The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-11-28
GibsOll's Falla-
ciOus Theory.
How The Lottery Will Create
Values.

Now. the lottery contributes nothing
fellow citizens, to the wealth of a peo-
pie. II supplies no service to a people
A railroad supplies a service. 1t car
ries your goods to maket. The me-
cha:iic supplies ii service, the lawyer
supplies Il service, the doctor, a ser
vice, every laboring man contributes
sente thing by his brain or his hand to
the capital OF a country but the lot
terry does nothing of that kind. it
does not contribute one dollar to the
wealth Of this State-not Il dollar
Senator Gi,son's Aigiers Speech.
Wlen Doctor Palmer gave ut
teraIee to exactly the same PROPOSE
tion as stated above at a Grand Opera
House meeting some time since. no par
ticular attention was paid to the fall
lacy en%unciated. Betsuch a statement
from a man like Senator Gibson. one
who has hal to deal with pratical mat
ters-and even practical pohtics-for
thirty years, would indicate that he is
e~ndeavoring to tide over the present
bitter campaign by saying bet little,
and by couclliEg that little in abstruse
phrases.
That a lottery does not produce
wealth in the sense, or in the same
way as does Il laborer who raises cane,
cotton or corn, or as a mechanic who
constructs All engine, IA wagon Oh a
buggy, is unquestionably true. Meth
er does Senator Gibson, DIR. Palmer,
the professional man or the merchant.
R..f r., a that tI,nsa on,n. .xal.
eallings do not fill a useful sphere in
society would be asserting that which
is not a fact
II INTER RACE MEETINGS
here do not produce wealth in the way
that the employment of the men and
horses engaged would if put to work in
raising agricultural .oducts. But no
n acquainted with the facts will deny
that these race meetings bring a large
amount of money to the city, which is
distributed in various ways. and adds
to the actual wealth of the city.
The 81 atement that the lottery COM
pany to be formed when the pending
revenue amendment is adopted will
mot contribute one dollar to the wealth
of this State" is wholly fallacious.
One million and a quarter dollars per
aBnum is a good deal of money, and
the payment of this sum to the State in
case the amendment carries, is as GER
tain as any financial or commercial
transaction can be. There is NO evad-
ing it even if Mr.. Morris and Ills as
sociates desired to wreck their finan-
cial standing, for the amendment itself
provides for the
BOND AND OTHER SAFEGUARDS.
When a portion of this money is
placed i'll levee entertainments and used
in improving the drainage of New Or
leans will not an actual, positive wealth
be added directly to the property pro-
tected from overflow and the real es-
tate of the larger portion OF the city of
New Orleans I 1t can not DO argued
that the money SO expended comes
primarily from the resources of Louis
lana, for the opponents of the amend
ment themselves admit that but few
lottery tickets are sold in the country.
aud cOncede that most of the business !
OF the company Is secured from
abroad.
Not only will the adoption of this
amendment add $31 SOC, 900 directly to
the wealth of the commonwealth, but
the increase in real estate values that
will follow, must necessarily far exceed
this sum, for even Senator Gibson will
admit that
A PLANTATION SECURELY PROTECTED
FROM FLOOD
is much more valuabie than one that
il not. He must also admit that a
great deal of city real estate that is
now valueless-that pays nothing to
tbs treasury in the way of taxes-can
be reclaimed aud given both a COM
mercial and taxing value.
There is no more uusound reasoning
than that advanced by the Senator.
MOI is it new. The planters and far
ners have used it against their mer-
chants, brokers, and other middlemen
yet carried toits ultimate end, the farm
ers the. selves wouldhare to be placed
in the category of on-producers, for
the actual labor is done by their hired
help.
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