The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-09

ment of its robbery of the people outside
| of Louisiana vet the express companies
| lend material aid. 1t is estimated that
| one-third of the local mail matter that
passes through the New Orleans postoffice
is lottery mail and that $4,000 per diem in
postal notes and money orders are paid to
! its stalking horse bank.
| Attempt has been made to submit a con-
! stitutional amendment to be voted on by
| the people in 1892 giving to John A. Morris,
a member of the original gambling syndi-
| cate of 1868, one of the original promoters
| of the Louisiana Lottery company and now
! its lessee and largest stock holder and his
unnamed associates, the exclusive priyil-
ege Of drawing lotteries in Louisiana for
twenty-five years from January l, 1894. in
consideration OF the payment to the state
of s., $50 900 per annum. There are no linn
itatiOns on this proposed grant. There are
no penalties for its abuse. 1t is placed be
yond the regulating power of the leglsla-
ture. All amendments tending to prevent
the drawing of fraudulent lottery schemes
were voted down. If the taint of state or
ganiZed crime could be confined within the
limits of the organizing state the evil
might be made local and the ground OF
complaint local: but we must know that 1t
is against the fundamental principles OF
this union and in violation of the sacred
sisterhOOd of the states that one OF their
number should, for pittance of revenue,
allow piratical corporation to prey upon
the ignorance, the credulity and the Gu
pidity of citizens of all other states. IL any
state is so shameless in its use of its at
present untrammeled power, it ought to
be, and must be restricted by the united
power of the American people.
To that end we recommend the immedl-
ate adoption of an amendment to the fed
eral constitution prohibiting any state
from chartering or licensing any lottery OF
gift prize and aboliShing those already es-
tablished and giving the congress power
to prohibit by appropriate Legislation. a
proposition to amend the constitution
covering all this ground except in abolish
ing Of express lotteries is now before
committee Of the United States senate,
having been introduced by Senator Blair,
of New Hampshire The legislation
specially recommended by the president
and postmaster general to exclude lottery
business and advertisements from the
mails and express companies is aimed in
the right direction, and we ask its speedy
adoption. We ask that all candidates of
all parties of the legislature Of the various
states be required to pledge themselves to
vote for the amendment proposed by con-
gress to the constitution of the United
States, prohibiting and abollshln9 state
lotteries All this we ask in the name of
our common citizenship of this republic,
in behalf of public honor, the public inter
est and the public and private welfare of
the commonwealth of the state. We
further request the free press to give this
address the widest possible publicity.
THEIR WORK FINISHED.
The convention recOnyened this morning.
Quite number of delegates had left the
city and the attendance was not so numer-
Gus as yesterday.
A number of speeches We're made and
resolutions adopted. among the resolutions
being one to boycott the Times Democrat
and daily States, of New Orleans, on ac-
count of their pro-lOttery sentiments. The
newspaper committee reported S30, 800
guaranteed for a morning daily newspaper
to be published in the city of New Orleans
in opposition to rechartering the lottery.
The convention then adjourned sine die.