Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-09
NASBY ON THE MAINE ELECTION.
MIR. Nasby Hears from Maine, and
Improves His Opportunity.
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tTOiedO Blade
C0NFEDERIT Y ROADS, |
Which is in the state Nv kentucky,) :
SEPTEMBER ID. 1878.
The nooze from Maine hes reached
the Corners. and it hez encouraged Us.
both ez nashnels and dimocrats 1t
doesn't make straws difference to me
whether we, the dimocrats. hev swal
Tered the nashncls or whether the nash
nels hev swallered us There hez been
swallerin. and the repubIikin party hez
lost its grip. We are happy.
Ez nashDels, we hev things eggsackly
to SCOT US at the Corners, and throughout
this eek shun. We hev succeeded in in
stilootin strikes in all the manuiacturin
villages in the seckshun, and hev all the
workiugmen out Nv work and in conse-
kent distress. At Factryville ther ain
emmy more factory at all, for we burned
it IN the holy crusade Of labor agin cap
ital. In Plainville we hev all the me
chanics and laborers on stri e. wicIi
he'd the deliteful and che rim effeck NV
THROWN every workman out Nv work.
HulIeloojy. They hev nothin to do now
hut to walk about the streets daytimes,
and listen to our speeches mites And
we are maxim it lively for the bloted
employers, yoo bet. When men are dis
trcst they want remedy, and they Ii
take most any kind wv remedy.
TO support EN-, we hev ins,itooted a
provisional bank, wich will do till the
ti.t money Is ishoud It's tn" same
thing ez fiat money. | am president nv
it, aud lssaker Gavitt is CASHIER. Our
money il simply slip NV paper onto
wic! is prlntid the sole-iEspirin words:
| THIS IL A DoLLER.
Attest: PETROLEUM V. Massey President
lssAkER GAvITT, Cashier.
The only sekurity that we felt wu2
necessary wuz to pledge the sacrid ialtt
of the Corners that it WIZ a doller.
Wat liz it to be redeemed in?" 9uer,
led shoemaker to whom offered 1t iu
a pare NV boots. the first | hev he'd tui
Yeers.
"In nothin. 1t don't want to he re
deemed TO redeem it wud be to destro,
its ite-giving principle. Anybody XII
ishoo money with gold behind it to re
deem it-yoor troo tinansecr is he wicl
kin make money wich don't want re
deemin All you hev to do with thi
money is to keep it movin. 1"o hum
this bill onto yOor lether merchat. an
he'll bump it along on somebody else
. and ez long as you think its dole!
why isn't it?'
He took 1t. tho it seemed to me h
wuzn't cUnvlnSt
, | We amt bothered with It, ez it ain
: never to be redeemed, except that whe
: wuu bill wears out. the holder Kin com
. and git another in lis stead We mt
retire a worn-out bill. but cz that WI
r contract the currency we don't tn II
r that's the best thing to do. We want
: volume uv currency at1ote eka! 70 ii
{ demands Nv trade.
: Their wuz sum trouble. iur graf
, many farmers didn't want To take I;,;tn
a Bascom kicked somewhat. But we he
c a remedy iur this. The labrin p"puI
: shen held a meetin. and in the sacrld CO
c OF laDer agiu capitle, noty tide the peop
n that any one wIch retoozed to take t.
# money at par wud be to-wunst hum
5 Under this stimulus, Bascom at won'
e took it, but he lmmejitly advanced II
: price Nv likkur to fifteen ce"ts, and
S hour alter to twenty-five.
n We demonstrated with him about
: and he answered US:
g "if there's goin TO be era Nv pro
= perity. | am goin to share iii it Il
r kin hev all the likkur 700 want Al , cent
n old money. but Ell l am compelled
a take YOUR fiat money fur llkkur, "
II cant dictate to me the price | Shel as
Il tor that rests with me eZ II free Sits,
Wv these Yoonited States.
!. Lam lust man | acknowledged Il
t. strength Nv his posishun. All | did ",
:, to walk over to the priHtin otfis. and q
'e der another hundrid thousand doIla
y struck of, !, and put it into cirkelash'
e to-wunst.
y The ctfcc on the Corners was instant
rs ncous. We never he'd sich era |
E. prosperity. Ez every man he'd all 4
Ii money he wanted. work was leueral
:. suspended, aud the people give the
q selves up wholly to enjoyment. Bascu
+ did IA tremendous business. the Stol
4, keepers (all except that ku>s Polio
Of and 10 Bigler. who not only reioozed
i take the money, but reiouzed 10
lie hung did a smashen business. NJ
% wich never he'd u doller i'll their live
I'd he'd their puckits tull, and tber is moth
" but the most cheerful prospeck aned
u us. When money kin be had by prln
e. 1t, wot is to prevent every body hey
is oil they need? | shell print ii lot me
r. tomorrow. PETROLEUM V. Massey,
yh Rrtarmer and Finanseer
o. 7. S.-There is one little speck
as trouble about our fiat money. Their al
no farmer putin in any wheat. iur IL
.st SAY they don't kecr about sweatln
so this kind NV money. The hloatid Z
nj ployers at Factryvile and PIainvilie
,e- consentld to advance the wagis Nv I'll
lp employees Ell they will take our money
,es paw, but the mechanics swear they N
,e- be paid in nashnel banknotes ct Il
o. work; and the most of 'em decided L
nv they won't work at all so long as II
ss. kin glt enuff Nv fiat money to live on