Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-09-11

II never wants To be redeemed,
wuz my answer, ave shall be libral
and when note wears out We viii
give you another Wat do 700 went
it redeemed far' Money ishood on
faith needs no redcmpshum. We
buy yOor prodose with It, yoo yoose II
to buy goods, and 80 II goes round aid
round 10 q circle, dlspensin blesslns
wherever II his Ez long cz yoo take
1t what do 20 want Nv anything else =
Another remark that II wuz his ideC
that paper mony wuz all to be redeem
cd in gold.
"Gold" | promptly replied, "ls
played out Gold is merchandise,
Our grccnback brethren in Ohio hev
desidcd that money is simply promises
to pay, and that il don't matter on wal
material that promise is stampt, wheth'
or gold, silver, iron, shell or copper.
We shel put ours on paper, cos It's
tho cheapest, We shcl hev no en-
travagance about this bank,
Pollock, the Illinoy disturbcr, in
tho most brootal manner refoozed to
tech it, and consequently his biznis
suffered. Ono shoe. maker from Ohio
followed SCOT, and undertook to argue
agin so much money lie asserted
the heresy that addin to the volume
Nv currency didn't add nothin to It's
power. Said he
II will illustrate so the Corners will
comprehend, 700 take a gallon Nv
whiskcy and add to it three gallons
Nv water Well, you hcv four gallons
in the bari, but there aint but one
gallon NV square drink after all"
answered him by reading copiou
extracks from Cary's speeches, shown
that troo prosperity goes hand in hand
with plenty Nv money.
They fanly was convinst and took
our money for the grain, tho we he'd
to pay them in the beginnin twenty
cents q bushel more for ther wheat
than other money wood hev got
for. But we didn't care, for we knew
we Good make all Nv it we wanted.
1t was astonishin wat n era Nv pros.
perity set in on the Corners to wunst
Money became ez plenty ez black
berries, and every body he'd their
pockets full NV it. Land went up in
valyoo two handrod per cent. in a week
and the price Nv the nessaries NV life
raised ekally. Bascom put up his new
whiskey from to 25 cents per drink
and sich wuz the run NV trade he he'd
that his wife and oldest son, Jefferson
Davis Bascom, both he'd to stand in
the bar to wait on customers. The
bank bought all the wheat and other
prohibitions and paid for them in our
money, and we paid such prices ez
happened, for the money with us was
no objeck. The high prices brot all
the trade for twenty miles around to
the Corners and all the dealers who
wood take the money stood up to their
middle IN it.
Then my turn comes. Pintin to the
crowds Nv people in Bascom's I sed to
the doubters-"Wuz trade ez brisk ez
that before inffashen 2" wlch settled
him.
Improvements are bein projected
every day. Five turnpike companies
hev been organized, and three factories
hev been actoally commenced. The
water power on the Run jist above the
village is to be improved at wuns,
and Bascom is already at work on a
wing on the back part of his grocery.
Town lots are dublin in valyoo every
day, and new adlshuns are bein per-
petyooally laid out. Everybody is
'pekelatin and every body is gettin
-ich. There is flush times here. The
people are all infashunlsts.
l am president OF all these CON-
oanies, and l see no reason why l
,an't put elm through. 1t is troo the
price Nv thing hez gone up.
The commonest niger labor is now
sS, day, and pair Nv pegged boots
yuth $50, but what dlfferance does
hat make ? So long ez Simkins. the
printer kin work his press we kin
manufacture all TIE money we want;
'ud ez long ez we can manutacktur
money there must be prosperity.
Deckin Pogram, Captain McPeIter
md Issaker Gavitt hev all paid off
mortgages on their farms, and l hev
Dot Il farm and am getting up plans
or manshun benfiittin my new pos |
shun. I hev fanly struck me gait.
Bank President scots mel wuz
,orn for II IF I wuz reliiuslv inclin.