The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-16
"HOME, SWEET HOME"
Inside History OF the Organization of the
Louisiana Lottery Company.
New Orleans New Delta.


New Orleans New Delta.
The beautiful, the subIime7poem
of John Howard Payne has thrill
ed thousands of human hearts and
brought tears to thousands of
eyes. And The pitiful story of the
author, a homeless Fwanderer on
lhe 'ace of the earth, dying, far
IRON friends and kindred, amid
seinl-savages in a foreign cline, il
one Of The most touching tales of
human life. But 10 hear The Louis.
lana Lottery Company sing "IIome
Sweet HOme," with lis subsidized
press, curbslOne sOralors and pro-
prlelary league joining in the cho-
rus, Is very opera Of discord.
Sustain home institution" is The
cry OF these sharks. Il would he
amusing, were it moi disgraceful,
to hear this concern characterized
as a home institution What
makes a "home institution (? It's
conception 1t was conceived i'm
the State of New York by Morris,
Simmons, Murray and their con.
iederales, all of them citizens of
other States. Its sponsors in legal
baptism in Louisiana? They were
Morris, of New York, and Howard
OF Mississippi. The legislature
which chartered il? 1t was com
posed principally of carpet baggers
and negroes, aliens to Louisiana
and her people either by birth or
race. The money that passed
1t through the legislature! The
testimony in The Bernstein suit
shows 1t TO have been New York
money, sent out there by the hand
OF The agent Of these gamblers,
with the instructions: "Spend
100000 TO get it for us, or spend
100000 TO keep anybody else from
getting it at all" The men who
iun it and are benefited bv it?
Morris is a native OF New jersey
and citizen of New York, and M.
a. Dauphin is a citizen of France
and resident of Mississippi.
| The only ''home" representative
about The concern, the only ones
generally known by the public TO
be connected with 1t, that have a
home smell about them. are Her
| wig, Pinchbank and Baldwin. The
scheme was conceived outside the
State of Louisiana, bought with
money brought in for The purpose,
was, is, and will be, run by foreign
ers and aliens, and The proceeds of
The game are carried out of The
Slate again, TO be invested in bus
iness enterprises in The east, or
squandered on a race track in New
York. A beautiful "home instliu.
ton" truly! If it be a ''home IN.
stitution," a State affair, why do
the records of the United States
COurl TEEN with IFS suits? If it
be a 'home institution" actuated
by that passionate love for Loulsi-
ana, IFS sycophantic tools pretend,
why was il so recently wandering
over the Union, as far even as
North Ddkoto, seeking domicile
to which TO emigrate
But we do il an injustice when
we say that II is a "home instItu.
tioa" in no sense. Ii is a "reliable
home institution" in that il NAV
be relied upon to gather from the
poor, the Ignorant and the simple
here al their home their hard earn
ed money. Ii is "home ins,itn.
ton" that has done more to fiji the
homes for the INDECENT, the orphan
and The destitute widow than any
other one chartered concern i'm the
world. IL is a 'home institution"
in that il has brought misery, want
and suffering into hundreds of
once happy homes. Ii is a "home
institution" in that it invades the
sacred precincts of the home, and
teaches lis gospel of gambling at
the hearthstone. But TO hear it
spoken of as ''home institution
Ia The same manner that we would
characterize a mandatory, an in.
surance company or any other le-
altimate business enterprise Of our
own citizens, is repulsive 10 the
ears of Louisianian who has The
interest and good name of his State
at heart. The Louisiana Lottery
Company is mol home institution
in The sense in which its supporters
claim it to be, and in the name of
honest business enterprise, We re-
pudiate