Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-08-23
NASBY AS A COMMUNIST.
He Experiences Change of Heart al
then a KevulsiOn.

| He Experiences Change of Heart and
then KevulsiOn.
Toledo Blade
CONFEDERIT x ROADS (Wich is in
the State Nv Kentucky. Jooly 16, 1873
Despite our recent failyoor to become
Coommoonists, we determined to try it
again. Ez there amt nothing in our
hands, es Bascom and Pollock hev ev-
erything that is of valyoo in this vicini-
ty, we coodent see where we should lose
anything anyhow by insistin onto a fair
divide with a view Of takin a moo start.
Wat difference does it make to me that
Pollock works and l don't? Pollock
likes to work and l don't. Am l to
blame for not liking to work? | am ez
nacher made me, and must live. There
he is ez he is, and he can't get anything
more than liyin out NV it. Therefore
it is his dooty to accommodate enuff
for hisself and me, and eff he refooses to
do it, it is my dooty, ez citizen, to
compel him.
Issaker, MPelter, the Deekin, and
myself thought the matter all over, and
determined to stand no more nonsense
from them fellows, but to take with the
strong hand all that which they had so
long defrooded us out Nv. We deter
mined to rize in our might, and wrest
from them despoilers the property they
he'd contrived to filch from us. And
evry man Nv us rolled over and got up,
and called q labor meetin. >
1 wuz maxim the speech Nv the mite.
1t wuz gorgeous effort. [ wuz in the
middle of it. l wuz shown that all
property wuz robbery, and that in a
troo republic one man shoodn't hev eny
more than another man. | wuz dem
onstratin the absurdity NV permittin
one man to hev boarded up that which
he coodn't yooss, when others, made in
the same image, wuz hungerin and
thirstin. [ wuz demonstratin the ne
cessity NV ekal divishen evry Fourth
Nv Jooly, when boy entered the meet
in house with telegram for me. 1t
wuz breef, and to the pint:
SAINTS REST, Moo Jersy, Jooly 15.-Petrol-
cum '. Nasty, Confcderit x Roads, Ky: Your
Aunt Mehetable died yesterday. and made you
her heir. The estate is wuth suthin like $40
Co., Write how ,W y9D want 4 sio it. ioc,,u Attorney.
1 seed lite. To wunst my feelings
experienced revulsion. [ he'd a
change of hart. l felt horror at the
levelin doctrines of Commoonism The
idea NV dividin up property become
to wunst the most repulsive thing in
the world. Forty thousand dollars is
1900 year-and four thousand dol
lars year means comfort and elegance
for me- What good wood it do to di-
vide it up? And besides | found a
doubt eZ to whether man wuz ever in
titled to enything more than he really
amasses by honest industry, or-possi-
bly, inherits. | can't see that it is wrong
to live by the honest swet NV yoor ants
eyebrows. At all events, | declined to
go on with my speech, and Joe Bigler
insisted that | shood. | refoosed and
denounced EN- all ez set NV agrarian
Jewelers. [ denounct Commoonism ez
robbery, and insisted that every man
he'd an indefeesible rite to wat wuz him,
and that nothin Good indooce me to join
my forchocns to a principle so utterly
repugnant to the idee of civilizashan.
Then Joe Bigler and Pollock, follered
by the enraged citizens, pounced upon
me, and Joseph tore from my grasp the
telegram, and read it to the populis. 1t
wuz enuff. A party of EN- wanted to.
tare me frum lin to lin, for wat they
wuz pleased to call my base desershun
of crate coz. But the counsils NV the
older and wiser prevailed
LET him UP" sed the good Deekin
Pogram: Let him up, he hez muny,
and Commoonism shell be enforced all
the same. We will borrer NV him,
which will be the same ez tho he made
divide all to wunst."
And so | wuz relest and went my
way feelin considerably elated No
more work for me. Hencefourth my
days wuz to be pleshure, and my mites
delites. With $4,000 could snap my
fingers at the wurld, and live ez |
choose. J.
Bascom had lent me the muny to per-
cede to wunst to Saints Rest to secoor
my patrimony, and he'd borred pare Nv
boots NV the Deekin, and an extra shirt
NV Issaker. All wuz in redines, and the
mule wuz at Bascom's door, when the
dred intelligents reacht me that thar
wuz nothin in it. 1t he'd all been put
up by Bigler and Pollock, to see ef |
wood change on the very platform.
They had writ the dispatch and sent it,
and hired the male boy to hand it to me.
Bascom pounced onto me fer the muny
he he'd lent me, and Issaker and the
Deekin wanted their property | wuz
stript on the spot and left helpless.
There isn't any humanity in man. [
shell be Commoonist yit, and bludy
one. 1t is getting to be question of
livin.
1t wuz crooel in them fellows to de-
ceive me so, tho, after all | hev no reas
on to complane. Bascom, to consulate
man Nv so much capitle, kept me full
all mite.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,