St. Landry democrat., 1890-12-06
Some Facts Concerning Lotteries i'll
Louisiana.

Inc antl-iOffcry IUrISiS have bee
extremely active iii their efforts to pair
! all lotteries in the blacklist hucS pOssj
bic. Very many have no donbt com
to the conclusion that the LOuisian
State Lottery is the first thing Of tn
kind ever established IN The Stat,
Believing it to hr the first, they hay
; accepted the pioin>c ~hrnluriatiunS q
the anti lottrllirs, rs their guide o
opinions. Stop and learn something nl
the subject, before luu hcnnuncr others
Instead Of being Tic first and onl, lot
terry we have had, Ilm Louisiana Stat,
Lottery is, III reality far from il. Her,
are the names =" flAirh 6. 1919, til,
Legislature established the "Rapide!
College Lottery" Jany. eth, 1890, j
established the ",Baton Rouge .Acade.
my Lottery March 9th, 1919, the
"Natchitoclc> Academy Lottery' wa.
established. March II, 1916, the st
4" Francisville Library Lottery" was
chartered, on the nth of March 1897, the
"l.yccum Lottery" in St. Charles was
chartered. Then there was the Col
lcgc of Louisiana Lottery Incorporated
for Tie purpose of raising $4,000 to cs-
tablish a college at Jackson, of vhicI,
Centenary College is the successor.
Then we have the COvington Acade-
my Lottcry.' Whilst these ants are so
voluble in the use Of cpitlets concern
mo- tInsn Whn wa ftn ,rn,~rN.D,, ;,
recllarter the Louisiana State Lottery,
calling them gamblers, robbers and
thieves, let us name a few of those who
favored, and as Legislators voted for
the charters We have mentioned John
K. Graymcs, distinguished rs one of the
greatest lawyers the State has ever pro-
duced. Levi Foster, of st. Mary, the
grand father of Hon. MnrpIey J. Eos
ter the leader of the anti crusaders of
to-day. lie voted in the Legislature for
the chaltcIlng OF these lotteries. John
McDonogll was a trustee of Il lottery
fund, and pctitionrd the Legislature for
a lottery charter. Associated with him
as Trustees, we've Il. ID. Shcprrd, Ben.
Morgan, Richard Ref, William Kenner
and Abraham Il. Ellcry, all of whom
were distinguished in their day, and
o TO be regarded under these latter
day lights, as gamblers, robbers &c.
The proceeds of Il lottery company
passed through the hands of Trustees to
pay for the erection of the first Prcshy-
terrain church in New Orleans. Tie
Trustees We're, Joshua Goodale, Eben
Fiskc, Alfred lIennen, Ti,os. Mellen,
Martin Gordon, Ben. Story. Rev. Chew,
SAINT. packwood, Thos. Urquart and
ClIas. liarrod. How can DR.. Palmer
preach so elequently in IA building
erected 10y funds supplied 10y the Devil
and his gambling impsg Among the
IN on the Board of Directors of the
Hunters, the Comptons, Baillios, Sibleys
and Cassons. Among the directors of
the Baton Rouge Academy Lotterv,r
We find the names of the Garigs, Hick-
eys, Duncans, klcinpcters and Skip
Withs. None of these met thought for
a moment that, lotteries We're danger
ons, corrupting and damnable. In the
" Natchitoches Academy Lottery we
Hon. Is. 1Iichel, Hon. NJ. Sompay-
rae, Hon. l.. Sompayrac, the Janins, the
Nicnncs, the Buards, the Boosters, the
Tauzins, the Bulliotts, the Bludworths,
The Beblieux, the Norits. the Billiards.,
the BIazeales and the Parkers, all of
whom were illustrious as good citizens,
and upright men.
The est. Francisville Library Lot
was chartered on the petition of
fifty citizens of West Fcliciana among
Strings, Flowers, Baldwins and the
[%Iiriarts arc found.
The st. Charles Lyceum Lottery was
Incorporated on the petition of thirty of
he citizens of the parish, and among
hem VIC find the Perrets, St. Martins,
Labranches, Fortier. Delerys, DelhOmes,
divers and the Arnaulds.
The college of Louisiana Lottery"
Incorporated to raise $4,000 for the
ut jackson was promptly char
cred by as honest, intelligent and in
men as ever represented a peO- ,
Die in a Legislature.
Little did any of these vencrated men
imagine that, in two or three genera
ions their descendants, the indirect
,eneiiciarles Of these lotteries, would
e a off the ends of their pens, and
pitt their threats d~enOuncing such
Institutions as the most damnablo de- :
ices of robbers and thieves. We !
j tll' III a. tulu
" our latter day lights, they should be {
unsigned to the long rolls of de-
nonology. Ii we search the annals of
he Legislatures that chartered the lot !
cries we have mentioned, VIC read the I
James of Julien Poydras, the founder of {
he Poydras Asylum. Louis G.. De-
;lanc, the ancestor of Judge Alcibiades
Thibodaux Of Lafourche, I
turley of East Baton Rouge. Bouligny, \
f New Orleans. Manrin of Acadia,
zen. Philimorn Thomas of Baton Rouge, E
and Silliman of the Felicians, I
odds of Morehouse, Golf of St. Tam l
,any, St. Amants of N%atchitoches, :
of St. Helena, Palfreys Of I
.ttakapas, Davezacs and Plauche's of \
lew Orleans, the Hon. Branch NJ. Miller a
t st. Tammany. Miller acted not only I
s a Trustee of the "Covington Acade- I
~ Lottery but offered the bill in the 2
legislature that chartered it-making a S
Deech in favor of it. O
ca! let us come nearer home, and '
a few of the names of persons q
no voted for these lotteries: J
The Dupre's of st. Landry, the Prud- !
and DeArmas of Orleans, Du- I
,os of St. Bernard, Duplantiers of t
rleans, J.. Bourgeois of St. John, Du-
nys and Herberts of Iberville, Grimas
nd De La Barres of Orleans, Forstalls
[ Plaquemines, McGuires OF Ouachita, =.
.etoyers of Natchitoches, Lastrapes of t
Landry, Barrows and Woodrutfis Of G
Test Feliciana, the Saunders of East z
eliciana, the Overtons of Rapides, =
enandez Of Iberville, VOORHEES, of v
voyelles, Duplessis of Plaquemines, il
OF Orleans, Aucoins and Das-