Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-07
NASBY ON INITIATION.
The Corners Decide for Infta'
tion, and put their Ideas
into Practice.
Glorious Results of the First
Step.
The Unlimited Trust and Conf
dence Company.
from the Toledo Blade
CoNFEDgIT x ROADS
WHICH is IN THE STATE OF KEN

WHICH IS IN THE STATE OF KEN
TUCY, August 25th, 1875.
The Corners hev red the speeches
Nv Honest Ole Bill Allen and that 9TH
er gileless patriot, Gen. Samyooel Cary,
Nv Ohio, on the ,nomenchus subjec Nv
More Money, till they hev him worked
up to state Nv absloot madnis. The
Cornersare jist the same ez all other
impeconious people-they want More
Money, and the idee Nv Honest Ole
Bill Allen, that, to git it, all 700 he'd
to do wuz to ishoo it, filed our ide,s
Nv finance eggsactly. It is simple,
effectooal, and ezily understood.
| determined to put the idee into
practice, and to that end sejested to
my friends the organizashen Nv bank
Nv ishoo, under the name and title Nv
1.-The Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company Nv Confedrit X Roads,
[ he'd some trouble to git the citi-
zens into it, but [ finely succeeded. [
explained to the people That more mon
ey would be an advantage to the debt
or class, wich, ez nine-tenths Nv EN-
was 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 coodunt lose any
thing. So the bank wuz started. [
wuz made President; Isaaker Gavitt,
Cashier: Bascom. Vice-Presihent :;
with a Board Nv Directors consistiu of
Kernel McPelter and the venerable
Deekin Pogram. We put the Deekin
on becoz he is bald beaded, aud there
fore respectable. His biznis is to sit
in the front window reedin an infash-
en- paper. 1t inspires confidence.
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 was forchnit that our hankin
room wuz lokatid immejitly under the
printin offs, ez we kin let the printed
notes wich we ishoo down to the Pres
ident's desk by a rope. 1t saves labor
witch is great pint In an instooshen
like ours.
The theory on witch our paper is ish-
God 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 Conf
dence Company of 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 is the strength Nv the en-
terprise.
Our first ishoo was reserved with
some hesitashen.
"Where is our secoority ?" demand
ed one farmer to whom we offered it in
payment for load Nv wheat.
Gath in the company - I ansered,
looking at him pityinly ''Gaze onto
that face" | resoomed, pintin at Dee.
kin Pogram, who ruther spoiled the
efeck by brushin off a fly that he'd lit
ON his nose ''look at that face and
then ask for secoority.
"When is it to be redeemed?" askt
another.
cit never wants to be redeemed"
wuz MY anser. ''We shell be libral,
and when a note wears out we will
give 700 anotherr What du 700 want
it redeemed fur? Money ishood on
faith, needs no redempshun. We buy
yoor prodoose with it-yoo yoose it to
buy yoor goods, and 50 it goes round
and round in sirkle, dispensin bles-
sins wherever it lites Ez long ez 700
take it, wat do 700 want Nv anything
else %
Another remarkt that it wuz his idee
that paper money WIZ all to be redeem
ed in gold.
sGold," / promptly replied, sis
played out. Gold is merchandise.
Our Democratic brethren in Ohio have
desided that money is simply promises
to pay, and that it don't matter on wat
material that promise is stampt-
whether gold, silver, iron, shells or
copper. We shell put ourn on paper,
cos it's the cheapest. We sbel hev no
extravaganza about this bank"
Pollock, the Illinoy disturber, IN the
most brootal man ner refoosed to tech
it, and Consistently his biznis suffered.
One shoemaker from Ohio followed
SCOT, and undertook to argoo agln such
money. He asserted the heresy that
addin to the volume Nv currency
didn't add nothin to its power. Sed
he:
"I will illustrate so tie Corners will
comprehend. 700 take a gallon Nv
whiskey and add to it three gallons Nv
! water. Well, 700 hev four gallons in
/ b,t ono o.aIlon