The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-19

A ticket properly cancelled, or after the
drawing, ceases to be a lottery ticket, but mere
ly becomes piece ,ofswaste paper.
Tickets drawing prizes cease to be lottery
ticket, but become a voucher, due bill or draft
against the company named therein and at
taehed to a draft accompanying same can be
safely sent for collection through any bank or
express company.
And now the uninitiated would never
guess who it is and what it is that promul-
gates this literature. 1t is pure bogus
company, fraud from start to finish-the
so-called Original Juarez Company" No
one who is posted will buy Juarez. The
Juarez is a fraud. There is no such COM
pany outside of its tickets aud in its liter
AZURE. The Juarez never had drawing,
never gave prlze-unless small one for
bait-has no headquarters. except those
of Mr.. Kahn at 120 Suffer street, and is
known to be d pure and simple swindle
from top to bottom. Rather laughable,
isn't it, that a swindle should become in
dignant at the encroachment of the Fed
eral law that "opens his private letters ?'
Yes; it is mammoth Swindling lottery
fraud that is conducting the pro-lottery
crusade-the Juarez.
THE State Government Lottery Com
pany' is the pretentious title on the fake
tickets printed and sold by j. A. frost, %
Columbian building. This is the E. Fox
& Co. lottery-a fraud of tie first water.
The information is gradually spreading
that one-half of the lottery tickets sold are
counterfeits of the genuine and that the
city is also flooded with the tickets of a
dozen or more fraudulent lotteries that
never had drawings or gave prizes. And
the spread of this knowledge is doing a
great deal toward discouraging the ticket
buyers. Some of the peddlers and dealers
declare loudly that these statements are
made only to discourage the traffic and are
not true. Only half of their statement is
true-the first half. The chances are they
have Fox & Co. tickets for sale or Juarez
or Montana, or some of the other fake
companies tickets. If you buy what pur-
ports to be a genuine company's ticket
from them be sure to have it examined by
an expert. The chances are they sell
counterfeit tickets. Every lottery ticket
seller who deals in what is known as
square goods''-and they are very few
and far between-wiil tell you to beware of
the frauds and the counterfeits.
Attorney Haskell suggests that law be
passed making it a crime to buy genuine
lottery tickets and removing all penalties
from those who sell counterfeit tickets.
His advice, in full, is as follows:
Editor Call: AS a constant reader of your
reJuvenated and progressive journal / have
become interested in one of the reforms which
you propose, viz: the suppression of lotteries.
In suppressing any evil rigorous policy
should be adopted The maintenance of every
VIC 10 NcpcuOeut upOU puDlc patronage. SeL-
sational literature. saloons, brothels and lot
teries are the result of public demand the
proprietors of evil resorts and schemes are SIM
pie caterers TO depraved public taste. Were
there no persons who desired by the invest
ment OF a mite to gain fortune there would
be no lotteries. Who, then, is responsible for
should suffer for the existence of an evil de-
nounced by law? The question needs no
specific answer. The present law is a simple
sop intended to placate the opponents of lot
teries. Let the Legislature enact two additions
to the existing law and lotteries must cease to
exist for want of patronage. Let the Legisla-
ture first enact that it shall be a crime either
to paw or receive payment of any prize drawn
in any lottery. Let the degree of this crime be
graduated as in cases of larceny, according to
the value of the priZe-under certain amount
q misdemeanor and above that amount a fell
ony. AT present 1t is no crime to hold of cash
prize ticket; as soon as the drawing is over
the holder may with impunity 1aunt his ticket
in the face OF the police. The law winks at the
person and his accomplices while he pockets
the fruits of his crime. II is as if the law pro-
vided that the robber might have and enjoy
the proceeds OF his theft If he only escaped de-
lection i'll the actual commission Of the crime
1t is openly advertised that prize tickets will
be cashed by various business institutions not
known to be in any other way connected with
the lottery in which the prize is drawn, thus
making it easy to collect prizes, lending credit
to the lotteries and gaining for them the con-
fidence of the people. 1t is also customary to
afidavits of his winning ana of the prompt
payment" thereof, which affidavts are used
for advertising purposes. The efficacy of such
a law as / have suggested, making the real
danger of detection commence where it now
ceases must be apparent. Itwould effectually
prevent the making of the affidavjts referred
to- 1t would cause the reception of q prize to
be kept secret, and thereby prevent the con-
tagion of success from spreading. The diff
Guilty and danger in cashing the prize would