Harriman Institute of Social Research, Inc. v. Carrie Tingley Crippled Children's Hospital

"Lotteries are a species of gaming. Formerly they were in our states permitted, and even established and licensed by law as a means of raising money for worthy objects. But their evils were immense; both in the woes inflicted on the weakminded and credulous who were induced to buy chances in them, to be followed by bitter disappointments; and in their baneful effects on those termed `lucky' who drew the prizes. Later, under the influence of a healthier public sentiment, they were pretty generally forbidden." Bishop, Statutory Crimes, § 951.

When our Territorial legislature came to deal with…