The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1890-08-16
KEEP IT UP.

| Every body knows the tragic end
ing Of the pcrseveriEg wife who went
into the depths with her hand uplitt-
ed and two Of the fingers working
scissors fashion, after her a,niable !,us-
band had succeeded in getting her
mouth below tide level. 1t seems to
us that our able and wealthy neigh
bors the Times D., Picayune &; Co.,
are equally determined to have the
last word in the Lottery squabble.
They perceive clearly-they must
perceive it; the hand writing is on the
wall-that the Lottery fight IS over
The war II this State has gotten to be
too bitter; the people were waking rp
too earnestly; the signs of business
were becoming too ominous; already
Mr. Morris had {probably) come to
the conclusion that it would be folly
to throw away more good money after
bad, when Oh top Of. all comes the
Presidents message.
The Presidents message is the coup
ae-gs'ace. Without advertisements in.
the papers, without editorial puffs,
without correspondence by mail or
express, the Lottery is simply mon-est
and that it pretty much the same as
being honest. Hence the howl; the
prolonged vail. No more fat ads!
No more grateful subsidiesl
Eheut Ehea!, Down with the Gov
ernor! D-n the PRESIDENT
We have nothing to say as to the
President. Is to the Governor, it is
different. The charge against him is
inconslstent-seltish, hypocritical III
consistency. He willingly received
and expended for his own individual
benefit, in the forwarding of his cam
paign, many thousands Of dollars of
the infamous" Lottery money, but
when it comes to strengthening the
levees and saving the country from
inundation, then he wakes up to the
infamy.
Bosh! Money is not in itself infa-
nous, and nobody says it is. Gold,
like the other creatures of God is
good; coined and uncoined, it is pure
and incorruptible. There is no way
of tainting it with infamy. Nothing
becomes infamous without its own vo-
luntary co-operation. The thirty pei
ces Of silver went back into circula-
ton; the cross itself-the "accursed
tree"-is the most sacred of relics.
Il money could become unclean by
having passed through the hands Of
the robber and the strumpet, then it is
already polluted as commercial gold
by the greeds and extortions and BIAS
phemies Of those who have wrested it
from its sleeping place.
There IS no contamination in Lot
terry money for the campaign. Moth
ing but the most fanatical Puritanism
could conceive such nonsense. SINH
larry there would have been not the
slightest contamination IN LOTTERY
meney for the levees. The journals
above named know all this perfectly
we'll; they know that Governor Nieh-
oils never said or implied that there
was any such contamination, and they
also know just as well where. the con-
tamination really was and where he
said it was.
The contamination is in the pur-
pose. The campaign money was Civ
en- with the express understanding
that there should be no obligation
thereby incurred Of favoring the ms
titution contributing it. The Cover
nor concurred in its acceptance under
the distinct reservation ofshis unalter-l
able hostility to the. Lottery and theI
distinct repudiation by. Mr.. Morris .ofl
any intention to seek the renewal oil
its existence. The levee money was
eHersd unaer totally diitfereat cife:ijn.