Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-21

Nr. Nasty Hears of the Result of The
November Elections and In-
dulges I'm Woe Accordingly
Trouble with Fiat
Money.

| \ " ANAA ~ III Tue Ot&AG Nv 6SH LUCKY, J
Nov. 10 1878
am entirely satisfied That | shoe
hev bin happier than eff I he'd nevs
| Din born. Lie is 10 me all uuendIl
sucksesshun Nv disasters. OcCashuu
ally ther i a gIeem Nv sunshine, riff
thrO the clouds that euveliOp M, bu
il dUn't last. For teen long yeeTs
hev bin sJruggiIn, wrassiin bdck-n"I
| with disaster, aud disaster htZ gineF
aliN fl ppped me. 1 am Topped now
and am so sore with brOozes that L
| don't seem 10 me that L shell ever gil
IN agin, 1t is q singler thing that
! disaster and / hev he'd so many en-
| counters, and that the result htZ eVeI
| bin the same.
L expected great things from the No
vember eleckshuns. L he'd hoped that
the Dimocratic-Greenb nOshun
wood prevale in the States bOlGin
eleckshuus, so that The experiment ov
Fiat money in the Corners wood be
strengthened to the pint Nv maxim it a
sucksess. L he'd hoped that Butler and
Kesrney wood carry Massach OOsits,
and that John Kelly wood carry Moo
York. he'd hoped that the Greens
hackers wood carry Mishigan, and that
Penusilvany would add her voice to
the general cutlery for more and better
times.
wantid the people in the East and
in the West, by their ballots, TO insist
that the blOaIid bOndholders shOOd
take back seat, that money shood be
simply the creashun Nv whoever chose
TO make it, and that every man shoOd
hev ali that he wantid. L he'd hopes
that the people wood pronounce in
favor Nv givin everything TO every
body, aud do away with labor, by
maxim labor Onnessessary. In short,
1 hoped that the Fiat money NV the
CrOss-ROad5 wood be legalzed.
Wat happened? I looked TO MASH
chusits, and behold Butler is berried
under majority Nv 10000, and the
streets DONE run with blood as Kerry
prOphesied.
look 10 Peunsilvany, and Their
Dim0crisy goes under to the tUOn Nv
so 600.
turn nay eyes impIorilgIy to Mish-
igan, and 10. the anser comes back
- Republican, 20, 000!"
10 anOny | turn to Moo York, and
COnkling carries that stronghold of
D!mOcrisy 10y a majority wien il Amt
WUth while TO count up.
II is trOO we carried the South, but
that don't count. We kin alluz carry |
5hOt-gans, but shotgun triumphs |
Amt wat l wantid. 1t amt a moral |
triumph, aud q moral triumph is wat |
@Uz needid at this time. / wantid |
men TO vote for Fiat money wich |
iidn't DO it at the muzzle NV a shot |
gun.
The effeck hez bin disastrus on the |
Nv the Corners.
Work on the Court House, Snip |
Canal and RaleTOad hez bin sus-
)endid. Ii went along we'll euuff, for
| time. The men got into d habit NV
iemaudin an Increase Nv wagis every
lay or two, AID we met Their demands
literally. Ii didu't make a particle
" difference To Us whether We paid a
iollar day or fifty. IL cost jest ez
much to print u dollar note e. il did
fifty dollar note, and ef a man felt
Icner with the fifty dollar note why
lot let him have II? The higher the
yagis we paid, the richer the commu-
Iity wuz gittiD, becUZ more money
VuZ giltIn into cirkalashen. But Their
um a time when we he'd to hev q
Uzen spades, and a pick axe, and
Without EN- the work GOOD not 60 on.
NE hard ware deelers wood not take
uT money for en-, and we he'd no /
Their and so for want Nv ten dollars
Worth NV spades and pick-axes, inn
TOvements iuvolvIu millions WuZ
rot to complete stOppag9! Fiat (
money is ali well eUun, but wood [
ed the power to compel che people to I
AXE it whether or no. LegisIashen is
7at we want, but the result NV the
JOvem Der elekshuBs give me no
Ope Nv that. l feel we are goin to be T
! the power Nv the b0ndh0ldeTs for a
me yit.
Then came more trouble. Bascom
al he'd an unparalleled run NV biz 8
Is, and taken every dollar NV Fiat c
oney ther WIZ in the Corners. 1
I'd bin pTintin il on wall paper for a q
eek, and the day afOTe elecshun the z
ST scrap NV it he'd bin exhausted, :
CURED the village to find suthin that
'Od be used in printin, but ez the 2
.Ople never INDUCED to any extent
the luxury of wall paper, l cOOdent 2
[ any. ln despair / went into Pol 4
ck'5 store, and begged him to sell L
e wat he he'd on hand.
" Certinly," sed be, "fOr cash."
4" will give yOo," / sed, exactly r
e money we hev, and cau't do mole
an that. How much hevyOu?"
81 Ten bolts"
" VERY good" sed I. NOV Pol S
OK, VIII tell 700 wat VIII 90. we
ust hev more money, ard we hev ne
lPeT 10 print il on. | will take them
Il bolts Nv wall paper, aud l will u
int five NV EN- in one dollar bills for
%, to pay for the other five. l DON'T
now how many yards ther is in
1T Nv wall paper, but l will spOse
at each yard will make a hundred
liz, and that Their is twenty yards in
bolt. Thus you will git TWO thou
nd dollars for ten cent bolt Nv wall
lper Kin 700 dispose Nv yoOr stock
better advanJage?p
" But wat good will all the dollar
lis do ?n wuz his onfeelin anser.
cOOdent buy another ten bolts NV
lper with a caTt-lOad Nv it,"
then offered to print the five bolts b
p in two dollar notes, then in fives. t
I'd finally in twenties, aud ez a last
sort in hundreds. l showed him
at millionaire he wood be. Five
Its Nv wall paper printid up in hun
ed dollar bills wood make him rich,
Id it wuz within his reach. Ali he .
ID to do wuZ to give me the other i've @
Its for the yoOse of the cOTpOrashen. n,
I shOOdent hev been so liberal, but L
dn't he'd drink for four hours, and
lscom he'd refOOsed likker, except for
wn payment, and he'd put up the
ice to four times the weight Nv the
.ker, glass aud all, in five dollar So
ties. WIZ driven to maxim any