The Arena, Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891

Protection or Free Trade—Which? Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, M. C. Bismarck in the German Parliament Emilio Castelar The Doubters and the Dogmatists Prof. James T. Bixby, Ph.D. The Sioux Falls Divorce Colony James Realf, Jr. The Woman Movement Lucinda B. Chandler New Testament Symbolisms Prof. S. P Wait The True Politics for Prohibition and Labor Edwin C. Pierce Sunday at the World’s Fair Wm. H. Armstrong Turning Towards Nirvana E. A. Ross The Heart of the Woods Will Allen Dromgoogle Pharisaism in Public Life Editorial Cancer Spots in Metropolitan Life Editorial The Saloon Curse Editorial Hot Beds of Social Pollution Editorial The Power and Responsibility of the Christian Ministry Editorial What the Clergy Might Accomplish Editorial Index to the Fourth Volume of The Arena A PARADISE OF GAMBLERS. BY EDGAR FAWCETT. Many religious journals throughout the country have poured eulogies upon the pious head of our Postmaster General because of his raid against all letters bearing the least uncanny relation to that abhorred criminal body, the Louisiana Lottery. In one sense this action is not ill-advised; the national laws against gambling are distinct, and even if they were unjust their existence would be no excuse for their infringement. The highly moral action of Mr. Wanamaker, however, happening as it does at a time when his own relations with the hazards and plots of Wall Street have grown the talk of our entire country, teem with a suggestion that should be patent to thousands. If gnats are strained at and camels are swallowed, there is certainly a pardonable satire in congratulating those who devour the latter on their noteworthy powers of digestion. As an immoral institution the Louisiana Lottery, evil as it is, cannot be compared with Monte Carlo, which arrays itself in facile splendors of enticement and smiles in mirrors and gildings on the rash gamesters whom it ruins. But the Louisiana Lottery, which of late it has become the fashion to revile, devises its chief gains in a much less faulty manner. For such disbursements as one dollar, two dollars, five dollars, a good deal of golden expectancy and anticipation can be enjoyed, and there is no confirmed proof whatever that the citizens who are rash enough to expend these massive amounts have ever been swindled at the monthly New Orleans drawings. Indeed, they have ample proof, if they care to sift it, that somebody in Maine, or