The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-02-05
A Political Machine.

A Political Machine.
Col. A. K. Mcclure, editor Of the Phila-
delphia Times, good Democratic authority,
as follows one of the agencies
employed in Louisiana to roll up Demo-
cratic majorities and suppress the honest
vote of the people. He writes from New
Orleans;
There is one whitening blight that
spreads its baleful shadows upon the State
of Louisiana, and that is the Louisiana
Lottery Company. That it is only legal
lied robbery of the people here and else
where. or illegal robbery under color of law,
is evident to all who learn from its own
confession in official publications, that it
returns to policy patrons little more than
half the money it gathers from them but
when its social, political and business de-
moralization is considered its systematic
robbery of the best attributes of COM
munities of the qualities of legitimate in
dustry and of the business integrity that |
alone can make a respected and prosperous |
people, it is as the pestilence that walketh |
in darkness and the destruction that
wasteth at MONDAY. | am reminded OF
the insolence of this corporation that was
born in the corruption that 'exacted the
robbers tribute from a helpless State when
struggling for it's disenthralment, by re-
newal of the suit of Macmillan A. Dau-
phin, President of the Lottery Company,
against the editor of The Times for $780,
600 damages. have had many generous
evidences of the appreciation of the peo-
pie of the South for the independent news
paper. They have hitherto come from
the best representative men of this section
but the appreciation of independent jour
nalism is portrayed in completeness, by
the one great apparently legalized robbery
that demands damages for injury to law
lessness. This corporation, whose trade
was recently declared by the Philadelphia
United States Court to be ian infamous
crime" muzzles the press Of New Orleans,
ramifies its power into political, social, and
judicial circles, and multiplies the poverty
of war among the people. 1t is lavish IN
its gifts, ostentatious in its charities, and
generous in public enterprise, but the
church could as well draw its financial sus-
tenance from the bawdy house or the
gamblers den, and hope to promote vital
piety, as can the politics, charity or enter
prise of New Orleans draw tribute with
self respect from the lottery swindle. l
cordially accept in the name of The Times
and gratefully appreciate the honor Maxi
milan A. Dauphin, the head Of the Louis
ianna Lottery Company, has conferred up
on me by summoning me to struggle
with what every other state and territory
in the Union denominates public crime !;
and when the contest ends in the highest
judicial tribunal of the nation, where 1
hope to see the final battle fought, it will
then be made known to the country and
the world whether a government of law
can be made the plaything of the lawless
plunderer.
WHEAT FOR FORTY-ONE YEARS WITH
OUT MANURE. Probably no other Guilt
waited plot OF ground is so widely known as
small wheat field at Rothamsted, Eng,
which has been cultivated for forty-one
years without manure, it having been
cropped continually with wheat. This
plot has been used these many years in the
important experiments of Messrs. Lawes
and Gilbert, with the effect of different
fertilizers upon wheat, as q standard with
which to compare the results from other
plots. Aside from the important part
played by this field in the series Of expert
ments so long continued, it is of great in
terest as showing what inexhaustible
stores of plant food the soil contains. This
unmanured field. the past season, "a bad one
for wheat, yielded thirteen bushels of
wheat to the acre. The average yield for
forty-one years 1852 S3l, was thirteen and
one-eighth bushels per acre. This is about
equal to the average yield of the State Of
Ohio, at one time celebrated as a wheat
producing region.