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have certain power, and one of those powers when there is

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no ban on the Constitution, is the right on their part to

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proceed with lotteries on their own, and all I can tell

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you is with that kind of proliferation almost anything

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can happen in Maryland.

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Now, lotteries are a sad way to try to raise

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money. It has its worst effect on the poor. And I don't

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smile when people say to me, "Oh, well, so far as we

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are concerned it will take some of the skimming off the top

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of the numbers racket," and all that experience has shown

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is that the lotteries run side by side, the numbers rackets

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flourish, and the poor get bulked that much worse."

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know whereof I speak. This kind of corruption ought never

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to be allowed to fester in the State of Maryland. This

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has been debated. You are aware of what it means.

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I urge you to keep in our Constitution this ban

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on lotteries, to the extent that it will make it impossible

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for the State of Maryland or any of our political subdivisions

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to offer this pie in the sky to the poor in the hope that that

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will ease their tax burden, when it will do nothing of the