The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-04
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY NORTH.

The city autf rifles and police Of. number
Of Northern cities have inaugurateI In the
past month bitter and determined ::war
against lotteries in general and against the
Louisiana state Lottery In particulars These
cities have begun to feel the evil effects Of this
lottery, although they have suffered from It
but nsgnificantly in comparison with New
Orleans. and they have determined to root 1t
out before it becomes 60 powerful that IT can
defy the law as It does here. The police, under
instruction. faidad the lottery shops, and
landed their proprietors In jail where most OF
them remain now, being unable to spr0cure
bail. This was the system pursued In New
York and Philadelphia with the happy result
OF Kidding these cities altogether Of the Lou
| isiana State Lottery and its agents ard which
| had been threatened In Cincinnati with the
simllar effect OF shutting up the, lottery
Offices In that city, These raids and arrests
have OF course, proved a heavy blow t6o the
Louisiana State Lottery, cutting of some sec
tons OF country from which it has always
drawn large and reasonably certain income
Az the smaller towns were threatening to i'm
tate the example OF New York, the lottery
saw the necessity OF doing something In Its
defence, or It would be driven entirely out OF
the North and have It's business restricted
within the limits OF Louisiana, where. as Its
swindling character Is well known. it would
scarcely be able to make a meagre living.
Under these circumstances the Louisiana
Lottery has struck blow In its defence and
endeavored to establish It's monopol y 10 the
lottery business In Kentucky, as well as in
| Louisiana. As will be seen In another column
the scheme met with signal and disastrous
failure. The directors OF the Comm pnwealth
Distribution Company, OF Louisville; were
Just preparing to draw their lottery when they
were arrested at the instance of that: we'll
known Louisiana Lottery agent, II. II. Wilde,
and charged with setting up, drawing and
promoting q lottery In other words, the
Louisiana State Lottery Company, selling Its
tickets In Kentucky. was endeavoring 70 es
tablish itself as monopoly in that State, by
turning informer on other lottery co mpanies
But its resort to the law was not crowned
with that success that has so often awaited
it here, for X. II. Wilde found himself that
night locked up in jail with the dshgreeabb
charge OF perjury entered against him.
It is only In the past few months that the
attention OF other States and cities have been
called to this disreputable Louisiana corpora.
ton that has been crushing and. de1iling our
State so long. 1t has only been in these last
few months that the lottery has extended itf
operations over other fields, but has already
attracted official attention In these States
with the result we have shown. This lottery
war has, OF course attracted great! attention
In tho North, and hardly New York. Phila
delphis, Cincinnati or Louisville paper somes
to us without some reference to It.: 1t seems
however, to have altogether escapddothe at
tention Of our city contemporaries, who are
apparently unaware OF the great struggle
going on between this Louisiana monopoly
and the city governments Of half o. dozeI
Northern cities that are profiting by the un
fortunate experience Of Louisiana and crush
ing out this monster before 1t grows too pow
erful for them