The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-08-22
Nasby
Mr.. NAsBY BECOMES A COMMUNIST. But
CIRCUMSTANCES IMPEL A CHANGE OF
HEART-THE DISASTROUS RESULT
From the Toledo Blade !

NO-'F EbhII " hOADS W Olcl Is In
the State uS Kentucky. Jooly 16. 1873
despite our recent disastrous failyoor
to become Commoonists, we deter
mined TO try it again. Ez there ain't
nothing in our hands, ez Bascom and
Pollock have everything that is NV
valyoo in this vicinity. we coodent see
where We shood lose anything ANYHOW
by insistin iGto fair divide with q
view NV takin moo start. After all,
Commoonism is the proper noshun.
Wat difference does it make to me
that Pollock works and I don't? Pol
lock likes to work and don't. Am i
to blame for not liking TO work? l
am as nacher made me and | must
live. There he is, and he cant get
anything more than livin out Nv it.
Therefore it Is his dooty to acoommo-
olate enuff for hisself and me, and, ef
he refuses to do it. it is my dooty, ez
citizen, to compell him.
Issaker McPelter, 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 which they
had SO long defroded US nv. We de-
termned to rise in our mite and wrest
from them despoiles the property
they had contrived to fitch from US.
And avery man of us rolled over and
got up, and called labor metin.
wuz maxim the speech NV the mite,
it wuz a gorgeous effort. | wuz in the
middle of it; l wuz shown that all
property wuz robbery, and that in a
too republic one man shooldent hev
any more than another man. | wuz
demOnstratin the absurdity Ov permit.
tin one man to hev horded up that
which he coOdent yoose, when others,
made in the same image, wuZ a hum
germ and thirstin. | wuz demon
stratin the necessity ov ekal division ov
all property. real and personal, with
laws perhibitin accoomoolashen by
heven diuishen every Fourth of July,
when boy entered the meetin- house,
with telegram for me. 1t wuz breef.
and To the pint:
SAINTS REST, Moo Jersey, Jooly 10.
-Petroleum Y. Nasty, ConttdrH X
Rodds, Ky: Yoor aunt Mehitable
died yesterday and made 700 her heir.
The estate is wuth sutnin like $40 600
Write how yOo want 1t.
SMITH & SLOCUM, Attorneys.
see lite. To wunst my feeling
experienced q rovulsion / had asuddin
change Of hart | felt horror at the
levlin doctrines NV cOmmooni ,m. The
idea Nv dividin up property become to
me to wunst the most repulsiv thsng in
the world. Forty thousand dollars is
$4,000 yeer-and four thousand a
yeer means comfort and elegance for
me. Wat good wood it DO to divide 1t
upI And beside found a double ez
TO whether q man wuX ever entitled to
anything more than he really amassed
by honest industry, or possibly inherets.
| can't see that 1t is wrong TO live by
the honest swet ov an aunt's eye brows.
At all events. | decline to go on with
my speech, and Jos Bigler insisted that
shoold. | refoozed and deklined to
give any reason for II, and denOuced
EN- all as set of agrarian Jewellers.
denounst Commoonism ez robbery,
and insisted that every man had an in
deseesible rite to wat wuZ hisin, and
that nothin Good indoose me to join
my forchoons to a principle so utterly
repugnate to the idee nv civilizashun.
Their Joe Bigler and Pollock, fol-
Tered by the enraged citizens. pounced
upon me, and Joe tore from my grasp
tho telegram, and read it to the pepulls.
1t wuz enuif A party ov men wanted
To tear me lim from linn, for wat they
wuz pleased to call my base desershun
ov great COZ, but the counslls NV the
older and wiZer prevailed.
Let him up sed the good Deekin
Pogrsm. Let him up, he hez money.
WE WILL BORROW UN HIN. which will
be the same cz tho he made a divvy all
to wnnst.'
And so l wuz released. and went my
way feelin considerably eiatid. No
more work for me. Henceforeh my
days wuz to be pleasure and my
delitos. With $4,000 Good snap my
fingers at the world and live ez |
| choose.
Bascom had lent me the money to
| perceed towunst to Saints Rest to
secoor my pstrimony, and | had bored
pare NV boots Nv the Deeh in, and al
| extra shirt of lssake. All wuZ in redi-
mis- and the mule wuz at Bascom's door,
when the dred intelligence reached me
that there wuz nothin in it. 1t he'd all
been put up by Bigler and Pollock to
see eff would change on the very plat
form. They he'd written the dispatch
and sent it, and hired the mail boy to
hand it TO me. Bsscom pounced noto
me for the money he had lent me, and
| Issack and the Deekin wanted their
property. | WIZ stript OH the spot
and left helpless.
There isn't any humanity in man.
shell be Commoonist yit, and q
bloody one. II is gettin TO be ques-
tion nv livin.
Il wuz cruel in them fellows 10 de-
ceiye me so. tho after all | have no
reason 10 complane. Bascom come to
consulate man nv So much capitale,
kept me full all mite.
PETROLEUME V. NASBI. L, NJ
Conservative at present.