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community. He said it was an injury to the state
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because it destroyed industry itself which no profits
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could replace.
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Apparently there was very, very strong feeling
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at that time.
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MR. PRESSMAN: Yes, and I think on good ground
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too perhaps he was overstating the case but it was
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very much abused. There is- no question about that.
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However, we must distinguish between having gambling
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operated privately by private people or organizations
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and having an enterprise run by the state on a high plane
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such as has been run in New Hampshire. This is the big
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difference in my opinion between authorizing a lottery
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that can be operated by private individuals and authoriz-
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ing one which can be operated by the state itself where
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all the safe guards can be exercised.
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I night also point out despite all these
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statements about the abuses, I agree they are well founded
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statements, I would like to point out we have had many,
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many good benefits from the lotteries in Maryland. We
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had the University of Maryland, we are right in one of the
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