Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-01

FINALLY, EVERY MAN HIS OWN BANKER.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
Wien is IN TEE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Sent II 16r5

Sept. IL, 1875.
, The man wich undertakes to benefit hi
fellows loads up very heavy contrak
Halt the citizens Nv the Corners are a-goir
back in the most ongrateful manner onto
the Unlimited Confidence and Trust Com
par. They are q gettin $40 bushel fol
wb, :, and about the same for oats and
cor and men now talk Nv thousands wich
never before knowd how to pronounce the
word. but yet they amt happy. They hev
a bankerin after redempshun Nv some sort
they demand to know when this money
Nv ourn is again to be redeemed in suthin
else-some other kind Nv money-ez tho our
money, backed by faith. want ez good ez
any in the world. Ell these malcontents
wood only take 1t and look pleasant, there
woodent be any trouble about it.
TT these men are not the worst we hev
to intend with. The citizens wich are the
sta chest supporters Nv the new money hev
determined that. if we hev the rite to ishoo
money, they bev the same rite. And so
four moo banks hev bin started this week
Mickey and Burns started one with
Mackey ez President and Burns ez Cashier,
with them and niger carpenter ez the
Boord of Direkters. They hev got the drop
on US by requirin the officers to give bonds,
/
sign Burns, Burns sign Mackey s, and
both sign the Niger cargenter's. Then
they hey another advantage over us, for
they bought their own press and print their
own notes, wich, oz We hey to pay Simp-
son, the printer, a profit, enables EN- to
make money cheeper than we kin. They
call their institooshun The Nashnel Ben
eft Assoshashen,' and hev the bankin offs
1 in Mackey's bedroom in the Pogram House.
Scasely wuz this bank histn out money
atore Squire Pet;us and Gedney, the shoe
maker. started another wich they called
Tho Blessin Diffusion Bank NV North
Ameriky," with the offs in Gedney's shoe
shop. and they got ahead Nv US by printin
their notes in two colors, wich. | must say,
gives EN- a solvent look.
By this time wheat he'd got up to S29 per
bushel. and wuz scase at that.
Then Parkins, and Barney the plasterers,
who he'd made a great deal of money since
inhashen set in, they he'd to start a bank
wich they called The Ekitable and Insash-
able Baukin Company Nv the ioonited
States, and they ishood thier bills by the
bushel.
Wheat went up immejitly to S3s per
hushel, and moo era Nv prosperity sot In.
Before these fnanseers had get fairly un-
they d 90 into hankin, and behold one
mornin the bills Nv the Labor Stimyoola-
tin Company-I. Bats. President made
their appearance. They didn't hev any
offs. Tor Butts said he didn't SEQ no yOose Nv
al offs. lie Good pay out money on the
street all he wanted 10 eff the people wood
take 1t, and oz it never wuznt d gOin to be
redeemed, wat did he want Nv an offs? lie
wuznt IA gOln to aHy sich expense. for he
believed in 6c)n0mizin. To 90 TO yoosells
expense wuz to show culpable disregard
Nv the interests w the people. Wheat
went up 20 Si5 per hushel. ana there wuz
more prosperity
Then trouble set in in chunks. The peo-
pie who wuz not interested IN bankin re-
iOczed. pint blank. to take GnY of their ish
oOs. Banks wuZ q gettln rather too fire.
/ kent. any the times wuZ get;in rather too
prosprUus. \ reackshen okkured agen our
money wich We who wuz interested deter
mired to crush to wuntz.
The othshls w the five banks in the town
met and decided to hold meetin Nv the
citizens, at wich steps shood be taken to
legalize our ishoOs.
Ghe meetin WIZ held. and w course we
kerried it without any trouble, for seven
tenths Nv EN- he'd our money in their p0ck-
cts. and they wuz very favorable to any ack-
shen that wood keep it bilin. To that
end we past the iollerin resolooshens;
WARgAs, The Democrisy w Ohio and
Pennsylyany. with singerly Just appre
shiashen Nv the wants Nv the citizens Nv
the Cross R9a1s. he's demanded more
money, and
WAREAs. Five companies hev carried out
the idee Nv the Democrisy Nv Ohio and Penn
sylvany by furni-hin the people more money,
and
WARE,s. No.withstaudin the onparallel-
ed prosperity that hoz remtted from the
increase in currency, certain men in the
commoonity, by reioosing to take it, de-
cline to be benefited therefore, be 1t
Resoirea. That this meetin uy citizens de-
mand nv the Town Council that it to
wunst convene and pass an ordinance max
in the ishOos w the tve banks. legal tender
/ iIr everything from drinks down to taxes,
and that any citizen who reloOes TO take
it, os murmurs az it. or III any way dis
credits It. shel be held e. p public enemy
and be irnmCitely hung.
The warcGses and resO!O0shen wuz passed
to wunzt, and | felt easier. With the
power to hang all wich refooze to take our
money. | rather think kin make It cur
rent. \ rope over the limb Nv a tree Is
persuader Of rare merit. and 1t l. the best
endorsement ot ou- paper that we kin pos
siby hev.
So far 80 good. Bat ji-t a. wuz ieelin
- feb;ol psrtirs tho man wat Give his
,,a,o -, R,sc6rr f,- a b,rI nv whisky with
sicb dis,;rcnisbea success -ose and sod he
bed seriss Of vrsre9ses and a resoloosben
"a mas Ue wont an :, sav that he he'd
given tbisnuestinn Of fnancs a great deal
Of study. lie endorsed fully the posishen
Nv the DimocrisY Nv Ohio and Pennsylya-
nv He believed in mora moneY-money
+ euuif for every body lie pinted with pride
to the development Nv the Corners since
/ the creashun OF more money. and he bleey-
/ ed that still more money would make still
/ more prosperity. The dee wuz correct
| Tbe Government shood ishoo promises to
| Day and faith shood make EN- good. with
| out any sich nonsense ez redeemiu and if
/ the Government shood do it why shoodnt
banks If banks why not indivijiles
/ That's what he wanted TO know. III ther
vuz any sirh thing ez redeemln Nv it in
gold or ANYTHING else the people mite hey
the rite 10 ask ii them ez i.hood the money
he'd qold or ANYTHING else to redeem EN-
with. bot ez ther aiut no redeeming perpos-
/ ed whv thar question don't come in The
reonIe bev 10 hey faith and that's all the
heyin ther is in the transackshcn. lie WIZ
a beever in more money and he proposed
10 hev more money, and he bleeyed that
them ez he'd the greatest need Tor money
shood hev the privilege Nv ishooin 1t. and 30
long eZ the people took 1t from each other
! it ansered all the perposes NV money and
wuz money. Therefore be perposed the yoo-
nanimus adopshun NV the ioll0wln wareases
and resolooshen
W.RFAs. Ef yoo have good thing 700
can't hev too much Nv it and
WAREAs, The increase Of currency IN the
Corners hez bin productive Nv prosperity
sich ez wuz never dreemed Nv and,
WARKAs, IL is the dooty Nv all earthly
governments to diffOose its blessins ekally,
thereby imltatln the docs oil heaven wien
falls alike on the just and unjust and,
WAREAs, The manufakter OF money shood
not be confined to few, but shood be the
| Driyllege nv the many and,