The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1890-05-10
vices, thereby inapovsrisliny our own

vices, thereby i1spovsrisEiny our own
people"
How does the Louisiana lottesy pro-
tect the citizens Of thai State from be-
ing impoverished? Is It any worse to
be impoverished by man who sells
| tickets in Havana and Kentucky lot
teries than by one who sells Louisiana
lottery tickets? The managers are
the ones enriched in each instarce,
and the purchasers Of their tickets are
the ones impoverished in every ms
tance.
The Louisiana Legislature, in the
first instance, branded this scheme as
| dishonest and fraud. Other lotteries
according to the charter Of this lottery,
had pIundered end impoverished the
people Of this State. The pcetense Of
its being for Educational and ehari-
table purposes" is also a subterfuge
and lie. The pretense Of its being
necessary for the Louisiana Lottery
Company to sell S2s,000,000 OF lot
terry tickets year, for educational
and charitable purposes" is the siIliest
and shailowest kind of sham and
delusion, The large increase in mon
les received, under the present system
of robbery, simply marks the heart
less greed of the managers Of this
monstruous swindiing device.
One thing the people of this coup-
try may accept as q foregcne coneIu-
sion, and that is, that the charter OF
this national scourge and public NUS
ance viii be extended, If wholesale
bribery, political intriguing, trickery
and taking advantage of credulous
voters can secure it.
Now for an answer to our second
Iquestion, as to what is needed.
First. 4 quic1-ened public cons
ciehce and all aroused public senti-
ment. Laws are useless unless there
is a healthy public sentiment demand
ing their enforcement.
| Second. Especial care should be ta-
ken in other States that existing laws
be rlgidly enforced.
Third. An act Of. Congress should
be so amended as to include all adver-
tisements, including newspapers, and
making it felony to send any letter,
circular, advertisement, or ticket con-
cerning a lottery through mail, fixing
a minimum penalty of not less than
years imprisonment for each Of
fense. :.
FourtTr. Congress, under the head
of Commerce Between the States, %
should prohibit the sending of any
tickets or matters concerning the pro-
motion, earring on, or aiding, assist
ing Or. abetting in the promoting or
carrying on, of any lottery between
the States. If Louisiana wants pub
lie plunderer, a corruptor of public
morals, bid to dishonesty, a crime
breeder, a select company willing to
live off Of the bread and clothing Of
| the poor-who can, without com
junction Of conscience, impoverish the
poor, simple-minded and credulous
ones whom they deceive by their Sc
ductiye. advertisements-let it have
| all these. But let it not longer be
possible, for lack of wholesome laws
to the contrary, for this monstrousim-
position to be thrust upon the simple
minded and ignorant ones Of other
States BY these grasping, heartless and
unscrupulous managers. Out upon
such false pretenses to manhood!
These managers may have good
clothes, fat wallets, q money-making
machine, and a food of gold constant
| ly flowing into their Golfers, but their
consciences must be dead, their pity
for the poor dried up, their hearts
shrunken by this money press, until
all manly instincts are squeezed out
and their chivalry has been buried out
Of sight by their ill-gotten gains Can
the people at large afford 10 condense
these large sums of money under the
control Of those who can brazenly Of
fer to bribe an entire State? Have
not these managers received enough
money already to repay their efforts
in the interests Of education and
charitable purposes?"
One thing Congress can do, and
Congressman from every State in the
Union should be instructed by their
constituents to at once amend the laws
relating to the mails as suggested here
in, so as to prevent any department. of
the Government from becoming an
agent to assist or abet this monstrous
and Infamous nineteenth century swim
dle.-Anthony Consstoek.
G. Lusted has wood sawed and split.
which he delivers at five dollars a cord
Thanking the public for their past patron,
age, he hopes to share a portion in the
! future The public is invited to call at
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