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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
September
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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With the rapid accumulation of wealtl cotnes frequently the vice of gambliii2 It is n desire togetsomething fornothlng and the oxcitement of chance leads manj a man to wrfck. In this ropubllc it de velops itself in betting in horse races o electlons, In buyinj lottery tickets, ii stock spcculatlon or in such games as poker, roulette, "21," etc. Hovv many uierchants, lawyers, doctors clerks and even bankers can every one a once tliink of, who have always kep themselves poor by gambllng in some o its various forms! Tlie man who at firs succeeds is lured on to destructio:), while the loser ftlways is enger to go In ;tüi to win it back, on the principie of "look ing for a penn.v whcre you lost it." This maula ;rows by what it feetls ap on ut snel) a rapid rate tli-tt tlie govern ment does well to represa it. A wise law exists to take the bullot trom the election bettor, and now the antfïottery bilí Jn paS8ed icaches out to cruh a {riuntic an( insolent monster, a briber of law makers a corrupter of moráis and a destróyer o prosperlty. It prohibí ts the use of the miiils to lotteries, tlmsaccompüshlng tha vlii:li was lteyond the viituc of' ïlie people of Louisanu to stop. After a few more ilefuiikiog treasurers casillera and keepcra of tru?t funds somelliing will be ilone to cmtail 6peCuk lation in stocks and graius. 'l'liis is stil a inenace to intenrity, prosperity and advaucement. Andrew Carneóle, the mi II ion aire wlio starled in Ufe as office boy to sweep out, gives three tliings to ivoid för one desirous of nttaiiijng a competency. Ttiey are drnknr, cndorBing nd ipeculation. oue crtii den}1 tKe Importaiice of tliis advice hs well as ts correctness. SpecuUtion s soinetirací a word wliicii begins witli thesecond leltei'. Wasliington'i words ulso are not nninterestlng to clo.-e tliis iditorial, where liesays: "Avoid gamlDg; tliis is a vice wliich is productive of every posslble evP; equally injuriousto tlie mora'8 and liealtli of i's votaries." Ever since tlie war tlieir nortiiern friends have been deuying Ihat the southem deinocrats have stufl'rd ballot boxer, conimitting perjury, ai)(] guined electlons liy fraud and vlolence. As a refntütlon of their aruments we commtnd to tlieir coníidenition the followlng confcfsion of Judge Clirlsman at the Missisíippi constitutional convontion : "Sir, it Is do secret tbat thpre has nol been :i ful] vote and ii fair vote n Mis-sisülppi Miice 1875 - tliat we havo bi'eu preserving the ascendency of tlie white pcople by revolutionary method?. In plain word?, we have been ftufflilg ballot-boxes, com■Uiting prejuiy.and hire and tliere in the state carrying élections by Irand and violence untll tlie whole macliineiy for electlons was about to rot down. The public conscience revolted." This proves the truth of the frequent asserüons Tue Coukiek has made to these political crimes. By them the democracy has put in the presidential cliair at Washington one who with n fair elcction would have been deteated. They wish to continue this traversty on honest elections and the purky of the ballot box by defeating tlie election bilí. As lias been sald by a speaker: "They object to peaceful federal supervisión of national electlons, but they do not object to violence, peijury, and ballot-box stufflng by somherii democratB. They will tolérate any crime that will lead todemocratic yictory, and oppose any lawto secure honest electlons." . At the democratie congreasionul convention, held at Adrián last Wednesday, Hon. James S. Gorman, of Lyndon, the present state senator frora tliis district, receiviU the noniination, and will make the race aguiust Capt. Allen. Mr. Gorman has made a very acceptable senator from a democratie stand-poiut and might in:ikr a tolerably good congressman, but tliere seenis to stand In the way of such a conditioii too maiiy votéis on the republican side. In fact Mr. Gormxn representa the wrong side polilieally. In our state legislature liis politlón] principies could do do particular harin, but tó Ii t liitn go to congress and there adil liis vote to those of the solld south, would be nn act that the majoiity of the people of this congressional district are not prepand to do. Xclther are our farmers prepared to adopt Mr. Gorman'.i free wool imd free trade ideas, is tliey would be oblijred to do should they tlect liim to congress. Nor are our business men prepared to throw oveiboard a truc, Iried and safe man, as Capt. Allen has always been, represeiitinj: as lie does wlse and sound llnancial polloy In the affairs of the goye in ment.

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