The San Francisco call., 1910-08-07

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a very clear that selling counter
Va felt lottery ticket is a public
offense. Certainly the man who
Es"ss:8s"33aSa buys an alleged security of that
& g sort could not recover the price
from the vender-but let that
pass.
The point lies in the fact that
the police do not bother the
who peddle the tickets put out by the people who
operate alleged lotteries in this city. OF course, it
is no secret that there are no genuine lotteries in
operation here and the men who advertise draw
ings simply running skin game On those
rare occasions when they have fallen out with the
police and have had their places raided in
quence, their impudent plea in court has been that
they do not hold any drawings and that the whole
affair is a pretense
At present they at peace with the police and
doubtless in position to make it hot for any
body who NEEDLES with their sure thing game by
selling counterfeit tickets
HYPOCRITE AND MOUNTEBANK
While I the subject of lotteries l beg
leave to quote the following fine sentiments from
an editorial in the Examiner of July %:
Gambling is the effort get something for
nothing. 1t is vicious, dangerous habit because
while
Gambling is vicious dangerous destructive of
character and ambition, just because it
possibly produce anything
A man who risks his life save friend may
lose his life and save the friend But he is no
gambler, since there a possibility of his
producing good result
Fortunately human beings gradually coming
realize that gambling is the harmful OF
all the vices-and in a few years you viii
any public gambling in this country-not even in
Wall street
DOES HE NEED THE MONEY!
This is very creditabe, but if you will turn back
to page 10, column Z, of the same issue you will
find Mr.. Hearst advertising the alleged list of
prizes for the drawing of lottery company doing
business in this city. Possibly Mr.. Hearst might
plead that sure thing game is not gambling
He can have it that way if he prefers
LAW MAKERS AND LAW BREAKERS
In the same issue of the Examiner and i'll every
other for couple of weeks you will read extensive
notices of national league of law makers insti-
tuted by Mr. Hearst. l quote a sample:
This league, the readers of the Examiner arc
aware, has been organized for the suppression of
prize fights in the United States and for the pre-
vention of the nickelodeon exhibition of the NOV
ing pictures that taken of the fight at Reno
All sections of the United States reached by
the organization and good citizens everywhere are
lisrn the sporting disgrace of America
All this, like Mr. Hearsts sentiments for editorial
page publication on the subject of gambling, is
admirable far it goes, but if prize fight pic
lures are wicked we do not forget that the issue
of the Examiner July about half filled
with big pictures of the trouble at Reno. After Mr.
Hearst has got away with the price of his fight
pictures he is quite willing to stop other exhibitions
of the same sort
READ THE PENAL CODE
Now, if we read the following sections from the
penal code of California some doubt may arise
whether it was not league of law breakers that
he ought to initiate:
Section 3d. aiding lotteries Every person who
aids assists, either by printing, writing adver-
tsng publishing otherwise in setting up, man
aging or drawing any lottery selling or dis
posing of any ticket chance share therein is
guilty of misdemeanor
Section 323 Lottery Offices Advertising lottery
Offices. Every person who opens, sets up or keeps
by himself by any other person any Office or
other place for the sale of for registering the
number of any ticket in any lottery, or who by
printing writing otherwise adverises or pub
fishes the setting up, opening using of any such
Office is guilty OF misdemeanor.
A TAWDRY FAKER
What a cheap and sordid hypocrite and mounte-
bank he is, raising his eyes to heaven in protest