St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-08
HOW STANDS THE TRIBUNE?

HOW STANDS THE
The Minneapolis Tribl
the North Dakota lottery
department.. and employ
ent at Bismarck who ii
the Ubiquitous scheme.
advisable for the Tribu
editorial writer in line
sp0ndent. or vice versa?
Tribune Editorial. ITribu
1t is a surprise toI BIS
learn that the newl6. =
North Dakota consti- one
tuition does not forbid and
lotteries. The Mime has
sofa constitution con bill.
tains the followinglchan
clause: 1.-THE legisIa- Ition.
ture shall never au- of
thoriZe any lottery, or came
the sale of lottery tbs b
tickets" And a like!to IL
prohibition is con vince
tanned in the CONSTRUCTOR
buttons of nearly ey seem
cry state in the Union. for
In the face of the coun
long-established senti- traliz
ment of this county earnt
against lotteries, the men
North Dakota legisla- e re
ture puts into its lot The
terry bill the following ing
as one Of 1.-THE obiectsIone ,
and purposes of theIin tn,
measure: ITO estao-Ia de
liSh solvent and reli- IpubIi
able home institutionslex
for the operating andlnues
conducting a lottery, lburd,
lotteries. series of lot lers
teries. and for the saieIeond
of lottery, policy ndItry. i
combination tickets, iorbit
devices and certifi-ldisco
c4tes and fractional for !
parts thereon, ana To Ilegisl
insure fairness in thelthem
distribution of theIthe i,
prizes.,h neitI
Great heavens ! Ahuia pal
is North Dakota rel MIL
ally so eager fori we'll
''home insti utions"ofI have
that sortf In Minne-I class
sofa it is a crime event. crow
to publish any newslm NOV.
about a lottery, OF toI WUT
tell anybody where a. dorsf
lottery ticket can be NOT =
Dou9nt: bul Norlnlbut
law treats lotteries as es to
g m ost desirable chan
thing for Young states tion
to foster and eucour-I feete
age. The bill reads Tho
like the enactments of RIM 4
a Central Americana state
Spanish Indian legis mon,
lature of fifty years ON
ago. They are too dafe,
highly civilized now oand
in the Lahn- Americanltior
republics to permit his n
such laws. not i
North Dakota, this the h
measure being enact The
ed. will get $4,000 a In h,
year, and the ridic,.lell take,
and contempt OF the meas
whole civilized world. term
II viii be jeered at as, tbro,
a state that has pro- form
hihitad the liquor traf- Ianca
fic and set up q state &c n
lottery. From a LOO The
state license on retail third
liquor establishments " IN
it might have derivedlJt ha
at least q half-million siren
dollars OF annual rev. THE
enue; and its credit rsker
and good name would hron,
not have suffered Mon,
But it has made it i'm man
rosSihle to tax thehatte,
liquor business. and itIthe n
prefers 10 lega!fze andlthe b
patronize the most cut !
ohious form of gam nhas
bling. T h action on {
seems so deSperateI n IN,
that il must affect theithev
states credit YeFyIance,
detrimentally. T h Elmer ,
East will believe thatiibiII a
a new state which sets tenti
up a public lottery chan
and charters 1t to runlleoisI
for fifty years mereIv|reye,
because, as the bill and
declares, san EN- 'r-Inossi
gencv exists" andlfendl
moneys are needed meet
for ordinary and cur tenn.
rent exnenses." musttlonk,
be in the most thread ISecor
bare and poverty loon.
stricken condition i'm tors
aginable. Are thereI he
no patriots in North meet
Dakota who can lend cv. ,
the state their privatei,hat
credit for q year? ESTATE
the state in so dead more
beat" a condition as ltery
this shameful bill i'm Iwoul
niles? Certainly not. ltion
The bill insnlts theImiles
honor and decenev of tSchr,
a state that is ahun- Iad r.
dainty able to pay its mora
way and that can af- EsecoI
ford to dispense with
lotteries just as well
as Minnesota can
The honest people of
North Dakota have an
issue on their hands.
Public morality and
decency is involved
i'll this measure. Thei
prohibition ssue
sinks into insignifi-
canoe beside this
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