The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-09-08
From the Graphic.
Nasty On InAaliOn.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,

| he OOIucIS new Ieu the speeches
NV Honest Ole Bill Allen and that
other gileless patriot, Gineral Sam
yooel Cary. NV Ohio, on the momen-
chus subieck of More Money, till they
hev bin worked up to state of abso-
loot madnis. The Corners arc jist the
same ez all other impeecoonius peo-
ple-they want More Money. and the
idee nv Honest Ole Bill Allen, that,
to git it, all 700 he'd to do wux to
iehoo it, filed our idees of inanse
eggsackly. 1t is simple, efectooal and
easily understood.
/ determined to put the idee into
practice. and to that end sejested
to my friends the organizashen nv a
bank Nv ishoo, under the name and
title NV '"The Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company NV Confedrit x
Roads"
he'd some trouble to git the cItf-
gems into it, but | finally succeeded
l explained to the people that more
money would be an advantage to the
debtor class, wicll, ez nine -tenths NV
them wuz in debt to Bascom, settled
them. They hailed with joy any
movement that wood wipe out their
scores and give EN- new credit at his
bar.
TO Bascom and them ez intended
to hev in the management ! showed
that more money meant increased
trade, and ez the money wood all be
ishood on our credit, it woodent cost
anything but the printing; we coodent
loose anything. So the bank wuz
started. / wuz made President: Is
saker Gavitt, Cashier; Bascom, Vice
President, with Board Nv Directors
consisting nv Kernal McPelter and
the venerable Deekin Pogram. We
put the Deekin on becoz he is hald-
headed, and, therefore, respectable.
His bizness is to sit in the front win
dow. reedin an infashin paper. 1t
inspires confidence. 700 hev to
watch him to keep him from hevin the
paper upside down. but in this COM
munlty that don't matter, ez very few
know the difference more n he does.
1t wuz forchnit that our bankin-
room wuz located immejitly under the
printin- otis, ez we kin let the printed
notes wich we ishoo down to the Pres
ident's desk by rope. It saves labor,
wich Is great pint in Institooshen
like ours.
The theory on wich our payer is
ishOod is very simple. The company
ishoo it and the people take it. We
hev no time fixed for redempshun, for
the beauty of the biznis is that we
don't never intend to redeem Our
notes reeds:
{ The Unlimited Trust and Conf
dence Company NV Confedrit X Roads
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky
promises to pay the bearer One Dol
lar"
We don't say when, where or how,
and therein liz the strength NV the en-
terprise.
Our first ishoo was received with
some hesitashen.
''Where is our secoority?" demand
ed one farmer to whom we offered it
in payment for load Nv wheat
Faith IN the company" I anseered,
lookin at him pityinly. Gaze onto
that face" l resoomed. pintin to Dec
kin Pogram, who rather spilled the
efFeck by brushin off fly that he'd
lifted on his nose; look at that face
and then ask for secoority."
when is it to be redeemed?' askt
another.
1T never wants to be redeemed"
wuz my anser. I'VE shell be libral,
and when note wears out We will
give you another. Wat do you want
it redeemed fur? Money ishood on
faith wants no redempshun We buy
yoor prodoose with it. 700 yoose it to
buy yoor goods, and so it goes round
and round in cirkle, dispensin bless
ms wherever it lites. Ez long CT 700
take it wat do 700 want Nv anything
else?'
Another remarkt that it wuz hiz
idee that paper money wnz all to be
redeemed in gold.
Gold" | promptly replied, is
played out. Gold is merchandise.
Our Democratic brethren in Ohio hev
dcsided 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 shell put ourn on paper, COS it's
the cheapest. We shell hev no extrav-
aganee about this bank"
Pollock, the Ilinoy disturber, in the
most brootal manner, refoOzed to
tech it. and CONSISTENTLY hiz biznis
suffered One shoemaker from Ohio
followed SCOT, and undertook to argoo
agin so much money. He asserted
the heresy that addin to the volume
NV currency didn't add nuthin to its
power. Sed he
II will illustrate SO the Corners
will comprehend. 700 take gallon
Nv whisky and add to it three gallons
NV water. Well, you hcv four GALLONS
In the bari, but there amt but one
gallon Nv square drink in it, after ALL :"
. [ anseered him by rcadin copious
extrax from Cary's speeches, shown
that troo prosperity goes hand in hand
with plenty Nv money.
They FINELY wuz convinst, and took
our money for their grain, tho We
he'd to pay them at the beginnin TWEEN
ty cents a 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.
1t wuz astonishin wat era Nv pros
perity set in on the Corners to wunst.
Money became ez plenty ez black er-
ries. and everybody he'd their pockets
full NV it. Land went up in valyoo
2DO per cent. in a week, and the price
Nv the necessaries NV life raised ekally.
Bascom put up his new whisky from 5
to % cents per drink, and SIGH wuz
the run Nv trade he he'd that his wife
and his oldest son, Jefferson Davis
Bascom, both he'd TO stand in the bar
to wait Oh customers. The bank
bought all the wheat and other pro-
dukshuns, and pade for EN- in its owD
money. and we pade sich prices ez
happened, for money wuz with us no
o5jeck. The high prices brot all the
trade for twenty miles around to the
Corners, and all the deelers who wood
take the money stood up to their mid
dies in it.