File:The Chase After Chance (Bengough cartoon about legalization of lotteries).jpg

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English: a politician watches as an eager crowd -- urged on by the Devil - chases the personification of Chance off a cliff; Chance is waving a tempting bag of money. The politician is holding a sign behind his back saying "LAW AGAINST LOTTERIES".
A child asks the politician for money to buy a ticket.
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Source The Grip (http://www.begbiecontestsociety.org/gambling.htm_
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John Wilson Bengough  (1851–1923)  wikidata:Q3182771 s:en:Author:John Wilson Bengough
 
John Wilson Bengough
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JW Bengough / L. Côté / L. Cote
Description Canadian caricaturist, writer, poet, alderman, cartoonist and publisher
Date of birth/death 7 April 1851 Edit this at Wikidata 2 October 1923 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Toronto Edit this at Wikidata Toronto Edit this at Wikidata
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