The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-30
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The silver Question nj tIle Cor
ners..ISascOm Prepares for the
Expected Rush OF silver.
TnihIn Rlals

ners..IsascOm Prepares for the
Expected Rush OF silver.
| Toledo Blade.
CONFEDERATE y ROADS, !
WIcH Is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
January %, 1878. }
| amt so certain that want the Silver
bill 10 pass ez wuz. The fact is the
thing don't work ez sposed il wood, and
/ amt cleer onto it. The fact is there Ia
.at,Ie principles in these iinanshel ques-
lions which reqwires a great deel nv
thought, and Their Ia underlyin principles
Wich man hez got to understand alore
lie is competent 10 set hisself up ez au'
thOrity.
One thing am certin Nv, Bascom amt
no inanseer, nor never will be, and 1 told
him 80.
"wat ia finanseef?' asked he.
"a finanSeer," sed I, assoomin the look
Of Dan'l Webster, "is a man wich kin
pay his debts with nothin-a man witch
kin git suthin with nuthin."
"Ths Corners, then, is full Nv imam
sters," he remarkt, bitterly, castin q
casual glance at his slate, wich wnE jlst
full enHfr to turn over and begin on the
tOther side.
But he hezsn't any nv the science Nv
il. wuz argooing with him the other
day in favor NV my noshun Nv leather
currency, though told him silver wuL
much the same thing, tho Tor example l
wood assoom that silver wuz TO be the cur.
rency Of the fucher.
"Now, don't 700 see, Bascom, that Ell !
he'd twict as much money | Good drink
twlct ez much whisky, and pay for it|
elbow much is twice nolhin," wnz the
onleelin anser NV the tYrant who holds
the destinies Nv the Corners in his hands.
That's wat yoor capitle hez been ever
sence have knowd yoo."
"Parson," sed he, III don't see what
earthly difference its goin to make
whether silver il currency or anything
else. How are 700 goin to git silver eli
1t Is made legle tender2 Etsilver wuz ez
plenty ez bricks, wat hev 700 got to git
any Nv 1t with?'
aTroo, G. W." was my anser; "but
can't 700 zee that 10 hev silver wood re-
leeVe the dettor class? Even now, atore
il ia legle tender, it's only wuth 92 cents
90 the dollar, and when the country is
AoOdid with it, it will go still lower.
Then we-or rather SIGH Nv US ez hey
property TO raise money on-kin pay
Of"
"Esgsackly So" retorts Bascom; "yoo
kin pay me for the good honist likker Nv
mine, wich 700 hev consoomed, In coin
Vich ia less than the dollar VOC promised.
All rite. But look here-come in here
all Nv 700, want 700 silver men TO
know exactly wat 700 are rushin into,
And this feend led US into the back
fOOn-that back room which contanes
lhesubsistenCeuv the corners. There, IN
long rows wuz Bascom's stock. There in
barrels, piled one on top Nv another, wuE
The delishus whisky Nv Louisville, NV
different ages, ranSin from that Nv two
weeks old TO that wich he'd just left the
,lill, and was scarcely cold yit. There It
lay, and ez my eye ranged afeckshunate-
y over it, | felt ei ! Good hev the drinkin
Nv all that likker | wood be content TO
lay down and die when the last drop wuz
gone.
Bascom pinted 10 an immense tank
Wlch he he'd ereclid, within a few days
With pipe running in from the roof.
Itbant raise the price nv likker, 10
consequence Nv bein paid for in depre'
shlatCl CURRENCY"
fell on BSscom's neck in an extacy nv
deIiie, while The othsrs SHOUTED "Kah
LOT Bascomn
"G. w." remarkt, while teers sulloos
Cd my eyes, u never placed 700 much
below the angels, but this generus act has
hl'ted 700 hundred per cent In my es
anshnn. Bless 700, G. W., bless you.
But I'll tell 700 wat | shell do. DE-
700 see that tank" sed he.
May ask wat that ia FORT" sed,
THAT tank will fiIl with rAne water,
'td be, 1.-THE moment yoo git to pAyir
ne in silver, Shel take ont Nv each ~
I6eui barrils ji,t eggSackly three and one
nth GALLONS Nv likker, and gu il NTH pd-
ia.
"SIsrciiul hevingI |" We all exclaimed
and yoOr likker 40 week now"
And when silver gifts down 70 seventy
aMpet cent Nv whisky and gil her al
With twenty-five per cent Nv water. AnC
1c1 down, Elsilver goes up / shell adj
Sahky eggSAckly in proporshen. II
snort my whisky ia jet agoin to tollel
currency, and noLhin shorter. 700 fel
sr Sish work for wagis may SWEET but
But YOGI increase the size Nv yOOI
sl,.esFsed l.
'So' any. But 700 may drink twice