Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-01
EAsBY,
mr.. Nssby HAS an Idea Of . Currency
That Is Even Better for the Interests
Of the Corners Than silver or Green
backs, which He Gives 90 the world.

of the Corners Than silver or Green
backs, which Ne Gives 60 the world,
| CoNFEDRrr X RoADsl
wIcH Is IN THE srLrE Nv KEsTucEY,
| Jan. IA. 1873.
AM not satisfied with silver now
that hev given the subject NV curren-
cy that attenshun which so important
matter demands. ] understand that
silver kin be prodoost in unlimited
quantities in the Territories, and ther
amt RELY any limit to the amount that
kin be put upon the markit. Also Iun.
derstand, and can appreshiate the fact,
that the man wich is in debt and in
distress, and wich is hungrin and
thirstin to git out, witch hez suthin, kin
make that suthin avaleable by bein able
to yoose silver in the payin NV his debts.
| But that don't help us NV the Cor
ners. Silver is parshel relief, but il
don't strike that vast army NV men
wich amt got nothin. Wat good is il
to say to me: "Yoo shell be released
from yoor debts on the payment NV
twenty-five cents on the dollar" when
l haven't got the twenty-five cents, and
can't see my way cleer to get EN-? 1t
is askin for bred and givin me stun.
II is holdin out false Endorsements wich
amount to nuthin.
Wat the Corners want and wat the
| Corners must hev, is medium wich is
more easily procoored than silver. The
remonetizashun NV silver wood help out
the bonanza men, and them ez hev
suthin on wich they kin git silver at the
discount it will go to, but that don't do
us here in the Corners. For while l
wuz advocatin the Silver bill the other
day, and urgin that it wood enable us
to pay off our debts at discount, Joe
Bigler KUN up, and sed he:
"But, Parson, 'spose yoo Good pay off
at seventy-fve cents on the dollar with
silver. Where are yoo goin to git the
seventy-fve cents?n That remark NV
his opened to me wide field NV con-
iector. Silver won't do for us, for it
hez some intrinsicvalyoo. The dettor
class wants to be relieved in hole-not
in part. We want q currency which is
avaleable to the meanest ez well ez the
noblest.
/ sejest leather!
Wat l want is currency made NV
lether. Leather is perdoosed in all the
States uv the YOoniun and is accessible
to the most humble citizen NV the Re-
public. Wherever there is COW and
tannery leather kin be perpoosed, and
why we shoodent yOose that ez a medi-
um NV exchange, beets me.
What is dollarP A dollar is idee.
Whatever the Government puts its stamp
onto is a dollar. The bonanza men in
Colorado want the Government to put
its stamp onto silver, and make dollars
NV silver, becoz they happen to own the
mines wich perduse silver. They will
then deliberately quit flooding ther
mines and pile out the silver by the
ton, and pay off their debts with it,
and see ther titles cleer to the property
they now owe for, and will retire in
affluence, and conscious they hev done
a smart finanshal thing But wat good
will that do us NV the Corners wich
can't get ther silverP Watts the yuse
NV sayin TO a starvin person that he kin
get bread at five cents loaf if he
hezen't got the five cents? We hain't
got seventy-five cents on the dollar NV
what we owe, and the passage of the
Silver bill is only goin to help the par
shelly pecoonius.
Wat we want is full and entire relecf.
We want a currency wich we ourselves
kin furnish, and that am goin to move
for. want silver coined and made a
legal tender for the benefit NV the West,
and | want leather coined and made
legal tender for the benefit NV the Mid
die States and the East. In this holy
croosade agin the creditor class l insist
that all seckshuns shall start fair, and
that no one seckshun shell hev adYant-
age over the other.
l want leather coined into dollars. l
want every man wich hez a side Nv first
rate sole-leather to hev the privilege NV
depositing it in a mint NV the Yoonited
States, and hevinit stampedinto apiece
wich shel be legal tender for any debt,
public or private, that we may owe.
Understand me, | am no infiatiOnist,
nor do desire to injer the public credit.
1 desire that everything shell go along
smoothly and properly. And to that
end shell insist that:
1st. The leather shell be sole NV first
quality, hemlock tanned and entirely
merchantable.
I'd. That it shell not be in the power
NV everybody to coin leather. l won't
hev every man wich kin git punch
and stamp making his own money,
for then ther would be an over-ishu.
To prevent that l shell require that the
coinin NV leather shell be done at regler-
ly institooted Government mints and
by nobody else. So much to protect
the currency.
Sd. To perfect the people and to be
shoor that enuff currency shall be fur
nisht to supply the wants NV trade, l in
sist that every man witch kills bull
shell be privileged to hev the hide
tanned, and shell be allowed to take
that hide, when tanned, to a mint and
hev it stamped into money, each piece
to weigh so much, and that when the
Government stamp is onto it, it shel be
legle tender for dollar.
The simple process will equalize the
East and West. Silver kin be lifted out
in Colorado and them secshuns ez east
ly ez cattle kin be killed in the East,
and ez they want ther mejum with wich
to pay their debts, NV course we want
ours to pay ours. We hev cattle and
they hev silver. am willin they shall
make legel tender NV their silver-I
want to make legle tender Nv small
part NV our CdtJie' IL III Is uTRtu tndU
it will prevent our hevin sich shoes ez
we ought to hev, my answer is ready.
The Corners hewitt worn shoes to any
extent for a great many yeers. The
Corners hez other yoose sfor its money.
The advantages of this medium are
obvious. While we want more money
we want money that anybody kin git
hold NV. When we ask for finanshss
fish wat is the use offerin us stun of
silverP Eff we amt got the silver we
are ez bad off ez before. We want to
pay our debts and git out. Leather is
attainable by the most humble. He is
poor man indeed who hezn't got a
bull to kill, and then kin sell the car
cass and coin the hide he kin pay. Then
he is solvent. Then he kin start new
and gO into debt agin conshus that the
means NV payment are allus within his
reech. The government stamp unto
it perfects it and makes it good, and
what more does any one wantp
Do / heer a Garner saw that other