The Portland daily press., 1878-01-26
New York Evening MALL
Nasty
Tr. Nasty has an Idea of a Currency that
is eyen Better for the Interests of the Cor
ners than silver or Greenbacks, which
IA G Gives 10 the World.

am not satisfied with silver, now that hev
given the subject NV kurrency that attenshun
wich SO important a matter demands. Silver
kin be prodoost in unlimited quantities in the
Territories, so that ther amt RELY any limit to
the amount that kin be put upon the markit.
Also | kin appreshiate the fact, that the man
who is in debt and in distress, aud wich is hun
grin aud thirstin to git out, wich hez suthin,
kin make that suthn avaeable by bein able
to yoose silver in the payn nv his debts.
But that don't help US NV the Corners. Sl-
yer is parshel releef, but it don't strike that
vast army Nv men wich amt got nuthin. Wat
good is it to say to me, "Yoo shell be released
from yoor debts on the payment NV twenty
five cents on the dollar" when L haven't got
the twenty-five cents, aud can't see my way
cleer to get 'em? 1t is askin for bread aud
givin stun. 1t is holdin out false indoose.
ments wich amount to nuthin.
Wat the Corners want aud wat the Corners
must hev is a medium wlch is more easily pro-
coored than silver. Tho remonetzashun nv
silver wood help out the bonanza men, and
them ez hev suth!n wich they kin git silver at
discount it will go to, but that don't do US here
in the Corners. For while l wuz advocatin
the silver bill the other day, and urgin that it
wood enable as to pay off our debts at a dis
count, Joe Bigler KUN right up. aud said he
"But, parson, 'spose 700 Good pay off at 70
cents on the dollar with silver. Where are yoo
goin' to git the 75 cents?'
That remark Nv his opened to me a wide field
nv conjecter. Silver won't do for US, for it hez
some intrinsic valyoo The deter class wants
to be relieved in hole-not 10 part. We want
a currency wich is avaleable to the meanest ez
well ez the nOblest.
l seiest leather
Wat want Is a currency made nv leather.
Leather is -perdoosed in all the States Nv the
Yooninn and Is accessible to the most humble
citizen Nv the Republic. Wherever there is
COW and q tannery, leather can be perdoosed.
and why we shoodent yoose that ez a medium
Nv exchange, beets me.
What is dollar? A dollar is a idee. What
ever the government puts its stamp onto is a
dollar. The bonanza men in Colorado want
the government to put its stamp onto silver,
and moke dollars Nv silver, becoz they happen
to own the mines which perdoose silver. They
| will then deliberately quit hoodin their mines
aud they will pile out their silver by the ton.
| and pay of their debts with it, aud see their
| titles clear to the property they now owe for,
and will retire in aff1uence, and conshns they
| have done a smart tinanshel thing. But what
| good will that do us Nv the Corners wich can't
git their silver? Watts the use NV saying to a
starving person that he kin git bred at five
| cents a loaf if he hesn't got the i've cents? We
| wat we owe, and the passage nv the silver bill
| is only going to help the parshely pecunious.
| Wat we want is full and entire releef We
l want a currency wich we ourselves kin furnish,
| and that am going to move for. want silver
| coined and made legle tender for the benefit Nv
| the Middle States and the East. In this holy
| croosade sgn the creditor class insist that all
seckshuns shell start fair, and that no one seek
shun shell hev an advantage over the other.
want leather coined into dollars. l want
| every man wich hez side nv first rate sole
| leather to hev the privilege Nv depostin 1t in
| mint NV the Yoonited States and hevin it
stampted into pieces with shel represent dol
lars, and that them dollars shel be legle tender
for any debt public or private, that he may
i owe.
| Understand me, am no iuflationiss, nor do
| desire to injer the public credit desire that
/ everything shell go along smoothly and properly.
| And to that end L shel insist that
1st. The leather shell bs sole, of first quality,
| hemock-tanned, and entirely merchantable
3D. That it shell not be in the power nv ev-
| erybody to coin leather. won's hey every
| man wch kin git punch and stamp making
| his own money for then there wood be an over
| issoo. To prevent that l shell require that the
| coinin NV leather shel be done at reg lerly inst-
footed government mtnts, and by nobody else.
| So much to perfect the currency.
3d. To perfect the people and to bs shoer
that enUff currency shall be furnisht to supply
| the wants Nv trade, l insist that every man
| wich kills ball shell be privileged to hev the
| 0lu0 ta1G61, aQQ SQel Do alOWcQ TO lake bnhh
hide when tanned to MINI and hev 1t stamped
into money, each piece to weigh so much, and
that when the Government stamp is onto It, 1t
shall be legle tender for dollar.
| This simple process will equalize the East
with the West. Silver kin be lifted out IN
Colorado and them seckshuns, ez easily ez
| cattle kin he killed 10 the East, and ez they
| want their meium with wlch to pay thelr
| debts NV course we want ours to pay ours.
| We hev cattle and they hev silver. L am
| willin they shell make legle tender nv their sill
| ver-I want to make legle tender Nv a small
| part NV our cattle. Eff 1t is urged that it viii
| prevent our hevin sich shoes ez we ought to hev
| nv anser is reddy. The Corners hev'nt worn
| shoes to any extent for a crate nany ye ers
| The Corners hez other yoose foe its money.
The advantages NV this meejum are obvious
| While we want more money, We want money
that anybody kin gut hold NV. When we ask
for finaushel fish, what is the use Nv Offerin us
| a stun NV silver? Ef we amt got the silver, we
| are ez bad off ez before We want to pay oui
| debts and git out. Leather is attainable by the
| most humble. He is a poor man indeed who
| hszn't got ball to kill, and when he kin sell
| the carcass aud coin the hide he kin pay. TheI
| he is solvent Then he kin start moo and e
into debt again, conshus that the meens ~
| psymeut are alluz within his reech. Tue Gov
| ernment stamp onto it pectects it and make
| it GOOD, and what more does any one want?
Do hear a carper say that other countrie
J won't take leather curreusy? Wat do we wic
| re- in debt care about other countries? My deel