St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-20
A sCo1CHEn SNAKE.

Notwithstanding the rumors that
come from Bism arck relative to re-
newal of the lottery fight in the legis-
lature, we do not expect that anything
of the sort will be done during this ses-
sion. This is an instance where the
force of public opinion is irresistible,
and the lottery cOnspirators will have
to lay new schemes for the &C
cOmpliShment of their plans. We have
no idea that they intend to abandon the
Dakota field. 1t is their last ditch, and
they propose to die in it, or win a new
foothold for their gambling scheme. In
three or four years more they will be
driven out of Louisiana, and North d.
kota is the only place they can find
where they receive sufficient encourage
ment to induce them to stop. 1t
is stated on good authority that
the: Louisiana lottery pays its pro-
prietors clear profit of about $780,
600 a month; and that, too, with
out the investment of any capital. They
get it simply as a contribution from the
gullible people. and there are MANY
such, with gambling instincts, who are
willing to risk percentage of their
savings each month in the generally
vain hope that they will get an extra
ordinary return on the investment. Out
side of the system of stock watering by
the corporations there is not another
such snap in the world as this Louisi-
ana lottery business. Therefore, we
are prepared to see them make a des-
perate fight to gain new foothoId
somewhere, and there is no place on
this continent where they find the con-
ditions so encouraging as in North Da-
kOta. A reckless band of political adj
venturers have gained control of pub
lie affairs out there, and they are will
ing TO saddle any sort of fraud or in
1quity upon the new state, just so it
brings money into their pockets or will
perpetuate their lease Of political
power. So far as its political affairs are
concerned, North Dakota is in the up-
fortunate straits the Southern states
were reduced to under carpetbag rule.
The lottery managers cannot hope,
even with the raise in the bribe of $780,
600, to be paid into the state treasury, to
carry their measure through this iegis-
Iature; for the storm of public indigna-
ton that was aroused is still in force,
and will not abate until this legislature
has expired by limitation. Their plan,
ss we guess it. may be to capture the
next legislature, likewise the next gov
ernor. They will agree to proposition
to submit the lottery scheme to popu-
lar vote. in the hope that they can mus
ter rabble in its support that will give
1t fictitious majority at the polls, and
thus give the governor a pretext for
sustaining the measure under plea of
acquiescing in the popular verdict. 1t
is taken for granted that Gov. MILLER
will be renominated, and possibly re-
elected; yet is singular fact that, not
withstanding the governors recent vote
Of thanks to the newspapers for expos
Ing scheme that he himself ought to
have exposed long before, the lottery
cOnspirators are not particularly hostile
to tho governor, nor are they seriously
concerned about his reelection. II is
manifest to the public eye that there is
a good deal of humbuggery about the
governors opposition to the lottery, and
there are likewise indications that the
North Dakota senators are not particu-
larry disturbed On account of it. There