Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-19

DAKOTA
Massey.

Mr. Nsshy Gives . Further Account -
b Progress OF h Fiat Money Ex.
pertinent.
Toledo Blade.
We he'd Q great deal Nv trouble with
Bascom TO git him 10 consent 10 accept dat
money for his likker. He sed he wuz viii
l,n Ell we Good git the Louisville likker
dealers to take It for whisky, but not other.
wise. .
"Whea what l hev Is all gone,' he sed
how kin l replenish IF they won't take
the money 1 bevg"
thought there wuz suthin in this. snd
l bed a mind to sling at him the text, 'sSut
dcient for the dsv 10 th. evil thereof, and
the whisky likewise" but It didn't do no
good to quote scripter at Bascom. He
knows only ono lext-"Pay what thou
owest," and be hurls that at mo with great
frequency when l quote Holy Writ at him
The more dner passages he didn't know
nothin Nv. He in q one.sided man.
l scjested that we call to US a louisville
likker dealer and see IF we couldn't COM
permise on the nat mon.y One happened
to he in town and l got him into Bsscom's
to interview him. He wuz . very pleasant
gentleman, and a food talker, but was
ssk:d him vhv Ioo;s.,Ila "an,asns
orr fat money
.Mv deer sir.n WIZ hi. ren,v 90. c.n,,
take Il. becoz Their Amt m neee,s;,x for tsL;n
Il. III We want fat MONEY "a, IL, ~ n,s.s,.
our heyin our own. belseyein snnnor,;n.
our home ins.ooshens. The %nr;ntin fac;l;.
ties Of LooisviIle ara e.cellen, W.. h.v
priptin Offices without nnmher and co., for
power ia chean, When % 81, ~ hsnE..;a
after fiat money. ve don't mend n send -
the Cross.road, for r. All -. hav ~ d. :. ~
send TO 4 printin offs and cit f strnck "a
We kin do printin fist ez cRean o. voo lin
and, ez it amt never poin to be redeemed
the faith Nv the sity Nv Louisville "a iist ~
good ez the faith of the Cro.s. roads.
Their wuz notbin to be made out Nv q man
with SIGH antekatid noehens, and l left him
in die9ust. and n COMMITTEES v.;,id nnon R...
com agin. He thot the matter over. and
when I sejisted to him that the money wood
hav to be taken, he consentid on these con.
dishuns:
The glass shood be set on one end Nv =
counter scale, and We shood pour our drinks
into it. Then afore drinkin it, We shood
put ez many dollar bills Nv the fiat money
on the other end Nv the scales ez wood bal.
ance it. That is We give pound for pound,
the glass included. This worked very we'll.
We he'd to ishoo an enormous amount Nv il,
and Simpsons press wus kept runnin day
and mite, and Sunday, but We swelled the
vollum go the Corners didn't suffer the pangs
w thirst very much.
But Jlst ez We got this to runnln smoothly
anotner truole One day Bascom
tound among MS money . note which he
diont KNOW. 1t wuzn't Nv the crossroads
At al: Inc legend on It's face wuz different.
IL ned the same. This is . dollar" onto
1t, but 1t wuz secoored by the faith Nv the
corporashen Nv L~ibertyville. The next day
ther wuz one from S~ecesslonville, and the
next from Daviesburg. This WIZ more
than We he'd bargained for. On inves iga-
shen We diskivered that every village and
moonissipality within q range Nv a hundred
miles he'd taken our idee and wuz isshooin
fiat money.
This wooden't anser at all. We didn't
want e~nnybody's else's fat monoy. ez We
felt that We Good print ennuf to supply the
entire country. We refoozed to take it. We
held a meetins Nv the common council and
so resolved. Then the other towns held
meetins and resolved not to take ours until
reciprocity wuz established. and that
brought US to terms. We wuz compelled to
recognize the fact that thew had 81 oood =
rite 10 i.hoo money ez we he'd. and az We de-.
cided to take everything that come 70 ma.
that wuz properly stamped. POSSIBLY il
wuz a mistake but we aid +.
Th.n :, oon.s ,s,ot.o. =.
oon,.manae, eo oum:. tn'eher ana .as.er. ~
uo,,sass sud 6 En u n III ~ S ,ns nais. men 10
rhers - aanJ ~ uuno'.u T Tsa.
vnz m;,lInns NV mon"n ~ IN $500. i MI
l;ors' come IN he mnrs ,h.n - m;i,;nn. W.
he'd onr own ;.boo wh;oh n"1 ;nero. W.
every dav. and in eda;sh;n we hsa tho ;shons
Nv The surroundin county nonr;n in We
never saw 40 much money in The coroe,s
.fore. The national hank ;shoos and he
ereen.bsx wuz all druy out. and bv no
chance did one NV en- ever appeer. he'd
to 60 to Louisville last week. and ez the
conductor on the road woodcnt take fat
money l he'd to git two dollars and q half
Nv nashnel currency. l found q farmer
which had that,amount and the graspin fend
made mes give him twenty-five hundred
dollars Nv our money for it. In Louisville
| did succeed in gittin a ten dollar dat bill
changed for small bills Nv nashnel money,
sven W The man which accommodated me
Muz very drunk and contid'n. He handed
nl9 nnnkN hnnk anH mnin mo nu,r