The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-16
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,,,.,,er samuel aud Farmer
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buy f, 'aa, ri Jonathan, Very we'll; the
mice /, 500, ,.u SIN
Pr ; Here are ten bills Of mine Tor so
:, - n,rable on demand, which will be
sl," ;. rood to you, or in fact better, Tor
:, moi So heavy 10 carry about.
mgy a. iIBpt when will you pay them
Whenever yon please. | will give
i,, hundred dollar bond for them any
i oS and that will be still better, Tor II Is
u'i' s s interest at the rate Of one cent n
70 E'' only think how fast you will get
d1i' Of, ,b,t rate, neighbor Jonathan"
t'' r + I'm, how Is this interest to be
P1E.H Why, have made smaller due
nil, and can al any time pay you them
"i Fs.'J!-Aud how il the bond itself to be
P1F!'s -Ouitc promptly. Twill give you
,.a dge.biIls Of ten dollars each Tor 1t
NIy" iNg1t where am to get anything
i f,S pircrs Of paper, Uncle Samuel,
% ;,t Wv ,br ,me.bill. or the bonds2
ES-Wha,el,rdoyou want Jonathan?
Van can pl,. these to Your .nneIghbor; loF
,"t van want, and get similar ones from
, T"I, ybcn yoa .clI anything. Don't you
WV WV iii. /. the bc.tcurrenCy in the world?
+ J-Bll am never to get anything
h,, rier,. ii paper Tor what | sell2
r. 81, not that paper perfectly. Sc.
c1re? Am not good Tor all promise !
II,ycInor a magnificent farm that would
nav ior all the paper ! issue hundred
time over? ...--..-,I
far the NOTES, could .nc yon and sell
rnoarh oi your farm to pay me!
f. S-Gh, M; my farm is held under
tbe Homestead law, and cannot be sold
Van can never get gold that way but the
napcr /. far better than the gold. II you
mI.t have gold, however, you can go to
the fellows in Wall street, and pay them
anywhere from thirteen Ia thirty or hIty
peI cent for it, rs the rapacious and
boatci hnllionisl. may choose to de-
FJ-Aitcr all, then, am only to get
somewhere from so 10 800 for my colt.
FS-Yon need never make any such
los, lust h. content withthe bits ofpapcr
and never mind the gold,
PJ.--Butii | want to buy some lnm'
Der in Canada, or sugar from the West
Indies, or broai.clOlh from England, will
they take your due bills?
ES.-ln that case you will have to
gel gold to pay with, whatever it may
cost,
FJ.,uiguriug up),-'fhen ii, when you
hlycis,uel great many bills, gold should
ri.c to 80 per cent premium, your paper
dollar would only bring Gji cents worth
in those countries, and so my lumber, or
sugar, or cloth, would cost me half as
much again n it should.
FS.-Butyo need not buy away from
home, tiet your lumber in Minnesota,
your sugar in Louisiana, and yOnr cloth
In New England,
F.J-Blt woull get any more for my
paper dollar from them than from people
abroad
T. ST. cannot say you would.
F.J;-'TIcn these articles at home are
lust made A. dear by being paid for IN
papcr ~ it wouldcO,t to buy the gold to
nay for them abDad. In other words,
wherever buy can only get the IS or
GO 90 cents worth for my paper dollar,
according to the premium ON gold.
Now honestly, Uncle Samuel, would 1t
not be better, seeing you are 70 rich and
have sucha magnificent farm, to pay me
for my colt in honest money that will
pas anywhere at its full value? This
proposal to twist around and pretend to
pay, when you don't really pay one cent,
either Of principal or interest, could
never come to good. Believe me, this
lodging might do for while, but by and
by your irredeemable paper bills would
take their place beside the old Continent.
al bills, Of which q bushel would not buy
aoaf Of bread.
ES.-lIush, Jonathan, don't you think
know that. | do not mean tohurt you,
but only to pay of those foreigners with
this nevcr.tO.be.paid paper, who lent me
the money that enabled me to keep my
farm whole when the half of II was like
to be taken from me.
FJ.-nut why cheat them?
FS.-Oh, you see they are not Cheated;
they lent me fifty cents on the dollar, and
lshould only pay them the same.
EJ.-But at the time they lent, was not
your credit bad?
F.S.-Why, a. to that, some thought il
no better than that Of my enemy. Those
who lent to him lost all, but II he had
gained the battle, it might have been
those who lent to me that would have lost
all.
f. J.-Now, uncle Samuel, was not
that loan, even at fifty cents on the dollar,
the best bargain you ever made, seeing it
enabled you TO preserve all your farm?
You absolutely needed the money then
and YOU could not get 1t on any better
terms. How, then, can you think, after
you have obtained the benefit, Of going
back on the promises you made in your
time Of extreme danger2
+. Says no more. I'll raise the
money honestly on the security Of the in.
come Of my farm, and pay every one in
real, and not sham, dollars. No more
bills that carry lies on the face Of them
for me-