The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-02-13
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY.

Now that the charter OF the Louis
lana Lottery is about to expire, with
a poor chance of its renewal, the
stockholders are making an effort to
secure a charter in other states. A
bill to charter a state lottery which
the Louisiana concern was attempting
to lobby through the North Dakota
legislature was killed this week, al
though it had the support of a major
ity of the Republican leaders.
1t is fact, not generally known,
that this concern is in politics to a
large extent. We get the following
interesting facts from the Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun:
Of one fact there can be no reason
able doubt-the Louisiana Lottery
Company was one of the largest con-
tributors to the republican campaign
fund in the last presidential campaign,
and it unquestionably had the prom
Use of an equivalent. They have had
enough of the lottery in Louis lana,
more especially since the principal
benefciaI les have practically aban-
doned their residence in New Orleans
AID spend their millions of gains in
New York and vicinity. There is no
prospect of the renewal of the lottery
grant in Louisiana. If the lottery
company can secure grant from the
North Dakota Legislature, it can we'll
afford to pay the vast sums which it is
reported to have promised on all sides.
1t looks, however, as if the public
sentiment, which has been aroused,
will be too strong to be resisted. The
Postmaster-General puts himself on
record as opposed to it, and, perhaps,
the President may follow suit and
respond to the appeal which has come
to him from Dakota by issuing his
disapproval. The lottery company
will have the right to regard this as
ungrateful, however, for its liberal
contributions to the corruption fund
aided materially in the Presidents
election The members of the nat
ional republican committee, through
whom the lottery company 8 contribu-
ton was obtained, have tried to carry
out their part of the bargain, for all
their influence has been exerted to
help the Dakota scheme. One of the
members of the committee is saidxo be
in the pay of the lottery company.
Much establishment would be ex-
hibited if the names of all the prom
inent men here who are in the regular
pay of the lottery were made public.
The salaried list of its retainers, re-
tanners for the real or supposed social
and political influence which they pos
sess, amounts up into many thousands
annually. The enormous profits of
the concern can be imagined when it
is stated that its owners divide mil
lions annually after paying expenses,
for which there seems no limit, in
Guiding also ''blackmailing" depen-
dency of police aid other officials
which is never satisfied.
The Louisiana lo..ery will claim
that its money elected Harrison, and
it would have been glad in 1884 to
have made bargain with the Blaine
managers. On the day efter the cleo
ton of 1884 member Of the republi-
can committee said liz New York city
IN the p. essence of the writer; and to
one of TIE principal owners of the lot
terry, that if the committee had had
$4,000 the day before the election
they could have pulled Blaine
through. The lottery man replied
Immediately: "Why did you not
come to me? 1 could have given it
to you in a minute" This overture
was borne in mind, and four years
laterthe republican committee took
good care to open negotiations with so
liberal giver.
The SENTINEL sincerely hopes that
this gigantic fraud and corruption-
machine can find no foothold in the
United States. Its very existence is
a blot upon the honesty of any State.
It is nothing more nor less than
licensed robbery.