Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-23
MASSEY.
Resumption In the COrners-Ths Eff
feet Upon the RusIness Prospects
OF that Famous LOcatIGy-A Public
Meeting 20 Protest.
CoNFEDRTr x ROADS,
in the State Nv kentucky


/ (Wich Is in the State Nv Kentucky
! January 2, 1879.
/ At last the blow hez fallen The infa-
nous Sherman hez forced resumpshen
upon long sufferin people wich hez bin
in the merciless grasp NV the men they
borrowed money W. wich means, to us,
finanshel room. He hez refoozed US more
money-he hez turned deef ear to our
appeels for Unlimited greenbax, and now
requires US to come down to gold basis,
and do biznis as we did in the slow times
afore the late onpleasantnis.
There wuz feelin NV deprcshn at the
Corners wich wuz painful. The Deekin,
the sweet old saint, stood over the bar at
Bascomb's, his time-enfeebIed hand
graspin glass NV likker, supported on
either side by Captain McPelter and Issa-
ker Gavit, each Nv en- also graspin glass
of likker.
'Resumpshen upon u.s. sed the Deekin,
signing pitifully, 'and we shell hev to pay
gold to the graspin bondholders. Wher
is it to end?'
And then we decided to hold meeting
to wunst, and, at least protest agin this
infamus proceedin, with the faint hope
that the powers at Washington mite heed
the groans Nv an opprest people, and let
up on EN-. Accordingly the horn wuz
tootid ,and in fifteen minits we he'd a gath
erin of the faithful within them time
honored walls. The people NV the Cor
ners hev plenty NV time to attend meet
ins, and they are the most accomplished
passers NV resolooshens that 1 know NV
After lamentin the deprest condishn
: Nv biznis, consekent upon contrakshen,
and the utter and entire rooin that must
follow the compelIin NV us to get down
to gold basis, the follerin resolooshens,
prepared by me, wuz presented by my
self.
WHEREAS, That feend in human shape,
that tool of the money power, and that
sucker Nv finansheI blood John Sherman,
Secretary nv the Treasury, hez persist
emily forced contrakshen and hez wound
up his fnfamus career by resoomin; and
J. whereas, while the Corners wishes to deel
fairly by the Nashnel creditors, except
in the matter Nv payin the Nashnel debt;
and whereas, eff the Corners hez to pay
the Nashnel debt, and sich, it claims the
high privilege Nv maxim the money it is
to be paid in, so that it kin accommodate
itself to sich circumstances ez may hap
pen to circumstance; therefore be it
F ResoEved, That the Corners, in the in
terest NV opprest labor and languishin
capital, demands that the order resoomin
specie payment be to wunst revoked.
Resolved, That it is the duty NV the
f Genral Government, instid NV Citing
} down to a gold basis, to ishoo money in
: sich quantities and Nv sich nacher, that
| will make our lots, here in the Corners,
! worth what they wuz at the close of the
war, and to make EN- go ez quick ez they
did then.
Reso.Ued, That the necessity NY the Cor
ners is credit, and that under the system
proposed by the feend Sherman, credit is
simply impossible.
RoS0EUed, That we want a f1nanshel sys-
tenn that will enable us to borrow So, 900
on an acre lot, the vally NV the money
5 being Nv no akkount so that it will buy
: likker.
ResoBsed, That the Genral Government,
S instid of resoomin speshe payment, and
S compelling US to exchange our greenbax
s for gold, with the intensun NV retirin our
: vollum Nv the currency. should keep our
e greenbax afloat, and add to them the gold
f in cirkerlashun, thus expanding the cur
: reney and giving the Corners plenty up
/, capitol with witch to1evelop its resources
t Ros0IUed, That every citizen here pres
: ent does sollumly protest agin bein com.
e PEELED to take gold for his greenbax, anL
hereby enters his protest agin the nefari
b GUS skeem, ez being in the sole interes
IS nv the bloated bondholders up the East
: and agin the horny-handed toiIers NV thu
IS West.
70 L wuz about putin the resolooshen
onto their passage, when Joe Bigler arose
b. That cuss is pizen, and always turns vi
e at the wrong place.
:, ''I wood sejest," sed Josef, 'sthat W,
d may be goiu too fast. Possibly resump
- tion is mere matter NV form and hez n,
substance onto it. kin understand how
Secretary Sherman may advertise to pa,
out gold for legal tenders, in Washington
a without forcing it onto the rest NV tn
n kentry. Suppose we put the matter to
II test. 1 wood sejest, therefore, that sun
% one NV the groanin capitalists in thi
0 ASUSO Oc@NO q 0OAAoA uOLCS al4'
q go over to the Nashnel Bank and demanc
y gold for 1t, and see whether they he
been instructed to pay it.''
9 The proposishen seemed to me to be
# fair one, and called upon some one to G
D. over and try the experiment.
q Their wuz a awkerd pause.
Every member of the meeting wen
through the form of feelin through hi
u close. But to my intense disgust, the
,t lotzn'tG dollar in the house-Nor DOLLAR
II 81 pity yoo victims NV a false finansht
.. polisy, from the bottom NV my heart,
Vi sed Josef, sneerinly. ''You hev so muc
st to do with it. 1t must worry man to b
to compelled to pay in gold, when he heve
as pays in nothin. 1t must hurt a man
hev to receive gold for paper, when b
,q hain't got no paper. Parson, let us pI
them resolooshens and pass em.''
er Nv course, after this hoomiliatin di
lit closure there want no yoose in passin
the resolooshens, and the meetin a,
ne journed sadly, and reassembled at Ba
,, eom's.
ur But we are jist ez much opposed
TX speshe resumpshen ez ever, for all tina
II PETROLEUM v. Massey,
Finanseer.
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