The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-03-14
Based on al invested.

| Based on al invested.
| Thus 1t will be seen that when the Louisi
ana Lottery pays $780, $2t, ~ 50 aud $500
honest and just lotteries pay $685. $32, S. allc
| $500. In other words. tho Louisiana Lottery
| Company having obtained u fraudulent
charter by tho most Infamous system Of cor
| rlption, and subsequent unconstitutona
| acts Of legislation protecting its so-caIlec
| rights, has banished all honest lotteries anc
| agencies from the State and set UP n swim
| ding scheme through which 1t robs the pub.
| lie, who believe they are betting with the
| Same chances thcy have in any honest ven
ture. In short ohe Louisiana Lottery Com
| pany is playing with Il stocked deck against
the unsuspocting public, and growing rich
and fat by its swindling operations. Q
10 Has the Louisiana Lottery Company been
less Of fraud upon tho State than upon tho
unfortunate individuals who are buying Its
tickets and devices BY no means. We have
been solemnly told, both in the House and
Senate, that this gambling monopoly deserves
tho support and encouragement of the State
because 1t pays forty thousand dollars per
annum to the Charity Hospital AS we
arc not. in this Article, discussing the
moral phase Of the lottery question: we
shall not attempt TO show how the Char
ity Hospital under thorough system Of
retrenchment and reform might be more
liberaly supported than II is now with tho
$40, 900 annual contribution or tax of the
Louisiana Lottery Company. We assume,
on tho contrary. that our people arc 50
ignorant, miserable and debascd. that we arc
,;,,;,,
charitable institutions to license all de
scriptions Of evils. that 1t is necessary for lls
tohorrow the vices oCJlel to serve heaven with
If tos be the caso then the granting Of tho
charter to the Louisiana Lottery Company
was u swindle upon the State and an outrage
upon tho miserable creatures who need and
demand the charity of the community Be-
fore this charter was passed the laws Of this
State licensed lottery agencies; they pro-
vided that each lottery agency should pay n
lccnso of ten thousand Olollars. gud five per
cent Of the gross sales Of tickets to tho State: :
on these conditions each agency had tho
right to establish nino branch offices.
The Louisiana Lottery Company pays
forty thousand dollars per annum hp the
Cha rity Hospital its capital is exempt from
taxation. and it has in this city alone eighty
branch offices o. agencia. We have heard
groat deal about the forty thousand dollars
this fraud and swndle pays the Charity Hos
pital, and men who defend the iniuuity upon
this ground ought. with these facts before
them. to hido their faces in shame.
lIudcr the law rs it existed before the Loui-
siana Lottery Company received. or rather
purchased, its monopoly Of the lottery bust
ness, that institution would now havc topay to
the State. for its eighty Offices. ciOhty hou-
sand dollars and .frc per crnt Of its gross safes
Of ficl5cfa, instead of forty thousand dollars
under tho present law. This shows what
fraud and swindle upon the State this institu-
tion is, it shows that instead oDroTh hributing
to the Charity Hospital, it IS year
~ swindlingo tho sick. tho halt and the
poor. out of at least fifty or sixty thousand
dollars. 1t shows that if we are dependent
ttf4esf r4>Ynnttne dnrirnd from lnttnrv comnn-
MOS and agencies to support our hospitals
and asylums, We will be better able, by fifty or
sixty thousand dollars, to do SO by repeating
the charter Of tho Louisiana lottery swindle
than we are now We submit these facts to u
candid public for their consideration and to a
Democratic Legislature for its action.