Show NEWSPAPER LOTTERY according to a circular issued from montpelier idaho on the ath of june 1893 editor james jamea H wallis of the post pose had two days previously been arrested charged irith with using the mailo mail for lottery purposes and bound over in tu to await the action of the grand jury the offense lenae of according to mr wallis was that he gave away a sewing machine to his bis paid up subscribers numbers cumbers corresponding to those on coupons held by subscribers were placed ina in a box and the fiftieth one drawn was the one winning the ma chine following is in we be editors motive for sending out the circular referred to I 1 am confident that the anti lottery law was never intended to cover oases or of this nature and it a decision can be obtained in my favor it will be of great importance to the country newspaper I 1 have therefore determined to make a test teat case came of it and my object in addressing ad dressin this letter to you is for the pur purpose ose of enlisting the support of my brother newspapermen to editorially ec comment ament upon this case after giving it I 1 heir careful attention the editorial comments of the NEWS will scarcely carry much comfort to the heart of brother wallis for while unfamiliar with the law in question and hence unable to study its lan guage much less leas pass upon its intent we are forced to say that the sewing machine raffle looks very much to u us like a lottery and ought to be diE discouraged cour Z this is rbt saying that many other country newspapers and some that consider themselves metropolitan have not resorted to the same and similar devices and have gone unpunished it will not have been for gotten that with some gome of the most boastful aeiful of utah papers there have been grand drawings lor for pianos watches wat gold headed canes and what not a chance being given to each paid up subscriber and the prizes being obtained by the papers ft fr advertising ver which could not otherwise have been secured from the thrifty firms whose wares were thus taken off their hands we are not aware that the practice in any case came led to an inquiry Z ury as to its legality it probably being el ng held that no one was seriously robbed by it since who dian didn it get a prize got at least the paper must have been worth something we hope that in the present instance the authorities in idt idaho ho will also take a lenient view and let the post foat off on its promise not to do anything of the kind again it la is not good journalism nor good business management it is a humiliation to the paper a confession that the paper itself IN ia not worth the price asked for it a poor attempt to eke out full value by an appeal to simpleminded simple minded cupidity this hi must DO be so for every sane person knows that neither piano or organ or owing mach machine lise dealers nor newspaper proprietors are giving away something om ething for nothing they are getting their money out of the business somehow we therefore take issue aue with the circulars circular s opinion that a favorable vo rable decision of the case will be of 01 great importance to the country newspaper ap of much greater lm to every newspaper is it to so ao conduct itself that it feels the con olous of its own dignity and worth wt and the assurance that in its subscription price and advertising rates no patron to is charged one cent more than actual value to him whatever Is w more than this cometh ot of evil |