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XIII. page 18
Foreign lottery tickets are now and then illegally offered in
England. A few years ago there appeared an advertisement in the
papers, offering a considerable income for the payment of one or
two pounds. Upon inquiry it was found to be the agency of a
foreign lottery! These tempting offers of advertising
speculators are a cruel addition to the miseries of
misfortune.
The Hamburg lottery seems to afford the most favourable
representation of the system--as such--because in it all the
money raised by the sale of tickets is redistributed in the
drawing of the lots, with the exception of 10 per cent. deducted
in expenses and otherwise; but nothing can compensate for the
pernicious effects of the spirit of gambling which is fostered by
lotteries, however fairly conducted. They are an unmitigated
evil.
In the United States lotteries were established by Congress in
1776, but, save in the Southern States, heavy penalties are now
imposed on persons attempting to establish them.
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