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terrible evils committed by corporations and by banks.
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It was a very unusual time, a time of unrest, time of
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lawlessness, especially in this area. You can't blame
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all the troubles that we had at that time on the lotteries.
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This was one of the things that went bad as well as banks
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and corporations.
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MR. SACHS: I have particularly in mind
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some research that this Committee has undertaken. We
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have examined primarily the debates and reports of the -
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debates of the 1851 convention. Just as one example of
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the kind of heat really generated by this provision, the
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comments of one delegate who was reported as follows
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on the lottery, he said that he considered the whole
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system as one of complicated fraud which had been
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practiced upon the state for years at great injury of
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the community economically as well as morally. He went
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on to say that out of this illicit trade the state has
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realized $52,000 annually not as "the price of blood"
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but of all of crime, speculation, and fraud, the very
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worst kind of gambling, the most unfair for those who are
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participating in it, and the most injurious to the whole
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