Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-08
Nasty.

The Corners Decide for Imitation,
and Put Their Ideas into Practice
The Glorious Result of the First
step-The Unlimited Trust and Con
fticnce Company.
From the Toledo Blade.
CoSFEpRrT X ROADS,
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky
August 20, 1879.
The Corners hev red the speeches nv Hon
est Ole Bill Allen and that other gileles
patriot, General Samyooel Cary, Nv Ohio
on the momcnchus subjck Wv More Money
till they hev bin worked up to state o
absloot madnis. The Corners are iist th,
same ez all other impecunious people--they
want More Money, and the idee of Homes
Ole Bill Allen, that. to git it, all 700 he'd t,
do wuz to iahoo it, flied our idccs NV Fl
nanse eggsackly. 1t is simple, cff ctoua
and ezily understood.
determined to put the ilee into prac
lice, and to that end seiested TO my friend
the organizashen Nv Bank nv ishoo, un'
der the name and title nv THE Onlimi,e,
Trnst and Confidence Company Nv Conid
rit y Roads"
l he'd some trouble to git the citizens int
it, but FINELY succeeded. l explained t
the people that more money wood be an ad
vantage to the debtor class, wich, ez nine
tenths Nv EN- wuz in debt to Bascom, settlet
them. They hailed with joy any move
ment that wood wipe out their scores ant
give EN- new credit at this bar.
To Bascom, and them ez l intended t,
hev in the management, showed that NOR
money meant increased trade, and ez tn,
money wood be ishcod on credit it wooded
cost anything but the printing. we oooden
lose anything. So the Bank waz started
l wuz made President; Issaker Gavitt
Cashier; Bascom, Vice President, with |
Board NV Directors consistin NV Kernel Nc
Peter, and the venerable Deekin Pogram.-
We put the Deekin on becoz he is bald
headed, and therefore respectable. His biz
mis- is to sit in the front window recdin {
inllasEen paper. 1t inspires confidence
700 hev to watch him to keep him from
hevin the paper upside down, but in thi
community that don't matter, ez very few
know the difference more'n he does.
1t wuz forchnit that our bankin room
wnz lokatid immejitly under the print,
Off. cz we kin let the printed notes. wicl
we ishoo, down to the Presid, nt's desk by {
rope. 1t saves labor, wich is great pin
IN institooshen like ours.
The theory on witch our paper is ishoot
is very simple. The company ishoo it ant
the people take it, We hev no time fxeG
for rcdcmpshon, for the beauty Nv the biz.
mis- is that we don't never intend to redeem
Our notes reeds:
"Tke Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company NV Conicdrit y Reads, witch is il
the State Of Kentucky, promises to pay
the bearer One Dollar"
We don't say wien, where, or how, ant
therein is the strength NV the enterprise.
Our first ishoo wuz reserved with som,
hesitashen.
"Whcre is our sccoority ?" demanded one
farmer to whom VIC offered it in paynen
for load NV wheat.
"Faith in the compahy!' ansered. look
in at him pityinly. ''Gaze onto that face,
rcsoomcd, pintin at Deekin Pogram, wht
ruther spilled the effcck by brushin off fly
that he'd lifted on his nose "look at that fac
and then ask for secoority."
"When is it to be redeemed" askt an
other.
ut never wants to be redeemed" WI:
my anser. We shell be libral, and when I
note wears out We will give 700 another
Wat do 700 want it redeemed fur9 Money
ishood on faith needs no redempshun. w,
buy yoor prodoose with it--yoo yoose it tc
buy your goods, and SO it goes round ant
round in cirkle, dispensing blessins wher
ever it lites. Ez long ez 700 take it wat d.
you want Nv anything else?"
Another remarkt that it wuz his idee tina
paper money wuz ull to be redeemed in gold
"Gold," l promptly replied, "is played
Gold is merchandise. Our Democratic
brethren in Ohio hev desided that money i
simply promises to pay, and that it dom
matter on what material that promise il
stampt-whether gold, silver, iron, shells
or copper. We shell put ourn on paper
cos it's the cheapest. We shell hcv no ex
travagance about this bank"
|syssr ssA.sssss sses niNey ai4turher, in tn,
most brootal manner, refooscd to tech i
and consistently his bizois suffered. Ga
shoemaker fohI Ohio rorroWed suot, an
undertook to argoo agin so much money. =
He asserted the heresy that addin to til
volume NV currency didn't add nothin t
its power. Sed he;
81 will illustrate so the Corners will com
prehend. 700 take gallon NV whske
and add to 1t three gallons Nv water. We'll
700 hev four gallons in the bari, but ther
amt but one gallon NV square drunk in il
after ALL"
! ansefed him by readin copious extra:
from Cary's speeches, shown that tire
prosperity goes hand in hand with plent,
NV money.
They hneily was coDvinst and took on
money for their grain, tho we he'd to pa
them at the beginin twenty cents busht
more for this wheat than other money WOO
hev got it for. But we didn't care, for W
knew we coed make all NV it we wanted.
1t wuz astonishn wat era NV prosptrit
set in on the Corners to wunst. None
became as plenty ez black berries, and every
body he'd their pockets full Nv il. Lam
went up in valyoo two hundred per cent. il
a week, and the price NV the nessaries u
life raised ekally. Bascom put up his ne,
whisky from to % cents per drink, an
SIGH wuz the run NV trade he he'd that hi
wife and his oldest son, Jefferson Davi
Bascom, both lied to stand in the bar t
wait on customers. The bank bought al
the wheat and other produckshuns, ant
paid for 'em in its own money, and we pai
SIGH prices ez happened, for money WI
with us no object. The high prices brot al
trade for twenty miles around to the. Cor
ners, and all the dealers who wood take tn,
money, stood,lp TO their middles in it.
Then my turn come. Pintin to tn
crowds NV people in Bascom's, sed to tn
doubter:
"Wuz trade ca brisk cz that afore intla
shun?' witch settled him.
Improvements are being projected ever,
day. We hcv organized company I,
build branch road from here to Secession
vile, another over to Bloody Fork, and still
another to Little Apdersonville. Fiv
turnpike companies hev bin organized, an'
three factries hev been actooally commenced
The water power on the run jist above tn
village is to be improved at wunst, ant
Bascom ia aireddy at work on q wing t
to the back part Of the grocery. Town lott
are doublin in valyoo every day and new
additions are bein perpetyooally laid out
Every body is spekelatin and everybody il