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state into the gambling business in spite of the unhappy

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experiences of New York and New Hampshire.

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I read to you from the Wall Street Journal the

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sad experience of England as of today. I read to you from

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other places of the sad experience of the influx of the

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Mafia, and I don't ask you to do anything more than to

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hark back to the terrific fight that the Governor of

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Maryland had just to try to ban the gambling in the

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southern Maryland counties, and up until this moment all

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that has been accomplished so far as the gambling interests

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are concerned is that they are waiting, waiting for you to

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say we are taking the ban of lotteries out, and they will

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be banging at the doorstep of the legislature with all

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the pressure they can to end the phase-out of the gambling

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machines, and to come in with their ideas as to lotteries.

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Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you a

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new phase of this matter, and I urge you please to listen

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to this, because it is different from what you have had

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before. You have passed — and I joined with you in voting

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for the local government provision. You bear in mind, then

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that each of the counties, and each of the cities, will then