Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-02-10
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it's Respects to it.

THE following from tia ComstocE
Miner is well worth reading, and
will give sone of the anti-lottery
people ample food for reflection:
We have been handed printed
circular--sent IN, We believe, from
Mason Valley-1ilh the faring
title OF "Do we want a Legalized
Lottery? IiNot, Why Not?"
| This text is made the theme OF a
! discourse against the morality OF
Iall enterprises OF hazard, whetkA
OF stock dealing, draw poker or a
simple game of seven up for a
schooner of beer, with especial
condemnation OF legalized lotteries.
| TIE object Of the circular is to
array the people OF the State against
the proposed lottery Amendment,
10 the Constitution, to be submitted
with other amendments, on the 18th,
of this month, and the authors of
it are the louisiana Lottery Co.,
and its San Francisco back-actlon,
the Little Louisiana Lottery Co.
OF this there can be no doubt.
The argument of the circular is
pitched to a high KEY of morality;
but this is not the first time that
designing rascals have "stolen the
livery Of heaven to serve the devil
in. For months past these com
panies have draw between $25,-
900 and $50, 900 per month from
Nevada in exchange for their tick
els, and they do not propose to
relinquish without a struggle TO
local enterpI ise field 30 fruitful 10
them in the past, and so full Of
promise for the future.
We understand that should the
lottery amendment be accepted, a
responsible company of citizens
from every county in the State |
stand prepared to establish lot
terry on q scale of unprecedented
fairness and liberality, guarantee
ing to the public treasury a per
centa.e of profits which would |
very materially tighten the burden
OF general taxation, and retain
within the State the 100000 or
$500 900 of which our people are
annually despciled by associations
Of whose methods of distribution
they have no control, and whose
is open to the grave
OF dishonesty, bogus
tickets in one of tie schemes, at
least, have been sold by the thuus-
ands in this State, and the large
sums drawn compared with the
large sum paid in the aggregate
by the people of Nevada
or tickets has been suspiclousIy /
light and unsatisfactory.
Since our people will invest in l
ottery tickets-since no law can
De framed strong enough to pre-
yent them from doing so-we sub
nit that it would be no trespass
ipon morality to authorize lottery
II our own, where the money in
yested in tickets would be kept
within the State, and our not over
.bundant revenues would be aug
nented for the benefit OF the tax
,avers.
But whatever may be determined
II iCi1bIOll ~ thC piOkOoCu cahiCAd-
nent, no voter should permit him
elf to be influenced by the circular
eferred to, or by any other eminat-
% from the outside associations |
low preying upon the people of Z
he State. We feel abundantly 1
apable of managing our own affairs 1
lorally and financially, and re- =
pect-ully suggest to the managers
nd ticket agents of the Big and
little Louisiana Lotteries that their
dyice in relation to the authorize
on of lottery in Nevada, which
'ould intefere somewhat with their
rocked proceedings, on this side
the mountains, will be duely in
Oked should the emergency ever