The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14

picked as to the proper method of dealing
with the new form of the lottery evil
Since the removal of the Louisiana Lot
terry Company to Honduras a week ago,
where it f1ourishes at Puerto Cortez as
the Honduras Lottery Company, its tick
cts have been vended surreptitiously in
New York, to the immense profit of Paul
Conrad and Lawson l.. Davis. Anthony
Comstock recently began war on the
slot machines, partly on the well founded
suspicion that some of these contrivances
are ingenious devices for the distribution
of lottery tickets. Mr.. Glider hav-
ing proved the only individual
who could successfully attack the oc-
topus in the hight of its legal power,
he has been besought to see what
he can accomplish against this more in
sidious form of the evil. 1t is pointed out
that something must be wrong when it is
possible to purchase in New York tickets
in a lottery, which can only be procured
by the commission of a series of crimes.
But so yelled are the tactics of the ticket
vendors that a very careful search on the
part of lottery opponents has failed to re-
veal the New York headquarters of this
Honduras concern. Pecuniarily the lot
terry has been a blessing to the impover-
ished administration of the Central Amer
lean republic. The very fact that the
lottery people can afford to be so princely
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revenue cannot be very much lessened by
the removal And the suspicion grows
that no inconsiderable portion of that
revenue is derived from the sale of tickets
to New Workers.
A DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTY.
Had it not been that the Stanton Incl
dent has not sufficiently receded into the
past il is highly likely that our present
minister to Brazil, MIR Thompson, would
have been recalled last week and man
sent there who sympathized more with
the administration. As has already been
stated publicly, Mr.. Thompson seems
rather negligent of his duties, as he spends
so little Of his time in the Brazilian CAPT.
tai. But that is not the source of the ad-
illustrations displeasure. AS a matter
of fact MIR. Thompson would be obliged
to remain away from Rio owing to the
fact that the city is at the best of times a
fever nest, anb because the residence of
the administration members in Brazil
but on the mountains in the
neighborhood. The real trouble is
MIR. Thompson has been for some time
rendering himself persona non grata to
Peixoto's government. New York's coffee
merchants are in continual receipt of
complaints about him. One charge
against him is that he was very conspicu-
quo IL bhC NAHAOuldbAG NOIpS QtDdIGS as
favoring the granting of belligerent rights
of MellO. All these facts are, of course,
duly reported to Peixoto and do not pre-
dispose him favorably. 1t should be
borne in mind that, in view of the promi-
nence of the Monroe doctrine. the United
States minister is an important parsonage
in the Brazilian capital. From present
indications the administration considers
Thompson failure. The rumor that he
had been thinking OF recognizing Mello's
belligerent rights seems TO be but the
outcome of his insurgent Affiliations.
THE LABOR APPLICATION.
Now that Samuel Gompers Of the
American Federation of Labor has re-
turned to New York the negotiations be-
tween him and James r. SOVEREIGN for an
aftiliation of the country's labor unions
are being pushed. Mr. Gompers is
rather conservative than otherwise and
seems to think that sovereign is too radi
cal. But the Gompers opposition, the
western element which came so near
turning Gompers out, expresses. great
enthusiasm over the idea and
there seems to be no doubt that some sort
Of utilization arrangement will be entered
INTO. The consequences, should a strike
OF a gigantic nature be organized by such