Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-10-04
Nasty on Fiat Money.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Kentucky,

CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Kentucky,
Sept. Is, 1873.
The Dose from Maine hez reached
the Corners, and it hez encouraged US,
both ez Nashnels and Dimocrats. 1t
doesn't make a straws difference to me
whether we the Dimocrats hev swallered
the Nashnels, OF whether the Nashnels
hcv swallered us. There hez been swal-
lerin, and the Republican party hez lost
its grip. We are happy.
Els Nashnels we hev things egsackly
to SCOT us at the Corners and through
out the seckshun. We hev succeeded
in institootin strikes in all the manufac-
turin villages in the seckshun, and hev
all the workinmen out Nv work and in
consekent distress. At Factryville thar
amt any more factry at all, for we bust
ed it in the holy croosade NV labor agin
capital. In Plainville we hev all Nv the
mechanics and laborers on strike, witch
he'd the deliteful and cheerin effeck NV
THROWN every Workman out NV work,
halleelogy. They hev nothin to do now
but to walk about the streets day times,
and listen to our speeches mites. And
we are maxim it lively for the bloatid
employer, you bet. When men are dis
trest they want a remedy, and they II
take most any kind NV medicine.
TO support EN-, we hev institooted a
provishnel bank, witch will do till the
fiat money is ishood. It's the same
thing ez fiat" money l am President
NV it, and Issaker Gavitt is Cashier.
Our money is simply slip Nv paper on
to witch is printid the sole-inspirin
words
THIS Is A DOLLAR. u.
Attest: PETROLEUM v. Massey,
''President.
''IssAKER GAvITT, Cashier"
The only secOority that we felt wuz
necessary wuz to pledge the sacred faith
NV the Corners that it wuz dollar.
wat is it to be redeemed IMP quer-
led shoemaker to whom | offered it
for pare NV boots, the first I've he'd
for yeers.
In nothin. 1t don't want to be re-
deemed. TO redeem it would destroy
it's ife-giving principle. Anybody can
ishoo money with gold behind it to re-
deem it-yoor troo finanseer is he witch
kin make money wich don't want re-
deemin. All you hev to do with this
money is to keep it movin. You hump
this bill onto yoor leather merchant, and
he'll hump it along to somebody else,
and ez long ez 700 think it is dollar,
why isn't it?"
He took it, though it seemed to me he
wuzn't convinst.
We amt bothered with it at all, ez it
amt never to be redeemed, except that
when one bill wears out the holder kin
cum and git another in its steed. We
mite retire wornout bill, but ez that
wood contract the currency we don't
think it is the best thing to do. We
want volume NV currency afloat ekal
to the demands Nv trade.
There wuz some trouble, for a great
many farmers didn't want to take it and
Bascom kicked somewhat But we he'd
a remedy for this. The labrin popula
shen held meetin, and in the sacred
name NV labor agin capitle notified the
people that any one wlch refoosed to
take the money at par wood be to-wunst
hung. Under this stimulus Bascom
took it. But he Immediately advanced
the price Nv likker to fifteen cents, and
A few hours after to twenty-five.
We demonstrated with him about 1t,
and he answered us:
EFF there's going to be era wv pros
perity | am going to share in it. 700
kin hev all the likker 700 want at five
cents, old money, but eff | am compelled
to take yoor fiat money for llkkerr, 700
kant never dictate to me the price |
shell ask, for that rests with me ez free
citizen NV these Eoonited States.
| am just man. | acknowledged the
strength NV his posishun. All | did wuz
to walk over to the printin offs and or
der another 100000 struck off, and put
It into cirk elashen to-wunst: What we
want is money enuff.
The effeck on the Corners wuz instan-
taneous, We never he'd SIGH a era NV
Ez every man he'd all the
money he wantid, work wuz generally
and the people gave them
selves up wholly to enjoyment. Bas-
com did tremendous business, the
(all except that cuss Pol
lock and Joe Bigler, who not only re-
foosed to take the money but refoosed
to be hung did a smashin business.
Men witch never he'd dollar in their
ives he'd their pockets full, and there is
lothin but the most cheerful prospeck
ahead NV us When money kin he he'd
by printing it, what is to prevent every
Body hevin all they need? Nothln. l
shell print lot more tomorrow.
PETROLEUM " Nasty,
Reformer and Finanseer.
p. S.-There is one little speck Nv
trouble about our fiat money. There
amt no farmer putin in any wheat, for
they say they don't keer about sweatin
for this kind NV money. The bloatid
employers at Factryville and Plain
Vile hev consentid to advance the wagis
Nv their employees eff they will take our
money in pay, but the mechanics sware
they must be paid in Nashrel bank notes
ef they work; and the most Nv them de-
cided they won't work at all so long ez
they kin git enuff wv fiat money to live
on. 1t is all very well now, but there
ought to be some work gOin on. We
must hev legislashen compellin' NV
them.
THE GREAT SELL.OUT.