Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Hears from Maine and
Improves His Opportunity

SONFEDRiT n hOADS,( winch IL In the
state NV kentucky, September Is,
lS7S.-The nooze from Maine hez
reached the Corners, and it hez en-
couragcd us, both CT nashnels and
dimocrats. 1t doesn't make q straw's
difference to me whether we. the dim.
ocrats, hcv swallercd the nashnels, or
whether the nashnels have swallcred
us. There heZ been swallerin, and
the republican party hez lost it's grip.
We are happy.
Els nashnels we hev things cggsack.
ly to scot us at the Corners, and
throughout this seckshun. We hev
succeeded in institootin strikes in all
the manufacturin villages in the seek
shun, and hev all the workinmen
out NV work and in konsekent die
tress. At Factryville there amt eny
more factry at all. fur we burned II
in the holy croosade, NV labor agin
capital. In Plainville we hev all the
mechanics and laborers on strike,
which he'd the delightful and cheer
in effeck NV THROWN every Workman
out Nv work, halleeloogy They hev
nothing to do but walk about the
streets day times. and lissen tn our
speeches mites. And we are maxim il
lively fur the bloatid employers, you
bet. When men are distrest they
want a remedy, and they'll take most
emmy kind NV medicine.
Tu support EN- we hev institooted q
provisional bank. which will do till
the fiat money is ishood. It's the
same thing ez Fiat" money, l am
President Nv it and Issaker Gavitt is
Cashier. Our muny is simply slip
Nv paper onto which is printed the
sole-inspirin words:
"THIS Is A DOLLAR.
"Attest: PETROLEUM v. Nasty, Pres
''IssAKER GAvIrT, Cashier"
The only secoority that we felt wuz
necessary wuz to pledge the sacred
faith NV the Corners that it wuz dol
lar.
swat is it to be redeemed in % que
ried shoemaker to whom offered
it fur pair NV boots, the frat hev
he'd fur yeers.
ain nothin. 1t don't want to be re-
deemed. Tu redeem it wud be tn
destroy its life-giving principle. Any
body can ishoo money with gold be-
hind il tn redeem it-yoor troo finan-
seer is he which kin make money
which don't want redeemin. All 700
hev to do with this money is to keep
it movin. 700 hump this bill into
yoor leather merchant, and he'll hump
it along on somebody else, and ez long
ez 700 think it's q dollar, why isn't
it?"
He took it though it seemed tn me
he wuzn't convinst.
We amt bothered with it all, ez it
amt never tn be redeemed, except
that when one bill wears out, the
holder kin cum and git another in it's
stead. We mite retire q worn out
bill, but ez that wood contract the
currency, we don't think it is the best
thing to do. We want q volume NV
currency afoat ekal to the demands
NV trade.
There wuzsum trouble, fur q great
many farmers didn't want tn tako it.,
and Bascom kicked somewhat. But
we he'd remedy for this. The la
brin populashun held meetin and in
the sacred COZ NV labor agin capitle
notified tho people that eny one which
refoozed tn take tho money at par
wood be to-wunst hung. Under this
stimulus Bascom took It, but he i'm
mejitly advanced the price NV likker
to fifteen cents, and q few hours after
to twenty-five.
We demonstrated with him about
it and he answered us:
"Ef there's gOin tn be era NV pros
perity am goin' tn share in it. 700
kin hev all the likker 700 want at
cents, old money, but Of I'm compell-
ed tn take yoor fiat money fur likkcr,
Iyou can't dictate tn me the price shell
ask, fur that rests with me ez free
citizen NV these Yoonitid States"
/ an just man. / acknowled2 ed
the strength Nv his posishun. All !
did wuz to walk over tn the prin lin
oils and order another hundred thou
sand dollars struck of, and put it into
cirkelashun to-wunst. Wat we want
Is mony enuff.
The etfeck on the Corners wuz in
Simultaneous. We never he'd SIGH q
era NV prosperity. Ez every man he'd
all the money he wanted, work wuz
generally suspended, and the people
Civ themselves up wholly to enjoy
ment. Bascom did a tremendous
business, the storckeepers (all except
that cuss, Pollock and Joe Bigler, who
not only refoozed to take the money,
but refoozed tn be hung did smash.
in business. Men which never he'd q
dollar in their lives he'd their pockits
full, and there is nuthin but the most
cheerful prospeck ahed NV us. When
money kin be he'd by printin Nv it,
wot is tn prevent everybody hevin ali
they need Nothin, shell pl int a
lot more tomorrow.
| PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
| Reformer and Finanseer.
7. S. There is one little speck Nv
trouble about our fiat money. Their
amt no farmers putin in any wheat
fur they say they don't keer about
sweatin fur this kind Nv money. The
bloated employers at FactryvilIe and
Plainville hev consentid tn advance
the wagis NV the employees eff they
will take our money in pay, but the
mechanics swear they must be paid
in Nashnel banknotes of they work
and the most Nv EN- decided that they
wont work at all so long CT they kin
git onuff Nv fiat money tn live on. Its
all very well now, but there ought to
DO some work going on. We must
hev legislashun compellin NV EN-.