The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-09-24
The Golden Era.
EDITOR BULLETIN

in No. 2, Vol. |, of the Golden Era,
and say, "the anti-lottery people are
challenged to dispute the figures"
One estimate reads as follows: at |
has been estimated that the revenue
from the Post Office will increase
100000 per year. The bill provides
that the lottery people must pay the
usual postal rates" At least three
fourths of our mail goes to San
Francisco. The lottery people seem
to think that they can use the Ha-
waiian mails to food the United
States with their letters, circulars,
etc. Not much
The lottery act which went into
effect in the United States on Sep
TENDER 10, 1890, provides that, "No
letter, postal card, or circular con
corning any lottery, so-called gift
concert or similar enterprise offering
prizes dependent upon lot or chance,
etc." shall be allowed to pass
through the United States mails.
Anyone detected sending a letter,
postal card, or circular for lottery
is liable to a heavy fine or imprison-
ment.
Section of the same act provides
that "The Postmaster General may,
upon evidence satisfactory to him
that any person or company is en-
gagged in, conducting any lottery,
gift enterprise or scheme for the dis
tribution of money or of any real or
personal property by lot, chance or
drawing of any kind, or that any
person or company is conducting
any other scheme or device for OBJ
tanning money or property of any
kind through the mails by means of
false or fraudulent pretenses, repre-
sensations or promises, instruct post
masters at any Office at which register
ed letters arrive directed to any such
person or company, or to the agent
or representative of any such person
or company, whether such agent
or representative is acting as an in
dividual or as firm, bank, corpora
ton or association of any kind, to
return all such registered letters to
the postmaster at the office at which
they were originally mailed with the
word Fraudulent plainly written or
stamped upon the outside thereof.
" x The public advertise
ment by such person or company so
conducting such lottery, gift enter
prise scheme, or device, that remit
tances for the same may be made by
registered letters to any person, firm,
bank, corporation or association
named therein, shall be held to be
prima facie evidence of the existence
of said agency by all the parties
named therein"
The following, subsection 6 of
United States Postal Orders, gives
the last link in the chain:
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 3, 1S90.I
"The provisions of this act apply
to letters, postal cards and circulars
concerning lotteries or similar
schemes, that come in the mails from
foreign countries, and such matter
so received should be treated as if it
originated in the United States"
The bearing of the United States
laws just quoted upon our lottery
scheme is just this, that all letters,
cards, circulars, ETC., either sent to
or by the Hawaiian lottery or its
agents, as soon as they arrived in
the San Francisco Post Office would
be seized and returned with the
word Fraudulent plainly written or
stamped upon the outside thereof"
How about that 100000 which
the lottery people are to pay for
mails which they cannot use2 Either
the lottery people did not know the
law in the case or they go on the
principle that promises are cheap,
easily made and, like the rest of their
estimates and promises when sifted
down, amount to nothing.
The laws of the United States not
only prohibit any lottery either in
the United States or foreign country
from using the U. S. mails, but they
also prohibit all newspapers in the
United States from inserting lottery
advertisements in their columns.
The Hawaiian lottery people could
neither advertise in the papers of
the United States nor could they
send our local papers containing
lottery advertisements to America
Upon arrival at San Francisco our
local papers or circulars, if they had
lottery advertisements in them,
would be seized and returned to
Honolulu, with the word 'Fraudu-
lent plainly written or stamped ON
the outside thereof" as expressive of
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