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Show life. Their nefarious scheme of bribery having failed in North Dakota, they are now laying -siege to Kentucky and Louisiana. They have offered the stale of Louisiana $1,000,000 a year for a new charter to run twenty-five years, and the probability is that this tempting bait will be accepted. Think of that! Twenty-five million dollars. That shows what enormous profits this concern con-cern makes.. .Should Louisiana renew its charter before Senator Hoar's proposed pro-posed constitutional amendment is adopted, nothing can prevent the continuance con-tinuance of the monstrous evil for the next quarter of a century. Senatois Hoar has found a way to , eradicate the lottery evil. He pi'opoes an amendment to the constitution providing pro-viding that neither tho United States nor any state shall pass any law aut hor-iziny; hor-iziny; the establishment or maintenance of any lottery or distribution of prizes by chances. This is evidently aimed at the Louisiana lottery, which ha grown to be a very dangerous institution. It has accumulated great wealth from the hundreds of thousands of victims who I live in hopes of some day securing a fortune by a simple turn of the wheel. The charter of the Louisiana lottery will oou expire, and the 'managers are desperately des-perately trying to obtain a new lease of |