The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-09
LOTTERY REHABILITATION.
The Louisiana Lottery Moved to Florida
Instead of Honduras.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript
The Louisiana Lottery Company having
been expelled from the States has, ostensI-
bly, at least. located its gambling paraphcr-
MALTA in Honduras for the purpose Of put
ting IL and its operators beyond the reach
of our State and national laws. The sew
eral States have made the lottery business
Illegal. but no existing national law can
interfere with it, except that which pro-
hibits the use OF the mails for lottery pur-
poses Every other way OF communication
and transportation is open TO IL. BY these
means the Louisiana Lottery Company con-
tinues its illegal business in this country
and within the States by such methods OF
adroit evasion or audacious violation OF law
as only the ingenuity and affrontery OF I'M
scrupulous cupidity can devise and prac-
tice. The wheels may turn IN Honduras,
but their drag-net is spread over all
our country. Reports which reach US
through private sources from the South are
TO the effect that future plans include a line
OF palatial steamers owned by the company.
which are to ply between Port Tampa CITY
ana tho Honduras Monte Carlo and a
cable joining these two points. The COM
pany is now running one steamer between
Port Tampa City and Puerta COrtez, Hon
duraS, and under the name OF the Graham
Printing COMPANY has built and is now
a dlS HlllAtlS ACCOMPLISHMENTS ~
Port Tampa City. at which its tickets are
printed and from which these and it's adj
vertising and other literature as well as its
money are distributed over the States.
Its advertising methods are many and
bold. Millions OF pamphlets in almanac garo
are sent out unsolicited and express paid 10
tradesmen through the country, the trades
mans address and business advertisement
on the back cover serving the double pur-
ton and sure distribution. Alluring descrip-
tons Of drawings and statements OF prizes
are found In certain paIers wordea so
form of advertisement, and so making the
papers admissible TO the mails. Theater
programmes are not infreauently met with
in other cities containing attractively enig-
NAUTICAL advertisements of the lottery.
Never in its history has this highly or
given evidence OF greater vitality or more
determined purpose of self-perpetuauon
ing possibilities before IL offer a prize for
the obtaining of which no effective enort.
fair or foul; is likely to be 100 sre @dne or
too lavish. The history OF this company
is not likely TO furnish an exception TO the
gressive badness. but rather 10 conspicu-
ously illustrate it, If allowed TO take It's
from New orleans it drew from the peo-
pie Of the States over three hundred MILL
ions Of dollars: Fer twentg3i We years It
ment of Louisiana. BY means OF nl-dis-
guised bribery, il polluted the ballot d.
TecIcu ltSlSlaliOI. COALnplE0 AnC C1AN
subsidized the press and aimed at the over
throw of State sovereignty itself and the
seizure SiSSr o of the ,b rei9 sia OF g its sla Wish p snat II
in a system of gigantic plumber and cor
ruption, legalized by it's own servile min
Reliable Information from Florida makes
IL evident that a repetition or the COM
pany's tactics in Louisiana has been al
ready successfully ~inaugurated in that
State. A bill has been hurried through the
legislature and signed by the Governor
which allows the printing OF lottery mat
ter within the State and enables the COM
pany to do business within it. Under such
law permitting the Louisiana company to
come into the State has proved a surprise
even to some OF the legislators WHO are
responsible for the passage of the bill.
1t is the opinion of one i'm excellent posi-
tiop to know of what he speaks that the
drawings on the Island Of Honduras, the
line Of steamers and the cable are tenn
porary expedients and part OF a strategic
trick, and that the drawings will event
ually be, II they are not now, done secret
~ in the Port TamDa building in waiting
for the time when Florida shall have been
drawings legal and openness snail give an
air OF responsibility TO robbery. There
is also reported a not improbable plan
to capture and practically control the
management of the Port Tampa City post
office, and 50 far as possible to put into
the hands of the company itself the power
of deciding what shall be admitted TO the
mails. Involved with the interests OF this
company are those OF other moneyed organ
lLdllOIS. Inc law WHICH eGcluQcS loNteTY
matter from the mails has to some degree
made the express companies and railroads
the lottery company's allies. Port Tampa
City is the southern terminus OF the great
Plant system. which alone represents about
$50, 0O0, 600. The fight which shall now overe
throw the lottery must be waged against
| larger moneyed interests than those OF w
years ago in New Orleans.
Already the moral sentiment and the en-
lightened patriotism OF Florida is being
aroused, as the character and magnitude
of the threatened evil manifests itself. To
such Of her citizens as are enlisted in the
struggle against IL every lover OF right
eousness. honor and good government
should extend the hand OF comradeship
Florida's danger and her conflict are ours.
The vice Of gambling is national not local,
and If it's evils are focused in a single
State the malady is none the less common
to all the States and all communities within
them