The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-27
From the Toledo Blade.l
Nasty.
Further Inlation-FOur New Banks
And, Finally. Every Man His Own
Ranker.

nounce the word, but yet they amt happy.
They hev hankerin after redempshun Nv
some sort-they demand to know when this
money Nv ourn is again to 5e redeemed in suthin
else-some other kind NV money-ez tho our
money, backed by faith, want ez good ez any
in the world. Eff these malcontents wood on
ly take itand look pleasant, there woodent be
any trouble about it,
But these men are not the worst we hev to
contend with. The citizens wich are the
stanchest supporters NV the new money hev de-
termined that, eff we hev the rite to ishoo mon
ey, they hev the same rite. And 50 four moo
banks hev bin started this week.
Mackey and Burns started one, with Mackey
ez President and Burns ez Cashier, and mig
ger carpenter ez the Boord OF Direkters. They
hev got the drop on us by requirin the officers
to give bonds, wich they accomplished by hev-
in Mackey sign Burns, Burns sigD Mackey's,
and both sign the Niger carpenters. Then
they hev another advantage over us, for they
bought their own press and print their own
notes, wich, ez we hev to pay Simpson, the
printer, a profit, enables them to make money
cheeper thafwe kin. They call their institOo.
shun .'The Nashnel Benefit Assoshasheu, and
hev the bankin offs in Mackeys bedroom in
the Pogram House.
Scasely wuz this bank histia out money
afore Squire Pettus and Gedney the shoe-mak-
er another wich they called 'The Blessin Diff
fusion Bank Nv North Ameriky," with the of
fis in Gedney's shoe shop, and they got ahead
Nv US by println their notes in two colors, which
must say, gives EN- solvent look.
BY this time wheat he'd got up to S29 per
bushei, and wuz scase at that.
Then Parkins and Barney, the plastereas,
who he'd made great deal NV money since in
hashen set in, they had to start a bank, wich
they called 'The Ekitable and Insashable
Bankin Company NV the Yoonted States, and
they lsood their bills by the buShel.
Wheat went up Immediately to $3S per BUSH
ell, and moo era Nv prosperity sot in.
Before these fnanseers had got fairly under
way, Butts and Busterd conclooded they'd 60
into bankin, and behold one mornin the bills
Nv the Labor Stmyoolatin Company-I. Butts
President'-made their appearance. They
didn't hev any offs, for Butts sed he didn see
no use of an offs. He Good pay out money on
the street all he wanted to eff the people wood
take it, and ez it never wuznt goin to be re-
deemed, wat did he want of an offs? He
want a goin to any such expense, for he
bleeved in economizin. To go to yooselis ex-
penses wuz to show a culpable disregard Nv the
$45 per bushel, and there wuz more prosperity.
Then troubles set in in chunks. The people
who wuz not interested in bankn refoozed, pint
blank, to take any Nv their ishoos Banks wuz
a gittin rather to frekent. and the times wuz
gitten rather too prosperous. A reackshen Ok
kured agen our money wich we who wuz inter-
eSted determined to crush at wuntZ.
The offishls Nv the five banks in the town
met and decided to hold meetin NV the citi-
zens. at wich steps shood be taken to legalize
our iSOOs.
The meetin wuz held and Nv course we kerr
ried it witont any trouble, for seven-tenths Nv
EN- had our money in ther pockets, and they
wuz very favorable to any ackshen that would
keep it bilin To thar end we past the foller-
in reSOlOOshenS:
Wareas Ths Democrisy Nv Ohio and Penn
syluany, with singerly just appreshiashen Nv
the wants Nv the citizens Nv the Cross Roads,
hev demanded more money, and
Whareas, Five compinies hev kerrird out the
idee Nv the Democrisy NV Ohio and Pennsyl-
vany by furnishin the people more money, and
Whareas, Notwithstandin the onparalled
prosperity that hez remitted from the increase
in currency, certin men in the commoonity, by
refoozing to take it. decline to be benefited !;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That this meeting NV citizens de-
mand Nv the Town Council that it townst con-
vene and pass an ordance maxim the ishoos NV
the five banks legal tender for everything from
drinks down to taxes, and that any citizens
who refoozes to take it, or murmurs at it. or in
any way dscredits it, shel, be held ez a
public enemy and be immejitly hung.
The whereases and the resolooshen was
passed to wunst, and l felt easoer. With the
power to hand all who refoozed to take our
money, L rather think 1 kid make it current
u u d
of rare merit, and it is the best endorsement nv
our paper we kin possibly hav.
So far so good. But jist ez 1 wuz feeln'
good over my success, that onmitgated cuss,
Jehial Perkins, the man wat give his note to
Bascom for a barl Nv whisky with such distin-
guished success, rose and sed he he'd series of
whereases and resOOashun to pass. He went
on to say that he he'd gived this questisn of
finance great deal Nv studs. He Endorsed
fully the posishen Nv the Democrisy Nv Ohio
d., IL H.,
money enuff for everybody. He pinted with
pride to the development Cv the Corners since
the creashun Nv more money, and he bleeved
that still more money would make still more
prosperity. The dee wuz correct. The Gov
ernment shood ishoo promises to pay and faith
shoad make EN- good, without any such nom
sense ez redeemin; and if the Government
shood do it. why shoodnt banks; if banks, why
not indivijjes? That's wat he wanted to know.
Eff ther wuz any such thing ez redeemin it in
gold or anythsng else, the people might hev the
rite to ask it them ez ishood the gold or any
thing else to redeem EN- with, but ez ther aint
on redeemin pe-posed, why that question don't
come in. The people hev to hev faith, aud
that's all the hevin ther is in the transackshen.
He wuz bleever in more money, and he pro-
posed to hev more money, and he bleeved that
them ez had the greatest need for money shood
hev the privilege Nv ishooin it; and so long as
the people took it from each other it anssered
all the purposes Nv money, and wuz macy.
Therefore he proposed the yoonanimus adop-
shun NV the fcllOwin whereaseS and resoloo-
shens:
Wareas, Eff 700 hev good thing, you can't
hev too much nv it; and
Wareas, the increase Nv currency in the
Corners hes bin productive Nv prosperity such
ez we never dreamed Nv; and,
Wareas, 1t is the dooty Nv all earthly gov
ernments to dffoose its tlessins ekally, thereby
imitatin the docs of heaven, wich falls alike
on the just and unjust; and
Wareas. the manufakter Nv money shood
not be confined to the few, but shood be the
privilege of the many; and,
Wareas, we Recognize the justis and proprie-
ty Nv camselin the people to take such money
as may be shood; therefore, be it
Resolved That every man may ishoo his
notes Nv hand in such sums as may SCOT his in
terest or convenience, and that such notes shell
be legal tender for everything, the same ez tbs
notes ishood by our five bank insti tutions
And the id ideots absolootly passed the
resolooshen without minit's delay, and they
demanded that the Council meet that very very
and pass the Ordinonce, which it did.
Ez every last man Nv EN- commenst writin
holes 10 wunst, and buyin and buyin all sorts
of things with em, we're liable to have enuff
money at the Corners immejtly-ez much as
our brethren in Ohio and Pennsylvany wood
desire, even.
Everythidg in the shape of labor has been
abandoned, for everybody hez gone into the
manufakter Nv currency, that IL, everybody
who kin write Thank heaven that they never
favored skools here-the inability to she ink Is
tire only limit to our inflashen.
One single tt suit has followed this ordinance,
viz: Nobody has nothidg to sell. L went in
to a shoe store yesterday thinking to treat my
self to pare of boots, but the dealer hadn't
any to sell.
But see hundred pares on the shelves,
said L.
''They have all been bought by people over
in che next county," sez the .villn; "they
wuz bought for gold Possibly eff yoo he'd gold
could get one of em to sell you pear hisself.
Aud he sed suthin about bringing a horse to
water, but voc. .coodent make him drink
1t is plain to me that more legisashum is a
| going to be necessary. Up to certain pint
| they took our money, but somehow them ez
amt a maxim it are fitin shy Nv it.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
President Nv the Unlimited Trust and Conf.
dence Campany.
p S.-More trouble. Bascom sez he's got tc
| hev s6mething to 60 to Louisville with besid ,
our paper, or he'll hev to close. And all the
mechanics in the village, WHO hev TO buy things
| in Louisville, are clamorin for suthin they kin
buy with, and threaten, eff they don't get it, Il
bust things. Wun Nv EN- impudently sed tina
afore the initiation period they didn't hev mucl
| money, but they Good do suthin with what the,
| he'd. And the people applauded the disturber
I'd Z. S.-Bascom hez just come in. The las
drop Nv likker is gone, and he swears he II clos
his bar eft We don't do suthin towunst. l hey