The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-10-20
Massey ON INITIATION.
CoNFEDERATR y ROADS,
WHICH is Is KENTUCKY, ;

September, IL, 1875.
The mar wich undertakes to bene.
fit his fellows loads up very heavy
contract Half the citizens uv the
Corners are a-gone back in the most
oDgrateful manner onto the Onlimit-
ed Confidence and Trust Company.
They are a gittin sl9 a bushel for
vi heat, and about the same for oats
and corn, and men now talk Nv
thousands wieh never before knOwd
how to pronounce the word, bat vet
they amt happy. They hev hank
erin after redempshun Nv some sort
they demand 10 know when this
money nv ourn is a-goin to be re-
deemed in suthin else-some other
kind Nv money-ez tho our money.
backed by faith, want ez good ez
any in the world. Ef these malcon-
is wood only take it and look
pleasant, there Soodent be any trou-
bIe about it.
But these men are not the worst
We bev to contend with. The citi-
zens, wich are the stanchest support
ers Nv the new money, hey determin-
ed that eff we hev the rite to ishoo
money they hev the same rite And
80 four moo banks hev bin started
this week.
Macky and Burus started one, with
Macky ez President and Burns ez
Cashier, with them aud q nigger car
penter as the Boord of Direkiers.
They hev got the drop on us by re-
quirin the officers to give bonds, wich
they accomplished BY hcyin Maekey
sign Burns, Burns sign Mackey' s
and both sign the niger carpenters s
Then they hey another advantage
over as, for they bought their own
press and print their own notes,
wich ez we hev to pay Simpson, the
printer, profit, enables EN- to make
money cheaper than We kin. They
call their institooshun The Nashnel
Benefit Assochashen," and hev the
bankin offs in Maekey's bed room,
in the Pogram House.
Scasely wuz this bank histin out
money afore Squire Pettus and Ged'
ney, the shoemaker, started another,
which they called The Blessin
Diffusion Bank Nv North Ameriky, y
with the offs in Gedney's shoe shop,
and they got ahead Nv Us by printin
their notes two colors, wich l must
say, gives EN- q solvent look.
By this time wheat he'd got up to
s29 per bushel, and wuz seaee al
that.
Then Parkins and Barney, the
plasterers, who he'd made a great
deal Nv money since inflashen set in,
they he'd to start bank, wich they
called The Ekitable and Insashable
Bankin Company nv the Yoonited
States" and they ishood their bills
by tie bushel
Wheat went up immejitly to s3S
bushel, and moo era Nv prosperity
sot 10.
Before these hnaneeers got fairly
under way Butts and Busterd con-
clooded they'd go into bankiD', and
behold one mornin' the bills af the
Labor Stimyoolatin' Company, l.,
Butts, President made their ap-
pearsnee. They didn't hev any offs
for Butts sed he didn't see no yoose
Nv an offs. He Good pay out money
on the street all he wanted to eff the
people wood take it, and, ez it never
wuzen'; gone to be redeemed, wat
did be want Nv an offiss He wnzn't
going to any such expense, for he
bleeyed in eeonomizin. To go to
yooselis expenses wuz to show q
culpable disregard Nv the interests
nv the people
Wheat went up to s45 per bushel,
and there was more prosperity.
Then trouble set in in chunks.
The people who wuz not interested
in bankin refoosed, pint blank, to
take any Nv their ishoos. Banks
wuz a gittin rather too prosperous.
A reaekshen okkurred agin our mon
ey, wieh we who wuz interested de.
termined to crush to wuntz
The officsbals NV the FIVE banks in
the town met and decided to bold a
meetin Nv the citizens, at wich steps
shood be taken to legalize our ishoos.
The meetin wuz held, and Nv course
We kerried it without any trouble,
for seven-tenths NV 'em he'd our mon
ey in their pockets, and they wuz
very favorable to any ackshen that
wood keep it q bilin. To that end
we past the follerin resoloosbens.
Wareas, The Democrisy NV Ohio
and Panpsylrany with sinveyIv