietors, and the pretnece of benefting
some public or charitable institution is a
mere bait: Within the recollection of many.
lotteries were tolerated, and even lcsalized.
in almost every state in the Union, but of
late years the moral sense Of the commu-
nifty mas demanded that they be suppressed,
and now most states have laws prohibiting
them. Take this Louisville affair, for in
stance. which seems to be profitable, or it
would not be kept up so long we showed
year ago, in a quotation from Louisville
paper, that the purchasers Of tickets paid
nine dollars to put one dollar into the IL
brary fund. Then here is the Gift Concert
for the Reform School of Leavenworth, Kan
sas, which we have already noticed, and
which is mainly plan to help the project
or to sell his house for good price, that
being one Of the prizes. Even Utah has
gone into lottery business, and proposes a
"Gift Concert for the benefit of a free
school in the city Of Corinne. No matter
under what pretense these things are ad-
| vertised-and we consider those cloaked un-
der charitable disguise more reprehensible
| than bold and barefaced lotteries-they all
hold out temptations, that the few may get
something at the expense of the many 1t
is gambling in its meanest form: and no
honorable man, whether he be governor,
mayor, merchant, or priest. should allow
his name to be used to promote any such
scheme.