The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-07
TO THE NORTHERN PRESS

berS OF Congress, followed around by crowd
OF newspaper Bohemians, and treated, toasted
and entertained by the whole population Ct
the city The disgraceful story comes to us
that when this prncely swindler and pur-
chaser Of rotten politicians and corrupt leg
islatures visited the White House, hosts Of
American citizens, who were there on BUSH
ness, were kept waiting while he, jmmedi-
ately on his arrival at the palace, was
ushered with distinguished ceremony into
the presence of the fraudulent President.
We have no doubt that much OF this Is true.
Howard exercises great and corrupt power
In the politics and legislation OF this State
through the large means he derives from his
swindllng lottery monopoly; he keeps the
whole press OF New Orleans, with the ex-
ception of the DEMOCRAT, silent, In fact
su bservient to his wishes, and he and
his ring are arranging their plans to
control the elections in this city next
fall. Tweed, in his day Of power, was
n great man in Washington as well as in
New York and Albany; and Howard, we do
not doubt, is as great man at the National
Capital us he Is In New Orleans. The fraudu-
lent President relies upon carrying this
State, II not for the Radicals, Mt least against
the Democrats, to vindicate his fraudulent
possession OF the Presidency, and he has no
doubt been guilty Of the indecency Of receiv-
ing Howard with distinguished favor Tor the
purpose of enlisting the Lottery In the cause
OF the Administration. This accounts for the
fact that the Attorney General and Postmast-
or General evince 80 cautious disposition In
enforcing the statute against the circulation
through the mails OF lottery matter. We
Judge indeed that, as we predicted he would,
Mr. Howard has won the ear Of the Admins
tration and any number of Congressman, and
that he is hopeful of defeating the enforce
ment of the statute, the operation OF which
would break down his lottery and reduce 1t, as
we said few days since, to a local nuisance,
easy Of extinction
It is gratifying, however, to learn that one
Of the leading and most influential newspa-
pers In the North, the Philadelphia Times, has
opened war upon Towards schemes in WASH
ington. There is a law in Pennsylvania, as
there is in New York, and in nearly every
other State of the Union, against lotteries.
Some months ago the vendors Of the tickets
Of the Louisiana Lottery Company in New
York were hunted out Of their dens by the
police and forced to flee from justice. We
noticed at the time the disgraceful
fact that Legislature OF Louisiana had char.
tered and subsequent Legislatures maintained
an institution so corrupt in its influences, and
80 antagonistic to modern civilization, that its
agents in another State were regarded as
criminals, and lived there in constant dread of
the law, selling its tickets one day and fleeing
from the police the next. The same laws ex-
list, rs we have remarked, in nearly all the
other States; and now, that the Chief OF the
Lottery has undertaken to control the Presi-
dent. the Attorney General and the Post
master General, and through one Of his at
torneys, the Secretary OF the Treasury,
through their influence to use the United
States mails to flood New York, Pennsylva-
MIA and other States with lottery circulars,
tickets and devices in violation OF their laws,
we trust that other respectable Northern
journals will join the Philadelphia Times in
denouncing the Louisiana Lottery Company
and it's movements to defeat the operation of
a healthful United States law.
The Northern press could not better serve the
people Of this State than by defending their
own against the Louisiana Lottery Company
The right thinking people Of our State uni
versally denounce this institution, and the |
last session Of the reform Legislature" has
evoked denunciations from every parish with
in our borders by failing to repeal its charter.
Let not our Northern contemporaries assume
that because only one paper in New Orleans
has struck at this monstrOsity in q Christian
there is no general and deep
rooted hostility to the lottery monopoly The
Picay,n,e for years has virtually belonged to
the lottery and dares not open it's mouth In
opposition to its master. The Times Is also
under the influence of the concern, and can
not venture to denounce it. But without an
ex ception the country press of the State has
demanded its extinction, and the sentiment
Of the people, in city and State, is univer-
sally hostile to it and demands that it
be- destroyed. We therefore earnestly in
vite our contemporaries throughout the
North and West to join the Philadelphia
Times in its attack upon the Louisiana Lot
terry Company's movement to prostitute the
mail service of the United States to it's gam
bling and swindling purposes.
Could there be spectacle more digracefuI
to the country, we ask our Northern contem-
poraries, than the President of the United
States giving special audience to Chas 7.
Howard. not long since a common gambler
and now king of lottery swindling monopoly
In Louisiana, while other and better men await
patiently their opportunity to see the Chief
Executive of the nation? Could there be q
more disgraceful spectacle than this ups'art
md trickster marshalling phalanx of the
ablest lawyers in the country at his beck and
call to argue before the Attorney General that
1 law enacted to protect the public from
5wipdlers ought not to be enforced?
DR.. John Aylwin Bevan has recently been
occurring in New York on the subject "Why
should we die p This is topic that must