The Grange advance., 1874-03-11
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sayler's Gift Enterprise did not come oft
on the 22d ult., as promised; and the Man
kato Union thinks the affair looks like
fraud. We sweresso suspicious that all was
not right, after printing his advertisement
q couple of times that We notified him to
call and see us and make satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION 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 1st. 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. - ! ..- ~. .>s.s
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 swindlevs. Large prizes are
held out to tempt men to invest money, the
greater 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 999 men loose their money
where one gets any considerable prize
and it must not be supposed that the one
gets the whole or the greater part of what
the 999 have put into the concern. In
the first place very large per centage Of
the proceeds Of the tickets is paid to agents,
and for advertising. Then the managers
must make a big thing, and the prize hold
ers take the balance, The man who draws
prize is generally supposed to be lucky
man, and to have come by his money honest
ly, but we do not so regard it. What right
has any man to get 500 for $1.00 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 ofspeculations is answerable
for much of the evil that they are striving
to remedy. We clip the following from
the AgriculturaHst 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 beneftinq
some public or charitable institution is a
mere bait! Within the recollection of many.
lotteries were tolerated, and even lcsalized,
lin almost every state in the Union, but Of
late years the moral sense of the commu-
nifty has 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
a year ago, in a quotation from Louisville
paper, that the purchasers of tickets paid
mane 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 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 it's 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.