Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-05-25
THE LOTTERY COMPANY SEEKS TO
CRUSH THE N. o. DEMOCRAT.

The Louisiana State Lottery Company
having brought action against Mr.. A. C.
Janin, one of the proprietors of the N o.
Democrat, for the amount of $25, 900 dam
ages, on account of an editorial appearing
in that paper on the 18th inst, the Demo-
crat responds on Tuesday last in an article
which should be sustained by every hon.
est paper in Louisiana, which we ap-
plaud, and from which we take the fol-
lowing extract:
The Louisiana Lottery Company was
established by an act purchased from q
corrupt Legislature; the subsequent acts
passed in it's interest were purchased from
Legislatures equally corrupt. 1t sustain-
ed tho Radical administrations when IN
power; it corrupted the jndicia.
~. State and Federal, from police to 81
preme courts; it went into our legisla-
ture and by currupt means combined
against the people in the interest Of the
hondholders; it has become a moral pes
thence in our midst; it has primary
school for gambling; it has taught ser.
wants to steal the money of their employ
ers; it has made swindlers and thieves
of clerks; it has debauched ministers of
the Gospel like some vile, presidential
and insidions disease, it has eaten into
and permeates our whole social and politi
cal system. The Tweed ring in New York
vas a bad thing; but that touched and
contaminated only the politics of that me-
trOpolTs; it never invaded the social life
of the city and state. The lottery ring in
New Orleans is therefore infinitely worse.
It has corrupted our politics /; it has de-
bauched our legislatures ; and in every
street of the city and every town Of the
State it has opened its primary schools to
tempt and teach people to gamble.
There has never been newspaper in this
city. except tho Democrat, that it has. not
purchased and silenced we doubt if many
men have run for an office in this city on
either side since the organization of this
company who did not stand IN awe of its
power, and who wei not anxious to con-
ciliate its tremendous power. 1t is this
institution which the Democrat has at
tackled and because We have dared to
attack it. because we refused its brides, in
sidiously offered under gnise of business,
wo are to- be robbed and plundered
through the ingenuity of able lawyers,
and, if possible, through courts and jul
ries, Of $25, 900. Must there not be q So
cial decentralization when IL corrupt gamb
ling monopoly thus hires the first law
yers Of the country and seeks to destroy
the organ of the pcoplef
We accept the challenge thrown down
TO ms in this suit. We have refused the
insidious oners Of this company we have
fought it when the majority of the Legis-
lature lay helpless in its grip; single hand.
ed and alone, when the Times and Plea
yune were, as they are now, it's AFFECT,
willing and obedient tools, we made the
fight against it. What was our object
More money than the Lottery Company
have sued our associate for we could have
had from this company for the asking
and it is not long since money even the
sum the advertising of the Lottery Com
pany in the Times and Picayune amounts
tu-and which the company begged us to
accept, was an object to us. But we I'M
derstood the pernicious influence of that
institutio" in our politics. The DEMO
Graf was established, and, in its days of
distress, sustained by the Democratic
party, and we felt that we had no right
to hold relations or make terms with the
lottery Company for our personal emolu-
ment. In the interest of the Democratic
party, therefore, in the interest of the
people WHO established the DEMOCRAT,
and look to it for honest counsel and hon
est opinion, we opened this war, in the
interest of the State we have kept it up.
and in that interest, so help us God, we
will keep it up until the lottery monopo-
ly is destroyed or the DEMOCRAT is
crushed. If IN such fight as this the
DEMOCRAT or any ono of its prOprietors
can be robbed, swind1ed aud plundered
through the courts Of the State we are
strivin to protect, of$25, 900 OF any other
sum, then is our mission ended.