The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-17
ENDORSING THE "CALL."
Eighty Thousand Dollars {
Month Taken Out of
Oakland.
THE MOVEMENT Is POPULAR.
Buying Two Bits Worth Of Hope
for a Month-The Counterfeit
Tickets.

Quoting from the report of the Grand
Jury, Rev. c. o. Brown, in his address last
evening in the First Congregational
Church on ''The Civic Federation at the
Bar" the reverend speaker read:
The fact that newspapers continue to
publish notices of lotteries is n crying
shame, but We are advised that 1T is not
within the province of the Grand jury
to indict, as the law is not made to cover
more than 4 misd emeanor in these cases
This jury desires to express to the
people of the City the commendable
course of such of it's dailies as have now
refused TO advertise the drawings of the
various lottery companies. 1t Is to be
hoped that other proprietors Will, In
Justice to themselves and to the public,
follow this good example, which will 60
well in the line of progress this State is
now making.
When the pastor finished reading these
paragraphs the silence in the church was
broken by loud applause, by the clapping
of hands from all parts of the editice. a
manifestation that the example set by the
CALL in refusing to publish lottery adver-
tisements and lottery drawings has the in
dorsement OF the people who are not law
breakers.
There was a large congregation in the
First Congregational Church last evening
to listen to Rev. DR.. Browns address on
the Civic Federation of this City.
The pastor detailed what the Civic
Federation is.
He then asked what need was there for
such an organization in this City? There
was need for it because of the violation OF
luxu 1lafi he fr, oh ca
gambling, indecent literature and obscene
prints and photographs. lotteries. the
social evil, side entrances to saloons, be-
cause liquor was sold to children.
There were these end other evils, but at
the outset the Civic Federation was told by
prominent officials that these things did
not exist, that some evil places were order
ly and that if there was any gambling or
lottery carried on it was conducted without
the knowledge of the police.
Now here l have an important docu-
ment. 1t is the report of the Grand Jury,
and it sustains every affirmation made by
the Civic Federation at the meetings held
several months ago."
The pastor then read an extract from the
report to show that it sustained what the
federation had declared about election
frauds, and said that the portion which re
fleets on Judge Belcher is something fol-
citizens to ponder over. What is wanted
is purity at the ballot box and purity il
the judiciary.
Commenting on this portion of this re
port he said that those who manipulated
the frauds at the ballot box preferred to b.
indicted than tell of those who employed
them, and the result was that the tools art
wearing stripes while those who employed
them are walking the streets. He saiG
that before the next election there will bs
such reformation that such frauds a.
have been perpetrated in the past would
not be repeated.
He read from the report about the Pc
lice Courts and Judge Campbell, and sale
that if the federation had not brough
these matters to light it would have beer
the duty OF some one else to do so. Rcadins
from the report about dives and the socia
evil, he said: "This report bears cut tn,
federation again, but it says, In this con
nection we have suggested to the police
that there are many abandoned residence
districts where the women of the hal
world might be compelled to take up thei
abode, and where their presence would no
be demoralizing to the youth of botf
sexes Now / ask why, in the name of out
ragged womanhood, ought there to be any
part of this city set apart to commits
crime?"
Referring TO the side entrance evil, he
said that the report again supported the
charges made by the federation, and con
tradicted that they were closed. He sale
the report suggested that respectable mer
chants and saloon-keepers should cooper
ate with good citizens in suppressing this
evil. He added that he did not have much
of an opinion of saloon-keepers.
Then the Rev. Mr.. Brown read the por
ton of the report relating to gambling and
lotteries and opium dens. THE Law
against lotteries has been most fagrantly
violated, and men who engage in this bust
ness go from door to door offering to sci
tickets. If one came to my door ano
offered me such l would order him tc
leave as quick as he could, and if he die
not go quick enough 1 would help him te
CO." He then read the portion of the
Grand Jury report which is quoted at the
head of this article, and said that every
honorable newspaper man should stop the
publication of advertisements relating te
lotteries and making money by such
means at the expense of the people of the
community, and when he referred to the
daily paper that has refused such, though
not mentioning it by name, there was loud
applause.
He then spoke of the attacks that would
naturally be made on the federation by
those who thrive on crime and whose in.
terests would be affected. He said that all
who fare engaged in the work of the
federation are unselfsh. and that DR.
Ollie ought to be supported for what he
has already done. If it should appear in
the examination in the Police Court thai
The members who are now before it had
made mistake as to some minor detail.