The Portland daily press., 1878-08-30
Nasby.
He Repudiates Communion Cause of
His Sudden Conversion The lob tha
Bisler and Pollock Put up ON the Old
Man.

Despite our recent disastrus faeyoor to be-
again. Ez there amt nothing in our hands,
ez Bascom and Pollock hev everything that Is
nv valyoo in this vicinity, we coodent see where
we shooi lose anything, anyhow, by insistin
onto fair divide with view of takin moo
start. After all, Kommunism is the proper
noshun. Wat diffrance does it make to me
that Pollock works and don't? Pollock likes
to work and / don't. Am to blame for not
liking to work? am ez nacher made me, and
1 must live. There he Is ez he is, and he can't
git.anythng more than lvin out nv 1t. There
fore it is his dooty to ackkumulait enuff for his
self and me, and eff he refewses to doc it. It Is
my dooty ez a eittyzen, to compel him.
Issaker M'Pelter, the deekin and myself thot
the matter all over and determined to stand no
more nonsense from them fellers, bat to take
with strong hand all that wich they he'd so
long defrodded US Nv. We determined to rise
in our mite and rest from them despoilers the
property they he'd contrived to filch from u.s.
And evry man nv US rolled over and got up and
called a labor meetin.
wuz maxim the speech NV the mite. 1t wuz
gorgeous effort. wuz in the middle NV il.
wuz shown that all property wuz ROBBERY, and
thet in troo republic one man shoodent hev
any more than another man. I wuz Demon
stratin the absurdty nv permitin one man to
hev hoardid up thet witch he coodent yooss,
when others, made in the same imij, wuz q
hungerin and thirstin. wuz demoustratin
the necessity Nv a ekal divisyun nv all property,
mia Ia
moolashen by hevin divisyun evry Forth nv
Jooly, when boy entered the meetin house
with telegram fur me. 1t wuz breef and to
the pint:
SAINTS REST, Moo JERSEY. Joolv Is.
Petroleum V. Nasty, Confedrit x Roads,
Ky-Yoor aunt Mehitable dide yesterday aud
made 700 her heir. The estate is wuth suthin
over $4,000. Rite how yoo want it.
SMITH & SLOCUM. Attorneys.
l seed a lite Towunst my f9elins expert
enced a revulshuu. he'd sudden change nv
hart. L felt horror at the levelin doctrines nv
kommunism. The ideer nv divldin up property
became to me towunst the most repulsive
thing in the world. $4,000 is $4,000 q yeer-
aud fore thousand yeer means comfors and
elegance for me. Wat good wood il dc to divide
it up? And besides l found doubt ez to
whether man wuz ever entitled to anythin
more than he reelly amasses by honest indus
try, or-possibly inherits. cant see that it is
rong to live by the onest swet nv an aunt's
eyebrow At all events declined to 90 on
with my speech, and Joe Bigler insistid that
shood. 1 refuzed and declined to give any rec
son for it, and denounst them all as set nv
agrarian Jewelers.. / denounst kommuuism ez
ROBBERY, and insisted that evry man he'd an inds-
feesible rite to what wuz hisn, and that nothin
Good indoose me to join my forchoous to a prin-
ciple so utterly repugnant to the idee nv ciyili-
zashuu.
Then Joe Bigler and Pollock, follered By the
enrsged citizens, pounced upon me, and Josef
tore from my grasp the telegram and red it to
the populis. 1t wuz enuff. A party Nv em
wantid to tare me lin from linn for what they
wuz pleesed to call my base desershun Of great
coz, but the kounsils Nv the older and wiser
prevailed.
'Let him up," sed the good Deekin Pogram.
"Lst him up, he hez money, and Kommunism
shall be enforced all the same. We will bor-
rer Nv him, wich will be the same ez tho ne
made digvy all to-wunst."
And so 1 wuz released, and went my way
feelin considerably elatid No more work for
me. Henceforth my days wuz to be pleasant
and my mites delites. With S40,0 900 Good snap
my fingers at the world and live ez choose.
Bascom he'd lent me the money to psrosed to
wunst to Saints Rest to secoor my patermony,
aud he'd borrered pare Nv boots Nv the Dee
kin, and an extra shirt of Issaker. All WIZ
in readiness and the mule waz at Bascom's
that ther wuzn't nothin in it. 1t he'd all bin
put up by Bigler and Pollock to see If 1 wood
change on the very platform. They he'd writ
the dispatch and sent 1t, and hired the mail boy
to hand it to be. Bascom pounced onto me for
the money ne he'd lent nae, and Issaker and the
Deekin wanted their property. 1 wuz stript on
the SPOT and left helpless.
There isn't any humanity in man. 1 shell bs
Kommunist yet, and bloody one. 1t Is git
tin to be q question nv ivin.
1t wuz crooel in them fellows to deserve me
90, tho. after all 1 hev no reeson to complane.
Bascom, to consulate man Nv so much capitle
kept me full all mite.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY. P. NJ,
Conservative at present.