The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-15
TINE FOR SERMONS.

In commenting upon the sale of lottery
tickets in this City and the difficulty of sup
pressing The nefarious trade, Chief Crowley
said to an interviewer on Thursday:
Just let me say here that if all papers
took the same position as the CALL in re-
CARO- to lotteries we would have very little
trouble in putting an end to the sale OF
tickets. It is not the working classes alto
gether that we have to contend against,
but It is well-known fact that people of
means make it habit to encourage the
sale of these tickets by purchasing them
themselves"
These words coming from man of Chief
Crowley's experience and eminence in
police service should arrest the attention
OF every man interested in the welfare of
the City. They bear conclusive evidence
that the lottery evil is not creature OF the
Sums, nor does it have its habitation only
among the vile. 1t defies the law in the
gulse OF responsibility. Il walks about
among well-to-do citizens and claims the
service OF great newspapers. Under these
circumstances the police must have the
support of an enlightened public opinion
and the aid Of law-abiding people to over
come the evil, and the issue therefore is one
that calls for sermons, appeals and ger
eral agitation i'll the interests of morality
and law
The CALL will not have to make this bat
tie alone. Many of the pastors of the City
have already given their cooperation. Last
April we had the satisfaction Of publishing
strong and earnest words from many Of
them on this subject. Those who spoke
then were: Reys. w. D. Williams, Ply
mouth Church; George f. Walk, Trinity;
DR.. Ollie, Central Methodist; M. J. Fur
geson. Christian; W. II. Moreland, st.
Luke's; Robert Mackenzie, First Presby-
terian; John Hemphill, Calvary; w. E.
Goodwin, California-street Methodist;
Jacob Voorsanger. Temple Emanu-El; A.
NJ. Russell, Hamilton-square Baptist; Dr..
c. O. Brown, First Congregational; A. G.
Hirst, Simpson Memorial; J. a. Schroeder,
st. Johannes; J. O. Wahlberg, Swedish
Methodist; Herman Cordes, Emanuel;
Paul Branke, st. Paul Lutheran; w. @.
Pond, Bethany; Joseph Worcester, New
Jerusalem; L. W. Sprague, Second Unitar-
ian; Frederick Cordes, Salem Evangelical;
]. G. Mangold, st. Johns Lutheran; J. A.
Emery, st. Peters; W. W. Bolton, st. Mary
the Virgin; 2. R. Lynch, st. James; Will
liam Schuldt, German Methodist, and Eli
McClish, Grace Methodist.
This is notable list of earnest workers,
ana, with the assistance of their fellow
pastors, they will be able to do much in
forming higher public sentiment in re-
gard to lotteries. We are, of course, aware
that the duties of pastor are manifold
and that they cannot give their attention
exclusively to one object; neverthelesswe
doubt not that many of them will be found
able to take up in their sermons tomorrow
the report of the Grand Jury and, in the
light of Chief Crowley's testimony, empha-
size the need OF widespread condemna-
ton Of every form of the lottery evil and
Of those who encourage it.
As for our contemporaries who publish
lottery notices, we can only urge them to
give heed to Chief Crowley's words, that
'if all papers took the same position as the
CALL in regard to lotteries we would have
very little trouble in putting an end to the
sale of tickets" This being so, we appeal
to the papers of this City to join with Us
in this contest for honesty against swind-
ling, morality against vice and law against
crime. Surely none Of our contemporaries
Cdn udNc any lnndbe ueSlTe 10 VlOlale lISU
laws and assist in the preparation of crime
and fraud. True it is they will lose money
if they renounce the lottery and its works
as the CALL has done, but they ought to
be sufficiently Independent to spurn such
hire as that. If paper were on the verge
of bankruptcy and without subscribers
or legitimate advertising, it might plead
the law of self-preservation as an excuse
for accepting such advertising as the lot
terry gives. Our contemporaries, however,
are not in that position. Most of them are
well to do, and we have reason to hope,
therefore, that when rightly urged they
will cease to serve swindling games for
any hire and stand forth as cham pions of
the law of the land and the welfare of the
community.