The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-18
A PRESIDENTS SHAME.
Contemplating the Spectacle of His Sol
n Lottery JObber.


Lottery Jobber.
New York Sun: In the speakers sum-
mary of republican achievements there &C.
ours this passage:
When it became apparent, not only that the
Louisiana lottery had again taken possession of
that stats Tut that in other countries and along
| the border other companies had been. formed to
prey upon the ignorant and unwnry. the house
took action at once, and by forbidding the use of
the mails to carry out the designs of this nefari-
GUS business, has done its part to give fatal
blow to this 81 eat beast of prey which has been
engulfng in its NAV millions of hard-earned dol
lars which could be i'll spared by the loser
Mr.. Reeds speech was delivered on Sept.
4. The Helena Journal of Sept. 3, could he
have exhibited it to his hearers at Portland,
would have illustrated to perfection the
methods by which the great beast of prey
secures its victims. All three of the lot
teries alluded by the speaker lay their traps
in the advertising columns of this number
of the Helena Journal, namely, the LOUISE
ana lottery, the lottery in another country,
and the lottery OH the border.
Side by side with an official ADVERTISE
ment of the United States government,
signed by the comptroller of the currency,
there appears in the Helena journal an an
nouncement nearly column long setting
forth the unprecedented attractions of
the Louisiana state lottery and instruct
ing the ignorant and unwary public how
to evade the law of which the speaker
boosted.
On the next page of the Helena Journal
appears the advertisement of the nefarious
business of the so-called Grand Lottery of
Juarez. established on the Mexican border,
just outside of United States territory. This
advertisement also instructs the ignorant and
unwary public how to send its hard learned
dollars into the NAV of the great beast in
spite of the law SO proudly referred to by
Speaker Reed in his catalogue of republican
achievements under the administration of
Benjamin Harrison.
Another large section of the advertising
space of the Helena journal of September 3
is sold to the so-called Lottery of the Bene-
ficenoia Publica, described in the Helena
Journal as 1.-THE only lottery protected by
the Mexican national government" Here
is thrown out the some alluring bait as ia
employed by the other concerns engaged in
the nefarious business.
| The great beast has to pay heavily for the
privilege of laying his traps in the columns
of any newspaper which is or prstends to be
respectable. Probably the three lottery
| advertisements in the Helena journal OF
September contributed large share of the
profits of the proprietors of that newspaper
for the day in question.
1t is shameful and disreputable func-
ton, this acting as Copper and "roper-
in" for theTapacious concerns upon which
the Harrison administration and the Fifty.
first congress have recently put the swim.
dlers' brand, but the Helena journal under.
takes that function willingly for the sake
of the money that is in it. A good many OF
| the hard-earned dollars that are engulfedi in
the NAV of the great beast find their wa,
finally into the pockets of the proprietors Of
the Helena Journal, a republican newspaper
which bears at the head of it's columns the
name of Russell B. Harrison as the person
responsible for its management.
The son of the president of the United
States has outgrown the parental discipline
which finds its expression in the rattan
switch or the the flexible old slipper. We
should think, however, that Benjamin Har.
rison might hire Russell b. Harrison te
break his connection with the lottery COM
panies for the present. He could afford Il
| buy off the young man, even at the cost o.
half the presidents salary for the next tw,
or three years, rather than have this scan
DIAL attached to the family name and par
AIDED before the public eye.