The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-18

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Editor Democrat Propositions Of yario,
kinds are being made to o,,r Legislature luuk
Ing to reformation of wrongs aud raising o
revenue For the latter n,rnnea / holinSa =.
IofTett register bill is already nrasautnJ and
Tor ono. approve II most heartily
Two more sources az yarv nnnGiderabln ROY.
enlin present Themselves and tn NV mind il
Ia a wonder that thav have never baen nil
lied | mean the rambling house sud
the baguio. The argument against H.
been Che su-called ''mornl" one. and lepisla
finu hna snenf itsalF In fuiiIe of,rte al tbni,
extinr,,isbnapt Rivers ot orstory have over,
run our Legislative halls in my time over The
slonstroi,s wrong of Inausinp ,ranhIinp
saloons and In fierce dennnciation Of thnir
existence Yet there they stand ali over ihn
city AS plain as the nose in a mans face and
In Successful defiance of the most stringent
e.ar, devise. And whyY Simplv harause there
h demand for them which Is paramount to
all opposition, Man will gamble and ali tho
laws and ordinances that man can establish
cannot prevent him.
Let ME illustrate this propostiop, During
Che war | was on military duty in a neigh,
boring State | was seeking all tbn knntyl
edge could get In regard 20 men and things
at The hands Of one OF the leading men of the
community, with whom had intimate rea-
tlons | asked him about the working Of
their yerv stringent ,yonhIina, 1,,, itI,b -
aaid he. dI'll illustrate is working hv ri vinp
you history of its origin
I fyuu know John Smith n use th1a na,pc a
very convenient opnJ Well John is an
able LAWYER an eloquent sneaker a sbrnwd
legislator, and, withal, ono Of the most influ-
entail members Of the - church John IL
the father of that law, I was in The Tegis,az
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through About q o'clock one dav The Iii
came Iip on the question Of It's fina, p,ssage
There had been vigorous opposition to il, and
Of course we required John to help us carry il
through Indeed. he was in1istensabIa and
he could not be found | begged for half an
hour; It was granted, and n committee IT
three of lIs hurried to the hotel tn inumire for
him The clerk of The hotel told us that he
was In the house and that we would find him
In room 10 Thither we started nypertiuu tn
find him sick or ''slert over" The door was
locked h,li wa yyera ,aadilv admitted and IT,
our horror. there sat Jobn in hIs a'. shi ~,
sleeves, Mt The tsweat cloth and with n
huge nile of winnings before htmf or nm,rsa
we lost no time in getting his cheeks
traahed, and him to the State House Ue
went right to work, delivered speech against
gambling such az I have never hoard en,1nlled
battled his adyersaries at every turn. hurled
the Hprcest pnathemas an their iaads for iho;r
immortality, brought alternate tears and an
ipla,se from the lobby. and gave orr State an
m a Ittv, t-ski
on"
"And do your peopln still s,,pro,t gambling
saloons n said L
''You know they do, said he. "and John ia
the most successful faro plaver I'm the state
But, you know. the ia,c makes us pppear To-
the world more moral peopla
And THUS has IL been here in Louisiana
am cretlibly informed that right here in Now
Orleans there are generally running from
twenty TO thirty gambling saioona ali in con |
traveiltipn of law ell perfectly we'll known Ia
the authorities. whose duty ii ia to suppress
them. and ali conducted lust ma aen,na tn |
themselves best. And these establishments
nav not ono cent of license /, tho St.to ~, |
city, while almost every man VIII" works for
d living paws for tho pryilope And what |
does all this mean? Why, simply. that gam
bling can't be suppressed by statutory proyi- |
sion, and worse still thai the p,,bIir officials
whose duty ii II to suppress. and who arc
pledged to suppress. stand seIf,conyieted be
fore the community of worse than dereliction
I'm Office.
But, more than all this. there stands he
stupendous licensed monopoly called the
Louisiana State Jottary"'a gamhiinp o.
Establishment far ahead Of all the comined
gambling saloons Of the State in the scope
and tendency of its workings. and more and
worse than all. there stands the premium
bond lottery drawing, officially and formally
permitted to exist by the Louisiana State Lot
terry domiciled in the City Hall itself. and it's
drawings cond,ctnd NV the worry officials
to suppress gambling
And shall we stan here2 Not u hit of II
There Is not proprietor Of a gambling saloon
who will not tell you that there exists at al
most every corner a licensed evil the drink
ing saloon-that largely takes prpc~lenrp
over gaming and acts as the feeder of the
gambling saloon The man whose brain is
utterly free of alcohol ia the exception in Tho
saloon: the man who is more or los
under Its influence is the rule Yet show ms
The legislator outside New England who hone
estly proposes to suppress drinking. or show
me that in New England there is less drinking
OF gambling for all their blatant laws for sun,
preston
plicable to the b.pnio 'p
What does common sense dictator WHY.
that an irrepressible evil should br regulated
as lar as possible for the public veal. and
that It shall be made to contribute tho last
possible dollar toward conducting govern
ment Can this be done2 Yes it can br thor
oughly done
/ have said there are twenty To thirty tram-