St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-02
BUSINESS REASONS.
How IL Affects the Retail Dealers
Why All Business Men Should
a tho T T,attar,y

How Tt Affects the Retail Dealers
Why All Business Men Should
Vote Againt the Lottery.
The following from the New Delta, adj
dressed to the business men of New Or
leans, will apply to that class throughout
the State; for if the Lottery should sue
ceed it will probably establish lottery
slaops in all the larger country towns.
/. The lottery has made a combination
with the hoodlums and ward bosses which
means the triumph of misrule and bad
government in the city, and the conse-
quent injury OF all interests, pupl1c and e
private, and all trade, wholesale and retail.
2. No business man sells anything until
he knows what is the value of the thing
sold. No inquiry was made by the Legis-
lature into the value of the grant made to
Morris. None of the lottery papers or ora
tors dare tell you. how b. much the lottery 7.
means 81 for the State and ten ($10) dollars
for the lottery. If the people want a lot
terry. let them have one which will give the
State $40 and keep 81 for themselves.
3. The Morris lottery is a dishonest and
unfair lottery. Its schemes are rascaily
and dishonest. In the monthly drawing
il proposes every month to sell the public
$2,OO0,000 worth of tickets and to give back
in prizessonly 81 ,054,400 thus making the
public lose 945, 400 month.
In the daily drawing the percentage
against the players is so enormous as to
amount almost to highway robbery,
A. Every dollar that goes to the lottery
from the people of New Orleans is lost to
the retail tradesmen and people OF this
CITY. If there was no lottery to play every
day and every month, the people would
b,Iy more bread and meat, more groceries
more clothes, more shoes and better furni-
ture and household effects. How much
they get from the people OF New Orleans m can SIS i
worth of tickets every year in the monthly
drawings, of which they actually sell about
10 per cent or about $19,600,000. Seven pen
cent of these tickets are sold in Louisiana
and out of this per cent In New orleans
making the sales of tickets In the monthly
drawing in New Orleans amount to Sl,176,
900 per annum. Supposing the tickets sole
in New Orleans draw their share % tilt
nriZes. the ticket buyers would be bound te
lose $564, ,430 every year
By actual count OF the police author1fIes
there are 1O3 policy shops in New Orleans
were tickets in the daily drawings are sae sold y
The receipts of these shops average $6o eacl
avery day. or S6lS0 for the whole per day
The wheel turns 3i3 times every yea
which makcs the receipts from these pollc.
shops amount to the enormous sum OF Sz,
oeo 400 a year. OF this sum about 40 pc
cent. goes back IN prizes, SO tiia, eiie
keeps III I.2I6,s44 which the people lose. :,
Add 10 this the 1854 ,4s0 lost on tn
monthly drawing and it clearly appear
that the lottery takes from the people 9
New Orleans every year the enormous rs Ss,a aah ~
Of about $l,7Sl 900, or more than aotuso ls.s 7
more than they propose to give the Stat
for their franchise. =
According 10 the directory there ar
about 5000 retail business houses IN Ne, Ne.
CrIaa,s whore bread meat, shoes, mats
c,nYhas. groceries, household goods, article
Of adornment and pleasure are sold 81, |:
mainly the wage-earning people IN q
enormous sum stolen by the lottery, prln
eipallv from this class Of peoplne. pn reprssens
an average trade of nearly $500 per an anhuI
to each one of these traders-or 700 pc
month from each of them
What do you get in return for thus emo enel
mous loss In trade? You SCI baa pasam q,
customers, embezzling clerks, thievlng s sel 81
wants. dissatisfied patrons, q generally g ae
moraiized community and dlminasnn