Show THE ILLINOIS senate is now wrestling with a bill which proposes to make it a criminal offense for a newspaper to publish the fact that any person has drawn a prize at a lottery If the idea is a good one why not carry it out to its legitimate conclusion 1 Why not forbid the newspapers to publish the facts when Jay Gould puts up a little game and squeezes a few millions from the boys Why not prohibit the announcement that pools and combinations are making money by speculations The stock exchanges ex-changes are lotteries quite as much as the Louisiana concern and those who buy tickets in the former do not win any oftener than the investors in the straight lottery There are many men making laws in America Ame-rica who are deplorably ignorant of the first duties of the legislator |