Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-11
GET IN LINE.

The APPEAL is glad TO see the Reno
Gazette copy approvingly an article
in the APPEAL relative to fake lotter-
ries, after taking the APPEAL to task
for not fighting the Nevada lottery.
The editor of the APPEAL did not
think it quite consistent to purchase
lottery tickets aud then declaim
against lotteries on moral grounds.
We felt that State that took
license from til ewing swidllng faro
games, thieviCg. 'swlndllng horse
races, and THE ing. swindling stud
poker games need strain at the gnat
Of lottery, if said lottery was con-
Quoted on the square.
We did not sign the'Gazette's roll
of honor" protest because we fire.
quently buy lottery tickets, and did
not feel as if our name belonged on
such a roll.
Judge Bonnifield, how ever, the first
name on the roll. had some lottery
tickets in his pocket when he signed
the protest. We do not blame him
for carrying the tickets about in his
vest pocket, for rot being without sin |
we cannot cast the first stone, we only !
object to his allowing his name to
head the protest during the month
that he carried ticket and also cash
ed small prize of SIS.
We have always liked Judge Bonni-
field and still do, considering this is
about the first mean thing we ever
knew him to do.
Now that this paper has started the
ball rolling against the California
fake lotteries, we hope the State press
will fall in line and also the members
of the Legislature who voted for the
Wilson resolution. We propose to re-
form and quit buying any mole Cali
tornia lottery tickets, and with the
moral assistance of our friend Bragg)
open crusade against the takers. No
doubt the Gazette will ibe willing to
print extra editions of the paper and
circulate them all over the State as it
did before, and spend few hundred
dollars in the cause of morality, for i.
is Just as immoral, in our opinion
buying California lottery tickets as it
is investing in Nevada lottery tickets.
W.. hope the clergy will also agitate
the question Of squelching the Cali
fornia lotteries, and that they will
agitate the matter at their conferen
ces. The fact that some of the pill
ars of their churches own few hun
dred shares in the outside lotterie:
need cut no figure, for the straigh
line of demarcation betw en- right ant
wrong is not measured by dividend
on stock.
Of cor1se it will cost some none,
to print extra editions and circulat
thousands of papers daily, and W
would hardly ask the Gazette to d
Iulo "Olh AoA AONOlhS, do IL ulu Ids
winter: The "Appeal' is ready t
receive small subscripti which
will onward to the Gazette as soon a
the latter paper signifies its willing
ness to enter on the crusade. Th
Journal, also, will get in line All
strike telling blows for the driving
the California lotteries out Of tt
State and general reform movement
The law against papers circulatin
lottery advertisements in this State
very strict and the publishers can |
made to 60 to jail and fined $50
apiece. Tbs Sc fines go to the scho
fund and it the officers of the law a
tend to business they can collie
quite tidy slim for educs ton.
All we want is for the leading Sta
papers TO get in line and drive Il
sale of counterfeit as we'll as regul
lottery tickets, out of Nevada.
The stock holders of the San Fra
cisco lotteries residing in Nevada M
object. but they certainly are entitl
to no moral consideration at 0
hands We hope to see a torwa
movement soon all along the line