The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-02-22

MIR. Nasty has an idea of Currency that is
even better for the Interests of the Corners
than Silver or GrcenbacISs, which he gives
to the World.


to the World.
CONFEDRIT y ROADS,
(Which is in the State of kentucky){
Jan. %, 1878.
am not satisfied with silver, now
that hev given the subject NV curren.
cy that attenshun witch so important q
matter demands. Silver kin be pro-
doost in unlimited quantities in the ter.
ritorics, so that ther amt RELY any lin
it to the amount that kin be put upon
the markit. Also kin appreshiate the
fact, that the man who is in debt and
in distress, and witch is hmgrin and
thirstin to git out, witch hez suthin. kin
make that suthin Available by bcin able
to yoose silver in the payin NV his
debts.
But that don't help us NV the Cor
ners. Silver is parshel relief, but il
don't strike that vast army NV men
witch amt got nuthin. Wat good is il
to say to me, "Yoo shell be released
from yoor debts on the payment NV
twenty-five cents on the dollar" when
| havn't got the twenty-five cents, and
can't see my way cleer TO get 'cm? II
is askin for bred and givin stun. II
is holdin out false Endorsements witch
amount 10 nutllll.
Wat the Corners wants and wat the
Corners must hev, is medium witch is
more easily procoorcd than silver. The
remonetizashun nv silver wood help
out the bonanza men and them cz hev
suthin witch they kin git silver at the
discount it will go TO, but that don't do
us here in the Corners. For while !
wuz advocatin the silver bill the other
day, and urgin that it wood enable us
to pay off our debts at discount, Joe
Bigler kun up, and said he
"But, parson, 'spose 700 Good pay of
at 40 cents on the dollar with silver.
Where are 700 goin' to git the IS
centsW
That remark nv his opened TO me a
wide field of conectcr. Silver won't
do for us, for it hcz some intrinsic val
700. The dettor class wants to be re-
leeved in hole-not in part. We want
a currency witch is available to the
meancst ez well ez the nobcst.
sejest leather!
| Wat | want is currency made nv
leather. Leather is perdooscd in all
The states nv the Yooniun, and is Access
sible to the most humble citizen NV the
Republic. Wherever there is a COW
and tannery, leather kin be per-
dOosed, and why we shoodent yOose
that ez a medium NV exchange. beets
me.
What is n dollar? A dollar is idee.
Whatever the government puts its
stamp onto is dollar. The bonanza
men in Colorado want the government
to put its stamp onto silver, and make
dollars NV silver, bccoz they happen to
own the mines which pcrdoosc silver
They will then deliberately quit floodin
their mines and they will pile out the
silver by the ton, and pay off their
debts with it, and see their titles ccer
to the property they now owe for. and
will retire in afllucnce, and conscious
| they have done n smart finanshel thing.
But wat good will that do us NV the
Corners witch can't git their silver?
Watts the use of saying TO Il starvin
person that he kin git bred at five cents
a loaf, if he hezn't got the five cents?
We hain't got scvcnty-tive cents on the
dollar NV wat we owe, and the passage
nv the silver bill is only going to help
the parshelly pecuneious.
Wat we want is full and entire re-
leef. We want currency witch we
ourselves kin furnish. and that | am
going to move for. | want leather
coined and made lcgle tender for the
benefit NV the Middle States and the
East. In this holy croosadc agin the
CT editor class insist that all seckshuns
shell start fair, and that 10 one seek
shun shell hev an advantage over the
other.
l want leather coined into dollers. !
want every man wich hez side NV
first-ratc sOle-leather to hev the privi-
lege of deposiln it in a mint NV the
Yoonitcd States, and hevin it stamped
into pieces witch shell represent dollars,
and that them dollars shell be leglc ten
der for any debt, public or private, that
he may owe.
Understand me, am no inflashunist,
nor do desire TO INFER the public cred
it. | desire that everything shell go
along smoothly and properly. And to
that end shell insist that
LIST. The leather shell be sole, of first
quality, hemlock-tanned, and entirely
merchantable.
I'd. That it shell not be in the power
NV everybody to coin leather. won't
hev every man witch kin git a punch
and stamp making his own money,
for then thcr wood be an over ishoo.
10 prevent that | shell require that the
cOinin NV leather shell be done at reeer-
ly institooted government minis, and
by nobody else. So much to perfect
the currency.
Sd. To perfect the people and to be
sheer that enuff currency shall be fur
nisht to supply the wants NV trade,
insist that every man witch kills bull
shcl be privileged to hcv the hide tam
ned, and shell be allowed to take that
hide, when tanned, to a mint and hcv
it stamped into money, each piece to
weigh so much, and that when the Gov
eminent stamp is onto it, it shall be
legle tender for dollar.
The simple process will cqualizc the
East with the West. Silver kin be lift
cd out in Colorado and them seckshuns.
ez easily ez cattle kin be killed in the
East, and ez they want their meium
with witch to pay their debts, NV course
we want ours to pay ours. We hey
cattle and they hev silver. ! am willin
they shell make legle tender NV their
alvcr-l want to make legle tender NV
small part NV our cattle. Eff it is
urged that it will prevent our hevin
9ioh Shocs cH We ouBlt W HcN, my all
ser is ready. The Corners hewitt worn
shoes to any extent for great many
yeers. The Corners hez other yoose
for its money.
The advantages NV this mejum are
obvious. While we want more money,
we want money that anybody kin git
hold NV. When we ask for fnaDshel
fish, wat is the use NV oflerin us a stun
NV silver? Eff we amt got the silver,
we are ez bad off ez before. We want
to pay our debts and git out. Leather
is attainable by the most humble. lie
is a poor man indeed who hezn't got a
bull to kill, and when he kin sell the
carcass and coin the hide, he kin pay.
Then he is solvent. Then he can start
new, and go into debt again, conshus
that the meens NV payment are alluz
within his reech. The Government
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