The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-05-01
Lotteries and Gambling.

The following clipping is from an ex-
change and may profitabIy be pondered
over by the people of Hillsboro:
Unless the laws against these evils are
more rigdly enforced, the time is not
very far distant when employers will
have to organize vigilance COMMITTEES to
prevent the pilferings OF their employees.
Merchants complain OF gambling houses
in close proximity to their places Of bust.
ness, and demand that they be closed to
remove temptations to dishonesty from
their employees. A Broadway business
man recently said to me, Merchants
should combine to sustain your society
for their own protection"
We are Glad to note that the President
of the United States, in his message to
Congress, has heartily indorsed the Post
master Generals Recommendation for
further legislation against the use of the
mails by lottery companies. The Louis.
lana Lottery, national scourge, in its
greed, has recently increased the price of
tickets, 50 that IL all are sold each month,
the annual income is increased from 49,
100000 to $2S,OOOOOO. The Society for
the Suppression of Vice closed their New
York Office in 1879, and notwithstanding
an offer OF $4,000 annual contribution
to our work if we would not interfere
again with their doing business again
openly in this city, they have never dared
to either open an Office, nor can they ad-
vertise as they formerly did in this State.
It has been publicly stated that this
monster public :plunderer, in order to
secure renewal of its charter, which
expires in 1893, for fifty years more, has
offered to bribe the whole State of
Louisiana by paying the State debt OF
over $l2,O00,O00, and erect public
library for the city Of New Orleans to
less than four so called Louisiana Lotter-
les have sprung into existence. We ar.
rested one Olin d. Gray, a photographer
and printer, in this city, for printing
tickets for these snide affairs, after seiz-
ing in his possession over 5000 tick
cts at one time, besides fifteen litho-
graphic stones.
The ravages of pool, gambling and
book. making in the past pear have been
fearful to contemplate. From all sides
come accounts OF dishonesty, embezze-
ments, defalcations, breaches of trusts,
robbery, suicide and murder. The warn
ing prophecy of oul Secretary before the
Legislative committee and the Governor
of this State, made prior to the passage
of the infamous Ives Pool Bill (allowing
gambling during part of the year on
race tracks,, are fully realized. The
large space given to these crime breeders
under the heading of sporting News"
in dome daily papers, is fostering crime
and promoting dishonesty. This sort of
high.handed robbery, when boss gam
blers and their touts invade not only
every race course, but maintain open
pool rooms in the midst of the marts OF
trade, is constant menace to industrious
habits. To spread glittering inducements
of gain before the hard working and ig.
norant classes, to take the poor mans dol.
lar that should 60 to buy bread for his
family, is the quintessence OF cruelty, but
to legalze scheme that induces and
entices men and women of all classes in
society to become gamblers is to outrage
the fundamental principles of good
government. ANTHONY CoMsrocK,.
New York.