The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-08-08
HOW THEY DIFFER.
HARRISON AND HIs SON ON LOTTERIES.

1
New York, July 3l.--The Worl
of last Thursday morning says:
In Yesterdays papers was printed
message from the President of tn
United States to Congress, asking tina
body for additional stringent legisla
ton against the use of the United
States mails for the transmission oi
letters addressed 10 the Louisiana Lot
terry Company and advertisements o
that concern. In the course of hi
message the President refers to 9Th,
baleful effect" of the establishment Of
one or more lottery companies at Mex
ican towns near our border"
Last evening the following dispatch
was received from the Worlds CORES
pondent in San Francisco:
Colonel Mosby, who runs a little
lottery just across the Rio Grande
from FL Paso, is in the city and is very
much puzzled by the anti-lottery mess
age sent out by President Harrison.
He said to day:
"Three weeks ago Russell Harrison
was at El Paso and crossed the Rio
Graude to the office of the lottery and
began to talk business. The result
was that he got $1,000 in advertising
for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Ne,cs-
paper and $500 for his paper in Mon
tana out of the lottery officers. The
advertisement tells what a good thing
the lottery is. Now, what bothers me
is this: Is there is family combine,
is President Harrison after the saints
and Russell after the sinnersi"
A statement of this Importance
could not, of course, be printed in the
World without the fullest iuvestiga.
ton. The recent files of Frank Les
lies Illustrated Newspaper were rig
orously examined, disclosing no al
vertisement-at least up to date--of
the character referred to.
The World last night also procured
copy of the Helena Morning Jour.
nal of Friday, July 25. At the head
of the editorial columns of this mum.
ber of this paper is the name of Rus
sci B. Harrison rs president of the
company, and this, therefore, makes
him the responsible person under the
law for whatever appears in its col
umns. 1t is an eight-page paper. On
the seventh page of the Journal OF
date of July 25 is three column let
ter dated at the City of Mexico.
The letter depcribes in the most fer
vid terms the drawing of the "grand
lottery of Juarez." The three columns
are interspersed with extremely well
executed illustrations of the ornate
pagoda in which the lottery is drawn
a copy of the lottery ticket and mum
erous instances of persons successful
in the lottery. In the course of the
enthusiastic description of the drawine
itself and OF the good fortune of vari
Gus ticketholders is this paragraph,
which is sample of the entire letter
Luck! Do l believe in lucks As
suredly l do, since a friend of min,
has once drawn $4,000, year late
$40, 1000, and not long ago bought frou
friend of his ticket which won fo
that lucky mortal a clean 100000
Then, too, l know young man VIII
never fails to get prize, and his lis
of winnings through series of year
is something formidable. His method
1t is TO buy of the first man or woma
he meets who offers a ticket. Moth
ing more simple.
This letter is credited to a CORES
pondent of the Boston Herald and it
date is contemporaneous with the tim
of Mr.. Russell B. Harrison's visit t
the neighborhood of FL Paso.
In the adjoining column to tn
long reading notice is a double-co
umn advertisement of the lottery i
question, in which it is stated that tb
drawings are "under the personal SUI
ervision of Gen. John S. Mosby," VIII,
it appears, made the statement abo,
given to the Worlds correspondent
San Francisco.
The advertisement covers space {
something above half a column of th
Helena Journal, of the company pu
fishing which, as said, Mr.. Russell
Harrison, son of Benjamin Harriso
President of the United States,
President.