Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-12-13
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| ACCoRnISGLY-TRoU WITH FIAT MONEY.
CONFIDENT Y RoADs.
(Wich is the State NV Kentucky, 7
Nov, 10, 1878.
| am entirely satisfied that l should hev
bin happier ef he'd never bin born. Life
| is to me an unendin sucksesshun NV disasters
| Occasionally ther is gleem NV sunshine, a
| rift through the clouds that envellop me.
but it don't last. For sixteen long yeers
hev bin strugglin, wrasslin a back-holt with
disaster, and disaster hez ginerally Topped
me. | am iiopped now, and am SO sore with
brooses that it don't seem to me that | shel
ever git up agn. 1t is u singler thing that
disaster and hev he'd so many encounters,
and that the result hez ever bin the same
expected great things from the November
| eleckshuns | he'd hoped that the Dimocrat
| ic-Greenback noshun wood preyale In the
| States holdin eleckshuns, so that the expert
ment ov Fiat money in tine corners wood be
| strengthened TO the pint NV maxim 1t a suck
sess. he'd hoped that Butler and kearney
wood carry Massachusetts,, and that John
Kelly wood carry Moo York. he'd hoped
that the Greenbackers wood carry Michigan,
and that Pennsilyany wood add her voice to
the general outcry for more money and better
| times.
wantid the people in the East and IN the
West, by their ballots, to insist that the
bloatid bondholders shood take q back seat,
that money shood be simply the creashun Nv
whoever choose to make it, and that every
shocd hev all that he wantid. | he'd hopes
that the people wood pronounce in favor Nv
givin everything to everybody, and do away
with labor, by maxim labor onnessary. In
short, hoped that the Fiat money NV the
Cross Roads wood be legaized.
Wat happened? looked to Massachusetts,
III a D,,,1 -,
ty NV 40, OOO and the streets don't run with
blood as kerny prophesied.
| look TO Pennsilyany, and ther Dimoerlsy
goes under to the toon of 10000.
turn my eyes ImploriDgly 70 Mishigan,
and 10 the anser comes sback-"Republikin
40, 000r'
In agony turn to Moo York, and Conk-
ling carries that stronghold of Democrisy by
d majority wich il amt wuth while to count
up.
II is troo We carried the South but that
don't count. We kin alluz carry the South
ez long ez We are permitted shot-guns, but
shotgun triumphs amt wat | wantid. 1t
amt moral triumph. and a moral triumph
is wat is needid at this time. wantid men
to vote for Fla; money wich didn't do ii at
the muzzle NV a shotgun.
The effeck hez bin disastrus on the pros
pecks NV the Corners.
Work on the Court House Ship Canal and
Raleroad hez bin suspended. 1t went along
well enuff, for time The men got into
habit NV demandin an increase NV wagis every
day or two, aud We met ther demands lbral-
w. 1t didn't make a particle NV difference
to us whether We paid dollar day or fifty.
1t cost Jest eZ much to print dollar note ez
it did fifty dollar note, and ef a man felt
richer with the fifty dollar note why not let
him have it. The higher the wagis We paid,
the richer the community wuz gittin, becoz
more money wuz gittin into cirkelashen.
But ther cum a time when We he'd to hev a
dozen spades, and a pick-axe. and without
EN- the work Good not go on. The hardware
deelers wood not take our money for eni. and
we he'd no other and so for want NV ten dol |
lars worth NV spades and pick-axes. improve
ments inyolvin millions wuz brot to a COM
plete stoppaGe! Fiat money is all well
enuff, but wood l he'd the power to compel
the people to take it whether or no. Legis-
lashen is wat We want, but the result Nv the
November olekshuns give me no hope Nv
that. | feel We are going to be in the power
Nv the bond-hol1ers for time yit.
Then came more trouble Bascom had
he'd an unparalleled run NV bisnis, and taken
every dollar NV Fiat money ther wuz in the
Corners. l he'd bin printin it on wallpaper
for a week, and the day afore elecshun the
ed the village to find suthin that Good be
used in printin, but ez the people never in
duiged to any extent in the luxury Nv wall
paper, | coodent git any. In dispair went
into Pollock's store, and begged him to sell
me wat he he'd on hand.
Certainly, sed he, 'for cash"
Il will give yoo. sed. 'exactly the mon
ey We hev, and can't do more than that.
How much hev you: q
Ten bolts"
Very good" sed l. Now, Pollock. l
will tell you wat l will do. We must hey
mole money, and we hev no paper TO print it
Oh. will take them ten bolts NV wall paper,
and will print five NV EN- in one dollar bills
for 700, to pay for the other five. | don't |
know how many yards ther is in bolt Nv |
wall paper, but | will spose that eech yard |
will make hundred bills. and that ther is |
twen,y yards in bolt. Thus yoo will git |
two Thousand dollars for ten cent bolt NV |
wall paper Kin 700 dispose NV yoor stock |
TO better advantage
But wat good will all these dollar bills do |
me 2" wuz his onfeelin anser. Il coodent |
buy another ten bolts NV paper with car
load NV IT.
then offered to print the five bolts up in
two dollar notes, then in fives, and finally in
twenties, and ez a last resort in hundreds / |
showed him wat millionaire he wood be. |
Five bolts of wall paper printid up in hun |
dred dollar bills wood make him rich, and it |
wuz within his reach. All he he'd to do wuz |
to give me the other five bolts for the yoose |
Nv the corporashen.
shoodent hev been so liberel, but hedn't |
he'd drink for four hours, and Bascom he'd |
refooz ozed hkker except for down payment, |
and he'd put up the price TO four times the |
weight NV the hkker, glass and all, in five |
doll tanta | 20 bin
terms possible.
The monster wuz however, infexible. He |
laffed me to skorZ. He refoozed the millyuns |
| offered him. He sed he wood sell the pa
per 10 me at ten cents bolt, cash. or he |
would even give me credit for the five bolts.
This wuz gleem Nv comfort, and | eager
ly accepted 1t. But he crushed me with |
these crooel words
On credit, ef | wood give good secoority.
Secoority Wat holler mockery Wher |
Good | get secoority2 And so |, with the |
meens NV maxim millyuns in my hands ; WIZ
redoosed to abject poverty for want of fifty |
cents to buy the wallpaper onto wich to
print my millyuns.
The Corners is prostratid. Bascom hez
the millions we hey printed. the citizens
heyn dollar, and We can't git no paper TO |
perdoose more currency. Wat We shel do | |
haven't the slitest idee Ef Good git the
Louisville paper deelers to take our money |
for more paper and ef Simpson, the printer.
wood 60 on and print it, takin his pay in
kind, all wood be well. But ez We can't git |
any, We hev yoosed up all the paper Simpson
had and ez he hezht got anything TO buy |
more with except what the cold -hartid and |
mersenary paper merchants won't take. our
case is hard indeed. We are rooined, and |
spose we shel hev to return TO the old kinds |
nv money. But wat will Bascom do with |
the accumulsshen he hel on hand, | dread |
to face him.
PETEoLEUM V Massey,
Einanseer,
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