Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-12-08
Toledo Blade.l

ingly-Tleubls with Fiat Money.
Toledo Blade.l
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS, !
WICH rs IN STAIT OF KENT'KY,
Nov. 10, 1873. }
Pm entirely sstisffed that 1
sl,eod hev bin happier eff 1 had
<uevsr bin born. Life Is to me an
unendln sucksesshum NV disasters.
Oocashunally ther is gleem NV
eunshine, q rift thro the clouds
that envellop me, but 1t don't last.
For 61xteeu long yeers hev bin
afruQxlln, wrassiin q backholt with
disaster, and disaster hez generally
flopped me. 1 am Topped now,
and am 90 sore with hrooses that it
don't seem to me that I shell ever
cit up agIn. 1t is q singler thing
that disaster and l hev he'd so
many encounters, and that the re-
suit hez ever bin the same.
expected great things from the
November eleckshuns. he'd
hoped that the Dimocratic. Green
back noshun wood prevale in the
States holdin elecksuns, so that the
experiment ov Fiat money in the
corners wood be strengthened to
the pint ov maxim 1t scuksess. l
he'd hoped that Butler and Kear-
ney wood carry Massachusetts, and
: that John Kelly wood carry Moo
York. he'd hoped that the Green
backers wood carry Mishigan, and
that Pennsilvany wood add her
voice to the general outcry for more
money and better times.
wanted the people in the east
and In the west, by their ballots, to
insist that the bloatid bondholers
nhOod take a back seat, that money
shood be simply the creashun ov
whoever chose to make 1t, and that
every man shood hev all that he
wantid. he'd hopes that the
people wood pronounce in favor of
rivin everything to everybody, and
do away with labor, by maxim
labor onnessessary. In short, /
hoped that the Fiat money Nv the
Cross Roads would be legalized.
Wat happened? looked to Mas
sichusits, and behold Butler is ber-
rled under a majority NV 10000,
and the streets don't run with
blood as Kerry prophesied.
looked to Pennsilvany. and
ther Democrisy goes under to the
toon Nv $4,000.
I turn my eyes imploringly to
Mishigan, and To-! the anser comes
back-"Republikin, 40, 000"
In sgony I turn to Moo York,
and C0nkIing carries tRat strong
hold of DemocrIsy by majority
wich it amt wuth while to count
up.
but that don't count. We kin
alluz carry the South ez long ez we
are permitted shoiguns, but shot
gun triumphs ain't wa, I wantid.
1t amt q moral triumph, and a
moral triumph Is wat WIZ needid
at this time. wantid men TO vote
for Fiat money wich didn't do 1t at
the muzzle NV shotgun.
The effeck hez bin disastrus Oh
the prospecks Nv the Corners.
Work on the Court House, Ship
Canal and Railroad hez bin splen-
did. 1t went along we'll enuff for
. time. The men got into habit
NV demandin an increase NV wagis
every day or two, and we met their
demands libralIy. 1t didn't make
. particle Nv difference to us
whether we paid "a dollar day or
fifty. 1t cost Jest ez much to print
q dollar note ez it did fifty dollar
note, why not let him have it :?
The higher the wagis we paid, the
richer the community wuz gettin,
becoz more money wuz glttin into
cirkelashen. But there cum time
when we he'd to hev dozen spades,
and q pick-axe, and without EN-
the work Good not not go on. The
hardware deelers would not take
our money for em, and we he'd no
other, and so for want NV ten dol
lars worth Nv spades and pick
axes, mprovements involvin mil
lions wuz brot to complete stop
page Fiat money is all well enutf,
but would l he'd the power 10 COM
pei the people to take it whether or
no. Legislashen is wat we want,
but the result of the Novem Der
elections give me no hope Nv that.
i feel we are gOin to be in the pow
er NV the bond holders for time
yit.
Then came more trouble. Bas-
com had he'd an unparalleled run
Nv biznis, and taken every dollar
NV Fiat money ther wuz in the
Corners. / he'd bin printin' it on
wallpaper for week, and the day
afore elecsbun the last scrap NV it
he'd bin exhausted. i secured the
village to find suthin that Good be
used in printin. but ez the people
never indulged to any extent in the
luxury Nv wallpaper, coodn't git
any. In despair went into Pol
locks store and begged him to sell
me wat he he'd on hand.
"Certsinly,n sed he, "for CASH.
II will give yoo," 1 sed, "exacty
the money we hev, and can't do
more than that. How much hev
yoo?''
'Ten bolte.n
every gsod," sei l. "Now, Pol
lock, will tell you wat / will do.
We must hev more money, and we
hev no paper to print 1t Oh. / will
take them ten bolts NV wallpaper,
and will print five Nv EN- In one
dollar bills for yoo TO pay for the
other five. I don't know how many
yards there is in a holt NV wall
paper, but 1 spose that each yard
will make q hundred bills, and that
there Ia twenty yards in a bolt.
Thus 700 will git two thousand dol
lars for ten cent bolt NV wall
paper. Kin yoo dispose Nv yoor
stock to better advantageW
"But what good will all these
dollar bills do me?" wuz his un-
feelin anser. "I coodent buy an
other ten holt NV paper with cart
load NV it.p
l then offered to print the five
bolts up IN two dollar notes, then