Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-02-14
NASBY.
The Silver Question at the Ger
ners-Bascom Prepares for the
Expected Rush of Silver.

5 Expected Rush OfSilver.
Toledo Blade.
5 CoSFEDRIT Y RoADI,
2 WICH Is IN TIE STATE Nv KENTUCKY. :
nj Jan. %, 1873.
amt so certin that want the Silver
/ bill to pass ez wnz. The fact il thG
thing don't work ez sPCsed it wood
, and / amt clear onto it. The fact il
there liz suttle principles in these f.
: nanshel questions which eqwires 6
r great deel NV thought, and ther liz IN
, Iderlyin principles witch a man hez got
TO understand afore he is competent tc
set hisself up ez authority.
I~One thing l am certin nv, Bascom
!, ain no finanseer, nor never will be,
Iand I told him SO. "a
Wat is f1nanseerT asked he.
II "A finanseer,' said /, assoomin the
look of Daniel Webster, 'is man wich
kin pay his debts with nuthin-a man
witch kin git suthin with nuthin.'
THE Corners, then, is full nv finan-
seers,' he remarkt, bitterly, castin a
casual glance at his slate, wich Wuz
fjist full enuff to turn over and begin on
the tother side.
But he hezent any Nv the science Nv
lit. / WAS argooing with him the other
Iday in favor Nv my noshul Nv leath-
er currency, though / told him silver
was much the same thing, tho for eX-
ample wood assOom that silver wuz
to be the currency uv the fucher.
Now, don't you see, Bascum, that
eff he'd twist ez much money Good
4 drink twist as much whisky, and pay
Tor ii?,-
\ How much Is tW ice nuthin?' wuZ
the onfeelin answer NV the tyrant who
holds the destinies Nv the Corners in
his hands. That's wat yOor capitile
heZ bin ever sence / hev kno%d yoo.'
'Parson, sed he, Il don't see what
earthly difference its goin to make
whether silver is currency or anything
else. How are you goin to cit silver eff
it is made legal tender? Eff silver wuz
ez plenty ez bricks, wat hev 700 got
to git any Nv it with?'
Troo, G. W. wuz my answer; but
ieant you see that to hev silver wood
relieve the debtor class? Even now,
afore it is legal tender, it's only wuth
92 cents on the dollar, and when the
country is fioodid with it, it will go
still lower. Then we-or rather sieh
Nv US ez hev property to raise money
on-kin pay off,
sEggsackly so,' retorts Bascom; 'yoo
kin pay me for the good honist likker
Nv mine, wich yoo hev consoomed, in
coin witch is less than the dollar yOo
promised. All rite. But look here
come in here all Nv 700. / want you
are rushin into.'
| .h,,d fhio faapd Iad int fho ~
rOom-that back room which cOntanes
the subsistence NV the corners. There,
in the long rows wuz Bascom's stock.
There in barrels, piled one on top Nv
another, wuz the delishus whisky Nv
LOUISVILLE, NV different ages, rangin
from that Nv. two weeks old to that
wich he'd jist left the still, and wuz
scarcely cold yit. There it lay, and ez
my eye ranged afeckshuately over it,
felt eff Good hev the drinkin Nv all
that likker wood be content to lay
down and die when the last drop wuz
gone.
Bascom pinted to an immense tank
wich he he'd erectid, within few days,
with pipe running in from the roof.
Il shant raise the price NV likker, in
conscience Nv bein paid for it in de-
preciated currencyp zl1
l fell on Bascom's neck in an extacy
NV delite, while the others shoutid
'Rah for BascOmn
g. w. remarkt, while teers suf-
foosed my eyes, Il never placed yoo
much below the angels, but this gener-
Gus act has histed 700 hundred per
cent in my estimashun. Bless yoo,
g. W, bless yoo.'
But I'll tell 700 wet shell do. Dol
yoo see that tank?' sed he.
May I ask wat that is for?' I sed.
That tank will fill with rane water,
sed he. The moment you git to payin'
me in silver, shall take out Nv eech
nv them barrils jist eggsackIy three
and one-fifth gallons Nv likker, and fill
it lOith acGter.'
'Merciful hevingp we all exclaimed,
and yoOr ikker so week now?'
& sAnd when silver gifts down to seven
ty-five per cent, L shall take out NV
them barrils four gallons NV likker,
and fill her up with twenty five per
cent of water. And SO on down. Ell
silver goes up shel add whisky eggs
actly in proporshen. In short, my
whisky is jist agoin to foller currency,
and nuthin shorter. Yoo wich work
for wagis may swet but 1 WON'T
But yoo'l increase the size Nv yoor
glasses?' sed L.
Not any. But you may drink twice
ez many times to git the same amount
Nv drunk ez before, for payin for eech
drink
And Bascom stawked hawtily back,
and took his posishen behind his bar.
Their wuz cOnsternashun in the Cor
ners sich ez I hev never seen. Their
wuz a hurried consultashen at the De-
kin's house and 1 sejested that we
emancipate ourselves from the domin-
ion Nv this tyrant by startin a grosery
NV our ov our own, on the joint stock
principle, wich wuZ agreed to, eech
man agreein to contribbit ten dollars to
the capitle stock wich wood be enuff to
buy barril or two for beginnin.
We Wuz enthusiastic till we come to
ballotin for the man to keep the place,
when it wuz found instid Nv my bein
chosen yoonanimusly, ez | eggspected
to be, that every man he'd votid for
hisSelf. Ez not a soul uv EN- would re-
cede, the skeem wuz blocked right
there; and finelly he'd to be abandon
ed, and we went back to Bascom's and
submitted. That tyrant hez US.
Wv course we can't stand likker di-
looted in that manner. We are willin
enuff to diloot the currency with wich |
we pay for likker, but we want our
likker full strength. We coodent help
it, but that night we signed and sent to
our Representative remonstrance
agin the Silver bill. The Corners is
now for honest currency. Wood, OIL
nI
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
.t a. Finanseer.
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