Tt may be fairly stale news that the noble Viceroy of the two Lake Provinces, Hupeh and Hunan, seeing the growth of lottery agencies in this centre, bethought himself of the scheme of a large uovernment Lottery, with agencies everywhere throughout lis dominions, to aid the public revenues. Without discussing the initial wisdom or unwisdom of the scheme, it may be well to describe some of its practical workings, especially as the subject is now the main topic of discussion in every. household and teashop in these parts, and presumably in the many cities and villages of mid Chin:
Not only is each shopkeeper obliged to buy a lottery ticket monthly, but the yamen runners select some one shopkeeper here and there, and ucmand his guarantee to sell so many lottery tickets per month. One of the responsible gentry of Hanyang has quoted the case of a coal-dealer, who was informed by the runners that he was henceforth to be debited with twenty thousand cash per month, as they handed bim lottery tickets to that amount. The man protested saying that his was a small business, and his whole average profits fell below the sum named; he bad no hopes of selling that amount of lottery tickets, nor had he the means to make the deficiency good. Whercupon he was haled to the County Court and imprisoned til friends rallied round and paid the " legal expenses" (squeezes) to underlings, etc., and guaranteed that the sum of twenty-thousand cash should be forthcoming month by month. Thus, says my informant, the feelings of very many ate stirred against lotteries, which is good, as an forms of gambling are avowedly prohibited by Chinese law, and actually probibited by proclamations whose fragments still cling to the walls of our city. But also the feelings of the populace are inevitably stirred against their local rulers, in thus forcing a great. gambling scheme upon them, and ill-will toward local authorities can do no good to anyone.
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