The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1890-05-10

gambling pimps, who live off the ear
nings Of others spent for tickets in
this heartless lottery.
4 moments reference to the cha
iracter which the experience of all "a
tions has given lotteries will be Of in-
terest just at this point
| The historian declares that in Eng
land, as early as early as 1899, lotter-
les were denounced as Cheats" and
their agents as ''pillagers OF the peo-
| pie"
The "Encyclopndia Brittanica"
says that in October, 1928, lotteries,
which had proved unaccountabIy pre-
judicial to public morals by fostering
among the people propensity for
gambling, were put an end
to by a Treasury minute in England" !"
TIE Supreme Court Of the United
States in May, 1880, declared as fol-
lows: ''Ihat lotteries are demoraliz-
ing in their effects, no matter how
carefully regulated, cannot, in the
opinion Of this court, be doubted.
There is now scarcely State in the
Union where they are tolerated, and
Congress has eracted q special statute
the object of which is to close the
mails against them. They are spe-
cles Of gambling, and aCroag j,s their
influence. They disturb the check
and balances of a wel!-orlered com
munity. Society built on such foun-
dations would, almost OF necessity,
bring forth population OF speculators
and gamblers, living on the expecta-
tons of what chance might award
them from the accumulations Of 9TH
ers."
Judge Catron Of Tennessee, of whom
It has been said, CHS opinions, deliv-
cred both from the Supreme Court
Of his State and from that of the na-
ton, will ever be regarded as of the
highest authority, in a most elaborate
opinion, given in the great case Of the
State Of Tennessee against Smith &
Lane says concerning this method of
securing property from others without
returning just and fair equivalent
thereto: ''The presumption OF law is,
that every man has acquired his pro-
oerty honestly; and 1t is the policy Of
every suell-requlatsd government that
he shall not be deprived Of it without
a fair equivalent
After dwelling at length upon the
different forms of gambling, and des-
cribing the utter demoralization from
such sources, he ACIDS: g..
Lotteries are more extensive in
their consequences, and at least equal
ly pernicious with gaming at cards,
in corrupting the morals, prostrating
the Industrious and steady habits, and
and wasting the property, aud that,
too, of creduloas portion of the
community, little inclined to gamble
otherwise. .. Lotteries are gans-
bling, and od5ous gambling. To talk
OF honesty and fair dealing in such
transactions would be worse than idle"
Everywhere We find lotteries de-
nounced as public nuisances, against
public morals, and as void Of honesty
and fair dealing, =
It is an historic fact, that in all
lands the managers Of these institutions
have almost invariably found it nee
essary to apologize for their scheme
by Offering to the public a bribe to
blind the eyes or duh the conscience
for their mean and contemplate sys-
| TEN Of robbery. Often they attempt
to secure absolution from the Church,
or the recommendation Of the public,
by offering to share their plumber with
some landable charity, or setting apart
portion for some public enterprise.
This is true Of this Louisiana mons
frosty. It pays forty thousand dol
lars annually to the Charity Hospital
Of New Orleans. Its charter says it is
for educational and charitable pur-
poses" The $4,000 clause, however,
is the only educational or charitable
object mentioned; the balance of the
s2S, 100000 per year goes to swell the
bank account and arrogance Of the
managers.
There is a preamble to this charter
that few people know about. It is
philosophical curiosity. It says:
.That whereas many millions Of
dollars have been withdrawn from and
lost to this State by the Havana, Ken
lucky and Madrid and other lottery
tickets, policies, combinations and de-
vices, and fractional parts thereof, it
shall hereafter be unlawful to sell, Of
fer or expose sale Of them, or any 9TH
er lottery, or policy, or combination
ticket or tickets, devices or certificates
or fractional parts thereof, except in
such manner, and by such persons,
their heirs, executors, assigns, as shall
/, be hereinafter authorized"
Other persons having pIundered the
| noa,la nf this State. they now form a