Lucretia B
speaker
390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ten years from now, there will stand on the scaffold or behind the prison door.
Or in the lonely room in which the suicide writes his farewell to wife or parents, men who will say that the first misstep of their life that put them on the wrong road was the ticket they bought in the Crosby Opera House.
The man who won that prize is already dead of his dissipations.
And strange to say, the beautiful building thus raffled away was found to be owned by its original possessor when all the excitement in regard to the matter had died away.
I care not on what street the office was, nor who were the abettors of the undertaking, nor who bought the tickets.
I pronounce the whole scheme to have been a swindle, a crime, and an insult to God and the nation.
In this class of gambler makers, I also put the gift stores, which are becoming abundant throughout the country.
With a book or knife or sewing machine or coat or carriage, there goes a prize at those stores.
People get something thrown in with their purchase.
It may be a gold watch or a set of silver, a ring, or a farm, sharp way to get off unsaleable goods.
It has filled the land with fictitious articles, and covered up our population with brass finger rings, and despoiled the moral sense of the community, and is fast making us a nation of gamblers.
The Church of God has not seemed willing to allow the world to have all the advantage of these games of chance.
A church fair opens, and towards the close, it is found that some of the more valuable articles are unsaleable.
Forthwith the conductors of the enterprise conclude that they will raffle for some of the valuable articles, and under pretense of anxiety to make their minister a present or please some popular member of the church, fascinating persons are dispatched through the room, pencil in hand, to solicit share.
Or perhaps each draws for his own advantage, and scores of people go home with their trophies, thinking that all is right.
For Christian ladies did the embroidery.
And Christian men did the raffling, and the proceeds went towards a new communion set.
But you may depend on it that, as far as morality is concerned, you might as well have won by the crack of the billiard ball or the turn of the dice box.
Some good people cannot stand this raffling.
And so at fairs, they go to voting sometimes for editors, and sometimes for ministers, at a dollar a vote.
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