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[Reprint from The Congregationalist of March 24, 1895. Revised.]
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It was that glorious struggle in 1890–1 of
better Louisiana with the monster iniquity
which had fastened itself on the State; it
was that heroism against mighty odds and
the patriotism that swept away party lines
and broke down race enmity; it was that
noble courage in poverty that spurned
bribes and refused compromise with entic-
ing wrong; it was that unstinted emptying
of purses by loyal men and the free giving
of personal effects by loyal women that the
great moral battle might be fought to the
finish; it was that divine interposition
which thwarted by lightning, by death and
again by sickness attempts at corrupt legis-
lation; it was the call of those “ of whom
the world is not worthy,” the appeal of
Louisiana's soul to her sister States for
help; it was this grand spectacle of Chris-
tian and patriotic heroism that roused
within me, as it must have done in thou-
Sands of others, that same spirit which, as a .
boy, brought hot tears to my eyes, because
youth stood between me and the heroes at
the front, and which sent me into the farm-
field to take the place of one who through
such help could go to the battlefield.
It seemed to me that the irresistible power
of our great people's moral sentiment could
Surely need no more than that spectacle to
awaken it to a readiness for action, and that
all that was wanted was unification, direc-
tion and concentration of that power to
sweep Louisiana's lottery plague into the
gulf and to sink it with its necklace of mill-
Stones forever,
A letter written under that inspiration,
early in the year 1891, came to the knowl-
edge of General Johnston, the anti-lot-
tery Committee's representative sent from
Louisiana to the North, and on his com-
ing to Boston I soon found myself ac-
tively interested in the conflict. For two
months the Northern campaign was di-
rected from Boston, and until the enemy's
line in Louisiana broke, changed front,
vacillated, resorted to ambush strategy and
at last capitulated under an anti-lottery
majority of more than 40,000 votes.
Then came vague rumors and later well-
authenticated reports of the lottery’s pro-
posed transfer to Honolulu, and of the vig-
orous and effective adverse action of her
citizens. Then followed reports of location
in Mexico and, finally, of rehabilitation in
Honduras and steamship communication
with the States at Port Tampa, Fla. The
infamous tactics practiced in Louisiana
were found to be continued in Florida.
The legislature was approached and ma-
nipulated, and lottery business by a foreign
corporation became legal. The fight, be-
fore limited to a State, now became na-
tional. The lottery matter, prohibited from
the mails, was now carried in immense quan-
tities by express carriers and the rail-
roads. The great Plant System, of which
Tampa is the Southern terminal, and the
express companies over the entire country
became, through business interests, the lot-
tery’s allies.
Large sections of the country were covered
more thickly than ever with advertising and
lottery literature, and with the change of
place and name there seemed to have come
a larger lease of life and corrupting power.
Encouraged by such unhindered growth
and unmolested pillage, other companies
in Kansas, in Florida and elsewhere were
formed, many of them to do their illegal
business in yet more rascally ways than
those peculiar to the Louisiana Company.
All along the line were signs of determined
and defiant activity. Every day's delay
gave strength and deeper rootage to the
evil. It was beyond State control, because
strong enough to defy State laws or else to
shape them, and because operations were
largely carried on outside of the State in
which the companies were located. It
could not be reached by national law, for
no existing law applied to such modern
offenses against the public welfare. It be-
came necessary, therefore, to secure the en-
actment of a national law for the suppres-
sion of the lottery traffic through inter-
national and State commerce.
The story of the last eighteen months of
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luctantly abandoned. The only possible
ways yet open were under a suspension
of the rules, or on a day assigned to the
Judiciary, and that committee's consent to
advance the bill in preference to others. A
partial promise of such a day was given by
the Committee on Rules—on which excep-
tional pressure was brought to bear from
all parts of the country. For a month that
day was waited and labored for both in and
out of Congress. Again the country and
the press were appealed to, such great uni-
versities as Harvard and Yale throwing
in the weight of their influence by special
petition. One accidental opportunity fall-
ing to that committee was lost through lack
of notice and want of preparation for pres-
entation.
The closing days of Congress were at
hand. The chances of the bill's considera-
tion grew smaller with each passing day,
and the hope of its passage was practically
abandoned by most of its friends. The
struggle had been too long and too costly,
and the moral energy put into it by a great
people had been too great, and the respon-
sibility thereby imposed on the campaign
leader was too sacred, to make surrender
justifiable so long as a fighting chance re-
mained. It was resolved to stand by the
guns to the last and to fight to the finish with
intensified energy. With a return to Boston
the last move of the marshaled forces
was planned and swiftly made. Fourteen
thousand sheets, containing information as
to the status of the bill, a copy of the bill, the
names of the members of the committees to
be reached and an appeal to action were sent
to the districts of wavering or doubtful mem
bers of the committees, and others were scat-
tered broadcast. The result was a downpour
of roused and righteous sentiment too great
to be withstood. Members who had previ-
ously received hundreds or even a thousand
letters urging early and favorable action
upon the bill were now overwhelmed, at
first by letters and then by telegrams. The
legislatures of Massachusetts and New Jer-
sey were asked to request their State repre-
sentatives at Washington to do all in their
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power to secure the passage of the bill, and
action to that effect was taken.
On Friday afternoon of March 1, out of
many clamorous for recognition, the Speaker
gave Mr. Broderick the floor, and within ten
minutes the simple procedure, which it had
cost nine months of continuous and costly
Work to effect, was closed. The bill then
went to the Senate for concurrence in the
House amendments, which was given at
2 P. M. of March 2. Later in the afternoon,
at Mr. Gorman’s instigation, Mr. Brice
Quietly gave notice that he would move a
reconsideration of the vote of concurrence.
The dramatic story of the eventful and
perilous course of the bill from this point
on to its signature by the President is too
well known to need a detailed following
here. At every step its progress was re-
sisted, not by open means and antagonizing
speech, but by adroit parliamentary tactics,
plausible and masterly maneuvering, and
death dealing delays. The manner of its
rescue by the strategic move of its friends;
the long night vigil of one senator and the
persistent aggressiveness of another; the
alarming interruption caused by an execu-
tive session of three hours, which by so
much longer postponed the time of the
possible consideration of the bill; the final
forward move at two o'clock in the morning
of the fourth, at a moment when the wily
opponents found themselves thrown into
confusion by a gap in the procession of bills
from the House to the Senate, which left
them nothing on which to lay their hands
for obstructive purposes; the tardy enroll-
ment of the bill; its late signature by the
Vice President; its dispatch at 10 50 to the
Executive Mansion; its safe delivery there
close to noon; the manner of securing for it,
so late in coming, the President's attention
out of that mass of congressional product
previously thrown in, and for which there
was no chance for consideration or signa-
ture—all this story of two day's precarious
position during that parliamentary tug-of-
war, and of that final victory within five
minutes of the stroke of twelve, will never
be forgotten.
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