Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-10
Nasty ON IMITATION.
FROM the Graphic.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,
WHICH is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY

WHICH is IN THE OF KENTUCKY, ?
August 23rd, 1875.
The Corners hev red the speeches Nv hon
est Ole Bill Allen and that other gileless pa
triol. General Samyoocl Cary, Nv Ohio on
the momenchus subjick Nv More Mopey, till
they hev bin worked up to state Nv absIoot
madnls. The Coruers arc jlSt the same ez all
other lmpeecoonius peope-they want More
Money, and the idee Nv Honest Ole Bill Allen,
thar, to git it, all 700 he'd to do wuz TO ishoo
it, filled our idees Nv 6nause eggsackly. 1t is
simple, etectooal and ezly understood
| determined to put the dce iuto practice,
and to that end s,jested to my friends the Or
ganlzashen Nv a bank wv ishoo, uader the oame
and title Wv 1.-The Oulimited Trust and Coufi
dence Company Nv Cuntedrit x Roads,"
he'd some trouble to git the citizeus into it,
but hoeLy succeeded. L explained to the
people that more money wood be an advantage
to the debter class, wich, ez Dine-ten Nv EN-
wuz ln debt to Bascom, settled them. They
hailed with joy any movement that wood wipe
out their scores and give EN- new credit at bis
bar
TO Bascom and them ez intended to hev in
the management showed that more mopey
meant increased trade, and ez the money wood
all be ishood on our credit, it woodeDt cost any,
thing but the printing; we coodent lose any
thing. So the bank wuz started wuz made
President; lsaaker Gavitt, Cashier; Bascom,
Vice President With Board of Directors con-
sising Of Kernel McPelter and the venerable
Deekn Pogram. We put the Deekiu ou becoz
he ls bad-headed, and therefore respectable
His b'zness IS to sit in the front window, reedin
an iDAasben paper. 1t inspires confidence
Y 90 have to watch him to keep him from hcv
in the paper upside down. but in this commu-
nifty that dou't matter, ez very few know the
difference more o he does
1t was forchnt that our banking room was
located lmmcjitly uudur the prlntin offs, es we
kin let the printed notes which we shoo down
to the Presidents desk by rope. 1t saves
labor, wlch is great pint 10 a inslitooshen like
ours.
The theory on wich our paper is ishood is
very SIMPLE. The company ishoo it and the
people take It. We hev no time fixed for re-
deupshuu, for the beauty Of the blzois is that
we dopt never intend TO redeem. Our notes
reeds:
'The Onlimited Trust and Confidence Com
pany Nv Contedri X Roads (which is 10 the
State OF kentucky promises to pay the bearer
One Dollar"
We don't say when, where or how, and there
10 is the strength of the enterprise
Our first ishoo Was received with some hes-
tashen.
"Where is our secocrity ?" demanded one
farmer to Whoom We offered it in payment for a
load Nv wheat.
Faith 10 the company |" ansered, ,lookin at
him pltyinly, Gaze onto that face, - resooned,
plntlo at Deekin Pogram, who ruther spilled the
eheck by brushin of fly that had lifted on his
nose {: look at that face and then ask for Sc
coority.'
wv hen is it to be redeemed?' askt another
1t never wants to be redeemed, "waz my an.
swer. we she be libra, and when note
wears out we will give you another. Wat do you
want 1t redeemed fur Money ishood 90 faith
needs no redempsbun We buy yoor prodoose
with it, 700 yoose it to buy your goods, and 80
1t goes round and round i, :irke, ds1 ensin
DIessns wherever it lites. kA long ez You take
1t wat do 700 want Nv anything else p
Another reDarkt that it wuz his idee that
paper money wuz all to be redeemed in gold.
Gold, l promptly replied, lis played out.
Gold is merchandise. Our Democratic bre,h.
rem in Ohio hev desided that money is simply
promises to pay, and that it don't matter on
wat material that is stampt-whether gold,
silver, iron, shells. or copper. We sheI put
ourn on paper, cos it's the cheapest. We shell
hev 10 extravaganza about this bank"
Pollock, the lliuoy disturber in the most
hrootal manner, retuozed to tech it, and conse-
ken'ly his bznis suffered One shoemaker from
Ohio followed SCOT, and undertook to arg,o
aglu so much money. He asserted the here,y
tnat addlu to the Volume Nv currency didn t
add notnlo to its power. Sed he:
L will illustrate so the Corners will compre
heod 1oo take gallon Nv whiskey and ad
to it three gallons of water. Well, you hey
four gallons in the barl, but there ain but one
gallon Nv square drink 10 it, after all.
| ansered him by readin copious extrax from
Gary speeches, shown that troo prosperity
goes hand III hand with plenty wv money
1hey hnelly Was coDvinst, and took our money
tor their grain, tho We he'd to pay them at the
begnn twenty cents bushel more for their
Wheat than other money wood hev got it for.
But We didn't care, for We knew we Good make
all Nv it We wanted.
Ii wuz astonlshln wat era Nv prosperity set
IN on the Corners to wuDst. Money became cz
plenty tz backberries aud everybody he'd their
pockets full Nv it. Land went upiu valyoo POO
per ceut. 10 week, aud the price Nv the Jesse
sares NV life raised ekay. Bascom put up his
new whskcy from to 25 cents per drink, aud
sch wuz the ruu Nv trade be he'd that his wife
and bis oldest 500, Jefferson Davis Bascom,
ooth he'd to stand 10 The bar to wait oD Gus
toners. The bauk bought all the wheat and
other produckshuns, aud paid for 'em in its
own money, and We paid sich prices ez hap
peneo, ior money WIZ with US 90 oIjcck The
h'gh prices brot all the trade for twenty miles
around to the Corners and all the declers who
wood take the money stood up to their mid.
dies 10 it.
Then my turn come. Pintiu to the crowds Nv
people at Bascom's, sed TO the doubter:
Wuz trade ez brisk ez that afore ipfashun?''
which settled him:
improvements are bein projected every day.
we, we heV organized a company to build branch
,oa1 a. from here to SecessonviIle, another over
70 ! Bloody Fork, and still another to Little An
osrsoovlc' Five turnpike companies hey bin
"saoized' oa' and three factries hev bin actooally
sbann sbmmenced: The water rpower on the Run jist
and 'I D. the village is to be improved at wunst.
baol ln nascon IS alreddy at work on wing to the
apart Oh the grocery. Town lots are doublin