The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26
NASBY.
The Corners Continues its EXPO
ment with Fiat Money. Il
CoNFEDRIT q KoADs


| witch is in the State of KentuckyA&
September 20, 1878. I'd
The amount NV prosperity We
| Corners is labrin under, .jes now v
mirackulus. Me and ISSaker GaYitt
hez isshood over three hung
thousand dollars NV our fiat moii9V,
and, ez l predictid, the Cornega i
prosperin to a degree that no one,
not even myself, ez sangwin Ell an,
never dreemed NV.
IssakGr Gavitt and me hev NNi
ishooin fiat money, and the r4FE
sCpancilhev taken it in hand sQh htJ
Fit shef hevan offishef ioJk y
The money they ishoo reeds thus
THIS Is A DOLLAR. y
sekoored by the faith of Confedrit X
| Roads.
These bills is signed by the Mayor
and Clerk Of the corpor shen, and ez
they are printed in two collors with
a green back, they look ez good ez
any money / ever saw.
The question wuz how to git EN-
into cirkelashen. Money amt good
for nothing onless it cirkelates, and
50 the Council resolved on a syste m
of internal improvements to git EN-
out
Accordingly they let the follerin
cOntraX;
A new City Hall to cot S250,O0
Publick skool building to cost
$4,000. (This wuz considered ex-
travagant, but the main pint is to git
money into cirkulashen.)
a ship canal to connect Confedrit
run with Sucker erik. Ez ther ain't
no water NV any akkount to either,
ingenius system Of artesian wells
hez 70 be bored, and sufiishent water
to float a steamboat is to be pumped
into EN- by steam enjineS. The est.
matid cost NY this nessary impruve-
ment is one milyun NY dollars.
A narrer gage railroad to connect
the Corners with SecessionvilIe on
the Louisville road, cost, $500, 900.
A plank road to Davisville, to
5000, 900.
Steam fire engines and a complete
fire department 10 cost $4,000.
This il ez fur ez the Council h6s
got, but other appropriations will
be made for other improvements ez
fast ez the money is wantid to git in
to cirkelaShen, that being the main
pint now.
The contraX wuz all let to citizens
NV the Corners, mostly to members
Of the Council, and they wuz all
based on the price Nv a drink, plane
fifty cents. The Council he'd the
money printed to pay the contracll,
ters with. Ez we didn't want to wait
long before the era NV prosperity sot
it, it wuz votid that each cOntrackter
shOOd hev an advance NV twenty-five
per cent. on the amount NV his CON
track, that the money might be got
into cirkelashun to wunst, and the
good efleX mite be felt immeiitly.
This wuz done and some $500, 900 wuz
paid to EN-.
The etfeck is t. rrific. The wages
NV labrin men hez gone up to 81 a
day, and it is difficult to prokoor 'em
at that. Whisky hez riz to 80 cents
drink, without sugar, and rs with
The groanin shoemaker wich used to
get S. for pare NV stogy boots, is
gittin $50 now, and he amt particu-
lar about sellin even at that price.
Everybody hez got all the money
they want, and the Corners is baskin
in the Deems of unlimited prosperity.
The fiat money is big thing.
The only spot on our shinin sun is
Bigler and Pollock. They retooSe to
tetch our money at all, and ez they
keep goods Wich we must hev its in.
convenient. And then Joe goes about
askin all sorts of fool questions. He
wants to known who's ever to redeem
the money? He wants to know wat
good this money is going to be in
Louisville wher our supplies come
from primarily? He wants to Il low
who is going to pay the taxes for all
these improvements, and how we
will feel when the bubble busts and
we are left with an immense debt on.
to onr shoulders
l answered him that he didn't
know nothin about finanseerin. That
the very essence NV fiat money wu2
that it wuzn't never to be redeemed
that the people wuz a takin it fol
their goods and labor, and that they
would pay it out for more goods and
labor, and that it wood keep on for
ever in one endless round.