The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-09-05

every man that has once been a min
lister, tho it may have been only for
a day, draws a round pension for the
rest of his life. The government,
which thus takes advantage of the
weakness, ignorance and folly of the
poor, which discourages labor, fos-
tiers discomfort and vice, which Gre
ates and persistently stimulates one
of the most dangerous passions
throughout the land, tries to fatten
itself on the blood of It's own child
rem. Yet it always seems poor and
on the verge of bankruptcy. "There
is way that seemeth right unto q
man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death"
Spaniards boast, and boast truly,
that, in mineral and agricultural re-
sources, their country is one of the
very richest in Europe, and yet, in
reality, Spain is one of the poorest
countries in Europe. Every city
and town is swarming with the idle
and with beggars.
Now let us look for moment at
the history of the great lottery in
Louisiana. The charter of this lot
terry was soon to expire, and it at
tempted to obtain renewal of it for
25 years. 1t offered the State govern
ment bride of 3ll million dollars,
for the privilege of continuing its
deadly work; that is, Sl,250,000, an
nually. Every daily paper in Louis
lana was in the pay of the lottery.
When mass meeting was called in
the city of New Orleans, to oppose
the re-chartering of the lottery,
every newspaper in the city refused
to print paid advertisement of that
meeting. This brought home to the
consciousness of the people that
they were living under despotism
that destroyed the freedom of the
press more thoroughly than the
government of any civilized land
outside of Russia and this in demo
cratic New Orleans. The city then
ceased to look to its press to voice
it's sentiments, but made them felt
in Congress'with such force as to
secure the passage of the law, by
which the officers of the lottery com
pany can be tried in the state in
which their victims live, instead of
that in which they themselves have
come to- control both courts and
juries.
When at last, paper called the
"New Delta" was started to fight the
lottery, the news agencies, the news
dealers, and even the newsboys OF
New Orleans, at first, refused tC
handle the paper. No one would
advertise in the paper.
Merchants asked the proprietors
of the paper, if they supposed they
were crazy, "To advertise in YOU
paper" they said, means that the
lottery and every one dependent OF
it will boycott u.s." Time and agar
the press of the paper was surrep
titiously injured SO it could not bt
used. The workmeD vere bribed tc
leave their work. The persecution
was SO persistent and malignant thai
it cost 100000 to get the "New Del
tai upon its feet and then it became
the finest and most influential papel
in the State. The lottery party
when hard pressed, and having
hypocritically pretended to give W
the fight, actually imported int
New Orleans 26 boxes of Winches
ter rifles and 10000 rounds of bal
cartridges, evidently hoping to VIII
the battle by bullet, if defeated b,
ballet.
This will give us little idea o
the nature, practice and history of
gambling institution, which it i
now proposed to introduce into thi
Paradise of the Pacific. The serpen
is now saying to the woman, Eat o
this golden, luscious fruit. Thel
your eyes shall be opened and y,
shall be as gods, and ye shall no
surely die" If our people listen t,
the voice of the charmer and yielc
themselves into his hands, our ser
pent-ruled paradise will be a para
disc lost" in more senses than one
Says Rev. DR.. Palmer, the most es
teemed minister in New Orleans
"The lottery is like slavery, it is con
demned by the conscience of tn,
civilized world and it canno
stand" The Roman Catholi,
Church joined with all the Pro
testant churches and the religion
Jews in the fight agains the lottery
Cardinal Gibbons wrote a letter call
ing upon all the faithful of hi
church to help in putting an end t.
its rayages. 1t is said that ever,