St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-12-26
BUSINEsS- EEASONs.
How II Afrects' d,e Retail Dealers
why All business Men Should
Vote Ags1ants the Lottery.

How II Affects d,e Retail Dealers
why All business Men Should
Vote Agalne the Lottery.
The following from .Me New Delta, ad
dressedsto busihsss. men of New Or
Jeans, will apply tosthat class throughout
the State; for # the Loaery should sue
ceed, ii will probably Establish lottery
shops III all the larger country towns.
i. The lottery has snadet a combination
with the hoodfuns awkward bosses which
means the triumph of tiisrllle and bad
government in the city, aird the conse-
quenbsinjury of all interestss public and
private, and all trade, Wholesale and retail
q No business man sells amy thing until
he knows what is the value of the thing
latnre into the value of the rant made to
Morris. Nope Of the lottsry: papers or ora
Nstors dare tell you howfnncha the lottery
u will make sout of theH Morris grant. II
means.s 6as the State and ten Islo) dollars
'@tery, Act them have one which will give the
State $Io' and keep 81 for themselves.
- The Morris lottery is a dishonest and
Ssaifair lottery. It's schemes are rascally
and dishonest In the monthly drawing
s4t proposes every month to sell the public
1s$2 10000 worth of tickets and to give back
I'll prizes s6Nly~ai 4,sssssssaskI kIlAs Hlffhihg laH
'nnbr.ia lose 945, 400 q month.
In tRs daily drawing the percentage
against the splayers is SO eno4nous as to
amount afnsos.t to highway rob4egy.
n. Every Dollar that goes to lf lottery
fro4st. the psSple Of New orlea lost 10
the e1Saa 9fradesmen and people, of this
CITY. IF there was no lottery to lilly every
day and every month, the peeplE would
buy more bread and meat, more gT2cerless,
II. n hath f3jry
ture and household effects EkM much
they get from the people of New 0Arleans is
easy to calculate They offer gaDo0, 600
worth of tickets every year in tn Sn11nthly
drawings, of which they actually tabout
10 per cent or about $19,G00,000. i3Igkr per
S cent of these tickets are sold in Hhssiana
and 6 out of this per cent in NewJ Reans,
making the sales Of tickets in the ID Hthly
drawing in New Orleans amount tot 76..
600 ner annum. SuppOSing the tick kR3
in New Orleans draw their slsar
prizes the ticket buyers would be -
lose 1854 ,430 every year.
By actual count of the police aui rites
there are 103 policy shops in New leans
were tickets III the daily drawings esold
The receipts of these shops average Beach
every daY, or $3.50 for the whole d day.
The wheel turns 3I3 times eve year
which makes the receipts from thesd plicy
shops amount to the enormous sum 81,
cent. goes back in prizes, so that the ery
keeps 81 ,216,S ,SH which the people log
Add to this the 1854 $50 lost =
monthly drawing and itclearly a krs
that the lottery takes from the peg oi
New Orleans every year the enornl anl
Of about $l,78l, 600, or more than ,0oo
more than they propose to give Nate
for their franchise.
According to the directory here are
about 5000 retail business hq Is in New
Orleans where bread, meat, 1hoes, hats
clothes, groceries, household goods, articles
Of adornment and pleasure are sold to
mainly the wage-earning people This
enormous sum stolen BY the lottery prln.
cipallv from this class of people, represents
al average trade of nearly 5000 per annuIn
to each one of these traders--or 500 pei
month from each Of them
What do Won get in return for this enor-
NOUS loss iIDtrade9 You get bad paying
custonaers. y ebezzling clerks, thieving ser,
wants, disss fled patrons, generally &c.
moralia anpity and 2 diminishing