The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-10-27
NAsBY's BANK BUSTED.
CoSFxDERATE Y RoADs. !
WHICH Is IN KENTUCKY,
September, IS. 1915.

September, Is, 1875.
There is gloom onto the Corners
Our sun uv prosperity is sot, and my
hopes is blasted. The Onlimited
Trust and Confidence Company is
not eggsackiy no more, but it is
near enough dead to make it safe to
bury it on rencher. It's ewes is
sot, After brilyant career of FIVE
weeks along the sky Nv finance.
sheddin blessins at every jump. its
brilyancy has departed, snd it don't
corruscate wuth cent.
We hevn't suspended, nor failed.
nor closed our doors. nor nuthin, for
the simple reason that the bank was
constructed on an ijee that made
failiu impossible, ard the closing NV
doors onnecessary~ Ez we don't hev
to redeem, wat shE we fail for? Ez
we don't purpose to paw nothin. wat
shell We close our doors for? There
amt nothin hide-hound about this
bank. The people is welcome to
come in and discuss finance, and put
their feet upon the benches, and spit
tobacco joose on the floor, Jest ez
friendly ez they choose, and they
may do it ez long ez they choose.
No, the Onlimited Trust and Con-
tide1ce Company aint failed. but its
kinder petered out, ez it were. It is
eXpirin of dryrot It's notes. wieh is
its blood, amt hevin any cirkelashen.
The people don't take EN- with that
cheerfulness wich is necessary to a
proper bankin bizness. LegisIashen
don't fetch EN-. The ordinance wich
made death the penalty for refoosin
our ishoos only worked so far ez
takin EN- for taxes. The corpora.
shen did take em for taxes in pur-
sooaRce Nv their own leeislashen.
and here wuz where the trouble be.
gun: The taxes wuz levied on a
greenback basis, and the entire lew
amounted to $4,000. Well. the taxes
for the first time in the history Nv
the Cornrs, wuz all pade in full and
with great promptness. A more
2rompter set av taxpayers | never
seed
The Treasurer he'd $4,000 Nv our
ishoos, when it wuz necessary to buv
a plow aud four spades to do some
work on The roads In vane be tried
to get EN-. The dealers at home
KNOWN wat currency be he'd to paw
in, suddenly got out Nv plows and
spades, and when he went to Loois.
vile it took 81, 600 Nv his currency
to pay his fare, and be offered the
hardware dealer the other $1,000 for
the implements be wanted, but it
wouldn't CO. He he'd 10 come back
W thout EN-.
Then be come and demanded some
currency Nv Us wieh be Good yoose.
wich nv course, we hedn't got none,
and he became an opponent Nv our
system.
Two shoemakers, each with S10.-
900 NV our money, coodent buy a
side of sole leather to coutinyoo
their biznes with. and had to stop
our railroads and turnpike he'd to
hev iron aud males and sich things or
we couident go on; so all the laborers
he'd to be discharged, wich made
desprit populashen all howlin agin
Us.
But the wust wuZ yet to come.
We Good hev weathered all this. but
alas! BAsCoM FAILED
This wuz the fnishin blow-the
great staggerer from wich the Cor
ners Good not possibly recover.
Bascom made manly fte, aud
must say did all that be Good to stand
up for Us. He raised the price Nv
drinks to 81 per drink. and when be
saw his barls rapidly failin, be tried
to keep the Corners agoin by waterin
his likker, just ez We he'd watered the
currency.
But those expedients didn't work.
The higher the price he put on bis
likkers the more the people seemed
to want TO drink Nv it. 1t seemed to
be deIite to EN- to pay out the
money et they got anything whatever
for it. But they woodent do wot
Bascom most desired-that is to saw
they woodent stand his watered
whisky They said to him EFF 50
amt enuff, charge s4 Its all wun to
Us. Set EN- up agin"
And the bar-room full wood step
up and take sutbin, and the man who
asked en wood throw down on the
bar peck Nv our Currency and tell
Bascom to help himself
EascOm came to Us and begged
that we shood let him hev suthiu
that be Good yoose to re-stock his bar
He said the deelers in Louisville
laffed in his face when he offered EN-
our money for likker, and be had but
two barls left.
Ana lnem two barIs wuz vizibly
shrinkin every mirit. 1t seemed ez
though the populis got insane for
likker at the very time that we didn't
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