A Brief Survey Of The Great Extent And Evil Tendencies Of The Lottery System

Author : Job R. Tyson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331968108
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book A Brief Survey of the Great Extent and Evil Tendencies of the Lottery System, as Existing in the United States written by Job R. Tyson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Survey of the Great Extent and Evil Tendencies of the Lottery System, as Existing in the United States: Published by Order of a Meeting of Citizens of Philadelphia, Favorable to the Entire Abolition of Lotteries Gambling, by means of the lottery, is not of very modern origin. Though it has been tolerated, and even fostered by Christian communities, it dates its birth so far back as a remote period in the history of the Romans. The uses to which it was applied are faithfully delineated by Menestrier, a Jesuit father, who published the result of his researches about the close of the seventeenth century. As it is not necessary to trace its existence, or ascertain its effects, in Pagan lands, let us scan it in its consequences nearer our own day, when the meridian sun of Christianity is dispensing his genial rays for the illumination and improvement of the world. The Christian world is indebted to the republic of Genoa for suggesting the idea of resorting to the lottery as a measure of finance. Its introduction into Great Britain was early, being nurtured by the paternal hand of government as a happy expedient for raising money upon the principle of voluntary taxation. The first lottery mentioned in the English history, was established in 1567; and Maitland of Stowe, informs us that, in 1569, two years after its commencement, there were but three lottery offices in the kingdom. A few years sufficed to produce an enormous accession to the number, and divers statutes were enacted, to assuage, by restrictions and penalties, the malignity of their influence. But no emollient was equal to the emergency of its purpose; a new genius awoke into being, competent to evade, by dexterity and stratagem, the provisions of each new law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.