The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-23
Tremendous Political Power
Welded by Men Behind the
Semi-Public Business.

HAVANA, Cuba, July 22.-what
,,ss.sN is to Uncle Sam and cricket to
,as7 Ball. that and more is the ma
laval lottery to Liborio, who is Cuba
rs~sontn,d by the cartoonists.
rg. baseball never has threatened
,ts constitution now cricket the
,r,rca cdrta while the lottery has
s-asun the very foundations Of the
,,1r,y ycar-old Cuban republic.
IN the significance of the lottery of
.a.2 is included the willingness of
~s hundreds OF thousands of Gu
,.rs 20 take a chance three times a
-,,~,h and the opportunity this has
-,sq those managing the lottery to
t~.r, ne republics political destines.
created fifteen years ago during the
DEMONSTRATION of the late Joe Miguel
.,rez after being banned by the pro-
..;o0a' American government, the
..e~,. was modelled after that which
..-r.shed for decades under Spanish
.He
Inst as the records of the Spanish
,,rorro-. general throw little real
sret on the intimate workings Of the
,.os,een:h century gamble, so does the
legislative tangle surrounding it's
,,sn,teih century successor today
.asa almost everybody outside a
-srrrcd circle from knowing just how
.., wheels go round. From the snap
-. I.sa, excerpts appearing on the
.... of The tickets it can be estimated
...r il tire government gets all it. le-
,aiv Is entitled to and the thirty-siX
.,rIv drawings are all absorbed by
fine nvauc. said public will have said
.acenv $75O,O0O a year for three dob
shots at the usual big prize Of
e,.aaaa and his smaller brothers.
Prices Range High.
r.. last as the lottery has drawn
..c.,. rom the secretary of the treas
50 do the prices paid in the street
,... i.,.ts differ from the legal scale.
,- Director of the lottery, response
. only to the president. has eclipsed
:r.9ortance most of the cabinet
r.aa.hrrs, and the prices paid peddlers
d.. -,..ets are from 90 to 80 per cent
-o.c par During the dance of the
vH"ons that marked wartime sugar
...fIte. they were double the legal
o.. These phenomena have afforded
.r..rGs for bitter philippics by pollti-
,.lo -.s and opponents of gambling on
Oh. $40 and recipients Of these extra
receipts.
Orc. a wear list of 1000 names is
,gllishod in the official Gazette pur-
..~,.or 10 be those who have been
.-s,.el the tri-monthly privilege OF
.,,,r.ng thirty-two full tickets from
no government at $40 each and sell
iar them at not more than S2l. Inc
,g,1cation of the last list, on May l.
was followed this year by chaI ses
,rs7 N criminal court by Representa-
,.,o Frrioue Nazas that no only dlo
,,orsons long dead and others in IN
ssna asvlums figure in the hst' but
+no+ q3240O0O a year of lottery re-
csrnts were being diverted to purposes
n him and TO the Cuban puphc' I'M
known. .. So,a
Although Judge Antonio Garcia Sola'
who investigated these charges to de-
,,rr,tra whether there existed GROUNDS
for indictments announced ne hau
found the lottery records in perlec'
oder the sensation produced by the
,,.,rrtca.ion of charges that had peeh
,,tno the rounds for months fixed the
,.tertion Of both the public and con-
crass on the lottery and the mys-
cries thereof. There was little sur
mise when 1T was learned that one OIL
taa famous ten memoranda suphnlCleu
=, President Alfredo Zayas, last month
lv Mai Gen Enoch H. Crowder' VINO
suo,,s for president Harding in the
rational palace, was concerneu wiz
the MANAGEMENT Of the lottery anu
was az important, in it's way, as the
ones that jnsinuated the necessity oA
cabinet reform and moral cleanup II.
tha collection and disbursement oA
federal revenues.
Republics Foundation TrembIes'
That was when the foundations OIL
the reDublic trembled, for While Ihe
o,her cleanup jobs were not consloer
cd vndulv difficult, meddling with an
institution with such widespread pom
teal ramifications as the lottery was
a horse of a different color inter
yention reports flew thick ana las''
tased on the supposition that the al
would not permit 1orelsh
hands to tamper with the cogs OF the
deus ex machina that furnished the
motive power for the political steam
roller
Just after the house decided to con-
struct a permanent base Of operations
for it's lottery offensive, the woro
came from higher up that the reform
suggested in one of the memoranda
would be brought about by presiden-
tai decree, and congress thus would be
spared a great deal of complicated
and probably disagreeable legislative
iormalities. The director OF the lot
terry few days ago held long con-
ference with President Zayas and 1t
rs reported that the president out
lined to him what would be done to
give the Institution he still controls its