The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-09
Nasby on Imitation,
CoNFEDRIT X. ROADS.

WICH IS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
August 23d, 1875.
The Corners hev red the speeches NV Hon.
Ole Bill Allen and that other gileless patriot,
General Samyooel Gary nv Ohio, on the mo-
menchus subjick NV More Money, till they hev
bin worked up to state NV absloot madns-
The Corners are jist the same ez all other im-
pecoonius people-they want More Money, and
the idee.u Honest Ole Bill Allen, that to Git
it, all yoo he'd to do wuz to ishoe it, filled our
idees Nv finanse eggsackly. 1t is simple, eff.
fectooal and eziiy understood.
determined to put the idee into practice. and
to that end sejested to my friends the orgauiza-
shen Nv bank Nv ishoo, under the name and IT,
tie Nv 1.-The Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company Nv Confedrit X Roads,"
he'd som trouble to git the citizens into it,
bat 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 Jay any movement that wood wipe
out their scores and give EN- new credit at his
bar.
To Bascom and them ez intended to bey in
the management l showed that more money
meant increased trade, and ez the M oney wood
all be ishood on our credit it woodent cost any
thing bu the printing; we coodent lose any
thing. So the bank wuz started / wuz made
President; Issaker Gavitt, Cashier; Bascom.
Wee President; with Board NV Directors con
sst IN OF Kernel McPelter and the yenerbal Dee
kin Pogram. We put the Deekin on becoz he
Is bad-headed, and therefore respectable. His
blznis is to sit in the front window reedin an
Inf1ashen paper. 1t inspires confidence Voc
have to watch him to keep him from bevin the
paper upside down, but in this community that
don't matter, ez very few know the difference
more n he does
1t wuz fOrchuit that our bankn room wuz
lokatid immejtly under the priptn-offiis ez we
Rim let the printed notes wich we ishoo down
to the Presidents desk bv rope. 1t saves Ia
DOR, which Is great pint in instooshen Ii ke
ours
The theory on which our paper is isood is
very simple. The company shoo it and the peo-
pie take it.. We hev no time fixed for redemp-
shun, fur the beautysuv the bizns is that we
don't never intend 10 redeem. Our notes
reeds
THE Onlimited Trust aud Confidence Com
pany NV Confedrt X 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 enterprise
Our first isoo was received with some hesita.
shen.
''Where is our secoority? ?' demanded one far
mer to whom we offered it in payment for a
load Nv wheat.
Faith in the companyr' 1 ansered look in at
him pityinly: "Gaze onto that face 1 re-
soomed, pintin at Deekin Pogram, who ruther
spilled the effeck by brushin off fly that bed
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
answer "We shel be lbral, and when a note
wears out we will give you another. Wat do
you want it redeemed fur? Money ishooed on
faith needs no redempshun. We buy yoor pro
GOOSE with 1t, yoo yoose it to buy yoor goods,
and so 1t goes round and round in cirkle
dispensin blessins wherever it hits. Ez long
ez 700 take it what do 700 want nv anything
else?'
Arother remarkt that it wuz his idee that
paper money wuz all to be redeemed in gold.
Gold" promptly replied, sis played out.
Gold is merchandise. Ourdemocratic brethren
promises to pay, and that it don't matter 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
sbel hev no extravaganza about this bank
Pollock, the lllinoy dsturbar, in the most
broota manner, refoozed 10 tech it, and conse-
kently his biznis suffered. One shoemaker
from Ohio followed SCOT, and undo rtook to ar
goo agin so much money. He asserted the
heresy that addin to the volume Nv currency
didn't add nothin to its power. Said he:-
Il will illustrate SO the Corners will compre-
bend. Yoo take gallon Nv whiskey and add
to it three gallons of water. Well, YOU hev
tour gallons in the barl, but there amt but one
galon'uv square drunk in it, after ALL"
l answered him by reading copious extrax
rom Cary's speeches. shown that troo pros |
perty goes hand in hand with plenty " |
money.
They finally was conviust and took our |
money Tor their grain, tho VT he'd to pay them /
A. the beglnnin twenty cents bushel more for |
sner wheat than other money wood hev got il
'Of. but we didn't knew Good
N AXE all Nv it we wanted.
1t wuz astoDishin wat a era Nv prosperity set
IN on the Corners to wunst. Money becames ez
plenty ez black berries, and every body he'd their
pockets full nv it. Land went up in valyoo two |
hundred per cent. in week, and the price Nv |
The nessaries NV ife raised ekally. Bascom put
40 his new whiskey from TO 25 cents per |
rink, and sch wuz the run Nv trade he he'd
hat his wife and his Oldest son, Jefferson Day-
$ Bascom, both he'd to stand in the bar to wait
IN customers. The bank bought all the wheat
md other productions, and paid for 'em 10 its
'wn money, and we paid sich prices ez happen.