Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-23
Nasty.
Resumption at the COrners..The
Effect upon the Business Pros
poets of that Famous Locality
"A Public Meeting.

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the State Nv kentucky :
Jan. 3, 1879.
AT last the blow hez fallen. The in
famous Sherman hez forced resump-
shun upon long suffering people wich
heZ bin in the mercilesS grasp Nv the
men they borrowed money uv, wich
means, to us, tinanshel rooin. He hez
refooZed US more money-he heZ turn
ed def ear to our sppeels for Onlimit-
ed greenbaX, and now requires us to
come down to Il gold basis, and to do
business as we did in the slow times
afore the late onpleasantnis.
Their wuZ "A feelin Nv depreshun at
the Corners wich wuz painful. The
Deekin, that sweet old saint. stood
over the bar at Bascom's, his time-en-
feebled hand graspiug u glass Nv lik-
ker, supported on either side by Capt
McPelter and Issaker Gavit, each nv
EN- also graspin glass of likker.
Presumption is upon us" said the
Deekin, signing pitifully, land we
shell hev to pay gold to the graspin
bondholder. Wher is it to end?"
And then we desided to hold a meet
in to wunst, and, at least, protest agin
this infamous proceedin, with the faint
hope that the powers at Washinton
mite heed the groans Nv an opprest
people. Akkordinly the horn was
tootid, and in fifteen minutes we had
a gatherin Nv the faithful within them
time-honored walls. The people NV
the Corners hev plenty Nv time to at
tend meetins, and they are the most
accomplished passers Nv resolOOsheDs
that ! know Nv.
After lamentin the deprest ccndishn
Nv biznis, cOnsekent upon contrakshen,
and the utter and entire rooin that
must follow the compellin Nv us to get
down to a gold basis, the follerin reso-
lushens, prepared by me, wuz present.
id by myself:
WAREAS, That feend 10 human
shape, that tool Nv the money power,
and that sucker Nv finanshci blood,
John Sherman, Secretary Nv the Treas
ury, ,hez persistently forced contrakshen
and hez wound up his infamous career
by resoOmin, and
WEREAs, While the Corners wishes
to deelfairly by the Nashnel creditors in
the matter Nv payin the Nashnel debt;
and
WEREAs, Eff the Corners hez to pay
the Nasnel debt, and sich, il claims
the high privilege Nv maxim the mon
ey it is to be paid in, so that it kin ac-
cOmmodate itself to sich circumstances
ez may happen to circumstance; there
fore be it
RESOLVED, That the Corners, in the
interest Nv .opprest labor and langishin
capital demands that the order resoom
10 specie payment be to wunst revoked.
RESOLVED, That it is the dooty Nv
the General Government, instid of git
tin down to a gold basis, to ishOo mon
ey in sich quantities and in sich ma
cher that will make our lots, here in
the Corners, wuth wat they Wuz at the
close NV the war, and make elm go eZ
quick ez they did then.
RESOLVED, That the necessity Nv
the Corners is credit, and that under
the system perposed by the feend
Sherman, credit is simply impossible.
RESOLVED, That we want finan-
shell system that will enable US to bOr-
row 5000 on an acre lot, the vally Nv
the money bein Nv no account so that
it will buy likker.
RESOLVED, That the genral Govern
ment, insted NV resoomin speshe pay
ment and c0Inpellin us to exchange
our greenbax for gold, with the inten-
Shen Nv retirin our greenbaX, and
thereby contractiu the volume Nv the
currency, shood keep our greenbsx
afloat, and add to them the gold in
cirkelashen, thus expandin the curren-
cy, and givin the Corners plenty Nv
capitle with which to develop its re-
resources.
RESOLVED, That every citizen here
present does sollumly protest agin be-
in compelled to take gold for his green
bax, and hereby enters his protest agin
the nefarious skeem, ez being in the
sole interest Nv the bloated bondhold-
ers NV the East, and agin the horny
handed toilers NV the West.
wuz about putin the resolooshens
onto their passage, when Joe BigleT
arose. That cuss is pizen, and always
turns up at the wrong place.
81 would sejest," said Josef, "that
we may be going too fast. Possibly
resumpshen is mere matter of form
and hez no substance into 1t. l kin
understand how Secretary Sherman
may advertise to pay gold for legal ten.
der5, in Washington, without fOrcln 1t
onto the rest Nv the kentry. Suppose
we put the matter to q test. wood
sejest therefore that some one Nv the
groanin capitalists in this house take a
dollar legal tender note and 60 over TO
the Nashnel Bank and demand gold
for it, and see whether they hev been
instructed to pay it,"
The proposishen seemed to me to be
a fair one, and called upon some one
to go over and try the experiment.
Their wuz y awkerd pause.
Every member ov the meetin went
thru the form Nv feeling through his
close, but to my intense disgust, they
lCltzeat a dollar IN the hOuSe-NOT A
DOLLAR.
81 pity 700 victims NV false fnan'
shell policy, from the bottom Nv my
heart" said Josef sneerinly. "You
hev so much to do with it. 1t mus;
worry a man to pay in gold, when he
never pays In nothin. 1t must hurt a
man to hev to receive gold for paper,
when he hain't got no paper. Parson,
let us put them resolooshens and pass
en-"
Nv course, after this hoomiliatin dis