The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-25
Nasty.
CONFEDERATE y ROADS,
(Wich is in the State Nv Ken
tucky)
August 10, 1873.

CONFEDERATE y ROADS,
(Wich is in the State Nv Ken
tucky)
; August 10, 1873.
Ez Congressman Hewitt called afcre
him sich NV the laborin men and 9TH
ers Nv the city nv Moo York, to git
ther views ez to.the coz Nv the finen-
shel depreshen w the country aud
the remedy therefor, it okkurred to
me that the case Good not go to the
country complete, unless the corners
wuz heered from. Their il more
finanshel talent laying around loose
about Bascom's, probably, than kin
be found on any other square mile in
the country, though ther IL great
deel Nv inanshel wisdom eloosidat-
ed, between drinks, mos. every where
When you want to klo eggsackly
how to pay the nssbnel debt, yoo
want to fad man wich Good never
meet his own obligashens- He knos
how ii is bisself, for he has wrassled
with fnanshel problems.
called q meetin Nv the principal
citizens NV ths Corners, to get ther
noshuns ez to wat wuz necessary to
hist Us out Nv the gulf we had plung-
ed into. 1t took some time to get
'em together, ez they wuz ell at Bss-
CONS ssmplin a barl Nv likke- be
he'd just resseyed. it bein Bascom's
habit wen he gifts new barl to give
'em free taste. On sick okkashuns
the Ultimate salvashun NV the human
race woodent fetch I'm away till the
free drink wuz over
They dropt in wun by wun, and |
eggssmiued 'em thoroughly, The
follerin IL the substance Nv it:
.Deekin Program-I consider the
depres. condishen Nv the country at
tributable entirely to the want nv
money and labor. Sence the trent
Linkin abolished slavery we heven't
he'd labor enuf to develop the re
sources, nor currency enuff to do the
biznis Nv the country | hev fire.
kently gone a month without nary a
nickel in my pocket, and consekent-
ly-
By Joe Bigler-Is that a new
complaint, Deekin?
Objected to and ruled out ez irrele-
want
Consistently what biznis | did
with Bsscom he'd to be on credit ba-
sis When Bascom goes to Louis
vile for more likker he he'd to take
my notes to pay with, witch ther be-
in too many Nv 'em, the Louisville
people are singularly averse to takin.
We must hev more money. The
government shood ishoo-
BY Joe Bigler-Deekin, ef your
notes won't do tie same ez money.
OWN to ther bein too many Nv EN-,
and not hevi1 particke-ly good ba-
sis, wat good would it do for the gov
ernment to ishoo jist the same kind
Nv money?
Objected to and rooled out as irrel
evant.
The Deekln-We want more mon
ev and more occashun for money
Their shood he an ishoo NV ct least q
thousand milyuns nv money wich IL
never to be redeemed 1t shood be
distributed per capita, and every
adult citizen with an able bodied ap-
critic shood hev all be wants. We
want more money
By Joe Bigler-Deekin, 'sposn 700
he'd gone to work in the spring and
raised a crop and sold for the money
we now hev, woodn't they hev eased
you up?
Objected to and rooled out as irrel-
evant.
Issaker Gavitt-Clearly Nv tie
opinion that wat IL wanted iz more
money. Money that wood bev to be
redeemed wood be better than none,
but that wood be merely temporary
releef Wat We want IL an Unlimited
ishoo, at regular intervals, Nv money
wich amt never to be redeemed, BAG
ed on the faith nv the government.
Ez | never pay no taxes anyhow,
wood be willing to hev the revenoos
pledged for its ultimate redempshun.
The monev might be distributed ez
the Deekin sejests, or got into cirke-
lation by the payin of Southern
claims and penshonin Southern SOL
jers. Every man shood in some wsy
hev q just share.
BY Joe Bigler-How long. Issaker,
wood it be sfore Bescom wood hev il
all, az he hez now?
Objected to and roolei out ez irrel.
evant.
Capt. MeGrath - The principle
need Nv the Corners il more money
Amt pertikelar wat kind it iz, SO that
nobody amt going to be called upon
to redeem it, and it will buy likker.
Want a law making it, and another
distriboitin it, and another compellin
everybody to take it at par. Is viii |
lin to pool ishoos with anybody wieh |
will agree to this Am willin to tax
every body fer free edueashun, and
wood 60 SO far ez to make the treas
ury furnish every child with school
books and q new pair nv trousers,
pervided that that ishoo is pooled
with this. Am also willin TO reduce
the hour Nv labor to eight, or Eve or
four, or wood be willin to 60 farther
and hev no labor at all, psrvided
money Good be made plenty enuf.
Is willin to strike hands with Dennis
Kearnev or General Butler hisself,
to hev money made plenty enuf.
This is the principle ishoc to be pool
ed.
Abner Pettus-Ain't quite clear ez
to wat "6at" money lie, but is in fa-
vor nv it il it lessons the hours Nv
labor and makes it easier to git
Wants more money and more time to
improve his mind; wuz compelled to
leave game Nv seven-up, Yesterday,
at Bascom's when be he'd only one to-
go, and wuz certain NV turnin jack,