The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-26
Nasty Tries Fiat Money.

We heY Instituted proVlSonai Dank,
witch will do till the fat money is ishood:
It's the same thing ez "tiat " money. L
am president NV it, and Issaker Gayitt Is
CASHIER. Our money is simply slip Nv
paper, onto witch is printed the sole-in-
spring words:
"TuIs IS a DOLLAR.
s.Attest: PETROLEUM V. Massey, Presl-
dent. IsslKER GAyITT, Cashier"
The only secoority we felt wuz necessary
Wuz to pledge the sacred faith Nv the Corn
ers that it wuz dollar.
swat is it to be redeemed in ?" queried
q shoemaker to whom offered it for pare
nv boots-the first hev he'd for yeers.
nIn nothin. 1t don't want to be re-
deemed. To redeem it wood be to destroy
its life-giving principle. ANY body kin
ishoo money with gold behind it to redeem
it-yoor troo tinanseer is he witch kin make
money witch don't want redeemin. An
VOC hey to do with this money is to keep 1t
inoyin. Yoo hump this bill onto yoor
leather merchants, and he'll hump it along
on somebody else, and eZ long ez 700 think
it's dollar, why isn't it?"
lie took it, tho it seemed to me he Wuzn't
convinst.
We amt bothered with it at all, ez it amt
never to be redeemed, except that when
one bin wears out the holder kin come and
git another in its stead. We mite retire
WORKOUT bill, but ez that wood contract
the currency, we don't think it is the best
thing to do. We want volume NV cur
rency afloat ekai to the demands Nv trade.
There wuz some trouble, fora great many
farmers didn't want to take it, and Bascom
kicked somewhat. But we he'd remedy
for this. The labrin populashin held a
meetiu, and in the sacred coz oY laber agin
capitle notified the people that any one
which refoozed to take the money at par
wood be to wunst hung. Under this stlm.
illus Bascom took 1t, but he immeiitly adj.
yanced the price Nv likker to fifteen cents,
and a few hours after to twenty-five.
We demonstrated with him about it, and
he answered us; Il, al. j. ,G&7
.sEf there's going to be era NV pros
peritv I am going to, share in it. Yoo kin
hev all the likker yoo want at 5 cents, old
money, but ef am compelled to takeyoor
fiat money for likker 700 can't dictate TO me
the price I shell ask, for that rests with me
ez free citizen Nv these Yoonited States.'
am Just man. / acknowledged the
strength NV. his posishun. all did wuZ
to walk over to the println ofds and order
another hundred thousand dollars struck
of. and put into cirkelashen 10 wunss. Wat
we want is money enuff.
The etfeck on the Corners was instanta-
neeus. We never he'd sicha era NV pros
perity. EZ every man had all the money
he wanted, work wuz ginerally suspended,
and the people give themselves wholly up
to enjoyment. Bascom did tremendous
business. the storekeepers (all except that
cuss Pollock and Joe BIGGER, who not only
reioozed to take the money, but refoozed to
be hung), did smashin business. Men
which never he'd dollar in their lives bed
their pockets full, and Their is nothin but
the most cheerful prospek ahed Nv US.
When money kin be he'd by printing 1t,
wot is to prevent everybody heying all
they need? Nothin. I shall print a lot
more tomorrow.
PETROLEUM v. Massey, 81
Reformer and Finanseer.
IS. p. S.-There is one ttiespcck 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 OF money.
The bloatid employers at Factryyille and
Plainyille hev consented to advance the
wagis VI. ther employees Ell they will take our
money Ia pay, but the mechanics swear
they must be paid in nashnel- blank notes ef
they work; and the most NV EN- decided
they won't work at NH so long eZ thew Kin