St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-05-09
THE LOTTERY AND THE BIBLE.

than a blessing.
THE LOTTERY AND THE BIBLE
| Some Of our lottery contemporaries
have been proving to their own salts
faction, that gambling, especially, lot.
/ terry gambling, is not a vice. The
mode of proof is very simple. There
is nothing in the Bible condemning it
therefore it is no vice. The Bible
makes no mention OF lottery gambling
because John A. Morris and his pals
did not live then. If he had lived
then, with his lottery wheel swindle,
they would have been denounced as
the "abomination of denominations, y
and the city that harbored them would
have been given over to the sword of
the Philistines, or treated as were
/ Sodom and Gomorrah. The people of
the Bible age were not up to such ini-
quities as the lottery sWindle, and
therefore the Bible could not condemn
| it. There are diseases and vices now
that did not exist then the Bible con-
demns the vices Of that age, and men,
tions leprosy and other diseases.
Cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, and
Morris & Cos lottery have come since,
and the Bible could not mention or
condemn them nevertheless, they are
evils and vice. But it may be posi-
BILE that, if the Apocalypse of John is
an inspired writing, and it is part Of
the canon, this Lottery was meant
when was "opened the fourth seal !;
and behold a pale horse, and his name
that sat on him was Death, and hell
followed with him."
But the Mormons, whose practice Of
polygamy is condemned and outlawed
by the rest of christendom and also by
the Jews, have much better Biblical
ground to stand upon than the Lot
teryites the latter can only plead ne
cation, that their swindling game is
not condemned in the Bible-as it
could not be since it did not then
exist but the Mormons, in the prac-
tice of polygamy, are also not con-
demned by the Bible, and it was gen
orally practiced by the principal He
brews from Abraham to Christ How
ever, notwithstanding Bible authority,
and the celebrated precedents of Abra-
ham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon,
and legions of others who were pillars
in the theocratic government Of Israel
modern civilization has set the seal OF
condemnation on polygamy, and sup
pressed it by legislative enactment.
The Lottery has been condemned and
banished from all other civilized coun-
tries, and prohibited in all the States
OF this country, except the State OF
Louisiana. The people of Louisiana
have what no other people will have
this moral outcast and leper, that cor
rupts public officials, church officials,
and would corrupt a majority OF the
voters; the people of Louisiana are
looked upon by the other States, rs
harborers Of a fratldulant concern that
swindles their citizens and the people
of Louisiana are themselves under the
heels of the Lottery tyrant. When
viii the patience Of the people be ex-
hausted, and the Lottery iniquity be
ended
We have it from reliable source in
that the confirmation OF
Mr.. E. i. Weber as postmaster at
Donaldsonyille will be strennously OPP
posed in the United States Senate on
his record as he has written it out
himself By his course as State Sena-
tor and witness before the congress
sional COMMITTEES iii the stirring times
Df the early part of 1917 while Mr..
Bnrkdon viii have to explain the
editorial defamafory Of Gen. Logan,
which appeared III the Crowley Signs, 4
of which be Was the editor at the time
III Gen. Logan y death i copy of which
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