Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-08-29
Nasty.
MR.. Nasty BECOMES A COMMUNIST, Bur
CIRCUMSTANCES INTEL A CHANGE OF
HEART-THE DISASTROUS RESULT.

MR.. Nasty BECOMES A COMMUNIST, hut
CIRCUMSTANCES IMPEL CHANGE OF
HEART-THE DISASTROUS RESULT
CoNFEDERTr Y ROADS.
WICH Is IN THE STATE Nv KENTuCKY,y
JooLY l6, 1878.
Despite our recent disastrous failyoor to
become Commoonists, we determined to
try II again. En- there amt nothing In our
hands. ez Bascom and Pollock hev every
thing that Is of valyoo. In this vicinity. We
coodent see where we shood lose anything
anyhow. by insistin onto fair divide with
view NV tskin n moo start. After all.
Commooism Is the proper noshun. Wat
difference does u make To me that Pollock
works and dontg Pollock likes To work
and don't. Am to blame for no, liking
to work: am as nachur made me, and |
must live. There he IL ez he Ia, and he
can't git anything more than living out
Nv It. Therefore IL Is his doo,y to accumo-
late enuf for aisseif and the. and IF he re-
tooses To do II, I, Is my dooty, ~ a citizen.
10 compel him.
Issaker. MPelter, the Deekin snd myself
thought the matter over and determined to
stand no more nonsense from them fellows.
but Ia take with the strong hand. all that
wich they he'd so long defraud us NV. We
determined To rise In our mite, and wrcst
IRON them despoilers the properly they
he'd contrived To flch from us. And every
man NV US rolled over and got up. and call.
cd a labor meetin.
l wuz maxim the speech Nv the mite II
wuz georgus effect. wuz in the middle
NV IL. wuz shown that all property wux
robbery, and that Ia = troo republic one
man shoodent hev any more than another
man. l wuz demonstratin the absurdity of
permittin one man to have hoardid up that
wich he co''dent yoose, when Others, made
In the same image, WIZ a buneerin and a
thirstiu. | wur demonstratin the necessity
Nv ekal division Nv all properly. real and
personal. with laws prohibitn aecnmo-
iashen by hevin a divisher every Fourth of
Jooly, when a boy entered the mertin
house. with telegram for me. 1t was
breef, and to the pint:
SAINTS REsr. Moo Jersey. Jooly 10
Petroleum V. Nasty,
"Confedri y Roads. Ky:
"Ioor Aunt Nehitable died Yesterday,
aud made 700 her heir. The estate il ~uth
suthin over 10000. Write how 700 want
Ii. SMITH & SLoCUM. Attorney"
| seed lite. To-wunst my feelings eX-
pericnced a revulsion. | he'd a sudden
In doctrines OF Commoonishi The idea Nv
dividin up property become to ne to.wunst
the most repul:ive thing in III" world.
$40 900 Is 81 900 yees-and fodr thousand
= yeer means comfort and elegance for me.
Wat good wood II do to divide it ups and
beside found doubt ez 10 whether a man
wuz ever entitled to anything more than he
really smasscs by honest industry, or-pcs-
>ibly inherils. csn't sec that Is is wrong
TO live by the homes sweat Nv an aunt's eye
brow. At all events. declined To 90 on
with my speech. aud Joe Bglcr Insisted
tina, shood. | rcfooEed and dck Aimed to
rive any reason for 1t, and denounced en-
all as set OF agrarsn Jewelers.. dcnounst
Commoonism ez robbery, and Insisted that
every man he'd indcfeesible rite TO wat
wuz his'n. and that nothin Good lndoosc
me to join my forehoous TO principle 50
utterly rcpugnant 10 the ldec OF ciyliiLas-
hun.
Then Joe Bgler and Pollock. folcred b.
The enFased citizens, pounced upon me,
and Joseph tore from my grasp the iele-
gram. and red II 10 the populls. Il wuz
cuun. A party NV em wanted 10 tear me
lin from lin, for wat they wuz pleased To
cali my base dcsershun NV great coz. but
the consils OF the older and wiser prevail
cd.
Let hun up. scd The good Dcektn PO-
gram. Let him up. he hcz money. and
CommoUnism shell be enforced all the same
We will borrer NV him, witch will be the
same ex tho he made the diyy all Ia ~un-t"
And 80 | wux released. and vent my way,
feeiin considerably elaicd. No more work
for me. Henceiouh my days wux to be
pleasures aud my mites dcitss. With $40
600 ! Good snap my fingers At the world
aud live ek choose.
Bascom had lent the the money TO per
coed 10 wunst to Saints Rest 10 sccoor my
pairimony, and he'd boTrcred pare Nv
boots NV the De.kln. and au extra shirt Nv
lssaker. All wuz in Icdne.s and The mule
~uz at Bascom's door. when the dred intel
iigence reached me that Their wuzu't nothin
in IL. IL ted all been put up by Blgler and
Pollock 10 see ef | wood change on the
very platform. They had writ the Dispatch
and sent IL, and hired the mail boy 10 hand
IL TO me. Bascom pounced onto me tor n.
money he he'd lent the. aud lssaAer and the
DecAin wanild their property. | Suz stript
on the spot and len helpless.
There isn't any humanity in man. | shell
be a Communist yit. aud 4 bloody one. Il
Is getting 10 be question Nv Twin.
IL wuz crooel Ia them fellows 10 deceive
me so. tho alter all hsy no recsoB to com
plane. Bascom 10 consulate man NV So
much capitle kept the full all mite.
PFTEuLEUM Y Massey l.. VI.
Conservative at present.