Judgment on the Louisiana Lottery
By Editor
FROM some things connected with the Louisiana Lottery fight, it seems that judgment against an evil work is not always delayed. A special to the New York World, June 22, tells the following: The lottery had sixty-five men in the Legislature; they needed sixty-six. A man named Roder, who had all along been against the lottery, was by some means induced to change. He went to the House in the morning, and announced that he had changed, and was going to vote for the lottery. He had scarcely uttered the words, when he fell by a stroke of paralysis. The physicians say that he cannot return to the House this session. This, of course, left the lottery where it was before, but it succeeded in getting another man, and the vote was to be taken the morning of the 21st. But a few minutes before the opening, another recent convert to the lottery fell from his seat with a stroke of paralysis. We have seen no contradiction of this; and although it may be regarded by many as only a coincidence, it is such a coincidence as should have caused men to hesitate before they voted for the iniquitous scheme. Judgment on all concerned in legalizing robbery will be none the less because delayed.