The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-23
A sQUIRMING MONOPOLY.

In its card, printed in the Times and Plea
yune Tuesday morning, and reprinted In
those journals yesterday, the Louisiana
State Lottery Company says:
It has pleased the New Orleans DEMOCRAT. for
some time past. TO wage against this company a
relentless war OF vituperatlon, abuse and SLAM
der. The motive OF these assaults Is too ap-
parent to be specially indicated. Political sen
sattonalism, or some person nj grudge and AMI
mostly, and no advocacy of any principle or
hostility to any rights we have claimed. or any
acts we have done, have impelled these attacks.
During the last ten years the Louisiana
State Lottery Company has maintained itself
solely through It's corruption fund and by
operating on the cupldity OF public officers,
such as governors, Judges and Legislators. 1t
is now impossible for 1t to understand that any
objection to 1t could be instigated or main
tanned by disinterested and patriotic motives
hence 1t inslnuates that the war Of the DEM
ooRAT upon 1t was instigated by desire for
political sensationalism or a personal grudge
or animosity, and by no advocacy Of princi-
pie. This Is the Wow Of the prostitute who
has learned to believe that there Is no such
thing as virtue; or OF the bunko gambler
who believes that It Is right and just to
fleece his victim provided he can evade the
vigilance OF the policeman.
The proprietors Of the DEMOCRAT must be
indeed regarded as sorry set Of fools by
any intelligent man who believes that, for
mere political sensationalism, they have
made this war upon the Lottery Company
through which they have sacrificed twenty or
twenty five thousand dollars worth OF legiti-
mate business In three years and involved
themselves In little less than financial ruin by
subjectlng themselves to libel suits to the
amount Of $4,000. and the loss of $4,000
In State warrants. enjoined In mali
cious suit, In corrupt and s:,bservient court
by a vile tool and henchman Of the Lot
terry Company. Sensationalism may be pre-
cious to newspaper, but sensible newspaper
men will not court 1t at such cost as the
Louisiana State Lottery has inflicted. through
one OF It's courts, upon the DEMOCRAT. Every
man In the State who has brains enough to
comprehend the question will at once see how
silly Is this contemplate falsehood Of the
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
And as to "some personal grudge or ami
mostly" What personal grudge or animosity
have we against the Lottery Company ex-
cept such as may have grown out of circum-
stances happening subsequent to the time
when we began this war? When we opened
this war we knew none of the managers or
proprietors of the Lottery, and we had no
with them and no animosity
against them. The suggestion OF personal
animosity on our part is as absurd and false
as the i.sinuation that we were prompted by a
thirst for political sensationalism.
The motive which prompted our crusade
against the Lottery Is broader and better than
those the Company insinuates we acted upon.
We undertook to destroy that demoralizing
in our social system and that
corrupting power in our politics for the same
reason that has prompted most enlightened
nations to prohibit lotteries within their juris-
diction; for the same reason that the legis-
latures OF nearly every State in the Union
has forbidden the sale Of lottery tickets within
its borders; for the same reason that has
prompted legislatures all over America
to set the police, the sheriffs and the constabes
to hunt down, prosecute and imprison as public
malefactors and debauchers Of public morals
reason which induced the Philadelphia Times,
the New York Times and hundreds Of other
journals throughout the Northern and West
ern States to join in crusade against the
Louisiana and the Kentucky lotteries; for
the same reason which led the police author
tiles of New York, Louisville and Cincinnati
to recently raid the dens established by the
Louisiana State Lottery Company In those
cities, and imprison their keepers as COM
Congress to provide by a special act that
neither lottery tickets nor circulars should
be circulated through the United States
mails, thus placing such tickets and cir
culars on level with indecent publ
cations, calculated to debauch society
for the reason that 1t Is a recognized fact
throughout the Christian world that a great
lottery concern, such as the one which exists
in this State, is simply common gambling
school in which men, women and children
are educated for the faro bank and roulette
table; for the reason that 1t develops, cult
Yates and excites to the highest pitch the
gambling instinct. and hence in the course Of
time completely demoralizes society as far
as its influence reaches.
These are the motives which prompted us
to begin this war, and these are the motives
which will influence us to pursue the Lcuisi-
ana Lottery, even if the present Senate does
not perform its duty, into the constitutional
and out Of the constitutional con-
vention into the succeeding Legislature. We
know nothing of Mr.. Howard, nor of Mr.. Nor
ris, nor Of Mr.. Dauphin, and we care nothing
about them They may be good men or bad
men. That Is none Of our business. But we
do know that they are engaged in business
injurious to the State, and that through that
business they have gained power and an in
fluence in our politics and legislation which
must be broken down. No other motives
prompted us in this fight, and these motives we
assume are sufficient to influence every DEM