The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-28

We hey instituted q provisional bank,
.vieh will do till the fat money Is ishood.
It's the same thing ez fiat money. ]
am president Nv 1t, and Issaker Gavitt Is
CASHIER. Our money Is simply q slip Nv
paper, onto witch is printed the sOle-in'
spirin' words:
THIS is A DOLLAR
"Attest: PETROLEUM V. N.4BY, Presi.
dent. ISSAKER GAvITr, CASHIER"
The only secoority we felt wuz necessary
wuz 70 pledge the sacred faith nv the Cor,
ners that It wuz q dollar.
swat Is Il 70 be redeemed In" queried
a shoemaker TO whom / offered Il for q
pare Nv boots-the first | hey he'd for
%in nothin. It don't want TO be re-
deemed. To redeem It would be to destroy
It's life.giving principle. Any body kin
shoo money with gold behind 1t to re-
deem it-your troo finanseer Is he Wichk kin
make money Wich don't want redeemin.
All VOC heY 70 do with this money Is 10
keep It moyin. 700 hump this bill onto
yoor leather merchants, and hen hump il
along on somebody else, and eE long ez
you think It's a dollar why isn't tt2"
He took it, tho itseemed 70 me he wuznt
conyinst :.
We amt bothered with It at all, e. It
amt never to be redeemed, except that
whom one bill wears out the holder kin
come and git another In Its stead. We
mite retire q worn out bin, but 81 that
wood contract the currency, We don't
think 1t Is the best thing to do. We want
4 volume Nv currency a1oat ekal 10 the de-
mands Nv trade.
There wuz some trouble, for q great
many farmers didn't want TO take II, and
Bascom kicked somewhat. But We he'd o
remedy for this. The labrin populashin
held a meetin, and in the sacred coz ov
laber agin capitle notified the people that
any one which refoozed to take the money
at par wood be TO wunst hung. Under
this stimulus Bascom took it, but he
immejitly advanced the price nv likker to
fifteen cents, and q few hours after to
twenty-five, n. /,
We demonstrated with him aboutit, and
he answered us: XVI
"Ef there's going to be a era nv prosper
ity I am going to share in it. You kin
hev all the likker you want at 5 cents, old
money, but ell am compelled TO take yoor
fat money for ikker 700 can't dictate TO me
the price ! shell ask, for that rests with
me ez a free citizen Nv these Yoonited
States"
am a Just man. I acknowledged the
strength NV his posislun. All did wuz
to walk over to the printin oils and order
another hundred thousand dollars struck
of, and put into cirkelasheu TO wunst.
Wat we want is money enuff.
The etfeck on the Corners was instanta-
neous. We never he'd sich q era NV pros
perity. Ez every man had all the money
he wanted, work wuz ginerally suspended,
and the people give themselves wholly up
to enjoyment Bascom did . tremendous
business, the storekeepers (all except that
cuss Pollock and Joe Bigler, who not only
refoozed to take the money, but retoozed
TO be hung, did a smashin business. Men
which never he'd q dollar in their lives he'd
their pockets full, and Their is nothin but
the most cheerful prospek ahed Nv us.
When money kin be he'd by printing it,
wot Is 10 prevent everybody heving all
they needf Nothin. j shall print q lot
more tomorrow.
PErROLEux V. Massey,
Rgorur and FiDrnoeT.
P. s. There is one little speck uvtroub-
lie about our fat money. Their amt no
putin in any wheat, for they say
they don't keer about sweatin' for this
kind Of money. The bloatid employers at
and Plainyille hey consented
to advance the wages Nv Their employees ef
they will take our money in pay, but the
notes ef they work; and the
most Nv EN- decided they won't work at all
long ez they can git enuf Nv fat money
to live on It's all very well nov, but there
ought to be some work going IN. We
must hey legislashen compellln Nv en-.