The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-02
Thus is this chapter ended, although moro may
follow yet
| For / presgge tho fight will rage and many
| heads get hit o,
HOWARD'S WHEEL.
HOW 1T CORRUPTs The MORALS OF
THE PEOPLE AND DEsGRACEN
HONEST HOMES.
The story Of Three of the victims Of the
LOTTERY.

Lottery.
| It is only Within tho past few weeks since the
| DEMOCRAT has Interested itself in ferrcttng ou'
tho inpumorabIe woes of which it has boon the
| instrument. that tho appalling inipuity OF IN"
Louisiana Lottery has presented itself to tn"
| public mind. We arc ourselves a5t0und"d nj
| tho widespread decentralization. the crime and
sorrow, tho despair. destituliOn and self do
structlon directly attributable to its baefuI
agencies. Since our first publication persons
! Of tho highest responsibility haVe como to us
daily with detailed statements Of tho ruin and
degradation that have boon brought.
ny IT'S ALLUREmEETs ALOHE,
| tn families whose honor had been kept above
repr0ach through succeeding generations
whose names had boon guarded as 50
credIy rs was tho Holy Grail by the knights
| OF old. whose Keeping was conlided to mono hut
! tho puro-tO homes that never knew the cruelty
| of want nor tho iRnOminy OF shame. Wide
| spread and disastrous indeed must DO the ihilh-
| ence that ia thus abe to erect a skeleton on so
many threshOlde Like the dondly upnS' II
numba with n moral death all those who seek
refuge from honest toll beneath ttB HlIuring but
shifting and phantom shades.
LIKE SOME VAST rUTRIDITy
| It corrupts tho moral atmosphere and SickenB
tho high and the lowlY alike. 1t insdtously
corrupts and eventually degrades many to
whom tho open and direct prOffer of dishonest
advantage would be like Il blow in tho face. the
sure provooation Of quick and deadly resent
ment.
Is It poseibIe that our churches, our charItH-
bic associations. or even those who merely con-
| tribute to the pleasures of the public, can &C
cept gratuity and aims from such n source
That this has been the case in the past has
doubtless boon due to the fact that the enOrmty
of the eorruptlng influence has never been I'M
derRtond nor even suspected. But lot 1t not be
said In the future that immunity for the Lot
terry has been bought from the damnatiOn OF
anv good man or Christian association by any
such tribute.
ASA PROOF or THE WIDESPREAD
decentralization produced By the lottery. OF
which we have spoken we will cite three In
stances related to US yesterday by n deectiye,
who came to our Office voluntarily ana made the
! Btatements. OF their exact truth there can be
no doubt and doubtless. the circumstances Of
| each case are well known to many Of our citi-
| zens;, ,.., h., "4ho4 oo,,o ,,,,1or
NV observation was that Of young --. some
| three years ago. He belonged to one of the
most
| ANCIENT AND HONORABLE OF OUR OLD Fam
| LIES.
md until he became possessed IF this lottery
| Ieprosy enjoyed the most enviable reputhtiO
| for commercial ability and integrity. Almost
from his childhood ne had oIen en- IN the employ
| ity and integrity he had secured the unb0und0d
| confidence Of his employers.
! From year to year he had been promoted
| from one post Of honor and proat to another
| until, finally. he bad reached the position OF
cashier and confidential man OF business. Of the
rich and powerful corporation with which he
had so long been employed. and the, future
promised him nothing but high ,repu 8 and as
surod success It WIS 2t lhlS time, when IN th it
on to fortune was at its very mood. that he
FIRST BEGAN TO PLAY LOTTERY.
At first his idea was merely to chance q spare
quarter, and the exhflaration Of gambling haC
nothing to do with It, was q R, af tR t ma
! an old one, and ned not tire you with it. Soon
| he was possessed with the gamblers insanity
| that terrible and tn"XOrabIe fatAlism OF Luck
| which when once 1t possesses q man. never
leaves him till 1t has shrt Veled and deadened his
every moral faculty and rendered MIN lncapA'
| hIe Of any generous feeling or noble rag9. 81
| It was with this young fellow. He played higher
and higher every day. His whole existence
seemed absorbed In the ono idea Of winning &
| fortune by lottery
THE FETTCH
Of his low and Rroveling superstition was fig
| urns and combinations Of figures. Every trivia
Incident that suggested to his eager and restless
| brain n number he interureted as Il fntefu
| sign RI three pergOng happened to talk tOg0thr
| he would address them and ask their respective
ages. and these would afford him a combination
nmmbeTe Of Iicenge tags. anything that had
| n IVA on il would he seized on with a hungry
nrnaratition Eventually his plays became a!
high as
- ''' .. --,,.,>,,,,r r,o,,,ro
TWO hUN"iND I'oi''N"7 DN''
and then detection and Disgrace became mere
matter Of time. To cut u long story short. thi.
eventually came and his defalcatlon was up II
the thOusaRds."
! RnpOrter-YOu say this INSTANCE came under
your personal observation. What became 0
DStectiVt-IIe was. Of course, discharged. Th
matter was hushed up IN rconSeq4HnrH o. hI
high family connections. bnt he hIm5rIf ma
never recovered from tn" di4grAce ana IS nov
dragging out miserable He Oh pOVcrLy ah'
Dissipation.
! Npp.-Whnt are the O'h"r cases yo1 Epok" OF
One other j. that OF Young --. whose nam
give you, az that Of the, others, only on cndI
tion that it be not puhitshed II 1t becomes nee
o4sary the CIRCUMSTANCES can Dc GIOStaht1ateI
He WAS the book Keep Ahn ophldHh,ial o'F ;
wen prGcl5ey W. H'tT" m{, itn va, eo Vii
ms EN- bI"y"IS o Honf si' hnr he ia r Tgba
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