Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-01
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Despite our recent disastrous failyoor
to become CommoOnists, we determin-
ed to try it again. Ez there ain't
nothing in our hands, ez Bsscopo and
Pollock hev everything that is NV val.
yOo. in this vicinity, we coodent see
where we shocd lose anything any
how, by insistin onto fair divide with
view of tskin moo start. After all,
Commoonism is the proper noshen.
Wat difference does it make to me that
Pollock works and don't? Pollock
likes to work and I don't. Am I to
blame for not liking II work? I am
ez nacher made me, and must live.
There he Is eZ he is, and he can't git
ennything more than livin out NV It.
Therefore 1t ia his dOoty to accoomOlate
enuff for hisself and me, and eff he re-
fooses to do 1t, 1t IS my dooty to COM
pei him. lr1A
Issaker. M'Pelter, the Deekin and
myself thought the matter all over and
determined to stand no more nonsense
from them fellows, but to take with
the strong hand, all that wich they he'd
80 long defroded US Nv. We determin.
ed to rise in our mite. and wrest from
them despoilers the property they he'd
contrived to filch from US. And every
man Nv us rolled over and got up, and
called labor meetin. e
II
1 wuz maxim the speech NV the mite.
It wuz q gorjeous effort. / wuz in the
middle NV il. / wuz shown that all
property wuz robbery, and that In a
troO republic one man shooent hev
hev any more than another man.
wuz delnOnstratin the absurdity nv
permittin one man to hev boarded up
that wich he c0Odent yoOse, when 9TH
ers, made ia the same image, wuz q
hungerin and thirstin. wuz demon
stratin the necessity Nv ekal divide
Nv all property, real and personal,
with laws perhibitin accommodation by
hevin disyishen every Forth of JOo-
ly, when boy entered the meetin
house, with telegram for me. 1t wuz
breef and to the pint:
SAINTS REST. Moo Jersey, Jooly Is.
petroleum V. Nasby,
"Confedrit x Roads, KY:
"Yoor aunt Mehitable died yister.
day, and made 700 her heir. The es-
tate liz wuth suthin over $4,000. Write
how you want it.
SMITH & SLOCUM, Attorneys."
seed lite. To wunst my feelings
experienced revulsion. I he'd sud-
den change Nv hart. / felt a horror at
the levelin doctrines nv COmmoonism.
The idea Nv a dividin up property be-
come to me to wunst the most repul-
sive thing In the world. $4,000 is
81, 900 a yeer-and four thousand yeer
means comfort and elegance for me.
Wat good wood it do to divide it up?
and beside / found a doubt ez to
whether man wuZ ever entitled to
anything more than be really amasses
by honest industry, or-p0ssibly in
heiits. can't see that it is wrong to
live by the honest sweat Nv an aunt's
eyebrow. AT all events, / declined to
go on with my speech, and Joe Bigler
insisted that shood. l refoozed and
declined to give any reason for 1t, and
denounced 'em all as set Nv agragri.
an Jewelers.. / denounst COmmOOnisIn
ez robbery, and insisted that every
man had an indefeesible rite to wat
wuz his'n, and that nothin Good in
doose me to principle 40 utterly re-
pugnant to the idee Nv civilfZashun.
Then Joe Bigler and Pollock, foller-
ed by the enraged citizens, pOuneed
upon me, and Joseph tore from my
grasp the telegram, and red it to the
pOpulis. It wuZ enuff. A party Nv
EN- wanted to tear me lin from lin,
for wat they wuz pleased to call my
base desershen Nv great coz, but the
counsels Nv the older and wiser pre-
vailed. H
"Let him up" said the good Deekin
Pogram. "Let him up, he hez money,
and COmmoonism sbei be enforced ali
the same. Wen borrer Nv him, witch
divvy all to wunst."
way considerably elatid. No more
work for me. Henceforth my days
wuz to be pleasures and my mites de-
lites. With $4,000 1 Good snap my
fingers at the world and live ez !
choose.
Bascom had lent me money to per.
ceed to wunst to Saints Rest to secoor
my patermony, and he'd borrered g
pair NV boots nv the Deekin, aud an
extra shirt Nv Issaker. All wuz in
readinis and the mule wuz at Bsscom's
docs, when the dred intelligence reech-
ed me that there wuzn't nothin in it.
It he'd all been put up by Bigler and
Pollock to see ef / wood change on the
very platform. They he'd writ the
dispatch and sent it, and hired the
mail boy to hand 1t to me. Bsscom
pounced onto me for the money he he'd
lent me, and Issaker and the Deekin
wantid their property. L wuz stript
on the spot and left helpless. i
There isn't any humanity Ia man. l
shell be Commoonist yit,a bloody
one. 1t Is gettin TO be q question OF
livin. III ts..lt-
It wuz crooel In them felIers to de-
ceeve me so, tho after all hev no rec.
son to complane. Bascom, to consulate
man Nv so much capitle kept me full
all mite.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
l-Hf Conservative at present.
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