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after
gantzt
against
forty years,
fierceness,
nations
On
wealthy men .
vjith America
out promise
cto us turntng
tse that has
of dollars fr
On the
tret service,
machinery
these, and the
Hard
fought. In many
line of battle been
has failed another ,
parently squelched
band warriors have
strike somewhere else.
In Louisiana' s
ing guns fired; and
wars men like Pierre G. T. BeOufe gard -V AvSpT V.
foe worthy their metal; men already rolling
in wealth fought to maintain the lottery,
because they liked the game; at least one
United States senator cast his lot with the
recahitrants, and at times popular senti
ment in a considerable portion of the coun
try has favored them.
Millions have been twirled as if mere
bagatelles; an army has been raised to win
a nation's battles, and in return there has
been asked and received only a lottery
charter. There have been suicides, people
have been driven insane.
But the final skirmish has come, and it
has cost King Lottery a big sum of money
to keep out of jail. That, and his promise
to never again engage in the game of
chance.
FINES aggregating $284,000, imposed upon
a number of citizens, including several
millionaires, at Mobile, Ala., in June,
meant moro than mere business and social
embarrassment to those individuals.
They meant the final ileath-blow to the old
Louisiana State Lottery, which had really not
uwu ai an wnen driven oui 01 Louisiana in 1SU4.
but had kept up its operations elsewhere.
And that it was finally dead for sure was
made certain by the handing over of all its para
phernalia to the government by tho Honduras
Lottery Company, the surrendering of its char
ter in the only country where it could operate
and the notifying of its 6000 agents that their
Bervicea would be no longer needed.
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', v ,. ijier t n i Jini rein by lottery moans.
'tZIhen Clmrles T. Howard, back in the
7J(?xS?TBtjted his little lottery, he had no no-
And that
by the mem-
the fact that
the secret
Lottery game,
so rich that
lpation, waa
nns, waa1 the
There it waa
so success-
, and although
speople for his
tho Louisi-
'ha city.
i No pirate enterprise was it in thoso days.
, aiVHv the L nuisinna Legislature accepted the
:1SC f0o f $500,000 a year, whieh was turned
Ithe school fund.
Cii yig names were used to give an air of re-
Thn A. Morris, Z. h. Simmons and C. H.
ky. Then Charles T. Howard, tho real
of Jie concern, was eminently respectable.
rid to make its standing entirely unques-
le, the promoters engnged Generals Early
laurcgard, two prominent Confederate of-
it salaries of $10,000 each, to superintend
But in reality the money was void
as the sentiment in New Orleans
in favor of the lottery that the
tho lottery company once brought
against the postmaster general, claim-
damages for withholding the use of
Congress had littlo power oyer the
tho ono or two laws passed to re-
it were largely inoDerative.
The charter given the company by the Leg-
ature distinctly provided that upon ita expira-
on, m 1903, it should not bo renewed. Yet the
ompany applied for another charter.
Everything possible was done to get local
sympathy in tho fight against the nation. For
instance, when New Orleans was threatened with
a yellow-feyer epidemic the lottery company fur
nished tho Board of Health with means to en
force quarantine; when the Mississippi river,
overflowing, threatened destruction to the city,
tho lottery company met the emergency.
It sought to enlist business interests by tj
tablishing sugar refineries and business houses',
and it offered to give $1,250,000 a year to the
state for the renewal of the charter. But the
bait was refused.
i j i iaDuious gains nowara ana nis inenas
Lj5!jlJ made from the start, but the charitable Jlissis-
hospitals, and few could see anything wrong in
his method of making money;
But after awhile the public realized that tho
Louisiana State Lottery's monthly receipts could
be no less than $4,000,000, while not more than 60
per cent, was paid out in prizes. This indicated
thit the lottery owners were making over $1,000,
000 a month clear gain.
Even then the Postofficc Department had its
eye on the lottery. Inadequate laws, however,
prevented action by the government, and so it
was the state of Louisiana that put tho lottery
out of business or thoueht it did.
It was all done by a simple act refusing a
charter and declaring tho lottery an enemy to
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United States notably the two known as tho
Pistnal Swamp Lottery and tho Louisville Lot
' tery but they never reached great proportions.
. ,lhe lo"ey ldea w by no means he d tho we,farp of , stlltC ftthough it had paid
in disrepute by many of tho best people early $13i0o0(000 illto thc state treasury, and paid as
in t.hf hittf. ni.ntnrv I hiro worn nhurnhoa which . ..1..,..
, , , . , r, 7 x , much more to individual beneiactions.
Charles T. Howard died shortly before this
.1 were glad, enough to get the aid of tho lottery
f' use the lottery in securjng funds to build new
' f . .. churches.
Charitable institutions, hospitals and publio
amusements were wont to raise a few thousands
now and then by a big lottery. Even when the
law frowned on the practice there were special
action of the state he was spared the sight of
his widow, returning, heartbroken, to her old
Mississippi village.
Now came the boy Frank T. Howard upon
the stage of the lottery drama. He had plenty -(CONTINUED
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So quietly do the secret service men work
that, sprung as the great coup was right under
the noses of the public, there was scarcely any
noise made about it, and the intensely dramatic
sidelights on the great closing scene were known
to few.
Two years were required to enact this clos
ing scene. It had its beginning when one John
T. Dickey was arrested by secret service men at
Wilmington, Del, charged with selling lottery
tickets shipped to him from San Francisco.
Curiously enough, the sleuths who made the
arrest learned that while these tickets were ship
ped from California there was right there at
Wilmington, on the banks of the peaceful Dela
ware, the biggest printery for lottery tickets in
the world.
From here it was not difficult to follow clues
leading to another printing plan', at Mobile, Ala.,
where lists of lottery prize winners were being
printed ; and then the tracing of the, incubus to
its Honduras lair, and its final vanquishment.
But that story will be the more appreciated
if one becomes familiar with the earlier stages
of the war, from its incipiency at New Orleans
back in the sixties.
Even before that monumental scheme there
had been attempts to start a big lottery in the .
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