The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-11
THE CHARITY HOSPITAL AND THE
LOTTERY.

LOTTERY.
We notice the following advertisement in a
BARGE number of the Northern and Western
newspapers:
The Charity Hospital at New Orleans enjoys
sIeservedIy n worldwide reputation. In the
present afflicted condition OF ne me uieseeno
mas been maintained by the liberal gratultles
received through the famous Louisiana State
LOTTERY Company. The drawings OF this in
stitution take place monthly on the SECOND
Tuesday, and for information ADDRESS M. "A.
Dauphin, 2. o. box 500, New Orleans.
Orr ewes have never before fallen upon so
base and infamous IN advertising dodge as
this. During the prevailing epidemic we
have seen many mean and heartless things.
We saw with our own eyes a heartless scoun-
fIreI threaten to turn widow and her two
children, the latter yellow fever conVales-
cents. out of miserable shanty, not worth
five hundred dollars, because the wretched
woman could not pay her rent. Besides this,
we have seen other mean, contemplate and
eowardly things done In the midst OF this
great calamity, showing how much of little
ness and meanness there is In poor human ma
ture. But we have met with nothing in all our
experience which compares with this scheme
of the Louisiana Lottery Company to enlist
the best and noblest impulses of human ma
ture In its swindling gambling scheme
In this period of universal atiliction all
classes of the community have sunk their
antagonisms and interests in a common CT
fort to serve humanity. The minister OF the
gospel, the gambler, the merchant, the pros
tit,lte the mechanic, the landlord, the ten
ant, the politician, the banker and the capt.
talist have, one and all, resolved themselves
into great brotherhood to serve humanity,
and each and all of them have for the time
being, forgotten their ordinary avocations.
Not so, however, with the Louisiana Lottery
Company. That institution grins and laughs
In this day of calamity and puts forth lying
ADVERTISEMENT based upon our great alliiction,
to enlist the aid and support of the charitably
inclined In it's nefarious and swindling
schemes.
Every Louisianan must blush with shame
when he finds that, under an ubiquitous act
OF Louisiana Legislature, purchased by the
basest and most open bribery, q gambling
monopoly may dare to advertise that, upon
its charity and bounty the Charity Hospital
OF New Orleans is enabled to fulfill its
mission.
1t seems to us that the true and noble gen.
tlemen of several by-gone generations, who
established this great institution, which for
half century has been the glory of New Or
leans and the envy of the other cities OF the
Union, must turn in their tombs when this
foul and brutal advertisement is read over
their dust
Are there not venerable physicians in New
Orleans; are there not younger though
equally eminent physicians amongst our
faculty who will denounce the false and
presumptuous pretensions OF the Louisiana
Lottery Company? Gentlemen of the medi-
cal faculty of New Orleans, has the existence
of the Charity Hospital "been maintained by
the liberal gratuities received through the
famous Louisiana State Lottery Company
Gentlemen of the State government; citizens
of Louisiana! Does this great institution, the
pride of our city, the eXempllication OF the
charity of several generations Of our people,
and the field for over half q century of the
Investigations and labors Of our greatest
physicians, indeed, owe its continuance to the
benefcence of Charlie Towards lottery
swindle? God OF Heaven! to what pass has
Door New Orleans come when, in the midst OF
a fearful pestilence wretched gambling
paonopoly may rise up, claim to be the only
support of our hospital and use its power
over us to advertise its swindling gambling
schemes North, East, South and West!
The Charity Hospital was established many
wears ago; for more years than we can re-
member it was the cherished institution OF
our State; the most eminent physicians OF our
city attended it; 1t was q refuge Tor the poor
and destitute sick; and even men OF wealth
without families resorted to it in time Of sick
ness. because there they found just what the
destitute sick found-the ablest and most
thorough medical attention. The names Of
all our philanthropists and of oil OF our great
physicians are identified with the history OF
she Charity Hospital anterior to the era of
political scoundrelism which brought into ex-
istence the Louisiana Lottery Company.
Under the restoration of honest govern
ment in this State, strong and we believe,
successful effort is going on to restore our
great and noble hospital to what it was in
former times, and we resent with Indignation
fbe nresumptuous claim of the Lottery Com
many that. upon its bounty depends the exist
enca Of that institution. ''ln the present
afflicted condition of the Crescent City it
seems providential that its (the Charity Hos
nitan existence has been maintained by the
liberal gratuities received through the LOUIS
lana State Lottery Company
(santIemen of the State and city govern
nent; gentlemen Of the medical faculty
of New Orleans, is this advertisement