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Show 4 OGDEN STANDARD FINED For Publishing the Advertisements of Merchants Who Give Away Tickets or Coupons for Guesses, Drawings, Free Gifts in Drawing or Lotteries Merchants to be Prosecuted Prose-cuted Hereafter for Conducting Such Contests Both State and Nation Prohibits All Drawings and Contests Con-tests of Chance Employees Who Participate tL in the Contest or Giving Away of Tickets Also Guilty of Violating the Law. Tlic case of (he United States of America in Hip TederaJ court against the Ogden Standard came up for hearing hear-ing yesterday before Judge Marshall in Salt Lake City. Mr. Glasmann .-.'ppeared for the paper and admitted that lottery advertisements of various merchants appeared in the Standard ;nd v. ere sent through the mail, and when asked by the court if he had anything to say why punishment M I should not be imposed, stated that the Standard printed these loiter) advertisement adver-tisement of the merchants of Ogden unintentionally: that he had informed inform-ed the merchants time and again that the giving away of tickets for automobiles, auto-mobiles, sewing machiues, watches, diamonds, money, etc., was construed to be a lottery by the government, and was a violation of the law, but, in spite of such warning the merchants mer-chants would put these announcements announce-ments in their advertisements and the same would appear in the paper without with-out the knowledge or consent of the management The court, thereupon fined the Ogden Standard $100, the ininc as the Ogden Examiner and the Brigham City paper had been fined a few weeks ago for the same kind of advertising. The punishment provided by law Is not less than $1000 fine and not more 1I1311 two years in the penitentiary, or both such fine and imprisonment, but on the second or subsequent repetitions repeti-tions of such lottery advertisements in any newspaper thr punishment is imprisonment in addition to a fine This means that the Ogden Standard, the Oeden Examiner and the Brigham City News, if they run any more lottery lot-tery advertisements, will have the pleasure of being boarded at the government's gov-ernment's expense at Fort Leavenworth Leaven-worth It will, therefore, be seen how important it is that no such advertisements ad-vertisements shall be permitted to appear ap-pear again in any of thse papers Mr Glasmann Btated to th district attorney that the law should be mon to cover advertisers a-s well as publishers pub-lishers of advertisements, and that then the advertisements would cease The United States district attorney stated that if the government laws, as well as the state laws of Utah, were inspe ted it would develop that the advertiser was equally guilty of violating vio-lating the law with the publisher of a newspaper, and that undoubtedly the publisher would furnish the names of the advertisers to the district at- j torney when a penitentiary sentence confronted them. T; The laws of the state of Utah are more stringent in regara to lottery ao- 1-rtisen1ents than are the federal ; l.nvs, 1 hough the punishment is not jr as severe. Under the laws of Utah; so-called gift enterprises, drawings, and the giving away of free tickets to a drawing is a crime, even If it is not advertised in the newspapers, and the businessmen and merchants of Ogden are hereby warned that it is a violation of the law to give these free tickets for any drawing, whether rd ertised or not The Utah penitentiary peniten-tiary probably would be filled witli ; Oqdrn businessmen at this time, if L all had been prosecuted who, during in "1 tht past year, have pulled off free ticket stunts to guesses and draw-jfc' draw-jfc' . 'ii- s Tu put a bottle ot btans in the window and offer a reward to those LMie. -itiL' is a violation of the law. To give free tickets for turkeys, for mon-ev, mon-ev, for an automobile, or for anything j of value is a violation of the law and all those employes who contribute directly di-rectly or indirectly or who give the tickets away are equally guilty with the proprietors. From this it will be seen that a lot of arrests will occur soon, unless the system of giving away tickets lor things of value is discontinued. The Standard has decided that any businessman who puts a lottery advertisement, adver-tisement, or an advertisement giving away free tickets for a drawing of any bind in the Standard shall be prosecuted prosecu-ted and the management will be tlu-prosecuting tlu-prosecuting witness. For twenty-live twenty-live years the Standard's manager has told the people of Ogden that it was a violation of the law to publish thpse advertisements and he has decide that he would rather see some other man punished for a violation of the law than to have himself punished The advert isements which appeared before the Federal court yesterday, and which were declared lotteries, were the advertisement of Rosehblutb A Oppman, in which they advertised absolutely free a $30 suit or overcoat in which the lucky winner was to be th man who guessed the nearest to the number of checks in a suit hanging hang-ing in their window The second count was the advertisement advertise-ment of Harry Davis, the jeweler, in which he offered absolutely free $1 in gold, giving a free chance with every' ev-ery' dollar purchase. The third count was the advertise ment of the M Sheen Realty company, com-pany, advertising the slate of Idaho drawing of 15, 000 acres of land. The fourth count was the advertise ment of the Culley Drug company Riving Riv-ing away absolutely free one automobile automo-bile giving away a free ticket to the drawing of this automobile. The fifth count was another advertisement adver-tisement of the M. Skeen Realty company com-pany advertising the Idaho state land drawing The sixth count was another advertisement adver-tisement of tin' M Skeen Realty eoni-panj eoni-panj m which they advertised irrigation irriga-tion land in Idaho without any refer ence whatever to a lottery or drawing but it was charged that this adver tisement offered land for sale that was included by the Idaho state land board in their drawing. From all of this it will be seen that the present government authorities have decided to suppress this form of advertising in the state of Utah, and probably in all the other states. As a matter of fact, every paper In the United States of America, as well as the magazines, have been carrying these advertisements. From now on. however, we believe such advertisements advertise-ments will disappear from Ogden papers. |
