Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05

less a church member, will offend by
patron;zing it, or in any way encour-
age its perpetuation.
"In addition to this action petition
has been forwarded to the President of
the United States, signed by represen-
tative ministers, laymen, lawyers, and
business men of New Orleans, asking
him in the interests of national
and State prosperity and in behalf of
morality and integrity not to make any
appointments on the recommendation
of those interested in the perpetuation
of this evil and to refuse the patronage
of the custom house, Postofice Depart
ment, the revenue service, and the
mint in the State to it, and thus head
off the lottery company in it's effort to
control the State and national patron
age for the purpose of securing per-
manent lease of life. The petition
further says;
The signers of the petition to the
D.asJo.4 80 H. Ir,,+oJ Ctotoe oaI, fba
several and various religious bodies,
religious papers, and ministry of the
United States to take such action, pub
lish such articles, and from pulpit and
platform say such things as will put
them in alignment with their brethren
in New Orleans, to create sentiment
throughout the nation that will make
it impossible for the Lottery Company
to secure new charter or vend their
tickets anywhere. The development
of such sentiment lies with the re-
ligious teacher and press largely. We
believe that the secular press Gas it is
doing in some localities) will give us
substantial sympathy and aid. 1t
surely will chronicle our movements
and success
Without the aid of the National Gov
eminent the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany could not exist month. It is a
party to the great fraud and should be
so no longer. The business of the
company really centers in the New
Orleans postoffice. 1t sends out an
average of 1900 and receives 1000
letters daily. 1t daily disposes of l 800
postal orders and 5000 registry return
cards. The statistics show that the
Lottery Company receives 30 per cent.
of all ordinary letters, two thirds of all
postal letters, two-thirds of all the
registered letters, and one-half the
total mail of New Orleans. The reg
istered letters are fraudulently ad-
dressed to the New Orleans National
Bank, hence a Government bank and
Government depository is lending its
name to the fraudulent transmission
of gambling matter through the mails.
Reno, the able correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, in
summing up the relations of the Gov
eminent to the lottery, says:
"'The fair summary is the fair con-
domination. The Government appears
as the willing dupe; as, in effect,
accessory before the fact; as practical
ly party in evasion of its own laws
and prostitution of its own mails; as
aiding and abetting as general agent in
system of general robbery; as lend
ing the national arm in furtherance OF
the national gambling hell; as running
its New Orleans postoffice in practical
COLLISION with the lottery; as allowing
like collision on the part of Govern
ment banks and Government deposi.
tors; as general promoter of the gam
blers' revenues and carrier of the gam
blers' returns; as exposing its own en-
ployes to constant and needless temp.
tation; as joining hands with thieves in
the rearing of thieves; as party in
degradation of the service and corrup-
ton of the public morals; as in all, in
fact, the responsible party
Now what is TO be done? Evident