Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-14

CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
WIoH IN IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Feb. %, 1873.
The Silver bill don't amount to q
500 markee for the Corners. In the
first place Bascon, heZ already put up
the price of likker to correspond with
the depreshiashun NV silver, so there
amt nothin made in that direckshun.
When it comes to payin debts with
greater eeZe it dOesent help US q
particle, for we never intend to pay
em at all. We hev a shorter method
NV deelin with bloated bOndholders.
Repudiashun is jist ez easy and vastly
more comprehensive and all embracin
in its effex than any sich parshel releef
ez debasin the currency. Ell they hev
mortgages and see fit to foreclOse, let
em. A dozen men with shotguns kin
easily hold the minyunes Nv the law
at bay, and by the time dozen or
more NV the graspin oppre5sors hev the
tops NV their heads bloWd of, they
will begin TO remember that the debtor
class hev rites that will hev to be re.
specific.
But ez We want to pay, we must be
furnish with suthin to pay in. Silver
amt agoin to do 1t, for how kin we
git the silver? Eff our notes wood git
the silver, and other people wood take
that silver at any discount, then it
wood apser, for ef ther is any one thing
that Cross Roader delites in, it is
givin his note. We wood even go So
fur ez to sekoor eIn by endorsement.
] wood endorse Deekin Porgram's
paper and he wood endorse mine and
we wood all endorse for each other, ei
1t wood soothe the minds NV the lend
ers and make EN- any more contented.
But there amt no yoose Nv talkin NV
this. The public lack confidence in US.
/ don't suppose Good 60 to any of the
money centres Nv the world aud
borrow q hundred thousand dollars on
my name, with the endorsement NV
the deekin. / never Good find any
one more confidin than to lend me
$8 80 at one vencher. 81.
Wat we want Is money that we
kin git hold uv--that everybody kin
git all be wants nv. Ef my sejestion
uv maxim leather dollars is rejected by
u unwise generashun WITCH don't re-
cOgnize their benefactors, why then let
us hev suthin which is at once sub
stanshel and kin be made plenty. My
plan is this! 4sas.tsl -.t-s,,-. !
Give every corporashen the rite to is
hoo jist ez much money ez it wants to,
based upon the faith Nv the corpora.
shen which ishOOs it. For instance,
the corporashen ny Confedrit x Roads
ishoos its scrip to jist sich an amount
ez II chooses, and distribits it pro rata
among its citizens. That scrip shel be
legle tender for everything, and any
one refOesin to take 1t shel be immejit-
ly taken out and hung. Some sich
legislashen ez that wood be necessary
to inspire confidence.
The effeck wood be miraculous.
Then we wood all hev money, and
Good pay the bloated bondholders
without trouble. We shood hev money
with which to stimulate enterprise
and give the spirit NV progress which
belongs to the Amerikin character full
scope to run and be glorified. Then
we Good bid railroads, and factries and
distilleries, and go on in way that
wood astoaish the effete governments
Wv the Old Would. Then wood there
come period ut prosperity onto US
that WoOl make up for the depreshn
Nv the last four years, and things wood
be smooth again.
This Is better than the Silver bill, or
anything that know Nv. Moonissipal
bankin Is the remedy for our finanshel
woes, and It is the only thing tLat will
save Us. Let the friends Nv silver
abandon their skeem md come to the
support NV mine. Silver is only a
parsheI relief-inyi idea is complete.
With sich money Good pay of Bas-
C ,m and hey enutf to live on to toe last
uay NV my life. d5fj - 81. .,1s
PETROLEUM ". Massey, q
Finanseer,