Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
CoNFEDRIT \ ROADS, !
witch is in the Stait of Kentucky !
Jooly 90, 1878.

Wuz good thing Tor the gr0Serles
and the photographers. The wife NV
that farmer never stopped till she he'd
q cake NV French toilet soap and a
silk dress and her photograph, and the
farmer hisself put on broadcloth and
fine linen, and bot a trottin sulky.
Them wuz prosperus days.
We can't, NV course, hev another
war to git our new ishoo into serkela-
shen, but we kin hev wat will do iist
as well. We kin hev internel inn
provemence. We kin complete all
the canals and ralerodes that ever wuz
kommenst, and we kin kOmmense
list ez menny more eZ we choose.
For instanse the Cross Rodes wants.
The slack-watrin NV Nigger Run to
make it available for side-wheel
steamers at all seZuns wv the yeer.
The compleshun NV the Secession
vile Ralerode, to lower the frate on
liker from Louisville.
The compleshen Nv the pike to Bo-
regard, to cut off the trade wv Liber-
tyville.
The establishment Nv an arsenal at
the Corners, and also q nashnel mill
tary academy.
The imejit bildin NV branch con-
nectin Corners with the Southern Pa
cific Road.
The establishment here NV nash
mel observatory, to observe eclipses
and diskiver planets and sich, with
out wich there can't he prosperity.
The bildin NV plank road over
Davis Hills, with aswing bridge over
Nigger-run.
These improvements, all demanded
by the general good, will cost not less
| than three millions NV dollars, all NV
wich wood be divided among the hon.
est perdoosers of the Corners and the
honest contractors NV Wich l shoOd
be one.
Thus the money would get into SER
kelashen, and thus it wood go long
way toward restoring prosperity. E2
every other locality in the country
wood want an ekal amount, there
Good be at least thousand million
afloat to begin with, wich Good be adj
ded to from time to time to time, e2
we needed it.
"But it wood all hev to be paid
agin?" objectid Bascom, wich hevin
suthin is alluz obejectin to finanshel
skeems for betterin the times.
"Never," sed / "never. This mon.
ey amt never to be redeemed. II
will go on and on forever. When a
bill gifts old, 700 kin go and exchange
it for new one, and that for another
new one. The people will be obliged
to take it for it will be legle-tender,
and it can't help maxim money plen-
ty, wich is wat we want, now. Pay!
never! Eff we are a goin to pay we
mite be benefited for a time, but il
wood be but temprary. We want
permanent finashel releef, suthin that
will last. A unlimited isshoo NV mon.
ey and a libral system NV internel i'm
provements to git it into serkelashen
is wat we. want now.
Issaker wuz satisfied, and to-mor.
row mite we mete to organize the
"Onlimited Ishoo and Internal I'm.
provement League NV the Cross.
Roads,
Our rallyin cry will be, "Our capas.
| ity for spendin money must be ekal
to our capassity for perdoosin it, and
both must be onlinitid." We shell
hev good times at the Corners ez soon
ez the Nationals carry a Congress, and
kin git to work. hev deveioped d the
skeem for EN-.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, Finanseer
We cannot resist the temptation OF
calling the attention of our readers tt
the remarkable coincidence there i,
right here. The reader will observe
that Nasby' letter is dated "Jooly %
1875" and the coincidence is that just
one month, 30 days previous, viz: or
June 29th, 1878, Gen. Weaver made
his speech at Newton, Iowa, and al
though we have published it before
we must again lay before our reader:
what the General said as to how "t1
git the ne,c ishoo into serkeloshen.' q
The coincidence Of date is still main
tained between the General and Mas.
by as to their methods, and, although
there is slight variance, yet the
same result is reached. The reader
will please compare the two schemes
and take his choice. Here is the Gen.
But how are you going to get it in
circulation? Well, my friends, / will
tell you several ways-very good
ways. The bonds We're pay
to the hands of the men Who E ha,d t thf m
bonds, and as matter of course the,
will go into circulation.
~ .ne greehDaeks-seveh hundred
the taxes fnr connie Of years ."s, and srut M
out greenbacks for couple of wear.
in place OF them, and pay the expens
- ts u .d,,;a,, Idin'g .me gosethlient. I, WheI
had contract1vom had a cold mvS nnn
tract with the government-for nav
ment IN gold, ana the government re
puu.a.eM p l.s 1o.i.luI. a..l'.4: Hl,u paiu you II
was q premium on gold will tel
you how to getitin circulation. Tax,
the quotations of the gold marke
anu 4ho , pdy me thet s,ers t M oae uiiIeIsnce u
they never got. It should be piyel M