Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-03

neoec Bridge, the MI ton Paper Mill. tn.
connecticut Mandatory, all owe thei,
very existence to the lottery system
10 this system Rhode Island owes tn
oay its free schools, Connecticut its orphan
ana insane asylums. Even that one
PROUD Doast OF New York State, in it,
Gays the greatest water way in the
world, the Erie Canal, was indebted 70,
us early progress to the lottery. Della
ware owes to its schools and Masonic In,
stitute, Maryland numberless public char
lties, Virginia its university and public
road !, the Father of our Country person
any managing lottery for the latter pur.
pose. Inc Carolinas and other Southern
States have been signally aided and
largely benefited by this means, as have
nearly all the Western States, the public
lorary OF Louisville, the Fire Deparimen
and Charity Hospital of st. Louis being
prominent cases in point
lt may, in fact, DO stated without exao-
geration, that the ORIGINAL settlement of a
large portion OF the United States was due
10 the liberal lottery grant given to "the
Virginia Company" by James the First,
while no less patriot than Thomas JEFF.
ferson was strongly in favor of raising
funds to carry out the ideas of the first
Continental Congress" in l716, by meant
of public lottery, under the management
of the infant Government.
One thing is certain-during what are
now called ''the good old times" and are
regarded as the best days of the Repub.
lic," lotteries nourished under Govern.
ment sanction. During the first half cen.
fury of the United States existence as a
nation, seventy three lottery grants were
licensed, over eighty-fve per cent. of the
funds of which were devoted to nublic
purposes and benefits.
But times have changed. There il a
fashion in lotteries as in everything else,
and for while at east lotteries have gone
out OF fashion in most States of the Union.
though stock gambling lin which the
amounts risked are greater. and the
chances for prizes are lie than in average
lotteries, and in which there is less 'sys
TEN" than in even the widest 'lottery
scheme') fiourishes to a degree hitherto
unknown.
In fact, the only lottery scheme of any
IN lgnitude now authorized in this country
Is that of the Louisiana State Lottery.
which forms an important part of the
revenue of that State, and the drawings
OF which take place under the supervision
of two of the leading men of the South =
Generals Beauregard and Early-two gen
tiemen whose very names are guarantees
alike of good management and good faith.
The Louisiana State Lottery has been
Incorporated for some twenty years, with
an original paid.up capital of Sl.0lO, or,
ahu uurihS us twenty years or existence
lt has paid out millions of dollars in
prizes, and every prize once drawn has
been fully and promptly cashed.
Many bankers and merchants have been
numbered among 1.-THE lucky ones" but
fortune has often favored the poor and
hard-working portion of the population.
Thus, at recent drawing of this lottery,
a combine" of twenty-five car drivers. on
the Lombard Street Railroad, Philadel.
Dhia, drew and divided prize of $1,000
,ash.
But with the single exception of this
Louisiana State Lottery, all lotteries,
which once constituted so important and,
IN the whole, profitable fe iture of life in
he United States, are practically wiped
obliterated -NeU York Sun
lay Mercury, Jan. l.