The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
LOTTERIES DENOUNCED
Interior Journals Join With
nThe Call in the
Crusade.
GROSS FRAUDS ARE EXPOSED.
The Country Press Is Unani-
nous In Fighting the
EVIL.

The press OF the State with unanimous
voice commend the action of THE CALL in
denouncing the lottery swindle. Excerpts
from leading journals of California cities
and towns show that the uprising against
the lottery frauds have become one OF
magnitude.
No better work, considering the morals
of community, has been done recently
than that of the San Francisco CALL
against the lottery traffic. 1t is most
effective, too, for that swindling traffic has
been reduced one-half on account OF the
exposures of that journal.
One of these lotteries is conducted by E.
Fox & Co. of Kansas City, which is de-
nounced as a fraud. The Metropolitan
National Bank of that city states as fol-
lows: I'VE desire to say that E. Fox IL Co.
have less than $3.50 to their credit on our
books. We have requested them time and
again to discontinue reference to this bank
on the back of their tickets, which we I'M
derstand they have failed and refused to
do" Now, who would have any dealings
with firm of that character?
Here in Los Angeles the same evil has
had a certain sway. There have been few
attempts TO break it up. The running of
poolrooms was permitted for while, but
the Record inaugurated a crusade against
them, and they were driven from the city.
We would add q word of caution against
playing the races, buying lottery tickets,
or the like. No really sane, reasonable
man can ever hope to beat gambler on
the gamblers own ground.-Los Angeles
Express.
The San Francisco CALL has given con-
siderable space of late to exposing these
lottery swindles, one or more of which are
located at Kansas City. The confidential
circular of one of these fake companies
contains the following: eve fully under
stand and appreciate the reason why your
people have almost stopped buying lottery
tickets; it is because there has been no
prize of value drawn there for years, and
many have become discouraged and have
ceased to patroniZe lotteries entirely"
A few months ago fifty lottery tickets
were consigned to a man in San Francisco
and among these ticket was one IN an enc
velope, on the back OF which was written:
Confidential. Be sure to sell this ticket
to some prominent person who would not
object to having his name published
should he draw large prize"
That looks honest, doesn't it? There
was one ticket meant to draw prize. And
that prize was for the purpose of drawing
other people into the net. The prize would
be q great advertisement If 1t went to q
person who was widely known. An ordi-
nary individual has few chances, not one
in a thousand, of getting cent. Such are
the schemes OF the lottery fakes.-Los An
geles Record.
THE CALL deserves the commentator
and hearty support of the entire Pacific
Slope for its determined and successful
war waged against the lottery business.
The enormous success of genuine lotteries
has led to the counterfeiting of their
tickets; the creation of many fake lotteries
and the palming OF the myriads of the
bogus tickets upon an easily gulled people.
THE CALL has camped upon the trail of the
common enemy of the public, exposing its
fraudulent methods and rendering its bust
ness SO unpopular that even the genuine
lottery is not well patroniZed and the
bogus concerns hunted by the authorities
are no longer profitable. AS Chief of Po-
lice Crowley says: ''If other papers could
be induced TO follow THE CALLS example,
and at least cease to advertise the lotteries,
the evil would soon be reduced to a mini
mum.-Sonoma County Farmer.
That tottering concern the Louisiana
Lottery of Honduras continues to receive
hard knocks and will soon be obliged to
it removed from New Orleans it nominally
located in Honduras, Central America, but
in reality most of its operations have been
conducted in Tampa, Fla. That State has
now passed one of the severest laws against
lottery to be found anywhere in the Union.
Among the restrictions, it is made felony
for any person or firm in the State to any
way prepare lottery matter, either by
printing, typewriting, stereotyping, or in
any other way, or to permit 1t to be pre-
pared in buildings or premises over which
they have control. The penalties are
heavy, the fines running as high as $4,000
and Imprisonment up to ten years for aid
ing in the conduct of a lottery.--Oakland
Enquirer.
The CALL got itself in a commanding
position to fight the lotteries by refusing
to insert any of the lottery advertisements
From this height it is able to sweep the
whole works and to do effective cannonad-
ing. The great desideratum about break
ing up the National lottery habit is to stop
the enormous drain of money from class
of people who can i'll afford it, and to de-
stroy habit of trusting to chance for p
success that can only be obtained, in a way
to be beneficial, by hard, steady work and
systematic saving. If all the great papers
of this country would initiate THE CALL
and assist the Postoffice Department, this
unfortunate National habit would soon be
stamped out or reduced to a condition
where its i'll effects would not be felt
Alameda Argus.
The San Francisco CALL keeps pegging
away at the lottery frauds, and states that
the more the business is investigated the
more swindlers are to be found. 1t will
keep on attacking the Illicit money-mak-
ing scheme until it is driven out of the
City. When taken into consideration the
large number of poor people who are en-
ticed by the visionary fortunes held forth
and the evils resulting therefrom, we must
admit the efforts of THE CALL in trying to
suppress the vice are worthy of emulation
by all newspapers who seek to promote the
advancement of the people.-Solano Re-
publican.
If there are yet people in Vallejo who
buy lottery tickets, they should read the
exposures made by the San Francisco CALL
of the swindling practiced by lottery COM
panies. The lottery business is fraud
from end to end, good and sure method
to get dollars from public willing to be
humbugged.-Va llejo Chronicle.
The San Francisco CALL is doing a good
work in attempting to down the lotteries.