The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-04
Nasty on Imitation.
From the Graphic.
CoNFEDRIT ROADS,
WITCH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
AuOuat 2lrd 1R7k 1

august %oIo, 1850
The Corners hev red the speeches Nv
Honest Ole Bill Allen and that other gile-
less patriot, General Samyooel Cary, Nv
Ohio, on the momenchus subjick ny More
Money, till they hev bin worked up to q
state Nv absloot madnis. The Corners are
list the same ez all other impeecoonius
people-they want More Money, and the
idee Nv Honest Ole Bill Allen, that, to git
it, all 700 he'd to do wuz to ishoo it, filled
our idees Nv inanse eggsackly. It simple,
effectooal, and ezily understood.
l determined to put the Idee into prac-
tice, and to that end sejested to my friends
the organizashen Nv bank nv ishoo, under
the name and title NV The Unlimited
Trust and Confidence Company Nv Con-
fedrit x Roads" .-.
he'd some trouble to git the citizens into
it, but FINELY succeeded. / explained to
the people that more money wood be an
advantage to the debtor class, wich..ez nine
tenths NV EN- wuz 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 intended to
hev in the management l showed that
more money meant increased trade, and ez
the money wood all be ishood to our credit,
it woodent cost anything but the printing !;
we coodent lose anything. So the bank
wuz started. l wuz made President !;
Issaker Gavitt, Cashier Bascom, Vice
President with Board of Directors con-
sisting Of KerDal McPelter and the veneer
able Deekin Pogram. We put the Deekin
on becoz he is bald headed, and therefore
respectable. His bizeness is to sit in the
front window, reedin an innashen paper.
1t inspires confidence. 700 have to watch
him to keep him from hevin the paper up
side down, but in this community that
don't matter, ez very few know the differ
ence more'n he does.
1t was forchnit that our bankin- room
was located immejetly under the printin'
offs, ez we kin let the printed notes which
we ishoo down to the Presidents desk by q
rope. 1t saves labor, witch is great pint
in institooshen like ours.
The theory on which our paper is ishood
is very simple. The company ishoo il
and the people take it. We hev no time
fixed for redempshun, for the beauty oil
the biznis is that we don't never intend to
redeem. Our notes reeds:
1.-The Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company Nv Confedrit x Roads (which is
in the state Of Kentucky promises to pay
the bearer One Dollar"
We don'tsay when. where or how, and
therein is the strength Nv the enterprise.
Our first ishoo was reserved with some
hesitashen.
"Where is our secoority2" demanded
one farmer to whom we offered it in pay
ment for load Nv wheat.
Faith in the company" l ansered
lookin at him pityinly. Gaze onto thai
face" Iresoome1, pintin at Deekin Pogram
who ruther spilled the effeck by brushin of
q fly that he'd lifted on his nose: "look al
that face andsthen ask for secoority."
when is it to be redeemed?" ask
another.
ut never wants TO be redeemed" wa
my answer. I'VE shell be libral, and wheI
note wears out we will give another
Wat do you want it redeemed fur? Mon
ey ishood on faith needs no redempshun
We buy yoor prodoose with it, 700 yoose
to buy your goods, and SO it goes roun'
and round in a cirkle, dispensin blessin
wherever it lites Ez long ez 700 take
wat do 700 want Nv anything else?"
Another remarkt that it wuz his ide
that paper money wuE all to be redeeme
in gold; III, L.,
out. Gold is merchandise. Our Dimmy
cratic brethren in Ohio hev desided thu
money is simply promises to pay, and thi
it don't matter on wat material that
stampt-whether gold, silver, iron, shell
or copper. We shell put ourn on pape
cos it's the cheapest. We shell hey no e:
travagance about this bank"
pnl1ock tho Tlinou diaturhor in ri
most brootal manner, refoozed to tech
and consistently his biznis suffered. VI
shoemaker from Ohio followed SCOT, ar
undertook to argoo agin SO much none
asserted the heresy that addin to the vol
me Nv currency didn't add nothin to
power. Sed he:
IL will illustrate so the Corners will col
prehend. Yoo take q gallon Nv whisk,
and add to it three gallons of water. We
you hev four gallons in the bari, but the
amt but one gallon Nv square drink in
after all.
ansered him by readin copious extr
from Cary's speeches, shown that tr
prosperity goes hand in hand with plen
Nv money.
They FINELY was convinst, and took o
money for their grain, tho we had to p
them at the beginin twenty cents bush
more for their wheat than other mon
wood hev got il for. But we didn't car
for we knew we Good make all Nv it ,
wanted.
1t wuz astonishin wat a era Nv prospe
ity set in on the Corners to wunst Mon
became ez plenty ez blackberries, al
everybody he'd their pockets fall NV
Land went up in valyoo 200 per cent. in
week, and the price Nv the nsssesaries
life raised ekally. Bascom put up his ne
whiskey from 5 to 25 cents per drink, al
SIGH wuz the run Nv trade he he'd that /
wife and his oldest son, Jefferson Da,
Bascom, both he'd to stand in the bar
wait on customers. The bank bought
the wheat and other produckshuns, a.
paid for EN- in its own money, and we pa
SIGH prices ez happened, for money W
with US no objeck. The high prices br
all the trade for twenty miles around
the Corners, and all the deelers who wo
take the money stood up to their middl
in it.
Then my turn come, Putin to t
crowds nv people at Bascom's, sed to t
doubter:
'Wuz trade ez brisk ez that afore
fashunp which settled him.
improvements are bein projected eve
day. We hev organized a company
build branch road from here to SecessiC
vile, another over to Bloody Fork, a
still another to Little Andersonville. Ri
turnpike companies hev bin organized, q
three factries hev bin actooally CONNER
ed. The water-power on the Run
above the village is to be improved