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THE LOTTERY.
Sermon by the Rcy, Thos, L,
Gulict
Central t Union Church,. Honolulu,
1 ' tember 4, 1892.
Sep-
". I Published liy request.
Tim. vi.: 9, 10: Thoy that will ho
rich fnll into tomplniion and :i snare
and into many foolish and lntrtftd
lusls,vhk'h drown urmi in dost met ion
'nndpordition. Portholovoof money
is tho root of all evil.
1 Tim. iii.: JO, 11: This vi coin
mnnded yon, that it any would not
work, noillu-r should ho oat, for wo
hoar that thorn aro some amoii? you
walking disordorlv, working not at
all.
' Paul tolls Timothy that thoy that
will bo rich, that i?, tho-o that aro
determined to ho rioh, at all oents.
1)3' right means, or wrong, by fair
means or foul, because tho love of
money has taken posesion oT their
hearts, aro on the high road to
drown themselves in destruction and
perdition. Thoy aro already in tho
snaro of Satan and will be led by
him into many other foolUh and
hurtful lusts.
What is true oT individuals, i
equally true .of communities and na
,, lions. When tho greed of gold bo
comes tho absorbing passion of a
community, or of a people, it cankers
tho heart, eats out other virtues, and
makes men willing to descend to un
worthy means to enrich themselves,
"M-oady to increase their own store at
whatever esponso to their neighbors.
Tho very source and fount of all
forms of gambling is the dot-ire to
got something for nothing; the wish
to make inonoy without working
for it.
"When money seems to men tho one
thing needful, when all their energy
is centered to get it, they naturally
prefer to obtain it by easy means,
rather than by daily 'toil. Somo may
" begin to gamble for excitement, or
to drown sorrow, or because thoir
friends do, or to pass tlto time, but
nine out of ten of those who begin
to gamble do so for the purpo-o of
winning. And those who are in tho
habit of gambling do so because of
the passion which has taken posses
sion of them, for tho exeitoinent
which it yields and always with the
' hope of winning.
Tho only legitimate way of earn
ing property is by doing some work
which is of intrinsic value to human
beings, whether in tho learned pro
fessions, in art, in literature, in agri
culture, manufacture or commerce,
tho law is that wo must do some
worthy work, which -shall bo of pro
fit tb mankind; wo have then honest
ly earned the returns, and every
honest laborer, in whatever dopait
inent of human activity, is "worthy
of his hire. All lotteries, and every
other form of gambling, aro entered
upon for tho oxpress purpose of
. evading this law, and, somehow, got-
- ting from others property, which is
the result of labor, without giving
a full equivalent. Eor this reason
Paul says, "He that will not work
neither lot him eat." Ho that takes
his neighbor's property without giv
ing a just equivalent does thai which
though it may not bo stealing, is of
a very similar nature. Gambling hn,
various forms. In some cases, as
with the use of dice and in lotteries,
it may be simply an appeal tochauco,
in others, as with cards, there may
bo a mixture of chance and skill; in
others, as in some kinds of betting,
thoro may bo a mixture of chanco
and judgment. In all theso wo know
how commonly thoro is a mixturo
of cheating. Hut, in all cases,
whether there is cheating or not, tho
object is to gain, without giving any
equivalent, for tho gain, and when
thoro is gain on ono side, thoro is
tho same amount of loss on tho other
side, without any compensation. In
legitimate commerce, Imlh parties
aro benefited; in gambling, one is
benefited and tho other equally in
jured, speaking only in tho pecuniary
sonso.
Legitimate couunorco requires and
promotes habits of industry and
."' skill; gambling, by the sudden gain
ing of wealth, or hopo of gaining it
without labor, as well as by tho loss
of it, without good cause, generates
indolonco and vice, and stimulates a
j most infatuating and often uncon
trollable passion. Tho gamblor's
passion frequently becomes so strong,
that its victims will squander thoir
'wliolo fortunes aud risk their lives
to gratify it. At Monto Carlo in
Monaco thoro aro not uncommonly
two or throo suicides, in a week of
those who have lost their all. Gam
bling, is wholly selfish and wholly
injurious in its effects on f ho com
munity. That a practice so inher
ently vicious bhpuld bo used for
-HJti fli .1 f 'mlffir'ffi'
charitable purposes, does not chango
its oharacl or, ill the least, but only
tends to Confound moral distinc
tions. In .Spain tho unspeakable
cruelties and brutalities of tho bull
fights are often used to promote
some laudable charity, but this does
not make the brutality of t ho bull ring
any loss degrading or demoralizing
(in (ho eyos of right minded men
and womoiO and no gilding of lot
teries and gambling dons with a pre
tence of pious or laudable purposes
will make thorn bolter in tho eyes of
those who enro for the virtue of the
community or the safety of growing
families.
IJitt some one may ask, sincerely:
"Is not my property my own? May
1 not do what 1 choose with my
own? If 1 and my neighbors choose
to risk a portion, or oven all of our
property, in the hopo of little or
great gain, have we not a right to do
so? Wo do it.of our own accord,
who has a right to stop us?" Tho
answer to theso questions , is simple.
UMist, your property is not fully
your own, hut, in reality, a temporary
trust from your Maker, which you
aro morally bound to use for tho
best ends; and for every cent of
which you will bo required (ogive
account. Your family, your friends,
your community, your nation, hu
manity in general, have helped 3-011
in acquiring your property and havo
certain just claims upon it. You
havo no right to risk a cent of it in
a gambling way-, for, if 3-011 gain, you
give no just equivalent for your gain
to tbofo who lose. If 3-011 lose, you
obtain no equivalent for your family,
or whoever else has rights in that
property. Pesides, by so doing, you
sot an oxample which is injurious to
every member of the community in
which you live, and especially dan
gerous to tho young.
"Vo are, as all aro aware, in cir
cumstances of financial depression
in this little kingdom of Hawaii-noi,
and now there come to us a body of
men asking our-government to lot
thorn sot up a legalized lottery in
our laud, with an exclusive privilege
for that kind of transaction for 2.")
years, and tho guarantee of tho un
obstructed use of our mails for their
purposes. In return for theso privi
leges, tho3- propose to give our gov
ernment an annual bribe of $500,000
to bo used for its various needs.
If tho3' should bo able to pay this
enormous bribe annually, whence
would come these gains, for which
thoy make no return whatever?
Tf these gains coino from tho
pockets of our own people, thoy certain-
do not help us 13' impover
ishing tho masses, while forming in
them tho habit of gambling with its
attendant vices.
Tf tho larger proportion of tho
inonoy, is to bo obtained by fleecing
other nations, how is this to bo
done? Tho United States has
strictly prohibited to lotteries the
use of its mails, and thoro is no prob
ability that it would allow its littlo
neighbor in tho Pacific to abuso its
hospitality by doing what it has pro
hibited to its own citizens, either by
mail or cable.
Tho true nature of lottorios, thoir
methods of working and their in
evitable moral and material results,
aro best shown 1)3' thoir history.
In Spain tho Government itself
carries on a groat lottery, prohibit
ing all others. It soils its lottery
tickets, or policy slips, by thousands
of agents in ovory city, town, village-
and hamlet 111 tho land. Every now
and thou the papers aro filled with
tho accounts "of sonio poor mechanic,
somo widow, somo young girl, or
poor farmer, who has drawn a prize
of a thousand, or possibly ton thou
sand dollars. Tho result is that tho
wholo population, especially tho
poor and laboring people, are filled
with a feverish desirq .to got sud
denly rich without having to work
for it. In this vain hope hundreds
of thousands, probably millions, of
people spend their hard-eanled
wages buying lottery tickets. Many
reduce themselves to absoluto pov
erty and others keep themselves al
ways poor. Young and old loam to
hate work, to become discontented,
idle aud -vicious. Those that draw
small prizes soon spend them, and
tho very fow that draw largo ones do
not usually take loiif,' to squander
them. Quick and ill-gotten gains aro
proverbially volatile tho world over.
"Easy come, easy go," is a univorsal
law; so that' thoso who draw prizes,
either largo or small, by the cultiva
tion in thein of tho thirst for
gambling and discontent with tho
sinall steady returns of labor, aro
more injured in the end than thoso
who novor draw any prizo. As but
a small proportion of tho revenue
from tho sale of lot fury tickets is re
turned in prizes, the government
obtains a very largo portimi of its
revenues from tho lottery. Porhaps
somo 0110 thinks that is a very easy
and comfortablo way for tho govern
ment jo raiso its revonuo. Yes, my
friends, it is altogether loo easy. So
easy that tho land is swarming with
qseloss, littlo. iinpertiuont, exasper
ating government officials, living on
government salaries, and frequently
making life miserable to those who
aro trying to do their daily work.
.f - fj
Tho ministry is changed more fre
quently oven than in Hawnii-noi.and
every man that has once boon a min
ister, tho' il may havo been only for
a dn3, draws a round pension for the
rest, of his life. The govornuiont,
which thus takes advantage of the
weakness, ignorance aitd folly of the
poor, which discourages labor, fos
ters discontent and vice, which cre
ates and persistently stimulates ono
of tho most dangerous passions
throughout tho land, trios to fatten
itself on tho blooM of its own child
ren. el, it always seems poor ami
on (he verge of bankruptcy. "There
is a way that Hoeinelh rigid unto a
man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death."
Spaniards boast, and boast truly,
that, in mineral ami agricultural re
sources, thoir country is ono of tho
very richest in Europe, and yet, in
reality, Spain is ono or tho poorest
countries in Europe. Every city
and town is swarming with tho idle
and with beggars.
Now let us look for a moment at
the history of the great lottery in
Louisiana. The charter of this lot
tery was soon to oxpire, and it at
tempted to obtain a renewal of it for
I2i" years. It olfered tho State govern
ment a bribe of .'11 million dollars,
Tor the privilege of continuing its
deadly work; that is, t.2r0,(X)l), an
nually. Every daily paper in Louis
iana was in the pay of the lottery.
When a mass mooting was called in
the city of Now Orleans, to oppose
tho- re-chartering of the lottery,
every nowspapor in tho city refused
to print a paid advertisement of that
mooting. This brought, homo to tho
consciousness of tho people that
they woro living under a despotism
that destroyed the freedom or tho
press more thoroughly than the
government of any civilized land
outside of Kussia and this in demo
cratic New Orleans. Tho city then
coased to look to its press to voice
its sentiments, but made them felt
in Congress;' with such forco as to
secure tho passage or tho law, by
which the ollicersof (ho lottery com
pany can bo tried in tho stato in
which their victims live, instead of
that in which thoy t hemselves have
coino to. control both courts and
juries.
When at last, a paper called tho
"Now Delta" was started to fight tho
lottery, the news agencies, the news
dealers, and ovon tho newsboys of
Now Orleans, at first, refused to
handle tho paper. No ono would
advertise in tho paper.
Merchants asked the proprietors
of the paper, if thoy supposed they
woro crazy, "To advertise in your
papor," thoy said, "means that tho
lottor3 and ovory ono dopendent on
it will boycott us." Time and again
the press of the papor was surrep
titiously injured so it could not bo
used. The workmen vore bribed to
leave thoir work. Tho persecution
was so porsistont and malignant that
it cost 100,000 to got tho "Now Del
ta" upon its foot and then it became
tho finest and most influential papor
in tho Stato. Tho lottery party,
when hard pressed, and having
hypocritically protondod to give up
tho light, actually imported into
Now Orleans 2(5 boxes of Winches
tor rifles and 2(1,000 rounds of ball
cartridgos, evidently hoping to win
tho battle by ballot, if dofoatod by
ballot.
This will givo us a littlo idea of
tho nature, practice and history of a
gambling institution, which' it is
now proposed to introduce into this
Paradise of tho Pacific. Tho serpent
is now saying to tho woman, -'Eat of
this golden, luscious fruit. Then
your eyos shall bo opened and ye
shall bo as gods, and ye shall not
surely die." If our people listen to
tho'voico of tho charmer and yield
themselves into his hands, our sor-pont-ruled
paradise will bo a "para
dise lost" in more senses than ono.
Says llov. Dr. Palmer, tho most os
toomod minister in Now Orleans,
"The lottery is like slavery, it is con
demned by tho conscience of tho
civilized world and it cannot
stand." Tho Roman Catholic
Church joined with all tho Pro
testant churches and tho religious
.Tows in tho fight agaius the lottery.
Cardinal Gibbons wrote a letter call
ing upon all tho faithful of his
church to help in putting an end to
its ravagos. It is said that every
wifo and mother in Louisiana was
praying against tho lottery for the
protection of her homo, Tho parti
sans of tho lottery sneoringly called
their opponents "saints, cranks, sen
timentalists, religious fanatics, med
dlers in politics," and especially de
nounced the women for "meddling
in what was none of thoir business."
At this timo ono-third of the mail
matter in Now Orleans was lottery
matter, and yet, though 4 the bo
ginning of tho fight tho lot tory ap
peared to control every public, plllco
and every public uttorance of tho
Stato; though the wliolo newspaper
press was under its control, jhough
thoy offered tho 'Stato M1J millions
in gold to become partners in their
wickedness, though thoy drew tho
onormous sum of 15 millions a year
from other States in tho Union,
which thoy freely used as n corruption
fund to control public opinion aud
influence in tho State which "they
had already terribly corrupted by
their possession of power; though
thoy openly told the inhabitant-' of
Louisiana that "for every-dollar we
draw from Louisiana we draw !.'$
dollars from other States, whose
contributions enrich your rollers,
build 3'0ur loveo-, support your
schools, improve your streets, minis
ter to yotir charities," notwithstand
ing all theo enticements, tho people
of Louisiana became so convinced
that tho lottery win an unmitigated
curse, that thoy refined to renew its
charter aud drove it from their bor
ders. It is n,Dr. Palmer truly said:
"A university for the propagation of
vice and crime. It hues the weak;
it snares the unwary: it corrupts (he
young and innocent; it robs the
poor; it incites to suicide, theft and
embezzlement ; it debauches the peo
ple." As tho Methodist Conference of
Louisiana said: "The highest judicial
authorities in the world have declar
ed that the lottery is the most per
nicious form of gambling, and is so
because it is the most insidious, al
luring and deceptive or all forms of
gambling. It does not require its
devotees to enter an odious gamb
ling hell; the participant is shielded
from public observation and criti
cism, and, by secrecy, scapes (he
odium of being a gambler, tint
greatly increasing the seductive
power of the temptation. We do
not wish others to take our earnings
without a full and fair equivalent, 1
so, if we are consistent, we cannot 1
vote to endorse and legalize a 1
schonio to take without just equi
valent the 11101103 of the poor, the
ignorant and tho superstitious."
"The generality of games were
seldom practiced except for gamb
ling to which thoy woro inordinately
addicted. In hotting every article of
clothing or property was staked and
thoir interest only stayed by the ex
haustion of thoir means, when violent
passions were usually aroused and
fierce brawls ensued.'' Jarvix' His
tory of Ike fiiindwirh Txlavitx.
The lottery tried with an enor
mous bribe to buy the legislature of
Dakota and failed. It tried, in tho
samo way, to obtain a foothold in
Canada and failed, and now, shall
this 01101113 of labor and of capital, of
morals and religion, of rich and
poor, enter unrestricted into our fair
isles? 1 do not believe it.
"Once to every man anil nation comes tho
moment to decide,
In the .strife of Truth with l-'alseliooil, for
tho Rood or evil side;
Some great cause, find's new Mc-iah, of
fering eaeli the liloom or hlight,
Forts the goat upon the left hand, ami tho
sheep upon the right.
And the choice goes hy foievei 'twist that
darkness and thnt light."
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