The Portland daily press., 1890-01-04
sum up tho estimated footings:


Total. -. .e7 sec ss,o25.OOo s24, es7 500
The evidence is that of better than two mil
lions of dollars monthly passing the govern
ment mails In aid Of the Louisiana Lottery.
1t covers over twenty-four and one-half
millions yearly, transported and delivered
through Government postal agencies.
The New Orleans Postoffice, excluding
lead Of departments, carriers and mental
assistants, finds employment for say s. clerks.
An aggregate of % to 80, say an average Of
2S, are required in transaction Of lottery
business. Over forty per cent. Of the clerical
force, the pay ranging from s43 to $50 per
month, is added to that legitimately required,
because Of Legitimate lottery matter.
4. CURSE OF THE BUSINESS.
The regular inflowing lottery mail consists
in part of the average three thousand daily
unregistered letters. They emanate alike
from ever part of the country at large. They
are practically untraceable. The name Of
M. A. Daupnin is the only designating
feature. 1t bespeaks the certain inelosure Of
drafts, postal orders or currency The
initiated readily detects the currency letter
The money is the gamblers stake. II Is
flowing into the nav Of the Unsuitable
gambler and robber. II avowed mission IL
In debauchery Of the public morals. Each
and every letter carries the fraud and lie
upon its face. IL Is being struggled through
the mails under cover Of a fraudulent ad.
dress. 1t Is so transported In evasion Of
law 1t Is so degrading the public service.
1t so affects TO be sacred, under sacredness Of
the seal. IL Is so generally estimated by
Government employees.
The employee has the constant temptation
~ fe 20 rau he
morally, as against the particular missiye.
The appeal to his cupidity becomes the cor
respondingly increased. IL Is made adj
ditionally strong by the comparative small
risk The sender OF the gamblers stake Is
not apt to expose its loss. The employees
natural scruples are but too easily overcome.
Lottery letters are stolen, here, there, every
where. They appear as mostly the particular
ones that are stolen.
Government secret service reports are said
TO cover for the country at large an average
of three weekly arrests. There are but ex-
tremely few successful prosecutions. The
policy OF the lottery company avoids all un-
due exposure. ----t~@
The filching Of lottery letters has long,
with management Of the New Orleans Post
Office, been matter of serious Import. The
young and the old have alike succumbed to
the tempter. The blow has stricken alike
the families Of the poor, ano the well. to- do.
Widows ard sisters, have bewailed the fall
and loss Of the only son and support. Heads
of prominent families have bowed before the
the breath Of the family shame. The cases
after all have been mostly allowed to quietly
die out. Public scandal is evidently weighed
as adverse to lottery interests. There Is the
manifest disposition TO cover up. More Is
heard Of the feelings. than the prosecutions.
The rumored suspect Is quietly retired.
The situation uecessitates the keeping OF
employees well under surveillance. The lot
terry circuit Is as the electric circuit. There
must be complete Insulation, or there Is dan
ger and death. The circuit Is through
government line. The machinery employed
il that of the Government
BESIDES being president Of the company
M. A. Dauphin figures yet again as the medi-
nm for an auxiliary agency In kind at the
National Capital 1t appears as a sort Of
secondary or subsidiary Institution to that In
New Orleans. IL Is credited with immediate
supervision of important agencies in the
Southern and Eastern States. IL Is said 10
exercise a particularly watchful eye upon
our National legislators. Its one special
mission, in fact over all else, as said, Is the
warding OF Of possible action In Washington
looking to denying the mails to lottery mat
ter. The agency Is understood as a richly
| paying one. 1t is said to pay particularly
| well for NJ. A Dauphln. 1t transacts its
| business with the parent Institution In New
| Orleans, as reported, by express.
Besides the Louisiana Lottery there are
several others operating In Maine. the Mexi-
can, Havana, etc.