Show 1 1 AGAINST THE LOTTERY 1 I 1 two bills were presented to the 4 1 president ident on friday lor for hia his signature signa tuie and both received it one was a i proper and necessary piece of legislation the other baa has come to be regarded as the biennial scandal of congressional 11 gresi lonal appropriations the first was the anti lottery bill the other the 1 river and harbor bill and each is in C now a law of the land U 1 the main purpose of the anti lottery k bill is of course to prevent I 1 the transmission of lottery literature L through the united states mails malls the president directly suggested the enactment of such a measure and at the time dakota came so near ne a r passing r into the clutches of the louisiana r monster mr wanamaker expressed the pleasure it would give him to fight the unholy concern with all the at powers of his department the country as an entirety could not k ba be expected to feel the pressure I 1 brought by the lottery people against individual commonwealths hence the measure went through 1 I 1 congress without much opposition i no member caring to rise in his place 1 and plead for the moral rights of an institution whose whole policy is plunder f apart from the check which the I 1 enforcement of the new law will put I 1 upon the lottery lott erys business busine sg there is concealed in it another and a greater obstacle to futura operations on a I 11 scale wile of 0 much magnitude this is 1 not yet tangible but it will prove t none the leas less effective it Is the tp I moral example furnished by the government ern ment slates states and cities will be I 1 low slow to enter into a compact in direct contravention of a national law in such as may try it the opposition will be emboldened by the assurance of national support in sentiment at least and insofar in so far as this act goes 1 1 in deeds as well altogether it is a serious blow at the gigantic IC fraud which dominates one whole state of the union and ought to come very near striking it in a vital part t I 1 |