The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-15
POLITICS, MoNoPoLIEs AND LoTTE
RIEH.

the Louisiana Lottery Company, are OF such
great weight that we deem 1t necessary, even
at the risk Of becoming tedious, to this morn.
| ing further review their defense of the insti.
tuition, printed in the Picay,ue Thursday and
in the Times yesterday morning.
| We have already exposed by facts on record
and statements which we can prove,that these
eminent gentlemen have been grossly Inn
posed upon, and that their assertion that
"the managers of the company were In sym
pathy with the Democratic party. and were
active and earnest supporters of the present
government" Is not In accordance with his
tory. Before proceeding to discuss other poT-
| tions of the manifesto OF Generals Beauregard
and Early, we shall press upon their attention
two or three additional facts on this particular
point. Besides the contested seat OF the four
teenth ward of this parish, which the lottery
influence decided against the Democrats and
in favor OF Radical negro there was a
contest for one Of the seats from the parish OF
Av0yelles. Mr.. Barbin was the Democratic
contestant; on the other hand a disreputable
carpet-bagger, Souer, held and claimed the seat
After thorough and impartial investigation
OF the controversy the Committee on Elec-
tions reported in favor OF Mr.. Barbin, who
had undoubtedly been elected. Souer.
however, was one Of the instruments
OF the Lottery Company. He held the
seat and had been bought up with the bal
ance OF the Radical members; therefore, not
withstanding the weak and perilous major
lily the Democrats held In the House, the lot
terry determined to stand by their Radical
tool, and, If possible, make him secure In his
seat. When the issue came to final vote the
Radicals voted solidly for Souer, and the
Democrats, with three exceptions, voted for
Mr. Barbin. The three exceptions were Gen.
Young OF Claiborne, and Messrs. Wilde and
Peralta, of this city. Gen. Young and Mr..
Peralta voted with the Radicals and Mr.
Wilde lodged The vote. Messrs. Wilde and
Peralta are employees Of the Lottery Com
pany, and Gen. Young had been, from the
time he entered the House, in the lottery In
terest. Mr.. Barbin was seated, IL Is true, but
he was seated because the Lottery Company
could not exercise influence enough to defeat
him.
Generals Beauregard and Early will, we
have no doubt, concede that man Is very apt
to vote on the side on which he has risked bis
money in betting. Now IL Mr.. Howard and
the lottery men generally had been the true
and consistent Democrats these distinguished
gentlemen represent them to be, and TO have
been, they would not have been found betting
largely on Packard and Hayes. And yet this
Is just what they did do. Whether they will
acknowledge it now or not we are not pre-
pared to say; but it will not be difficult to
prove 1t on several Of them, If they deny 1t.
Mr.. Howard himself was In New York In the
latter part of September, 1876, and we have
before us letter written, from that city, on
the twenty-fifth of September of that year, to
the New Orleans DEMOCRAT by stakeholder
in the Lottery Company, in which we find
this brief but significant sentence: Charles
L. Howard is also here betting wildly that
Tilden will not carry single Northern State"
But why discuss this subject further. The
Louisiana Lottery has not, and in the nature
of things cannot have any honest and
patriotic political affiliations. 1t will herd al
ways with the party that is "in, and its inter-
ests will always force It to pursue methods
to debase and corrupt the party
that 1t affiliates with and turn 1t against the
public good Warmoth, Kellogg, Ludeling,
Hawkins and Dibble made 1t Radical, because
Radicalism itself was political debauchery.
But not even Beauregard and Early-no,
though Lee himself, and all the soldiers, liv-
ing and dead, who followed the banners of the
Confederacy should lend their voices to swell
the argument-could make 1t honestly Demo-
cratic.
THE BEAUTIES OF A MONOPOLY.
Perhaps the most novel feature in the de-
Tense set up by Generals Beauregard and
Early for the Louisiana Lottery Company
is the following:
As to the objection that the Louisiana State
Lottery is monopoly. we do not see that it is
n very serious one but are of opinion that 1t Is
the T as ars ali ea rraa eHe an 4 e
better that they. should exist rs monopolies
than that the right to conduct them should be
general.
In one paragraph these gentlemen assure
the community that they are 50 deeply inn
bued with Democracy that they refused to
associate themselves with the Lottery Com
pany until they had satisfied themselves
that its managers were all dyed-in-the-wool
Democrats, and In the next paragraph they
broadly, unreservedly and unequivocally as
sert that there is no serious objection to
gigantic monopoly; indeed, they tell us that
in their opinion monopolies are blessing to
the people. We cannot understand this sort
of Democracy. We have always believed
that monopolies Of all descriptions were OBJ
noxious to true Democracy and repugnant to
the genius of republican institutions. And yet
we do not believe the doctrine of monopolies
has ever been so broadly presented and I'M
qualifiedly defended since the Parliament
of 1897, when Queen Elizabeth said ''she hoped
her dutiful and loving subjects would not take
away her prerogative Ito grant monopolies),
the choicest flower in her garden and the
principal and head pearl In her crown and
diadem." But even in that time the PERM
cious effects of monopolies had been so plainly
demonstrated that the Parliament, backed by
the people, finally compelled the great Queen
to yield to their demands, and abolish them
all.
1t has been said that corporations have no
soul. This might be said with more justice of