St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
1.-THE CUES rION OF the
HOUR.
Louisiana Review

two friends, who, for convenience
sake, we will call by the familiar
names Of Pro aud Anti:
Pro-Don't you think, Anti, thai
il Governor Nichols, Senator White
and the rest Of the Reform cam.
paigners, four years ago, had rails.
ed the lottery question as they
have since their election that they
might have succeeded in inducing
the people to elect enough members
in either the House or Senate, to
keep tie lottery proposition from
going to the people?
Anti presume so.
Pro-Why didn't they do it?
Anti-lt has been said that the
lottery's contribution to the Mich
oils campaign was accepted upon
the understanding that the conf
pany would not ask for . renewal
Of the charter.
Pro-1f SO, since the Refor m
cAnpaigners had assumed the
right OF entering into negotiations
about . question concerning the
people, didn't they owe 1t to the peo-
pie to call their attention to the
same, to enable them to express
their wishes in convention and in
struct accordingly the Legislature
about to be elected, in case other
parties chose to apply for . lottery
charter?
Anti-True enough.
Pro-Why did they accept the
lottery's money to help them in of
flee, since they now say thst lot
terry money is too sinful to be used
for charities, schools and levees?
Anti-It does seem inconsistent.
PrO-Since you admit that the
conduct of the Reform campaign
ers, who are now the leaders of the
Anti movement was, tn say the
least, peculiar, what grounds have
you to believe that they are not
using the lottery cry now as a mere
substitute for the exploded Reform
cry.
Anti-In view OF their failure to
fight the lottery. when they might
have defeated it, l wouldn't UNDER
take to vOuch for their sincerity.
l will only say that shall vote
against the proposition when the
time comes.
Pro-That's all right. But I hope
that as . good Democrat you won't
60 in to divide your party into two
camps, to help these Reformers out
in their new political schemes?
Anti-Don't think l will, since l
can vote against the amendment and
vote the Democratic ticket at the
same time.
Pro-Now. my friend, speaking
about the lottery, has it ever occur
red to you that the Charity Hos
pital, the noblest institute in the
South, would have been in . bad Ok
in Republican times and since,
when State warrants were away be-
low par, but for the $40, 900 year,
in cash, which the Hospital received
regularly from the lottery during
that long period?
Anti-That's SO!
Pro-So you acknowledge that
some good came from the clartering
Of the Louisiana lottery company?
Anti--I can't deny it.
Pro-Now. my friend, you've
observed how shamefully the
Georgia Legislature acted in refus.
ing . pitiful appropriation Of sJ5,-
900 q year for the support OF the |
Confederate Veterans Home in that |
State. What assurance have you
that political changes will not oc-
cur i'll Louisiana. by which the
small appropriation Of from ST.
500 to $4,000 per annum for our |
Confederate Soldiers Home, will |
not be withdrawn, instead of being
increased. lfsO, would not the pro-
vision in the revenue amendment |
hat insures to our veterans SIS,
700 q year for twenty-five years,
which may be said to cover the
Of their lives, be to them
what the $4,000 OF the lottery
proved to be to the Charity Hos
'ital, at the most trying period In
to existance?
Anti confess that there is
yreat force in what you say.
Powell, this is but an illus
ration You can apply as we'll to
he Charity Hospital, the Insane
Asylum, the State Institutions, the
evees public education, the drain
ge Of New Orleans, etc. 1t simply
means that through pestilence,
loods, or political changes, there
Till be assured for twenty five years,
n cash, the sums apportoined to
hese various public objects, BY the
amendment
Anti-True enough!
Pr0-One word more. You An
is say that by recharterinq the lot
cry, the homo. of the State will be ,
away. Now why was not
he licenses Of the sale of lottery
ckets from Havana, Georgia,
lentucky aud elsewhere, viewed in I
he same manner, by the white ,
legislature Of 1886. when such I
rominent gentlemen as Associate
ustice Fenner, Judges +. c. w.
Ills, Lewis, +. f. Montgomery,
x-Senators Elstis and Jonas, and
khera. voted tn license loffcsxl