The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-10-18
Nasby on Fiatism.
HE DEMONSTRATES THE NATURAL
BEAUTY OF THE IDEA IN BUBI-
NESS LIFE.

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(Wich Is in the State Nv Kentucky
September Is, 1873.
The nOOze from Maine hez reach
ed the Corners and it hez encour-
aged us, both ez Nashnels and
DimOcrats. 1t doesn't make "
straw's difference to me whether
we the dimOcrats hev swallered
the nashnels, or whether the NASH
nels hev swallered us. There hez
bin swallerin, and the republican
party hez lost its grip. We are
happy.
Els nashnels we bev things eggs
ackly to SCOT us at the Corners.
and throughout this secshun. We
hev succeeded in institOotin strikes
in all the manufacturin villages in
the secshun, and hev all the work
ingmen out nv work and in conse-
kent distress. At FaetIyvlllt cher
amt any more facry at all, for we
burned it in the holy croosade NV
labor agin capital. In Plainville
we hev got all the mechanics and
laborers on a strike, which he'd
the deliteful and cheerin effeck Nv
throwing every Workman out NV
work, halleeloOgy. They hev MOTH
in to do now but to walk about the
streets day times, and listen to our
speeches mites. And we are max.
ing it lively for the blOated en-
ployers, 700 bet. When men are
distrest they want a remedy, aud
they'll take most any kind Nv med
icine.
To support em, we hev institootid
a provisional bank, wich will do till
the fiat money is ishood. It's the
same thing ez "fiat" money. lam
president Nv it and Issaker Gavitt is
CASHIER. Our money is simply a
slip NV paper onto wich is printed
she sole inspirin words:
"THIs IS A DOLLAR.
u Attest: Petroleum NJ. Nasby, Pres't,
"Issaker Gavitt, Cashier"
The only secOority that We felt
wuz necessary wuz to pledge the
sacred faith Nv the Corners that it
Suz a dollar.
swat it is to be redeemed in n
lueried Il shoemaker to whom l of.
cred it tor pare NV boots, the
irst l hev he'd for yeers.
"In nOthin. 1t don't want to be
redeemed. To redeem it wood be
o destroy it's lite. giving principle.
Any body kin ishOo money with
gold behind it to redeem it-your
roo finaseer is he wich kin make
money wich dOn't want redeemin.
All you hev to do with this money I
S to keep it mOvin. 700 hump |
his bill onto your leather merchant, I
nd hell hump it along on some &
'Ody else, and ez long ez yoO think G
t's dollar, why isn't it I" LIZ
He took it, tho it seemed to me
@ wnZn't convinst. h
We amt bothered with it at all, d
2 it amt never to be redeemed, 4
kept that when one bill wears out.
he holder kin cone aud git anoth.
r in its stead. We might retire a n
Orn.Out bill, but ez that would
Dntraet the currency We don't u
link il the best thing to do. We :,
ant u vOlunse NV currency afiOat y
Sal to the demands Nv trade. N
There wuz some trouble, for {
reat many farmers didn't want to . =
Ike 1t, and BascOm kicked some. y
hat. But we he'd a remedy for = :
lis. The lsbrin populasAen held o .
Ineetin and in the sacred coz of "
Der agin capitle notified the peo- ~ =,
10 that any Que which refoOsed to =,
Ike the the money at par wood be .
-wunst hung. Under this stimu. a,
S BascOm took it, but he im mefit- VI
advanced the price NV Ticker to IT.
teen cents, and few hours after G,
twenty five.
We demonstrated with him about Il,
and he answered us: ~
/" Eff there's going to he a era nv o. o.
am going to share in !,
YOO kin hev all the licker 700 n,
ant at five cents, odd money, but 20
| am compelled to take yoor ~ ~,
t money for Ticker, 700 can't die ia.
te to me the price l shell ask, for n, n,
at rests with me ez a free citizen N
these YoOnited States.r -.
| am just man. | acknowledg ged ~; W
9 strength NV his pOsishuu. All sh
lid wuz to walk over to the print. ="
offs and order another hundred
dollars struck off, and put
into circulashen to-wuust. Wat
want is money enuff. ce
The effect ut the Corners wuz In. te
infamous. We never he'd sich di
! Nv prosperity. Ez every man tn
i all the money he wanted, work nv
z generally suspended, aud the sV
Dple give themselves up wholly Gu
enjoyment. Bascom did tre- M
ndOus business, the stOrekeepers ca
| except that ouss Pollock and ct
3 Bigler, who not only refoozed 90
take the money but refoozed to VIC
hung) did a smashin business.
N wich never he'd a dollar in
n lives he'd ther pockits full, Phi
1 ther is nothin but the most
serful prospect ahed NV us. So
hen money kin be he'd by printin ha'
wat is to prevent everybody tiv
rim all they needf Nothin. | the
j print a lot more tomorrow. as
PETROLEUM V. NASBY.
Reformer aud Finanseer.
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