Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-02-22

1
don't do US here in the Corners. Fo
while / wuz advocatin the silver bill
the other day, and urgin that it woot
enable US to pay off our debts at ;
discount, Joe Biglsr KUN up, ant
said he
"But, parson, 'spose 700 Good pay
off at IS cents ON the dollar with sil
yer. Where are 700 goin' to git tn,
IS csnts?"
That remark NV his opened to ms
a wide field NV conjecter. Silver
won't do for US, for it hez some in
trinsic valyoo. The dettor elias,
wants to be relieved in hole-not il
part, We want = currency wich il
avaleable to the meanest ez we'll ez
the noblest.
sejest lsatherl
Wat / want is a currency made Nv
leather. Leather is perdoosed.in al
the states nv the Yooniun, and is &C
oessible to the most humble citizen
NV the Republic. Wherever there
is COW and tannery, leather kir
be perdoosed, and why we sheodent
yoose that Sz a medium NV exchange
beets me.
What is a dollar? A dollar is 9
idee. Whatever the government
puts its stamp onto is a dollar. The
bonanza men in Colorado want the
government to put its stamp onto sill.
yer, and make dollars NV silver, be,
coz thsy happen to own the mines
which perdoose silver. They will
then deliberately quit foodin their
mines and they will pile out the sill.
yer by the ton, and pay off their
debts with it, and see their titles
cleer TO the property they now owe
for, and will retire in afluence, and
concious they have done a smart f.
nanshel thing. But wat good will
that do US NV the Corners wich can't
git their silver? Watts the use of
saying to starVin person that he
kin git bred at five cents a loaf if he
hez MT got the five centsP We hain't
got seventy-fve cents on the dollar
NV wat we owe, and the passage nv
the silver bill is only going to help
the parshelly pecunsious.
Wat we want is full and entire re-
leef We want a currency wich we
ourselves kin furnish, and that 1 am
going to move for. / want leather
coined and made legle tender for the
benefit Nv the Middle States and the
East. In this holy croosade agin the
creditor class insist that all seek
shuns shell start fair, and that no one
seckshun shell hev an advantage over
the other.
want leather coined into dollars.
l want every man wich hez a side NV
first rate s-leather to hev the priv
ilegs of depositin it in a mint Nv the
Yoonited States, and hevin it stamp
ed into pieces wich shell represent
dollars, and that them dollars shell
be lsgls tender for any debt, public
or private, that he may owe.
Understand me, l am no infashun-
ist, nor do l desire to injer the pub
lie credit. desire that everything
shell go along smoothly and proper
ly. And to that end l shell insist
lst. The leather shell be sole, of
first quality, hemlock-tanned, and
entirely merchantable.
cd. That it shel not be in the pow
er Nv everybody to coin leather. 1
won't hev every man wich- kin git a
punch and a stamp making his own
money, for then ther wood be an
over ishoo. To prevent that shell
require that the coinin NV leather
shell be done at regular institooted
government mints, and by nobody
else. So much to perfect the curren-
cy.
Sd. To perfect the people and TO
be Shoer that enutf currency shall be
furnisht to supply the wants Nv
trade, insist that every man wich
kills bull shell be privileged to hev
the hide tanned, and shell he allowed
to take that hide, when tanned, to a
mint and hev it stamped into money,
each piece to weigh so much, and
that when the Government stamp is
onto it, it shall be legle tender for
dollar.
The simple process will eqalize the
East with the West. Silver kin be
lifted out in Colorado and them seek
shuns, ez easily ez cattle kin be kill
ed in the East, and ez they want
their mejum with wich to pay their
debts, Nv course we want ours to paw
ours. We hev cattle and they hev
silver. am willin they shell make
legle tender Nv their silver-I want
to make lsgle tender NV a small part
Nv our cattle. Eff it is urged that it
will prevent our hevin sich shoes ez
we ought to hev, my anser is ready.
The Corners heY MT worn shoes to
any extent for a great many yeers.
The Corners hez other yoose for its
money.
The advantages NV this mejum are
obvious. While we want more
money, we want money that any
body kin git hold NV. When we ask
for finanshsl fish, wat is the use NV
offerin US stun Nv silver? Eff we
amt got the silver, we are ez bad off
ez before. We want to pay our
debts and git out. Leatheris attain
able by the most humble. He is
poor man indeed who hez MT got a
bull to kill, and when he kin sell the
carcass and coin the hide, he kin pay.
Then he is solvent. Then he kin
start new, and go into debt again,
conshus that the meens NV payment
are alluz within his reach. The Gov
ernment stamp onto it pertects it and
makes it good, and what more does
any one want?
Do ] hear q carper say that other
countries won'ktaks leather curren-
oy? Wat do we wich are in debt |
care about other countries? Nv deel- |