"NATIONAL HUMILITY."
IRISH CLERIC ON SWEEPSTAKE. LONDON, May 13. "A national humiliation" is how the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. J. A. Gregg, described the popularity and wealth the Irish Free State has acquired by sweepstakes, when preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral on behalf of a hospital, one of a few institutions which refused to participate in the proceeds of the sweepstakes. He said that he did not hold a game of chance to be wrong, but he condemned "the vast national solicitation by which men, women and children turned from the steady-going practice of earning their living in order to place their trust in blind and incalculable chance."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 117, 20 May 1931, Page 7
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