The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1892-01-09

CdCu NCdAs AHat = + AtHS : W '0Ns sM1N
fr expenses and profits. ln eAclt
OF the two remaining mouths
yearly there was an extraordinary
drawing, when he prizes we're
doubled and 70.nu0 tickets were
sold at $40 e4ch. r ckoning on tile
same plan as before, the q os,
gains Tor those two months were
S2,920,000. Add this II the sum
above mentioned and you have
tile enormous total of SiG,ll0, 600
annually 10 ray the cost d run
ming he lottery and remunerate
its osnets. No wonder that they
are willing To make i vast on Elay
for the purpose o. perpetna,ing
Their business.
TIE charter OF the Louisiana
lottery was obtained in 1863 tfom
the legislature Of that State. II
was to run for twentA i've yrars,
the considerable being SlO,O0O 4
year, to d pnid to certain charities
In it's WAY II isa curiosity. "Mhere-
as, it says, smany millions Of dol
1 lars have been Withdrawn from aud
last to this state BY the sale "
Havana, keniucky, Madli,l and
other lotte y tickets, impoverlSh-
ing our own people, it shall be I'M.
lawful hereafter to sell any lottery
ticket except such as are herein
after authorized" etc. Thus thr
law was made 10 declare tila
John A. Morris, Chaley Hawa q
i and III ID assOciat >hoHld lli the
perlod III ntioned have the cNen.
| size right to AL tile pluuder Which
hid previously been distributed
elsewhere.
Only twelve months mote remlin
for this charter to run. 81 lrati
abe has il been FIR its owners ttat
tIey have offered the Snte of
Louisiana extravagdnt blibes %
extend it for another twenty-five
years. One proposition made by
them was 70 pay oft the entire
state debt, amounting to Sl2 AOl,-
600. a paragraph now incOrp0rlt-
ed in the cOustIt tion Of tile ttte
provides that there shall be no
further lotteries permitted after
jan. 1. 1891. So he company hls
made final offer d Sl,250,0O0
annually for twenty-five Yeas ~
consideration OF the extension ol
its privileges for that period hy 4
constitutional amendment, which
viii be voted upon by the peofle
next April. 1t is proposed thar
this income shall be divided among
various public aud charitable "a
lerprises-public schools, leNets,
the dfaiaage Of New Orleans and
the h spitals. 1t is 4 hrbe extend
cd TO the people at large, for per-
hitting the continued eX slencn Oi
the most gigausic gambling c9n-
reru on the face Of the eltth. III The
levee parishes, particularly in New
OreauS, the amendment is likely
to obtain considerable majoritl !,
and it wOul not be surprising /
1t should cary the state.
To understand the tremendous
political influence which thu lottery
is able to bring to bear III behalf ot
It's proposition one must unicr-
stand that this gambling concern
literally runs thr politics Of Tie
city Of New Orleans, and, % =
great extent, OF the s ate. Ii has 4
hundred local offices in n N
Orleans, which are fIrmed ont
amo Z the local politicians. They
are mostly located il cigar shops.
If any one desir, s the pri, ilrge 81
selling tickets he does not 20 I'd
the company, but to the influential
politician Of the war;. II iSa pom
offic. that does not sell at least
sev, ntN five or hundred tickets 4
DAY, gu which the commission Il
fifteen rents on the dollar. BY tlHs
d other mans the lottery hold,
the town in the hollow of its hand
The lottery owns one Of the clicI
newspapers Of New Orleans atu
sub>iiizrs some If tho others
VIII ii an anli-lottery organ MA.
started in that c,'y short timt
20 it c.uld not bny . prilfipg
press there Tor money. Il nli Un'
even SILL it's pap.is Oh tlie streets
because tile new bows W M biiN q
not t, !, M them. The news conn
p ,nies would not sell the pa a4er on
the trains or bia Rtcell III, foi
the purpos OF infitienc ng opI ion
il me state at large, the letters
bought up newspapers ~ all dlrrr-
tions. WHerev' it clnl I not me-
conplisa that il sent mem ip stari
up .osiiioi Journals in tar same
towns, supplying the matter io;
publication ttom New 0fh atA, 4 j
torial opinions lins supn iei att
atterward quoted Ia The news
papers in New Orleans, showing
the drift OF sentiment on tAt
lottery question.
Tue stock OF the lottery is main,
" he'd by the estate Of Charley
I Howard. who started tile easer-
prise in 1863. He was ihfOwu
, from horse two years ago and
brok- his u. ck. The city OF New
/ n Leans il fu;l of mOnunieits I.