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Newspaper Guessing Contest Illegal
(Continued from page 11.)
court remarked, is very similar to the
Federal statute.
In the Coyno case tho court said:
Wo do not consider it necessary to
enter into details of the plan, which is
a somewhat complicated one, and the
success of which obviously depended
upon constantly and rapidly increasing
tho number of subscribers or co-operators.
Tho only money paid in was a
small enrollment fee of $3 and a
monthly payment of $1 for five years.
Tho return to the subscribing member,
which is called a realization, i3 not
only uncertain in its amount, but de
pends largely upon the number of new
members each subscriber is able to
secure, as well as the number of mem
bers which hi3 co-operators are able to
secure. The return to members who
have been able to secure a large num
ber of other members and to pay their
own monthly dues may oe very large
in comparison with tho amount paid
in, but the amount of such return de
pends so largely, and indeed almost
wholly, upon conditions which tho
member is unable to control that we
think it fulfills all the conditions of a
distribution of money by chance.
Tho scheme lacks the elements of a
legitimate business enterprise, and we
think there was no error in holding it
to be a lottery within meaning of tho
statute (pp. 513,515).
It will be observed that the court in
this case- proceeded upon the broad
ground that it wa3 not necessary ' to
bring a scheme within the inhibitions
of tho statute that the distribution of
prizes should be dependent wholly upon
chance, but that if the scheme was not
a "legitimate business enterprise," and
the distribution was dependent largely
upon chance, the statute was violated.
The ruling in the New York case, as
stated in tho syllabus, Is as follows:
"Under Pen. Code, sections 323, 327, de
fining a lottery as n scheme for the dis
tribution of property by chance among
persons who have paid a valuable con
sideration for the chance, and making
advertising a lottery a misdmeanor, a
scheme for the distribution of money
and cigars among purchasers of cer
tain brand of cigars who will estimate
most closely the nuniner or cigars of
all brand3 on which taxes would be col
lected by the Government during a
named month is a lottery, though the
distribution does not depend exclu
sively on chance, and the advertising
of the same is a misdemeanor."
The court said:
"Pure chance" i3 defined by Black in
his Law Dictionary to be "the entire
absence of all means of calculating
results," and if, to constitute a lottery,
it Is necessary that tne distribution
should be purely by chance, without
any other element affecting the result,
as has been held in a number of juris
dictions then it may be con
ceded that the scheme before us is not
a lottery. Our statute, nowever, does
not provide that the distribution must
be by pure chance, or by chance ex
clusively, but by chance.
If we examine the plan of distribu
tion advertised, the number and char
acter of the persons who were invited
to compete for the distribution, as
well as tho event by which the distri
bution was to "bo determined, we think
it perfectly clear that the dominating
and controlling factor in the award of
the prizes is chance. The
scheme contemplates over 35,000 com
petitors. From the table given in the
advertisement it appears that the quan
tity of cigars stamped varies from
month to month in the same year as
greatly as 40,000,000, and between a
month of one year and the correspond
ing month of the next year as greatly
as 90,000,000; and that the number
stamped in the month immediately
previous to that for which an estimate
is called was 502,000,000. It would seem
perfectly clear that if sevoral experts
should agreo in estimating tho output
within 5,000,000, or 1 per cent of tho
number actually stamped, it would
show a remarkable accuracy in their
methods of calculation. Yet with 35,
000 competitors tho probabilities aro
overwhelmingly that tho first prize will
be won by a very much closer approxi
mation. If the difference between tho
estimate which won the first prize and
that which secured the second prizo
should bo only 10,000, or even only 100,
000, would any one deny that tho re
sult occurred through "pure chance" as
defined and that it did not proceed from
tho possession of superior information
or the exercise of greater judgment or
3kill? Wo think the distri
bution in this case is controlled by
chance, within the meaning of the sta
tute, and that, therefore, it is illegal.
The scheme certainly falls far within
the requisites of a lottery as defined
by tho Supreme Court of the United
States in the Public Clearing House
case, under a 3tatute very similar to
our own.
In the World's Fair contest 1,180
prizes, aggregating $85,500, are to be
distributed to tho contestants submit
ting the nearest estimates to the total
number of paid admissions to tho fair.
Since 25 cents is charged for each gues3
at least 342,000 guesses must bo sub
mitted before the company can recoup
itself for tho $85,500 distributed in
prize3. Owing to tho wide publicity
given the scheme the actual number of
participants will probably reach a mil
lion. Conceding that the estimates in such
a contest will be to some extent affected
Jay intelligent calculation, the conclu
sion is nevertheless irresistible that it
is largely a matter of chance which
competitor will submit the nearest cor
rect estimate. The estimates can not be
predicated upon natural and fixed laws,
since Che total number of admissions
may be affected by many conditions
over which tho participaats in th
scheme havo no control, and can n
possibly forsee.
Should several foreign powers be
come involved in war, their withdrawal
from participation in the fair would
materially affect the attendance. A
great conflagration in St. Louis, similar
to that in Baltimore, during tho pro
gress of the fair, might destroy the
exposition buildings, which, of course,
would bring the exposition to an abrupt
close. The number of paid admissions
to the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo was the subject of a "guessing
contest." The assassination of Presi
dent McKinley, while ho was in at
tendance at tho exposition, which
shocked humanity, plunged the nation
into grief, and brought the exposition
to a standstill, is fresh In our minds.
The effect of this calamity upon the
exposition attendance was so great that
congress was asked by the manage
ment for an appropriation to meet the
claims against the exposition company;
and $500,000 was appropriated for that
-purpose. Other Illustrations might be
given of conditions which would ser
iously affect the attendance at St
Louis.
And even assuming that normal con
ditions will prevail during the entire
period of tho fair, it must of necessity
bo largely a matter of speculation how
many "will attend. It must bo very
largely a matter of chance whether a
contestant estimates within one or
within' fifty thousand of the number
of paid admi3sion3, and, as stated by
the court in the New York case, "if the
difference between the estimate which
won the first prize and that which se
cured tho second prize should be only
ten thousand, or even one hundred
thousand, would anyone deny that the
result occurred through 'pure chance,"
us defined, and that it did not proceed
from tho possession of superior infor
mation or the exercise of greater judg
ment or skill?"
The reasoning relative to the World's
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