Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-11-22
NO. 694.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasby Gives Further Account of
the Progress of the Fiat Money
Experiment.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Kentucky,

We ned great deal NV trouble with
Bascom to git him to consent to accept
fiat money for his likker He sed he
wuz willin eff we Good git the Louisville
likker dealers to take it for whisky, but
not otherwise.
when wat I hev is all gone" he sed,
''how kin replenish eff they wont take
the money hev?"
| thought ther wuz suthin in this, an
l he'd mind to sling at him the text,
'Sufishent for the day is the evil there
of, and the whisky likewise" but it don't
do no good to quote scripter at Bascom.
He knows only one text, PAY what
thou owest," and he hurls that at me
with great frekency when | quote Holy
Writ to him. The more finer passagis
he don't know nuthin NV. He is one
sided man.
| seiested that we call to us Loois-
vile likker dealer and see eff we coodent
compromise on the Fiat money One
happened to be in town, and got him
into Bascom's to interview him. He
wuz a pleasant gentleman, and fooid
talker, but wuz sadly defishent IN finan-
shell knowledge | asked him why
Louisville woodent take our Fiat mo-
ney?,
cant take it becoz ther aint no necessity
for takin it. Eff we want Fiat money,
wat is to prevent our hevin our own?
believe in supportin our home institoo-
shens. The printin facilities Nv Loois-
vile are excellent We hev printin
offices without number, an coal for pow
er is cheap. Wen we git to hankerin af
ter Fiat money, we don't intend to send
to the Crossroads for it. All we hev to
do is to send to printin office and git
it struck off. We kin do printin jest ez
cheep ez 700 kin, and, ez it aint never
goin to be redeemed, the faith Nv the
City Nv Louisville is jest ez good ez the
faith Nv the Crossroads y
Their wuz nuthin to be made out Nv
man with sich antikated noshuns, and |
left him in disgust, and committee
waitid upon Bascom agin. He thot the
matter over, and when | sejested to him
that the money wood hev to be taken,
he consented on these condishuns:
The glass should be set on one end NV
counter scale, and we should pour the
drinks into it. Then, afore drinkin it,
we should put ez many dollar bills Nv
the Fiat money on the other end Nv the
scale ez wood balance it. That is, we
giy pound for pound, the glass includid.
This worked very we'll. We he'd to is
hoo an enormous amount Nv 1t, and
Simpsons press wuz kept runnin mite
and day, and Sundays, but we swelled
the vollum so the Corners dident suffer
the pangs NV thirst very much.
| But Jest ez we got this to runnln on
smoothly another trubble okkured. One
day Bascom found among his money
note wich he dident know: 1t wuzn t Nv
the Crossroads at all. The legend on
its face wuz different. 1t he'd the same
This is dollar" onto it, but it was Sc
coored by the faith Nv the corporashen
wv Libertyville. The mex day ther wuz
one from Secessionville, and the mex
from Davisburg. This wuz more than
we he'd bargained for. On investigashen
we diskivered that every Village and
Moonissipality within range NV fifty
miles he'd taken our idee and wuz ishoo-
in Fiat money.
This woodent anser at all. We did
mt want anybody else's Fiat money, ez
we felt that we Good print enutf to sup
ply the whole country. We refoosed to
take it. We held meetin Nv the Com
mon Council and so resolved. Then the
other towns held meetings, and resolved
not to take ours until reciprocity was
established, and that brought us to
terms. We wuz compelled to recognise
the fact that they he'd ez good rite to
lshoo money ez we he'd, and so we de-
cided to take everything that come to
us, that wuz properly stamped. Posi-
blv it wuz mistake, but we did it.
Then it come thicker and faster. 1t
commenced coming in single bills, then
in masses, and finally by the hundred
wait. Their wuz food, a avalanche NV
it. Their wuz millions NV money In the
Corners, millions! 1t come to be more
than million. We he'd our own ishoo,
wich wuz increasin every day, and IN
addishen we he'd the ishoos Nv all the
surroundin country pourin in. We new
er saw so much money in the Corners
afore. The Nashnel Bank ishoos and
the greenbax ishoos wuz all druv out
and by no chance did one Nv em ever
appear. | he'd to 90 to Louisville last
week. and ez the conductor on the road
woodent take Fiat money, l he'd to git
$3.50 NV Nashnel currency. | found
farmer wich he'd that amount and the
grasping fend made me give him $2.50C
NV our money for it. In Louisville l did
succeed in gittin a so Fiat bill changed
for small bills NV Nashnel money, even
up. The man wich accommodated me
wuz very drunk and confdin. He hand
ed me his pockitbook, and | made my
own change,
But we are prosperous, and have at
tanned what we desired-money is plen
ty. The farmers is prosperous, tor pro
duce hez gone up amazlnly. l saw
, lode NV corn sell for $3.50 bushel, yes
| terday, and the seller Good jest ez wei
hey he'd $500 Wheat is any price they
| choose to ask for it, and real estate Il
9 active at any price asked. There is
however. trubble. a farmer sold a hun
3 dred bushels NV corn for $25, 600, and h
4 fell on my neck and embraced me ez hi
: finanshel preserver He sed he neve
expected to hev so much money. ii
went over to Bascoms and asked me t
take suthin, and that cost him one-tent
Nv his load, and Pettus, our shoemaker
S wich takes Fiat money, charged him wa
wuz left for pair Nv stogy shoes. ii
y wuz amazed, for he expected to pay Of
}, mortgage onto his farm with this mo
|. ney, and wuzent satisfied till told hil
t he dident ask cnutf for his corn. The
q is trubble in everything, and tinanseeri
:. amt the essiest thing in the world.
Eff we Good only git iron and bildi
material for our money ther wood set
sich era NV prosperity ez we nevt
$ dreamed Nv. But finanshel abilit.
q however CRATE, cant do everything t,
a wunst. We shall come to that. 1t
y y enuff for the present that we kin 6
II likker for 1t, and with that the averas
e Cross-roader is tolerably content. I
g course Fiat money is experiment, b.
q we are solvin the problim. And we lii
J, it. There amt no work bein done at Il
u Corners, for we are all speculatin, al
u besides, wat is the use Nv work Wen IN
y ney kin be made without? We've four
u, eur Already at last.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
P.S. There's more trubble. Sim
o son, the printer, is out Nv paper, and
ie :9 can't git any in Louisville unless we 6
u him some Nashnel money. The isho
Is IS have come to an end, for want Nv sut
n n in that will furnish supplies.
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