The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17

From the Toledo Blade.
ING Commune at the COrners--An
Attempt to Equalize Things by a
Dlylsion Of Property--How it
Worked

npC W EqudlIze IHlngS Dy a
Dlvision Of Property--How if
Worked.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Wfeh is in the State of Kentucky
Jooly l, 1878.
I've finanshel condishun Nv the
Cor!kers is and hez bin terrible sence
the tyrant Linkin emansipated our
nig9ers, and the tother tyrant Grant
refopzed us the control NV the FEEDER
al patronage. The people saw that
gradually the entire wealth NV the
Cors5ers wuz certain to go in the
hands NV the bloatid monopolists,
Baseorn and Pollock. Bascom wuz
gradooaly absOrbin all the capitle NV
the Dimocrisy, for he delt in the
ESQ they Yooses, and our march to
'5eggary WaZ stfddy ana memorable.
We cOodent work, becoz the native
white Kentuckian IL averse to work, ,
and likker he must have. We kin
giton with very little bread, but
llkker Is prime necessity, and there
is no escape from it. And az we
Wuz perdooZin ruthin, and must
live, Bascom he'd got mortgages onto
all our property, and he Waz grad
ooally aboorbin everything NV valoo.
How to prevent this hez been the
problem Wich we have discussed be-
tween drinks for years. And lately,
ez BaSCOm hez abandoned the credit
system, and insist upon cash Just be-
fore taking drink, to prevent mis-
takes and MISUNDERSTANDING, we hev
had plenty NV time to discuss these
pints.
The communists NV Moo York
solved the problem for us. The idea
NV dividing up all the property
ekally, and abolishin at one sweep,
both the creditor and the debtor
class, WI havin everybody share
ekally, not only all the property, but
the gains NV biznis, struck us az pre-
cisely What we Wantid, and we de.
termined to harry it into effect.
Deekin Pogram Objectid at first,
for, he sed he didn't quite see why
he shood give up his farm; but
shOWd him eZ Basc0m held a mort
gage onto it for more than it Waz
Wuth, that it wood, under the pres
ent nafarious and oppressive system,
inevitably pass into his hands in a
few short months, that it wouldn't
MAKE any difference anyhow. He
consented, ez did Issaker Gavitt,
whose mortgages falls due in a
month, and SO did Capt. M'Pelter,
which hes recently borrowed a large
sum uva Moo England inshoorence
company.
Bascom ohjectid and Pollock OBJ.
jectid, and we felt it necessary to
yoose force. We organized, an after
resolyin that capital was robbery and
whoever possessed more wealth than
any one else WuZ a thief, we moved
on BascOm and Pollock. Me and
Issaker Gavitt and Deekin Program
Wuz appointed cOmmitteeeto divide
the property up equitahly.
1t Wuz a very simple process.
There WuZ exactly four hundred
present Wich we considered entitled
to dividends, and all we had to do
wuz inventory their goods, and vi
vide EN- up. And we did it.
Bascom he'd on hand eggsactly two
barlS Nv likker, besides what wuz in
the bottles en- the bar, Wich the COM
mittee consoomed to support 'em
doorin the division. This wuz
eighty-four gallons NV likker, to be
divided into four hundred. In two
barrels there's about six hundred and
seventY-tWo pintS, wich made trifle
over pint and a half to each Com
muDist. We divided it up, eech man
gittin his pint and a half, wich wuz
promptly drunk on the spot. For
an hour after the last drop disap-
peared, the citizens was enthusiastic
over the idee, and Communism Wuz
votid a great success.
at PollOck'y we he'd more trouble.
lie he'd about four hundred yards NV
calico on hand wich we divided up,
givin cech man IA yard. There wuz
only two hundred pares of shoes, 50
eech one got only one shoe apiece.
The sugar and mOlasses didn't do EN-
very much good, ez it was wasted
largely in DRAWN. The wooden goods
Wuz divided up like the calicOes, and
given EN- about yard apeece. The
implements we divided
up by retile, ez there wuzn't ploWs
enough to go round, and we coodent
divide DloW.
We got Bascom and Pollock com
muned in about an hour, and the
Corners postponed dividin up the
reel estate till mornin.
The citizens met at BascOm's early