The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-11
PHARlsAmM IN PUBLIC LIFE.

PHARlSAfsM IN PUBLIC LIFE.
The Lottery Small BvH Compared TO
Gambling I'm 0Rein.
AS has been justly observed by re-
cent thoughtful writer: The lottery
is legalized in only one state in the
union, but gambling in grain is legal
lied in every state. The lottery is a
small evil indeed compared with the
speculation shark, who CANDLES on
the price of the very bread our wives
and children eat and puts our daily
bread in pawn to squeeze an added
cent out of the palm of poverty. No
one has to buy lottery ticket and it
is mans own act if he takes the
chances of that game but bread for
his little ones he has to buy and in do
ing SO he is at the mercy of the gam
bier"
Another phase of Wall street specu-
lation which makes it vicious above
other methods of gambling, is
seen in the fact that the kings of the
street when they engage in well ma
tured deal, play with LOADED dice. /"
There is no chance so far as they are
concerned, says a writer in the Arena
When these highly respectable gam
blers who are worth many millions
quietly arrange movement which
will greatly increase their holdings
they deliberately set to work to mis-
lead the public. Coolly and with the
deliberation of master minds they de-
ceive the street," and as result
ruin to many attends success to the
few, while with every such movement
lives go out in darkness, regulations ru-
ined and families reduced from afauence
to penury. Even at the very time when
we were informed by the daily press
that the postmaster general through the
manipulation of the little wizard,
was losing enormous sums of money,
more than one man was driven to sui
eide by the sudden turn in affairs and
one or more banks were forced to the
wall. How many happy homes were
wrecked, and men of moderate for
tunes were reduced to perjury by this
well directed stroke of Mr. Gould,
will of course never be known and if
the postmaster general had CHANGED
to be on the side of the wizard in this
gambling deal, would he not have
been morally responsible for a share
of the wreck and ruin wrought? Nay,
more. was he not an active partici-
pant in this great game of chance,
morally responsible to a certain de-
gree? Is there any essential diff
ference between gambling by spend
ing $40 for a lottery ticket
or $40, 900 in railroad stock, which
you have been led to believe will be
bulled to a fictitious value and which
you hope to be able to unload on
someone else at an enormous advanced
In each instance it is purely a game
Of chance for all save those who are
in the Wall street ring, who control
sufficient money and stocks to dictate
the course of the same and to whom
there is no risk. The Louisiana lot
terry is positive evil, a cancerous
so re on the body polite. But Wall
street is far greater evil; it is can
Ger whose roots have already fastened
upon the vitals of our political revolu-
ton OF the great earnest mass es of our
people. The pulpit is abashed in it's
presence because so many leadin g
pillars in each wealthy congregation
are connected with the street, "
which is a polite way of desig-
mating gamblers" who delve in
stock speculation. The press, with
honorable and noble exceptions, wink
at this great plague spot while loudly
crying for laws to correct comparative
ly harmless evils. The political par
ties depend too much upon the kings
of the street." two colossal curses
cast their swart and portentious
shadow over the palaces and novels of
a great nation, yet by virtue of their
power, the church and state, the
clergy and the politicians remain silent
or temporize in their presence. The
republic needs to-day, as never before,
true men in every official stat1on-men
who are clean, conscientious, frank
and upright; men who, while strictly
honorable and pure in life and action,
are also broad minded, tolerant and
large Drained; men unswayed by par
tisanship or blgotry; statesmen rather
than politicians; and, above all, men
that are in no wise tainted with Phar-
isaism.