The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-01

SfEP-THE UNLIMITED TRUST AND
CONFIDENCE COMPANY.
CoNFEDRTT Y ROADS,
WICH Is IL THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
August 23d, 1875.
The Corners hev red the speeches Nv
Honest Ole Bill Allen and that other
gileless patriot, General Samyooel Cary,
NV Ohio, on the nIOmenchus subjick NV
More Money, till they hev bin worked
up to a state NV absloot madnis. The
Corners are jist the same ez all other i'm
pecoonius peolle-they want More
Money, and the idee NV Honest Old Bill
Allen. that to git it, all yoO he'd to do
wuz TO ishoo it, filed our idees NV
finar s. eggackly. 1t is simple, efTectooal
and ezily understood
determined to put the idee into prac-
tice and to that end sejested to my
friends the organizashen NV Bank NV
lshoo, under the name and title NV "The
Unlimited Trust and Confidence Com
pany NV Confidrit Y Roads"
II he'd some trouble to get the citizens
into it, but l finally succeeded. l ex-
planned to the people that more money
wood be an advantage to the debtor
class, which, ez nine-tenths NV elm 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, l 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 lose anything. So
the Bank wuz started; / wuz made
President, Issaker Gavitt, Cashier; Bas-
com, Vice President; with a Board NV
Directors consistiE NV Kernel McPelter,
and the venerable Deekin Porgram. We
put the Deekin on becoz he is bald head
ed, and therefore respectable His biz
mis- is to set in the front window reedin
an infiashen paper. 1t inspires conf
dence. Yoo have to watch him to keep
him from hevin the paper upside down,
but in this community that don't mat
ter, ez very few know the difference
mOre'n he does.
1t wuz forchnit that our bankin room
wuz located immejitly under the printin-
offs, eZ we kin let the printed notes
wich we ishoO, down to the Presidents
desk by a rope. 1t saves labor, which
is great pint in inStooshen like ours.
The theory on which our paper is
lshood is very simple. The Company
ishoo it and the people take it. We hev
no time fixed for redempshun, for the
beauty NV the biznis is that we don't
never intend to redeem. Our notes
reeds:-
''The Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company nv Confederit Y Roads, (Which
is in the State NV Kentucky promises
to pay the bearer One Dollar"
We don't say when, where, or how,
and therein is the strength NV the enter
prise.
Our first ishoo wuz reseved with
some hesitashen.
"Where is our secoority2' demanded
one farmer to whom we offered it in
payment for load NV wood.
Faith in the company" answered,
lookin at him Pityinly. ':Gaze onto that
face" | resoomed, plutin at Deekin
Pogram, who ruthered spilled the effeck
10y brushin off fly that he'd lifted On his
nose; 'look at that face and tIep ask
for seppority,"
when is it to be redeemed" askt an-
other.
at never wants to be redeemed, :" wuZ
my anser. We shel be LIBERAL and when
a note wears out we will give 700 anoth-
er. Wat doc 700 want it redeemed iur?
Money isooed on faith needs no redemp
shun. We buy your prodooce with it
700 yoose it to buy yoor goods, and SO
it goes round and round in a cirkle, dis
pensin blessins where ever it lites. EZ
long e5 yOo take it wat do yoO want NV
anything elseYn
Another Iemarkt that it wuz his lee
that paper money wuz all to he redeem
ed in gold.
Cold promptly replied. sis played
out. Gold Is merchandise. Our Demo
cratic brethern in Ohio hev desided that
money is simply promises to pay, and
and that it don't natter on wat material
that promise Is stampt-whether gold,
silver, iron, shells or copper. We shel
| put ourn on paper, COS it's the cheapest.
We shel hev no extravngance about this
bank"
Pollock, the Illlnoy dlstnrber, in the
most brootal manner, refoozed to teeoh
it, and consistently his biznis suffered.
| One shoemaker from Ohio followed SCOT
and undertook to argoo again SO much
money. He asserted the heresy that ad
din to the volume NV currency didn't
add nothin to its power. Sed he:
81 will illustrate so the Corners will
comprehend. Yoo take gBllon NV
whiskey and add to it three gallons Nv
water, Well, yoo hey four gallons in
the bari, but there amt but one gallon
NV square drunk in it, after ALL"
Iansered him by readin copious extrax
from Cary's speeches, shown that troo
prosperity goes hand in hand with plenty
NV money.
They FINELY was convinst and took
our money for their grain, tho we had
to pay them at the beginin twenty cents
busheI more for their wheat than other
money would hev got it for But we
didn't care, for we knew we Good make
all NV 1t we wanted.
1t wuz astonishin wat a era NV pros
perity set in on the Corners to wunst.
Money become rs plenty ez blackberries,
and everybody he'd their pockets full NV
it. Land went up in valyoo two hund-
red per cent. in a week, and the price NV
the nessaries Nv life raised ekally. Bas-
com put up his new whisky from 5 to 25
cents drink, and sich 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 ON customers.
The bank bought ell the wheat and
other produckshuhs, and paid for 'em in