New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-05
Massey ON INITIATION.

The Corners hey red the speeches Nv Hon
| est Ole Bill Allen and that other gileless
| patriot, General S4myuoel Cary. Nv Ohio,
| on the momenchus suniick NV more money,
| ill they hev bin worked up 10 a stare Us
abs0ot madnis. The Corners are jjst the
same ez all other impeec0onlus people
| they vast more money, and the idee u
| Honest Ole Bill Allen, thar, to git IT, all yoo
| heG to do WIZ to ishoo il, filed cur idees
Nv fnanse eggsackly. l. is simple, cifeC-
tooal and ez;ly under stood.
determined to put the idee into practice,
| and TO that end sejested to lug friends the
! organizashen NV bank nv ishoo, under the
name and title nv The Ollmited Trust
and Confidence Company Nv Contedrit y
| Roads,
/ he'd some trouble 10 git the citizens
| into it, but tirelly suc ,eeded. I explained
| to the people that more money WOOD be an
I advantsg5 to the debtor class, wich, ez
nine.tenths Nv en- wuz in debt to Biscom.
settled them. They hailed WITH lry any
movement that wood wipe OUT their scores
and give EN- new credit at his bar
| To Ba Seom and them e2 intended TO Eey in
| the management | showed that more money
meant increased trade, and ez the money
ld all be ishood on our credit it woodent
cost anything but the printing; We coodent
loose anything, 81 the bank wua started.
| WIZ made president: Issaker Gavitr.
cashier; Bascom, vics president: with a
board Nv directors consstin OF kerLe Nc
pelter and the venerable Deekin POGram.
We put the Deekin On beeoz he is bald
headed, and therefore respectable. His
bi2nis is TO sit in the front window reediu
an inflashen paper. Il inspires confidence,
700 have to watch him TO keep him from
hevin the paper upside down, but in this
community that don't matter, eZ very few
know the difference more'n he docs.
1t WIZ torchuit t1at our bansin room
| wnz lokatid immejitly under the printin-
offs. eZ we kin let the printed notes witch
we ishoo down to the Presidents desk by
| rope. 1t saves labor, wich is a great pint
in instooshen like ours.
The theory Oh wick our paper is lshOOd
is very simple. The company lshoo II and
the people take it. We hev no time fixed
for redempshun, fur the beauty NV the
biznis is that we don'5 never ia:snd to re-
deem. Oar notes reeds
tile Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company NV Confedrit y Roads twich 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 w the enterprise.
Our first ishoo was received with some
heeitashen.
Where is our secoority!" demanded one
for load NV wheat. 100 -
"Faith in the company" | answered,
fookin at him pityinly. "Gazo onto that
face l resoomed. pintin az Deekin Pogram.
who ruther spilled the etfeck by brushin off
fly that had lifted on his nose; ''look at
that face and then ask for secoority."
when is it to be redeemed askt an
other.
1T never wants TO be redeemed wuz
my answer. We shell be1ibral, and when a
note wears out we will giveeyou another.
Wat do you want 1t redeemet fur! Money
ishood On faith needs no redempshun, We
buy yoor prodoose with il, WOO yoose it TO
buy your goods and so il goes round and
round in q cirkle, dispensin blessins where
ever it lites. Ez long ez 700 take It wat do
700 want Nv anything else!'
Another remarkt that it wuz mia idee that
paper money wuz all to be redeemed ia
gold.
Gold l promptly replied, sis played
out. Gold is merchandise, Our Democrat
ic brethren in Ohio hev 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 shel put ourn on paper, cos
it's the cheapest. We shel hev 10 eXtrava-
gance about this bank"
Pollock, The Ilinoy disturber, in the most
brootal manner, refoozed to tech it, and
conseknetly his oiznis suffered. One shoe
maker from Ohio followed SCOT and under
took to argoo agin So much money. He as,
serted the heresy that addin to the volume
Nv currency didn't add nothin TO its power
SEED he:
II will illustrate so the Corners will com.
prehend. 700 take gallon w whiskey
and add to it three gallons Of water. Well.
you hev four gallons IN the bari. but there
amt one gallon Nv square drunk in it, after
ALL"
answered him by readiu copious extrax
from Cary's speeches, shown thai trOo pros
perity goes hand in hand with plenty nv
money. -.
They finely was convinst and TOOK our
money for their grain, tho We he'd to pay
them at the beginnin twenty ceItsa bushel
more for Their wheat than other money wood
hev got it for. Bat we didn't care, for we
knew we Good make all Nv it we wanted.
It wuz astonishin wat era Nv prosperity
set in on the Corners to wunst. Money be-
came ez plenty ez blackberries, and every
body he'd their pockets full Nv it. Land
went up in valyoo 200 per cent in q week,
aud the price Nv the nessaries nv life raised
ekally. Bascom put up his new whisky
from to % cents per drink, and SIGH WIZ
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 Gus.
tomerE The bank bought all the wheat
and other produskshuns, and paid fer EN-
in it's own money, and paid SIGH prices ez
happened, for money wuz with us no OBJ
jock. The high prices brot all the trade for
twenty miles around to the Corners, and all
the deeleIs who wood take the money stood
up to their middles In 1t.
Then my turn come. Pintin to the
crowds of people in Bascoms, / sed to the
doubter:
"Wuz trade ez brisk ez that afore in
flashuna" which settled him.
Improvements are bein projected every
day, We hey organized company to
build a branch road from here t, Secession
vile. another over, to Bloody Fork, and
still another to Little Andersonville. Five
turnpike companies hev bin organized, and
three factrfes hev bin actooally commenced.
The water power on the Run jist above the
village is To be improved at wunet, and
Baseom is alreddy at work on wing TO the
back part of the grocery, Town lots are
doqbiin in vaiyeo every day; and new ad.
dishuns are bein eperpety oohlly laid oat
'gettin rich. There is flush times here. The
people are all inflashionists.
l am preaident Nv all these compnies, and
Isee no reason why can't put EN- through.
1t is troo the price Nv everything hez gone
MP. The commonest Niger labor Is now up 10
% Q day, and pare nv pegged boots is
wuth $50, but wat difference does that
makei So long ez Simkins, the printer, kin
work his press We kin msnufaekter all the
money We want; and ez long ez we kin man
ufackter money, why thsfe must be pros
Pollock and Joe BigIer we he'd to git red
nv, for they wuz prejoodissen the people agin
lie. Pelloek's stock nv goods and his store
WINS ruth, h the old simes before the era
nv in6ashuh. about q thGnsnnd dollsrg and