El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-16
LOTTERIES DOOMED.
The Dingley Bill Does EN- Up for
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Keeps
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: There
can be little doubt that in brief
time such a thing as lottery will
have no existence in the United States
The lottery business is one of the in
FAINT industries which is not fostered
and encouraged by the Dingley bill.
It is not nascent industry, nor can
adequate protection guarantee that
the entire lottery ticket crop will be
raided in this country if congress will
only be kind and considerate enough
to place prohioitive duty on the for
eign article.
The lottery business is dead both do
nestle and foreign. Dingley is the
lord high executioner. Section 10 of
the new tariff bill reads thus:
THAT all persons are prohibited
from importing into the United States
from any foreign country any OBJ
scene book, pamphlet, paper, writing,
advertisement, circular, print, picture,
ure or image, on or of paper or other
material, or any cast, instrument, or
other article of an immoral nature,
or any drug or medicine, or any art1-
Gle whatever for the prevention OF
conception or for causing unlawful
abortion, or any lottery ticket, or any
advertisement of any lottery"
When the Louisiana State Lottery
company was driven from it's southern
! home on December 81, 1893, its habitat
| was removed to Puerto Cortez, in
| Spanish Honduras. The terminus of
| the business in this country was at
Port Tampa, in Florida, and the
Plant Line of steamers was used in the
| transaction of the lottery business.
| When yellow fever prevailed Puerto
Cortez, on the Honduras side, draw
| ings of the lottery was held on ship
! board and the business was transacted
| without hindrance. Instructions were
given intending purchasers to send all
orders for tickets to Paul Conrad,
| the lottery president, at Puerto Cor
| tez, via Port Tampa, Fla. At this lat
| ter point substantial buildings were
| erected to conduct the business OF the
company, and no orders for tickets
went beyond Porto Tampa. A magni-
ficent printing office was located there,
and lottery tickets by the hundred
| that General Cabell, of Texas, a dis
tinguished confederate, and Col. Chas.
j. Where, brOther-in-law OF Gen G..
L. iBeauregard, superintended the
drawings and made monthly trips to
Honduras for this purpose. But the
drawings alone took place in Hondur-
as. All business was transacted on
|
ida took hand in the lottery struggle
in 1894, and the Louisiana company
took up its baggage and decamped
There were visions of cells and stripes
if the officials remained and they wise
~ stole away. For while they lay
perdu in Mobile, Ala, and now there
is no place where they can rest fol-
more than brief time, even with q
| cOmplaiSant police.
/ SpDatOr Hnar nf Massachusetts, an.
deavored to throttle the struggling
lottery industry few years ago by
| Introducing a bill to place a duty OF
| lottery tickets in such a prOhltive
| fashion that the business could not be
| conducted at all. But he was met with
the objection that the imposition of {
| duty on any article involved a recOg
milton of the legality of the bushes;
taxed and the righteous indignation O.
| the Massachusetts statesman was no
| appeased by the specific enactment o.
the American congress.
| But Mr.. Dingley has given the coup
de grace. No lottery tickets can be
imported. No agent of the government
| can wink at such import atoms under
penalty of a So 900 fine or ten years
imprisonment. The guessing contest
| at one dollar a guess Las gone out o.
| business.
Italy has national lottery. In Ger
many the officials have given sanction
to several. France has had experience
10 the same line of busiaess. Spain
| encourages lotteries: the Havana lot
terry, in Cuba, a Spanish dependency
does large business in the United
States. In other days George Wash.
ington ran large lottery and signed
| the tickets with his own name.
| Thomas Jefferson applied to the legis-
| lature of Virginia for permission to
operate a similar enterprise for his
personal benefit. He was accommo-
dated.
Not since the earliest days OF the
republic has a tariff bill contained a
clause prohibiting the importation OF
| lottery tickets. But the Dingley meas
ure has struck the Aourishing industry
| a deadly blow. Gigs and ''saddles''
| are dead, and lottery tickets will be
sold no more.
1t is curious, yet nevertheless true,
| that the lottery people with all the
| eternal vigilance which they are sup
posed to exercise, never knew of their
death prOvisO as contained in the tariff
bill. In fact the chances are that this
publication will be their first knowledg e
of the fact.
The torrent of fire which is now
belching forth from Colima volcano
can be seen from a distance of over 100
miles, and the scenic effect at night is
| magnificent. The burning lava has
destroyed the crops at the foot of the
mountain, but no lives were lost.
Since the eruption of the volcano COM
menced the earthquake shocks have