The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
How the old Thing Works.

Ii the following letter was not writ
ten by Hammsn it may have been by
Locke. 1t is dated at the usual cross
road and begins:
The nooze from Msine hez reached
the Corners and it hez encouraged us,
both as Nashnels and Dimocrats. 1t
| doesn't make a straw's difference to
me whether we. the Dimocrsts, hev
swallsred the Nashnels, or whether
the Nashuels have swslleTed us. There
hez bin swsllerin and the Republican
party hez lost its grip. We are happy.
Ez Nashnels we have things egg
sackly to SCOT us at the Corners and
throughout this seckshun. We hev
succeeded in institootin strikes in all
the manufsoturin villages in the seek
shun, and hev all the workingmen out
ny work and in consekent distress. At
Factryville there amt any more factry
at all, for we burned it in the holy
croosade nv labor agln capital. In
Plainville we hev got all the mechan-
les and laborers on strike, which he'd
the deliteful and cheerin effeck Nv
throwing every workin man out Nv
work, halleeloogy. They hev nothin
to do now but to walk about the streets
| day times and lisseh to our speeches
mites. And we are making it lively
for the bloted employers, 700 bet.
When men are distrest they want
remedy and they'll take most any kind
Nv medicine.
To support EN- we hev Ins.itootid a
provisional bank, wich will do till the
fiat money is ishood. am president
NV it and Issaker Gavitt is CASHIER.
Our money is simply a slip NV paper
ont wieh Is printid die solerinspirin
words: - $50
s'rHIs n DOLLAR.
"Attest: PETRoLEuM v. Massey, Pres.
"IssAKER GAvITT, Cashier. -
The only secoority that we felt wuz
necessary wuz to pledge the sacred
faith Nv the Corners that it wuz dol
lar.
swat is it to be redeemed in2" que
ried shoemaker to whom l offered it
for pair Nv boots, the first hev he'd
for yeers.
In nothin. 1t don't want to be re-
deemed. To redeem it would be to
destroy its life giving principle. Any
body kin lshoo money with gold be-
hind it to redeem it--your troO fnan-
seer is he wich kin make money wich
don't want redeemin. All yoo hev to
do with this money is to keep 1t movin.
You hump this bill onto your leather
merchant, and he'll hump it along on
somebody else, and ez long ez 700
| L. kta 6All uhu
de took it, tho it seemed to me he
wuzn't convinst.
We amt bothered with it at all, ez
it amt never TO be redeemed, except
that when one bill wears out the hold
er kin come and git another In its
stead. We might retire q worn-out
bill, but ez that would contract the
currency we don't think it the best
thing to do, We want volume Nv
currency sfoat eksl to the demands nv
trade.
There wuz some trouble, for great
many farmers didn't want to take it,
and Bascom kicked somewhat. But
we head remedy for this. The labrin
populashun held meetin and In the
sacred coz OF labor agin capitle noti-
fed the people that any one wich re-
fooZed to take the money at par wood
be to wunst hung. Under this stimu-
liant Bascom took 1t, but he immejitly
advanced the price Nv likker to fifteen
cents and few hours after to twenty
FIVE.
We demonstrated with him about II
and he answered us:
| GtEf <xofn~ - ha a~o -
prosperity l am going to share in it.
Yoo kin hev all the likker you want at
five cents, fold money, but II am COM
PEELED to take yoor fiat money for lik-
ker, 700 can't dictate to me the price
shell ask, for that rests with me ez q
free citizen Nv the Yoonited States.n
] am just man. acknowledged
the strength of his posishun. All did
wuz to walk oyer to the printin offs
and order another hundred thousand
dollars struck off and put it into cirke-
lashen to wunst. Wat we want is
money enuf.
The effeck at the Corners wuz in
stantaneous. We never he'd sich a era
Nv prosperity. Rz every man he'd all
the money he wantid, work wuz gen
orally suspended, and the people give
themselves up to enjoyment. Bascom
did tremendous business, the store
keepers (all except the cuss Pollock
and Joe Bigler, who not only refoosed
TO take the money but refused 70 be
| h1pg), did a smashin business. Men
wich never he'd dollar in their lives
bed their pockets full, and ther IL
| nothin bat the most cheerful pfospeck
ahed ~ Us. When money kin be he'd by
pnntIn II, wat is to prevent everybody
hevin all they need1 Nothin. shell
| print lot more tomorrow.
PETROLEUM v. Massey.