The daily critic., 1890-08-11
THE sTIGGINs CRUSADE

Quite The trcelie,f feature VI ihe vlr
now n-ing against lotteries IS the
Tromiuoucc of the Philadelphia P,ls,
and certain other papers which have
made themselves conspicuous by run.
rirc lotteries themselves
To the course of a long and cveutful
career, wehave heardof many ieadra'ls
and skin games. We have heard of monte.
faro, roulette, rouge uoir, sweat.
cloth. horse head chuck luck and q
dozen others. bu. never anything
where the outsider had SD idle chance
and the game" so sure q thing as In
the average newspaper guessing
match or prize vote contest Faro
banks are often broken, the standard
roulette layout gives the house only
per cent. the advantage. rouge noir
about the same. and other
banking games a tri1e more OF less
Even keno gives The players 0Oper cent
Of the pool reserving only 10 per cent
for the running expenses and profits
But In The Philadelphia Press lottery,
which that great exponent of morals
operated a few weeks ago under the
philaulhropiC pre'oyt of presenting
some deserving ladies with o trip 70 En-
rOTe the gone took agbtg.frs per
cent of the pot and returned 20 the CON
tritu'ors or their benedciarles only III.
issa 40 more greedy and rapacious
lottery scheme than this yas ever
worked on a conhding publ/ A pro.
fcssional gambler OF lottery mana.
ger would be ashamed 20 father amy.
thing even approximating g.
The Press, however, continues TO lead
The attack with unabatcd fury, both in
i's editorial aud its Washington core
srordcncc departments, the latest jeyi,
lHuc tlC ridiculous rln9rl that one of
isIcrtlscu'ativgs here has been threat
oui with violence hy lhe 'uCulcnt lot.
terry agents ON This point The Wash
irrfon correspondent Ihp New York
IfHehsmakcs 'he following se-rye
r,uark. which NO doubt covers tua case
Dui', accurately
~ cannot he said. however. tug lg
,rtuIy active lobby has been lt work
iu Washington iu behalf ul the I.Huisi.
lra Lottery What work % has done
60 has done quietly and with the utmost
Iauii0ueness Visions Of q lobby with
millions at its disposal always rise be-
fore the youthful Imagination NJ
newspaper correspondent who Is bound
to make his dispatches readable 40 the
expense of truth, The representatives
here OF the Louisiana Lottery are, Ot
course well known, but they are not In
the habit Of hunting for votes with "a
brass band To assume, on the other
hand that they have succeeded 10
doing effective work would necessarily
include the belief thata majority Of the
members Of Congress are purchasable
another of the assertions which the
youthful correspondent, I'm his salad Is
fond Of making with no other basis 20
rest on than his own Imagination.
The simple truth Of the matter Is that
Holy John WQnamaker IS engineering
this crusade, and that everybody who
does not actively aid II is % be de-
nounced as robbeT, an assassin,
a bully. or an agent Of corruption
Holy John winked at the Press lot
teTy. but den0unces the Louisiana
establishment just as be condemned
Tolslois Kreutzer Sonata sad
Winked al Oscar Wilie's Dorian
Gray, the most unspeakably nasty
product Of the generation. lie has
worked up a summer frenzy over Il and
has wrought his henchmen 20 a COndi-
ton Of mind in which they have
brought forward a law that no civilized
government would dare 10 adopt aud
execute. il is q law that Mr. john
WauamakeT could Al his viii convert
iut0 an instrument Of the most hideous
tyranny II represents am effort by
his Philadelphia SiEgins under the
cloak ~ holiness and morality 10 pos
sess bimsslf Of our liberties
No wonder DISAPPOINTMENT Republican
Corcressmen from Wanamaker's oEn
state prefer Co endure his ceusure and
he angry criticism Of his organ, the
IIts rather han assume The resp0nsi
tity and me advocacy of SO wicked
and mischieyous a iace Of legislation