The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-08

The lottery, ii it should succeed in eaptur-
ing the State government, may have all BOOKS
excluded from the schools except those that
inculcate tho doctrine now preached by its
advocates, that it is blessing. The lottery
and lottery money will control everything;
The school board, school teachers aud school
children will all have to worship the lottery.
Louisiana will then be a g Kissing and By.
word among tho States. Do the people of
Louisiana desire this g--St. Landry Clarion.
Yes, ifs Aud if justice was done tho men
who tnusattemptto deceive aud misieatl the
people--tho MOI 1yhe utter such rot as is
quoted abeve--the SLOW anerfing nugor OF
scorn7 would be pointed at Gaepl ana tbey
would be hooted out of every iutelligen6 CON,
nunity. The writer of this siush knows that
the enlightened people Of Louisiana, a large
majority of whom favor the licensing of the.
lottery, do not propose that the nsa at the
head OF administration, nor tho whisky men,
nor any other set of men paying g license to
the State shall capture tho State govern
ment9 ut al; ; but that on the contrary they
propose that the State shall by focusing the
lottery business regulate it-just as the IL
quor business, which is tenfold more harmful,
is licensed and reguiated--and thereby secure
the prfncely revenue Of a million and quar-
ter d year, which is almost equal to all the
taxes paid into the State Treasury, and more
than the net amount available for all the pur-
poses of government after the interest on the
public debt has been paid. The sophist whom
We have quoted knows, too, that very large
proportion of the men who urge the adoption
of the lottery amendment are just as deeply
concerned, just as solieitons about the honor
and good name of louisiana as he or any of
his ilk can possibly be-and apparently
great deal more interested in her material
weli.briag-but he does not hesitate to cast
the foulest aspersions upon them, for instance
when he Gays that they are labering to make
of Louisiana "hissing and by-werde among
States. So far from this being true, SO far
from Louisiana being debased by uEing lot
terry license money, SIS she uses whisky liceuse
money, for all the legitimate purposes OF
govetS hent, she will when she is thereby en-
abled to lift the dense cloud of ignorance
which like a pail hangs over her fair domain,
when she decently provides for her unfoftu.
nate classes, pensions her infrm, manned and
disabled veterans, aud builds her own lerees
(instead of making humiliating appeals year
after year to the general government--aud
never receiving adequate assistapeal, when
she does these things she will not oniy reap
immense material bonedte, abe will not only
regain her own selfrespect, but she will IN
spire respect abroad, and at once assume
that proud position among tho sisterhood Of
States which is hers of right, but which she
does not now occupy because of the feprpach
resting upon her on account of her failure and
neglect to properly educate her children and
adequately provide fer her unfortunate class
ess and for the men who barred thsir breasts
in her defence, aud in the greatest war Of.
modern times shed imperishable glory and re-
nown upon her once proud name.