The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-07-26

From all quarters of the State
comes the news that the people are
thoroughly aroused and determined
to overthrow the lottery power In
Louisiana. Great gatherings have
met in Monroe, Shreveport, New
Orleans and many other points, and
the people are speaking out in no
uncertain tones. That our readers
may appreciate the sentiment that
peryades other communities we re-
produce the set of resolutions adop-
ted at the Monroe mass meeting,
which is fair sample of the others:
/. That the Louisiana State Lottery
Company, the bantling of the most cor
rupt methods in the most corrupts Legls
lature that ever disgraeed the State, has
since 1868 been the foulest blot on the
statutes of Louisiana.
2. That it has perpetuated its existence
| to this day by disgraceful bribery and at
| tempts to control the members Of the
| Legislature, and in its interest elected
many tools to offices of honor and trust.
That, whenever it has interfered with
politics its lnhence has been baneful.
That it is an unmitigated evil de-
nounced by the constitution as vice, and
| Legislators are required by their oath OF
Office to suppress it, and yet the pitiable
spectacle is presented of honorable SEN
| ators and representatives taking that oath
and then instead of suppressing, voting
| to perpetutate 1T and its yiilainies upon
the state.
g. That their pretexts for violationg
! their oaths are not true. The State and
| it's people are to-day more able and will
| ing to educate their children, build their
/ levees and provide for their poor and in
sane than they have been since 1861.
| 4. That the sudden awakening of the
| lottery people in the recent past to the
duty Of performing, and afterward trump
eting their charities in, the face of the
world, are but covert attempts to brib9
/ the people OF Louisiana to tolerate the
! hateful features Of the most infamous
| fraud that ever cursed a people.
| 5. That their purchase of the entire
secular press In New Orleans and nearly
all thecountry papers and the consequent
/ suppression of all discussion of its meth
dds is cowardly and outrageous, though
! it may be smart and is of itself enough to
condemn the La. State Lottery Company
| in the Judgment Of every good man.
/ 6. We particularly deIouce the pur-
chase and absolute suppression in our
midst of an outspoken public journal to
which twenty five years we had looked
with with pride as q correct exponent OF
truth and right.
| Z. That we condemn the covert and in
direct means used in this parish by the
lottery and its agents, by which it cap
tared, at least, the neutrality. If not the
active support OF otherwise good men.
8. That we commend the heroic action
of the thirty-one members OF the House
and the twelve senators who have stood
to the support of Louisiana in the hour
of supremest trial.
! 9. That we are determined to resist to
the uttermost all efforts to fasten the lot
terry on Louisiana, and will never cease
| our opposition to the measure nor to the
men who are advocating it until 1t is fin
ally suppressed.
10. That we urge upon the white peo-
i pie all over the State to organize and
unite with a firm determination to pre-
vent the consumatlon OF the foul wrong,
with perfect confidence that the virtue
and intelligence of our much slandered
ard beloved commonwealth when united
and fighting for their mother, will be m
vincible.
/ IL. That the members Of the Legisla-
i ture who we're elected by the voters OF
Ouachita have, in voting for the lottery,
4 BETRAYED their trust and misrepresented
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