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get these long-term bonds with all the extra interest.

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That should worry him, not over prohibiting a legislature

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from entering a lottery.

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He hasn't asked for a prohibition against horse

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racing, but a state-operated lottery. We don't know that

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the legislature is ever going to authorize it. Who knows

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that they will? And the legislature will not authorize

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it unless the people want it, and they can take it out on

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referendum, and not only do we have the little man on

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the street who objects to this prohibition being in here,

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because it knocks out any hope that he ever had of a

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decent way to spend his dollar, he is now relegated. He

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knows if you leave this in the Constitution that he has

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got to go and spend his 50 cents or his dollar in illegal

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channels, and there is no hope.

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If you strike it out ther may be some hope in the

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future, and the legislature, as I say, may never pass it.

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But what does the Baltimore Sun say on December 13, 1967?

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I hope I have a chance to read it, because it is a very

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short article. It is headed "Skip It":

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"The difficulty that the Consitutional Conventior