The Portland daily press., 1878-09-25
Nasty.
hr. Nasty Issues Fiat M0ney-An Era of
Prosperity at the Corners, But . speck
of Trouble in the Future.
CoNFEDRIr X. ROADS,
WTvH IS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY (


WIGH IS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY
PETROLEUM V. Massey.
The nooze from Maine hez reached the Corn
ers and it hez encouraged us, both ez Nashnels
and Dimocrats. 1t dosn't make straw's diff
swalered the Nashnels, or whether the Nash
nels hev swallered us. There hez bin swallerin.
and the Republican party hez los. its grip We
are happy.
Ez Nashnels we hev things eggsackly to SCOT
US at the Corners and throughout this seek
shun. We have succeeded in institootin
strikes in all the manufacturin villages in the
seckshun and hev all the workinmeaIout nv
work and In con sekent distress. At Factry-
vile ther amt any more factry at all, for we
burned it in the holy croosade Nv labor sgin
capitle. In Plainville we hev got all the me-
chanics and laborers on strike, which he'd the
deliteful and cheerin effeck Nv thowin every
Workman out Nv work, haleloogy. They
hev nothin to do now but to walk about the
streets day times and lissen to our speeches
mites. And we are maxim it lively for the
6loatid employers, you bet. When men are
most any kind nv medicine.
To support EN-, we hev institootid provish-
nal bank, which will do till the fiat money Is
ishood. It's the same thing ez "hat" money.
l am president nv 1t and Issaker Gavitt is
cashier. Our money is simply a slip nv paper
onto which is printed the soul inspiring
words
"THIs IS A DOLLAR.
Attest: PETROLEUM V. Massey, President
IssAKER GAvITT, Cashier"
The only secoority that we felt wuz neces-
sary was to pledge the sacred faith Nv the Cor
ners that it wuz dollar.
swat Is it to be redeemed in ?' queried q
shoemaker to whom I offered it for pare nv
a hav had for
"In nothin. 1t don't want to be redeemed.
To redeem it wood be to destroy its life-giving
principle. Anybody kin ishoo money with
gold behind it to redeem it-yoor troo fnanseer
is ne which can make money wich don't want
redeemin. All yoo hev to do with this money
is TO keep it moovin. Yoo hump this bill onto
yoor leather merchant, and he'll hump it along
on % somebody else, and and ez long ez 700 think it q
He took it, tho 1t seemed to me he wuzn't
convinst.
We amt bothered with 1t at all, ez is aint
never to be redeemed, except that when one
bill wears out the holder kin come and git an
other In its stead. We mite retire q worn out
don't think it the best thing to do. We want
volume Nv currency ahoat ekal to the de-
mands nv trade.
There wuz some trouble for a great many
farmers didn't want to take it, and Bascom
kicked somewhat But we he'd q remedy for
this. The labrin populashen held q meetin
and in the sacred coz nv lsber agin capitle not
ifed the people that any one wich refoozed to
take the money at par wood be to wunst hung.
Under this stimulus Bascom took It. but he
imnejitly advanced the price nv likker TO
fifteen cents, and few hours after to twenty
five.
We demonstrated with him about it, and he
answered us
"Ef there's going to be a era NV prosperity
am going to share in it. You ken hev all the
nkker you want at five cents old money, but ef
am compelled to take yoor fiat money for
hkker, you cant dictate to me the price L shell
ask, for that rests with me ez free citizen Nv
these YoUnited States'
am a jost man. 1 Acknowledged the
strength Nv his position. All L did wuz to
walk over to the printin offs and order another
hundred Thousand dollars struck off, and put
1t into cirkelashen to wunst Wat we want Is
money enuff.
The effeck on the Corners wuz instantaneous.
we never he'd sch q era NV prosperity. Ez
every man he'd all the money he wantid, work
wuz generally suspended, and the people give
themselves up wholly to enjoyment. Bascom
did tremendous business, the storekeepers
(all except that cuss Pollock and Joe Bigler,
who not only refoozed to take the money, but
refoozed to be hung) did q smashin business.
Men wch never he'd dollar in ther lives he'd
ther pockts full, and ther is nothin but the
most cheerful prospeck ahed nv us. When
money kin be he'd by printing 1t, wat Is to pre-
vent everybody hevin all they need? Nothin,
l shel print lot more tomorrow.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Reformer and Finanseer.
p. S.-There is one little speck Nv trouble
about our fiat money Their amt no farmer
putin in any wheat, for they say they don't
keer about sweatin for this kind NV money.
The bloatid employers at Factryvlle and Plain
Vile hev consentid to advance the wages NV
their employees of they will take our monay in
pay, but the mechanics swear they must be
paid In nashnel bank notes, ef they work.
And the most Nv EN- decided they wont work
at all so long ez they kin git enuff nv fat
money to live on. It's all very well now, but
ther ought to be some work goin on. We
must hev legislashen compellin nv EN-.