St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-09

women, barefooted children, bloused
workingmen, youthful clerks and house
hold servants send to market or OH some
purchasing errand. None but the poor
and ignorant enter these dileful doors.
Some of these shops keep dream BOOKS"
and other stimulants to aid the super
stitiouS in selecting lucky numbers. BY
daily repetition of play thousands OF
poor WretcheS become afflicted with the
s'lottery craze" and to crafty this
theft and embeZZlement enter lnnumer-
able households. We have the authority
of the lottery that SO per cent OF this
enormous revenue of S22, 1000, 000-a rev.
enue greater than that of any five aver
age states in the Union-comes from
the people of this country outside OF
the state of Louisiana, because its ad-
vocates have the effrontery to use this
fact as an argument for its recharter by
the people of the state of Louisiana.
Through the purchase of stock by its
stockholders and friends, it has OBJ
tanned control of large portion OF the
organized capital of the state. Its
strong hand on the financial springs OF
a commercial community is so master
full as to silence the opposition OF the
cautious and to attract the support OF
the timd. By the force and
Glitter of Ets Money Power,
it has warped the judgment and con-
science of many good people, making
them, too. first apologiStS for, and then
DESTROYS of such riches, even though
they be obtained without honor and
in dissertation Of the dignity of labor
and long pedigree of toll. 1t has cap
tured three-fourths of the Louisiana
- l.x- of tho NqnitQI
invested or by purchase or by proprle-
torship. In localities where it could
not purchase the local press it has start
ed hireling press of its own. To en-
phasize this position we state the fact
that the most blatant anti-lottery papers
of the state of few years ago are to-
day violent partisans of the lottery. Its
iniouitous business is blaZoned by adj
verIisements of winnings all over the
country, and it has thus Stimu-
lated a gambling thirst in tens
of thousands of ignorant and cred
ulous persons from whom it month
ly receives its enormous ill-gotten
gains. While the United States post
office department is the principal inStru-
ment of its robbery of the people out
side OF Louisiana, yet the express COM
panies also lend material aid. Being
itself excluded from the mails as a
fraudulent lottery, its Sk0lkS under the
Individual name of its president and
the name of national bank, chartered
by the national government. 1t is estl-
mated that one-third of the whole local
mail matter that passes through the
New Orleans postotfice is lottery mail
and that $4,000 per diem in postal notes
and money orders are paid to its stalk
ing horse bank. The temptation TO
hold on this power and to continue to
amasS this wealth has induced these
lottery people to
Violate All Their Promises
and pledges made to the trainers of the
constitution and to the people OF Louis
lana, reiterated again and again. to Its
political leaders; and in pursuance OF
this broken faith, they have precipitated
the present conflict by agitating for a
renewal of the charter. This agitation
has drawn the attention of the good
people of this state, hitherto sleeping, to
the history and acts of the Louisiana
lottery and the results of that investi-
CATION by the legislature just adjourned.
Attempt has been made to submit con-
stituti0nal amendment to be voted OH
by the people in 1892, giving to John A.
Morris, a member of the original gam
bling syndicate of 1868, one OF the orig
inal promoters of the Louisiana Lottery
company, and now its lessee and largest
stakeholder, and his unnamed asso-
ciates, the exclusive privilege OF draw
ing lotteries in Louisiana for twenty
five years from January, 1894, in con-
sideration of the payment to the state OF
81 ,250,000 per anum. This attitude OF
the proposition demonstrates the enor-
nifty of the crime in it by which John
A. Morris and his associates, who make
no product, pay no honest wage, till no
field, SOW no crop, reap no harvest, who
add nothing to the sum of human wealth
or happiness, are to be authorized by a
sovereign state, for a paltry participa-
ton in the plumber. to convert her terri
tory for a generation into gambling
snare for the unwary of this whole
country, and fitch from them by fraudu-
lent lottery schemes untold millions.
There are no no limitations on this pro-
posed grant. There are no penalties for
its abuse; it is placed beyond the regu-
lating power OF the legislature. All
amendments tending to prevent the
drawing of fraudulent lottery
Schemes Were Voted Down.
This vast corrupt money power is to
be confronted; we know that we have a
battle to fight such as no people ever
fought before. We shrink not from the
have never failed her in her hour of
need. They are as ready now as ever
to spend their fortunes and shed their
blood in defense of their honor. But
the fight is not only ours, but yours
also, Aside from the pollution Of It's
presence, a great part of the harm done
and to be done bY this robber of the
people is to be wrought upon the citi-
zenS of our sister states of the Union.
If the faint of State-OrganlZed crime
could be confined within the limits OF
the organizing state the evil might be
small and the ground of complaint
local, but we protest that it Is against
the fundamental principles of this
Union and violation of the sacred sister
| hood of states that one of their number
| should for pittance of revenue allow a
piratical corporation to prey upon the
| ignorance, the credulity and the cupid
! ity of the citizens of all the other
states, and to station its minlons
broadcast through the land to
violate their laws. 1t any state is sc
| shameless as thus to use its at present
unCrammeloQ power, III OuSHt W NC anu
must be restrained by the united power
of the American people. TO that end
we recommend the immediate adoption
of an amendment to the federal cGnsti-
tuition prohibiting any state from char
tering or licensing any lottery or gift
prize, and abolishing those already es-
tablished, and giving to congress power
to enforce the prohibition by appropriate
legislation. A proposition to amend the
constitution,
Covering All This Ground.
except in the abolition of existing lot
teries, is now before the committee OF
the United States senate, having beer
introduced by Senator Blair, of New
Hampshire. Such an amendment can
not, in the natural order of things, bt
put in force for some time. Until tina
time comes, we ask the adoption by the
congress of some appropriate Legislation
under the existing state OF thu
constitution, aimed at the hear
of this devouring dragon. TIT
legislation specially recommended by
the president and the postmaster gen
eral. to exclude lottery business and ad
yertisementS from the mails and expires: