The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-10-08

The only secoority that we felt wuz
necessary wuz to pledge the sacred faith
NV the corners that il wuz adollar.
"Wat is it 10 be redeemed in ?" que
ried a shoemaker to whom / offered il
for pare nv boots, the first hev he'd
for yeers.
"In nothin. 1t don't want TO be re-
deemed. To redeem il wood be TO de-
stroy its life-givin principle. Anybody
kin ishoo money with gold behind il To
redeem it-yoor troo finanseer is he
wich kin make money wich don't want
redeemin. All 700 hev to do with this
money is TO keep il movin. 700 hump
this bill onto yoor leather merchant,
and he'll hump it along on somebody
else, and ez long ez 700 think it's dol
lar, why isn't it ;"
He took il, tho il seemed TO me lie
wuZnt convinst.
We amt bothered with il at all, ez il
amt never 10 be redeemed, except that
when one bill wears out, the holder kin
come aud git another in its stead. We
mite retire a worn-out bill, but ez that
wood contract the currency we don't
think il the best thing to do. We want
a volume NV currency afloat ekal To the
demands nv trade.
There wuz some trouble, for n great
many farmers didn't want 10 take IL,
and Bascom kicked somewhat. But we
he'd a remedy for this. The labrin pop
ulashen held a meetin and in the sa-
cred coz nv laber agin capitle notified
the people that any one wich refoozed
10 take the money at par wood be 10
wunst hung Under this stimulus
Bascom took II, but he immejitly adj
vanced the price NV likker 10 10 cents.
and a few hours after TO %.
We demonstrated with him about il,
and be answered us:
" IF there's going to be n era nv
prosperity / am going TO share IN II.
700 kin hev all the likker you want at
\ FIVE cents, old money. but ef i am COM
PEELED to take your fiat money for lik-
ker, 700 can't dictate to me the price
shell ask. for that rests with me "a
free citizen of these Yoonitid States.
/ am a just man. acknowledged
the strength nv his posishun. All did
wuz 90 walk over TO the printin offs
and order another $4,000 struck of,
and put in cirkelashen to wunst. Wa.
we want is money enuff.
The eifeck on the corners wuz initan-
taneous. We never he'd sich era nv
prosperity. Ez every man he'd all the
money he wantid, work vuz generally
suspended, and the people give them
selves mp wholly 10 enjoyment. Bas-
com did a tremendous bizness, the
store-keepers (all except that Cuss Pol
lock and Joe Bigler, who not only re-
foosed 10 take the money but refoosed
90 be huug,) did a smashin bizness.
Men wich never he'd a dollar in their
lives he'd their pockets full, and ther is
nothin but the most cheerful prospect
ahead nv us When money kin be he'd
by printing u, wat is 10 prevent every.
body hevin all they need2 Nothin. I
shell print lot more tomorrow.
PErEoLEuu v. NAsBY,
Reformer and Finanseer.
p. S.-There is one little specS nv
trouble about our fat money. Their
amt no farmer put in any wheat, for
they say they don't keer about sweatin
for this kind nv money. The bloatid
employers at Factryville and Plainville
hev consentid TO advance the wagis nv
ther employees ef tlsey will take our
money in pay, but tie mechanics swear
they must be r..s an nashnel bank
notes ef they work. And the most NV
em decided they won't work at all so
long as they kin git enuf nv fat money
to live on. It's all very well now. but
ther ought 20 be some work going on.
We must hev legs ssheq compellin
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