The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-23
Nasty.
Mr.. iNasby.s Last Experience with Fiat
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(Which iin'the State Nv Kentucky

Mr.. Nasbyta Last Experience with Ftnf
| ..a.J tri Money. ji' rn' tul o.
80 aDt ri; le CoSrRDERfr x ROADS, y
(Which Is in'the State Nv Kentucky \
s,e N0Ih5s -''w'a October Is, 1878. }
The October eleckshlns amt el satisiac.
ltory ca they mite hey bin, but they will
do. We hey lost Ohio, and Iowa, but We
have gobbled fnjeanny and West Virgin
ny. Thegrate coz Of fipanshal salyashen
her not ez yit passed into 0 triumph. but
It hezn't bin Killed, iwich Is some comfort.
Their Is yit room for hope. Wheat hez
Come down FIVE cents q bushel In conse-
auence Nv the dismal prospeck that ther
Won't be no European war, and that en-
couraeis u.s. The people neverd did ascribe
the low price Of perdoose TO anything but
the party in power, and this drop, et ut
providenshally c6ntinyoos, will make votes
Tor us. The price Of prodoose controls q
great deel more than any one hez any
itipe nv. ! hey knowd o proyidenshel POI
tato rot to elect Democratic mem Der Nv
| Chnpris. nIff' $50 ~ .AiHi hiEsFIi ti'li
Issakcr Gayitt Is CROWN daily more
gloomy ez the prospex IVA gineral Euro
bean war diminishes. +'I ~ '.i:n. ''il
ats crooel, sex he, with a teer in each
eve, l'"No war In Europe, and I've gotten
hogs wich I wantid q high price fur. This
world is full Nv disappointments. / don't
suppose pork on foot will now be wurth
more than three cents a pound. What do
them European cabinets meant" /" ''t.li
But this. Il d diversion. Hanf .e,ib
y I supposed that when we had ishood our
Flint money that our trouble wuz over! /
supposed that when the Common Counsel
Of the Corners had iishood a currency
based upon the good aithuv the Corners,
and he'd passed an 'ordinance making 1t
Iege tender, thateverythingwood go along
smoothly, and that the era OF prosperity
Sich we hev all been lookin for wood i'm
meiitly set In: But 1t don'twork with q
ctiss. We he'd expected to be relieved Nv
our indebtednis to Pollock & Bigler, but
uniortunitly them'disturbers, with fore
sight that is feendish, have pesistently
refoozed the Dimocrisy Nv the Corners
credit for many.Ay eers, so that we don't
owe them anything. Z And Pollock re.
marked yishusly that II We did owe him
ANYTHING he wood ez soon take pay-in fiat
money ez anything else The wuz likely TO
git from u.s. ca he never expected anything
anyhow. " '.Nnih1G 2n'n'1n "'.'''l-
But we desided togit even with him. I
went into his store and asked fora pare nv
boots. ~ d"ig 81 1,Is tIi4i, 2
f"All rite,", sed Pollock, 6"wat kind NV
money do you propose to payi the glo.
rious fiat nv the present or the despised
greenback Nv the past?" igIa ~ ."'4.a
Ss"sirW | remsrkt impressively ~ am too
patriotic not to assist in Citing our new
money into cirkelashun. I shell pay in
fat, Of which have plenty, and more a
COMM. ,a't1'i ,hf 1fu'l1na u 'AiA
"All right sed Pollock, perdoosin q
little strip Of leather. "Them Is the boots"
'r"But they Is not boots, i exclaimed.
swat kin l do with that strip oflleather?P
"Jist as much cz l kin with your money.
You say that piece Nv paper. you hev Is
money i say that piece Of leatheris boots,
My word IL, I trust, ez good ez yoors."
And with a feendish latf he told Joe
Bigler, to keep an eye on me, and turned
around sellin substanshel boots to Niger
farmer who had Sashnel Bank notes.
Sadly!I went over TO Bascom's and
found there the entire Corners discussin
the finanshel sityooashun. There wuz
Deekin Pograni In his old familyer chair,
there wuz 1ssaker o lyin on his back on a
round table that the citizens play keerds
upon when II is aroused, and Captain Nc
Pelter leanin aginst the bar, all sighin at
the scarsity nv money and the deprest
condishn Nv industry. 1t wuz a site hev
seed q thousand time and 1t melted me.
l determined to demonstrate that ther
wuz one patriot that wood respeck tho
laws Nv bis native place and accept her
currency. NJ ''-7len - ill u'AA
Gentlemen 1 seq, firmly, "step up.
Bascom, set EN- up" ~
Bascom he'd bin takin our money for
some days, and he'd bin 10 Louisville for
likker. He sot out the bottle with sar-
donic grin that BODIED us no good. We
each poured out tho likker, however, and
placed the glasses to our respective lips:
1mmejitely every man spitted the likwid
out upon the floor. 'Igturned sick, for
/ he'd uncawshusly swallered a little nv
il. ~ 7i, ~ -b2a
IT WIZ WArgR!THE FiRsr HRD TASTED
FOR YEARS! 'iG'Ta illtH -
swat does this mean, sir% I demanded
Don't 700 like the whiskeysp wuz the
anser ez no glared feercely at me.
Like III Likeitl Why It's water!'''
ls''Bless yoor sole, nreplied Bascom, @why
don't VOC say its whisky The mint you
say it's whisky It is whisky. Zoo say the
paper you want to pay me In Is dollar,
list becoz 700 sdyit Is a dollar, aud whyin
bloody thunder can't 700 make whisky
out NV water by Just sayin it's whisky.
GISrLEMRS, TINS is FiAr WHISKY, and it's
the only kind / kin git with fiat money.
When you gitto payin in the comfortable
old greenback, or the modest nickel, all
rite! III give you the regler old bowel
scorcher. But the likker Is goin to assimi-
late to the money. Learned that word in
Louisville.Y FL 700 want 10 pay in fiat
money 700 arc goin to git fat likker. III
700 kin imagine peece NV paper with
yoor stamp onto II Is dollar, you must
likewise Imagine this fooid TO be good
likker, and vice versy.a Parson, this Is all
700 will ever git with yoor kind NV money"
'uAnd he lecned back agin hisbottles with
q defiant air, and We sank back terrified.
Where is the end to be-? l don't know.
OIL that Butler wood carry MASSACHUSETTS,,
and git into power, so that his genius Good
solve the problem. FL Baseom repudiates
the fiat money tits all over here.
l1 PETROLEUM V. Nasty, Einansoer.