Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-23

Will find him. and it is not at all necessary
for him to employ bosses to feel the public
pulse and proclaim his merits.
THE ORANGE BOOM.
Much interest is being taken in this city
IN the prospective opportunities for mar
keung California oranges proftabiy in the
East owing to the failure of the Florida
crop, and there is no doubt but Florida s
loss will be California's gain. But cur
orange growers must not run away with
the idea that they have a clear field for
any and all oranges, good or bad. They
WI De called upon to compete with the
lrlllt OF Europe and the West Indies, which
have the advantage of cheap water trans
portatlon, and thus the California fruit will
be put upon its merits. five send only our
best, we will make permanent place for
our oranges in the Eastern markets. Those
who send trash will lose money in the ven
ture, besides injuring the repu alton Of Cal
Norma as the orange field for the world.
A CRYING SHAME
One OF the causes leading towards the
present hard times in San Francisco is the
mania for lottery gambling 1t is esii-
mated by persons who have made study
OF the subject that not less than 5000, 900
per month is sent out of this city to the
lotteries in louisiana, Havana and Europe,
OF which sum perhaps an average of $780,
OOO comes back in prizes, leaving net drain
on this city alone of $4,000 per month.
The hard times have no doubt tended to-
wards the spread Of the lottery mania. but
the lottery mania has had the effect of
making the hard times harder, by depicting
our circulation of so much money. The po-
lice department has set its face very strongly
against gambling. 1t will not permit
faro-game TO be conducted. and woe be
to the venturesome sport who should at
tempt to trot out the tiger. Sometimes
1t Is seized with a yirtuous spasm as
regards lotteries, and then an agent or two
is pulled up, his tickets confiscated and
few dollars bail forfeited as penalty.
This the lottery dealers look upon as
sort OF quasi-license fee eXacted from them
for the privilege of selling the tickets.
There is scarcely barber shop
bootblack stand cigar stand or cheap tailor
shop in the city in which these tickets are
not kept for sale, and numerous agents go
from house to house. from store to store,
and office to office, peddling them. The
newspapers, in open violation of law, en-
courage the swindle, by printing the lists
of numbers drawn, and cock-and-b bull
stories about lone widows capturing the
capital prize, thus exciting the minds of
the credulous and causing them to put
hard-earned money into the swindle. All
gambling is bad; but the gambling passion
is inherent in human nature take what
ever form it will, and is irrepressible But.
to come down to the polit'cll economy Of
gambling, it were better for the community
that one hundred faro games should be
in operation than that one Louisiana lot
terry should receive the immense patronage
it does in this city; for, in the lottery case
the money leaves the country, and in faro
and similar gambling, the money remains
and circulates in the community, even the
most virtuous tradesman or property owner
getting share of it.
am not unfolding gambling, but the
point | want to make is, while the Police
Department Is so rigid about suppressing
faro, it might exercise portion of its zeal
in stamping out the lottery business, and
then, if it had few moments spare time,
it might pay some attention 10 the nu-
merous vile dives with which the city is
all but oyerrun