Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-05
LOTTERIES.
HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN, RISE AND
PROGRESS OF THIS GREAT EVIL.
Gambling for 'h2 Saviour's Garments-The
Ruin Lotteries Have Wrought-Tickets
Good for Admission to Hades-Art
Associations, Gift Enterprises,
&c., Machines for Manufact-
uring Gamblers.
THE GREAT PLAGUE OF THE NATION.


ruin and demoralizatio which gambling
has wrought In too vivid colors. 1t is,
emphatically, the great evil Of the pres
ent day. We gamble in everything. In
bonds and stocks wheat and corn, flour
and provisionS-in everything. 1t has
penetrated every branch of business
with its demoralizing influences, until
the great industries, the staples, all our
products, and all that we necessarily
must have, are at their mercy, and the
gamblers fix the price which we must
pay. There is law III Illinois which
inhibitS combinations for the purpose of
raising the price of flour, grain, prOvi-
sions and other ncccssarics of life, but
before the power of the rings it has be-
come practically dead letter. There
seems to be no redress except i'll public
opinion which shall regard all species of
gambling asalike crimes, whetherinthe
stock or grain boards, or at Il game
table
New York, November 4.-Rcv. Dewitt
Talmage delivered one OF his characteristic
sermons at the Tabernacle this morning.
! Tx teXt was:
Tcxt-Matthcw XVII -: Upon my YES
ture did they cast lots
Jesus was dead, and his personal proper
| ~ is being disposed oil He had no real
| estate. for he was born in a strangers barn
and buried in a borrowed ScpulChrc His
personal property was insignificant His
Shoes were all worn out in the long Jour
nev OF the worlds redcmption but there
still adhered some value to his coat.
Who shall have it? The rutiIans toss up
in a lottery To see. There, there, | have
it," cries one Of the human butchers. All
| the lotteries OF that day and ol this day
were born under the hOotS OF those
wretCheS. There was born the
Royal Havana Lottery,
| in which probably some OF you have had
tickets There was born the great Reed Il
Co. Lottery, OF New York, with its repre-
| scntcd S722, ,26S in cash prizes, tickets s.
| each or ten tickets for $40; the Topeka,
Kansas, and Laramie City, Wyoming Ter
ritorieS, lotteries manipulated by Russell
d Co., the Louisville Lottery Association
with diamonds, watches and jewels by the
bushels the Georgia Lottery for the East
and West; the Louisiana State Lottery,
sanctioned by the influential names Of
Generals Bcaurcgaurd and Early, and the
Kentucky lotteries f0r the benefit OF the
State school in the town of FranktOrd.
| There were born all the lotteries which
have swindled and are swindling
Multitudes of People.
| Since the first To the last, all ui them, with
out one exception, are frauds, ignOmniouS
and internal frauds, whether sanctioned by
legislatures or antagOnizcd Of them; frauds,
| though respectable people have with them
| damaged their property and blistered their
immortal soul Tor eternity. People IN
straytrIIcd ClrCumsturces AMI alinUot doih-
ious with perpleXity have sought in them
relief, losing their last dollar or their last
fifty cents, or their last five cents, Tor there
are lotteries where the drawings occur
every five minutes. In the most distressed
wears OF misery Sl4OOO,OO0 We're expended
annually in Italy in lotteries. And while
the rich suffer. the greatest wrong Is 10 the
Door Let the people to whom these words
| Jnav come beware OF circulars III large type
saving: Agents prize tickets free OF cost
Every ticket draws prize! NOOlanKs. 4
| fortune within your reach without cost or
risk, ANY person can easily sell $40 worth
Of tickets in the enclosed monthly ail-prlIe
| scheme. among personal friends and secure
one of the agents prize tickets free of cost.
|. Capital prize 5000, There are lO,OW
prizes and only l00Q0 tickets in all
| There are
Humid reds OF Citizens
| on the way 10 ruin through the lottery SyS-
| tenn Some Ot the finest establishments III
| town are by this process being demolished
this aCCumulating evil. The wheel oil for
| tune is the Juggernaut that is crushing out
| the life of this nation. The records OF the
| inSOlvent court of one city show that IN
| five wears $4,000 were lost by dealing IN
| lottery tickets All the officers OF the cele-
| brated Bank OF the United States, which
| failed were found to have expended the
| money cmbczzled for lottery tickets; \
man drew in Il lottery $50 900. sold his
;,L. for
enough to pay the charges against him Tor
lottery tickets He owed the brokers Sf5,-
OOO. An editor writes: "A man. who
few years ago was bleSt with about $4,000
lottery money, yesterday applied to us for
nincpcncc to pay for nights lodging:
\ highly respectable gentleman drew SO
900 in a lottery; bought more tickets and
drew again; bought more-drcw more
LARGELY: then rushed down hcadlong until
he was pronounced by the select men ol
IN" village
= yagabond
and h!> children were picked UP from the
street half starved and almost naked. y
hard working maChiniSt draws Sl,OOoi
tbenceforth he is diSguSted with work,
"nrnS a rum grocery, is utterly debauChed,
and people gOin his store To find him dead
close beside his rum CaSk. 1t would take
prn rlurked from the wing OF the destroy
in., angel and dipped in blood 10 describe
this lottery business. A man committed
suicide in New York, and upon his person
was found 4 card oj address giving Il grog
shop as his boarding house, three blank
lottery tickets ana lear from seneca ;
morals containing an apology for sell .hiHr,
der. one lottery in London was followed
by the suicide Of fifty persons VIII" held
unlUciv numbers.
There are men nov with lottery tickets
in their pocket, which ii they have not
sense enough To tear up or throw INTO the
ire will be their admission ticket al the
Door of the Damned.
4, the bra2eu gates swing open they Will
show their tirkct> and pass IN, ana pass
down. As the wheel ~ eternal fortune tErha
slowly round theywih find that the DOOM
of those who have deSpiScd God ana I'M
pcriled their souls Will be their a"lui tilHe;;
God forbid hat yOn. my hearcr SLoul1
ever take to Yourself the lamcntitlon oi
| the Boston clerk, who IN eight month"; hau
cn,hcZzlei SIS 600 from his employee 'N"
extended l. all IN .nysary tickets. h"FS /
/ ior the last scyea uItnjhs gone iA-' ,tSN|
! the broad road There w;ls time, an" V'u
! but few isuuthS ,jacc, when was haHRH.
/ because 4aS ire, sTum debt and cav. LHJI
! moment os the first steps in my doWniai'
WAS about the middle of Juno. when took
Il share in company. bought lottery HEh-
! cts, whereby WAS successful III obtaining
! u share 0i one halt oi the capital pre-,
. -inrc which l-sve gone Tor layHc!i'
/ have Eved and dragged out a ml7eI1','
/ existence for t~0 OF three nAnthH past:
T Oh that the seven of Ugh; mo'ahS pat ~
! my yiStcnCc could be b!ottcd "Ut. ia!
+ must 90. and ere this paper Is read i3[
+ spiri. has gouc to my Mater - give m p
/ count of my misteeiS here. @Ad to "eceiTe
! the eternal sentence Tor
seIcDestructzsn
and abused confidence. Relation, AMI
/ friends have from whorSa do not Tsish Ia
! part undcy sucn circumstances. bit Ne
>ity Compels ON, wretch: Lottery NckSI'
| have heln thy ruin. There 'Ge n'otS!-
tudcs OF people who aisIpp:oyc OF "TIi-
nary lotteries yet have been 'isp'oNshiy
| deceived by in;quity under iGoE2, attrar-
tive nomenclature, The iot,G:y which OF.
mos, highly. respectable and Christian p'o-
pic invest. IS sone arr, association, o>
Sonr bcucyolcnt gift enterprise. n
which th2Y ioni,y believe there car oe an
harm II drawing such q wax OF ART a'
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