Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-17
From the Daily Graphic
NASBY ON IMITATION.
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,


The Corners hev red the speeches
NV Honest Ole Bill Allen and that
other gileIess patriot General Samy-
ooel Cary NV Ohio, on the momen-
shus subjick NV More Money, till
they hev bin worked up to state
NV absIoot madms. The Corners
arc iist the same tz other impecooni-
GUS peeple-they want More Money,
and the idee Nv Honest Ole Bill Al
len, that to git it, all yoo he'd to do
wuz TO ishoo it, fitted eur idees Nv f.
nanse eggsackly. 1t is simple, eff
fectooal and eziIy understood.
l determined to put the idee into
practice,- and to that end sejested to
my friends the organizashun NV a
bank NV ishoo, under the name and
title Nv "The Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company Nv Confedrit
X Roads"
1 he'd some trouble to git the citi-
zens into it, but fnelly succeeded.
l explained it to the people that
more money would be an advantage
to the debtor class, which, ez nine
tenths NV EN- WIZ in debt to BascOm,
settled them. They hailed with Joy
any movement that would wipe out
their scores and give EN- new credit
at his bar.
To Bascom and them ez 1 intend
ed to hev in the management l show
ed that more money meant increased
trade, and ez the money wood be all
ishood on our credit, it wouldn't cost
anything but the printing; we Good
not lose anything. So the bank wuz
started. l wuz made President; Is
saker Gavitt, cashier; Bascom,. Vice
President; with Board Nv Direct
ors consistin nv Kernel McPeltel
and the venerable Deekin Pogram
We put the deekin in becoz he j:
bald-headed, and therefore respecta-
bic. His biznis is to sit in the front
window readin an infashun paper. Il
inspires confidence. Yoo hev to
watch him to keep him from heving
the paper upside down, but in this
community that don't matter, ez very
few know the difference more'n he
does. If'+T ll-Ts7t /
1t was forchnit that our banking
room wuz lokated immejitly under
the printing offs, ez we can let the
printed notes wich we ishoo down tC
the Presidents desk by rope. i
saves labor, wich is a great pint IL
an institooshen like ours.
The theory on wich our paper i
ishood is very simple. The4company
ishoo it and the people take it. We
hev no time fixed for redempshun
for the beuty of the bizness is tha
we don't never intend to redeem
Our notes reeds:
F'The Unlimited Trust and Conf
dence Company NV Confederit =
Roads (wich is in the State Nv Ken
tucky) promises to pay the beare.
One Dollar"
We don't say when, where or how
and therein is the strength Nv tn,
enterprise,
Our first ishoo was reserved will
some hesitashen.
"Where is our secoority ?" de
manded one farmer to whom we of
fered it in payment for a load "
wheat.
"Faith in the company" I answer
ed, lookin at him pityinly. "Gaz,
onto that face" resoomod pintin a
Deekin Pogram, who rather spilled
effeek by brushin off fly that hat
lifted on his nose; look at that "face
and then ask for secoority."
"When is it to be redeemed ?
askt another.
"It never wants to be redeemed,'
was my answer. "We shell be libra
and when a note wears out we vii
give you another. What do yor
want it redeemed fur? Money ish
coed on faith needs no redempshun
we buy yoor prodoose with it, yo'
yoose it to buy yoor goods, so i
| goes round in cirkle dspensin bless
ms wherever it lites. Ez long a
yoo take it what do yoo want nv any
thing else ?"
Another remarkt that it was hi
idee that paper waz all to be redeem
ed in gold.
"Gold," l promptly replied, 'f
played out. Gold is merchandise
Our Democratic brethren in Obi,
hev desided that money is simpl.
promises to pay, and it don't matte
on what material that promise
stampt-whether gold, silver, iron