Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-31
A Drawing"

Our readers may not understand the differ ence between "lottery" and a adrawing." ]" They know that the former isa sin and acrime, contrary to to Statute in such case provided; while the latter is an entirely moral way of dlsposing of articles otherwise unstable, at a church-fair. Now the difference lies entirely in the object to be benefited by the enterprise. When the money thus obtained goes 'into the pocket ofa John Morrissey, the business is inn moral and lottery. Semi-civilized govern ments like those of Kentucky, Maryland or Cuba, still authorize iniquities of this kind Sixty or seventy years ago, even our New Eng land fathers used to own slaves and build churches with the proceeds of lotteries. Now, however, government lottery is considered just as wicked as any other; the proceeding only becomes moral, and a ''drawing," when the object is conspicuously worthy. Hence, had the wicked Winsted Press tried to in- crease it's subscription list, and coax arrears out ofits delinquents by ''disposing of any kind of property by any kind of hazard" it would have been plainly illegal and lottery; where as the same expedient practiced by the Wins ted Herald, an excellent family paper, rnn in the interest of morality and West Winsted and in opposition to immortality and the Flat, is a drawing" and in no sense lottery with in Section 4, Chapter g, Title 20, of the Gen. eral Statutes of Connecticut.
 In fact the high moral purpose of the Her aids enterprise is obvious on a casual exami- nation of the list of articles drawn" Prize 59 is "Corkscrew (for Arnica);" 99, a Cork screw (for Bay Rum)." Now, moral cork screw is an invaluable discovery. We have long had quart of Arnica (won at spell ing match), lying around unopened, simply be- cause interested parties at our drug stores pre- tended that they could furnish no corkscrew that was not liable at any moment to jerk the cork out of a whiskey bottle Tins Winsted corkscrew, however, can discriminate Bay Rum from Old Santa Cruz just as readily from the mere look of the bottle, as the Winsted Herald can tell gentleman from scoundref, merely from the fact of his living on the Flat or in West Winsted, or from his having voted for or against the new Town Hall.
 The most numerous and the most valuable though not perhaps the most strictly moral of the hundred Herald prizes, are some fifty "Maps of Winsted." We take it these are War maps-nobody would care for any other with little cross swords to show former battles, with linesof entrenchment and circum- -vallation about the New Town Hall, with Mad River running red with gore, and with portraits of Winsted's noted warriors in high colors arrang ed along the sides of the map, foremost among whom should be the modest face of Thomas M. Clark, the lifelong advocate of 6 single postofice, always defeated but never beaten
 Forty of the remaining prizes are chromos and stereoscopic views. There is a tendency, just now, to undervalue these noble works of art, merely because they are cheap. Some of the chromos (Which retail at $5each, and may be procured by the snterprising publisher at from $5 to $15 hundred, are really beau- tiful; and the stereoscopic views, though not quite so striking, perhaps, as the chromo, is a nice thing to have in the house.
 The most valuable prize drawn" however, and the only one the offering of which has really moved our envy and administration as rival publisher, is the Thoroughbred Colt" The six moral corkscrews prove our Brother Joseph journalist of resource and ingenuity; but that thoroughbred colt is an inspiration of genius. Az it's present proprietor may be try ing to dispose of the animal, we do not intend advertising it for nothing Nevertheless, we frankly acknowledge that we never heard of a thoroughbred colt worth less than $3OOO MT. G. c. Hitchcock, of New Preston, holds them higher, but for mere farm work, 'cultivating" corn and "tedding" hay, $3,0O0 is probably about the right figure"