The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-05
Massey
Mr.. Nasby Gives a Further Account OF
the Presress Of the Fiat Money II;
CoxFRpaIr X RoAps,
! Is in the State NV Kentucky

0how kin ] rcplenish ef they won't take
the money i hev?"
/ thought Their wuz suthin in this, and
he'd mind 10 sling at him the text, 'Sut.
tisfent for the day is the evil thereof, and
the whisky likewize," but II don't do no
good to quote Scripter at Bascom. He
knows only one text-"Pay what thou ow-
est" and he hurls that at me with great
frekency wcnI quote Holy Writ at him.
The more finer passis he don't know moth
in uv. He is one sided man.
Iseiested that we call to us o Louisville
likker dealer and see ef VIC coodent com
promise on the fiat money. One happen
cd to be in town and got hin into Bas-
CONS to interview him. He WIZ very
pleasant gentleman, and q tlooid talker,
but wuz sadly defshcnt in financial knowl-
edge. / asked him why Louisville wood
ent take our tiat money?
"Afy deer sir" wuz his reply, 1--WE can't
take il beCoz Their amt no necessity for 10.
kin It. III we want fiat money, wat is to
prevent our hevin our own? ! bcleevein
supporting our own institooshens. The
printin facilities OF louisville are excel
lent. We hev printin Offices without num-
Der, and coal for power is cheep. When
we git,to hankerin after fiat money, we
don't intend TO send to the Crossroads for
II. All we hev to do is to send TO a printin
offs and git Il struck of. We kin do
printin Just CT cheep ez 700 kin, and, ez IL
amt never goin to be redeemed, the faith
Nv the City NV Louisville is jist CT good ez
the faith NV the Crossroads.
Their wuz nothin to be made out Nv. O
man with such antekatid noshuns, and
left him In disgust, anda committee waitid
upon Bascom agin. He thot the matter
over, and when sejested to him that the
money WOOD, hey TO be taken, he consent
ed on, these condishns:
Tie glass shood be set on one end uy a
counter scale, and We shood pour our
drinks into it. Then, .aiore drinkin it, We
shood put OF many dollar bills nv the Fiat
money on the other end Nv the scale cz
wood balance il. That is, We give pound
for pound, the glass includid. This work
ed very well. &e-hed to Ishoo an enor-
nous amount Nv it, aud Simpsons press
wuz kept runnin day and mite, and Sun
days, but we swelled the vollum SO the
Corners didn't suffer the pang Nv thurst
very much, .-.----.-.-.-...-.- -.--,
But list ez we got this to, runlin smooth
liz another tru6ble 6kkurred. One iday
Bascom found among his money note
wiCh he did't know. 1t wasen't NV the
Cross Roads ut all. The legend on its face
wux different. 1t he'd the same "This is n
dollar" onto 1t, but it WIZ secoored by the
faith Wv the corporashen Nv libertyvilIc.
The next day there wuz one from Secs
sionville, and the next from Davisburg.
This wuz more than We had bargained for.
On investigashen we diskivered that every
Village and Moonissipality within range
NV fifty miles he'd taken Our idee and wuz
ishooin Fiat money.
This woulden't anser at all. Wo didn't
want anybody else's Fiat mony, ez we felt
that we Good print enutr to supply the
entire country. We refoozcd to take It.
We held meetin Nv the common Council
and so resolved. Then the other towns
held meetins, and resolved not to take
ours until reciprocity WIS established, and
that brought us to terms. We WIZ COM
PEELED to recognize the fact that they he'd
az good rite to ishoo money CT We had,
and so we decided to take everything that
come to us, that wuz properly stamped.
Possibly it wuz mistake, but we did it.
1ueH IL CUulS tlllGhtI hlll lhslSls ~
commenced comm in single bills, then in
masses and finally by the hundred wait
There wuz flood, avalanche NV it
There wuz millions Nv money in the Corn
,ers, millions! 1t come to be more than
millions. We he'd our own ishoo, wich
wuz increesin every day, and in adlishn
we he'd the ishoos NV all the surroundin
country pourin in. We never saw SO
much money in the Corners afore. The
Nashnel Bank ishoos, and the grccnbax
wuz all druv out, and by no chance did
one Nv en- ever appeer. ! had to go TO
Louisville last week, and ez The conductor
on the road woodent take Fiat money
he'd 10 git two dollars and q half NV Nash
mel currency. found farmer wich he'd
that amount and the graspin tiend made
me give him twenty-five hundred dollars
Nv our money for it. In Louisville 1 did
succeed in gittin q ten dollar Fiat bill
changed for small bills Nv Nashnel money,
even up. The man which accommodated
me was very drunk and contidin. He
handed me his pocket book, and made
my own change.
But We are prosperous and hev attained
wat we desired, money is plenty. The far
mers is prosperous for prodoose hez gone
up amazingly. l saw load OF corn sell
for $3.50 bushel yesterday, and the seller
Good fist rs well hev he'd $500. Wheat is
any price they choose to ask for It, and
real estate is active ut any price asked.
There is, however, trubble. Afarmer sold
q hundred bushels Nv corn for 81, 900, and
fell on my neck and embraced me OF his
fnanshel preseryer. He sed he never ex.
pectid to hev so much money. He went
over to Bascom's and asked me to take
suthin, and that cost him one-tsnth NV his
load, and Pettus, our shoemaker, witch
takes Fiat money, charged him wat wuz
left for pare OF stogy shoes. He wuz
amazed, for he expected to pay OF mort.
gage onto his farm with this money, and
wuzn't satisfied till l told him he didn't
ask enutffor his corn. There is trubble in
everything, and tinanseerin isn't the ees.
lest thing in the world.
II We Good only git ironnnd bildin ma.
terial for our money there wood set in SIGH
q era NV prosperity ez We never dreemed
Nv. But tinanshel ability, however great,
can't do everything to-wunst. We shell
come to that. 1t is enutf for the present
that We kin git likker for II, and with that
the average cross-roader is tolcrably con.
tent. w course Fiat money is expert.
ment but We arc solvin the problem And
We like 1t. Their amt no work bein done
at the Corners, forwe arc all spcculatin,
and besides wat is the yoose Nv work when
money kin be made without it2 We hev
found our Already at last.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, Finanseer.
p. S.-Therc's more trouble, Simpson
the printer is out Of paper, and he can't
git any in Louisville Unless We give him
some nashnel money. The ishoos hev
come to an end, for want Nv suthin that
will furnish supplies.
P.S. 2d.-We hev bridged the difficulty.
We hey found lot Nv wall paper, and 6y
redoosin the size ny the bills, and yoosin
that, We kin git on Tor some days yit. We
hev also increased the dCnominashens,
ishooin now nuthin less than 2's. Bias.
com Is to take half the wait Nv the likker