Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-04-15
BILL NYE
WRITES A LITTLE SCREED ON
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The Currency Question and the silver
Doilnr-Unhappy Lot of Luckiess
Editor-Maising an Aggess-
i've Paper.

Doilnr-Unhappy Lot of u Luckiess
Editor-Maising an Aggess-
i've Paper.
Ii would seem at this time, that while
so little is being said on the currency
question, and especially by the men who
really control the currency, that word
from me would not be out of place.
Too much talking has been done by
those only who have theoretical knowl.
edge of money and its eccentric habits.
People with mere smattering of knowl-
edge regarding national currency have
been loquacious, while those who have
made the matter a study have been kept
in the background
AT this period in the history OF our
country there seems TO he general strin-
gency, and many are in the stringency
business who were never that way be-
fore. Everything seems to be demOne-
tized. The decentralization of groceries
is doing as much toward the general wig
ely palsy Of trade as anything know of.
But may say, in alluding briefly to
the silver dollar, that there are worse
calamities than the silver dollar Other
things may occur in our lives which, i'll
the way Of sadness and three e-cornered
gloom, make the large, robust dollar look
like an old-iashioned half.dime.
met man the other day, who two
years ago was running paper at LARA.
bies Slough. He was then in his merid.
ian as journalist, and his paper was
frequently quoted by such widely.read
publications as the Knights of Labor at
Work, a humorous semi monthly journal
He boldly assailed the silver dollar and
with his trechant pen he wrote such
burning words Of denunciation that the
printer had to set them on ice before he
could use the copy.
Last week | met him on n Milwaukee
and ST. Paul train. He was very thin in
flesh, and the fire of defiance was no
longer in his eye asked him how he
came on with the paper at Larrabie's
Slough He said it was no more.
ut started out said he, 'in fear
less way, but ii was not sustained.
lie then paused in low tone Of voice,
gulped and proceeded.
Folks told me when began tnat !
ought to attack almost everything. Make
the paper non-partisan but aggressive,
that was their idea. Sail into everything,
and the paper would soon be power in
the land. So | aggiessed.
Friends came in very kindly and they
would neglect their own business in or
der TO tell me Of corruption in somebody
else. | went on that way for some time
in defiant mood, attacking anything
that happened to suggest itself.
Finally thought would attack the
silver dollar. did So | thought that
for my manly words and that could af-
ford TO lose the friendship Of the dollar
provided could win friends.
I'm six months took an uncXpired
annual pass over our Larrabie Slough
Narrow Gauge, or Orphan road, and
with nothing else but the clothes wore,
| told the plaintiff how to jerk the old
Washington press and went away. The
dear old Washington press that had more
than once squatted my words into the
pure white page. The dear old towel Oh
which had wiped my soiled hands for
years until il had almost become part
Of myself, the dark blue Gordon press
with its large fly wheel and intermittent
chattel mortgage. a press. TO which had
contributed the first joint Of my front
finger; the editors chair; the samples of
large business cards printed in green with
an inflamcd red border, which showed
that we could do colorcd work at LARA.
bie's Slough just as well as they could in
the large cities; the files of our paper; the
large wilted potato that Mr.. Alonzo g.
Pinkham, of Erin Corners, kindly laid
on our table-all, all had to 60.
81 fled out into the great, hollow mock
ing world of people who had requested
me to agrees They were people who
had called my attention to various things
which ought 10 attack. had attacked
+ those things. had also attacked the
Larrabie Slough Narrow Guage railroad
a but the manager did not see the attack
! and so my pass was good.
l What could dog
4 81 had attacked everything, and more
: especially the silver dollar, and now
i was homeless. For fourteen weeks
i rode up the narrow gauge road one day
r and back the next, subsisting solely OF
j. the sample pecan meat that the newsboy
: puts in each passengers lap.
s "You look incredulous, / see but II Is
Q true.
l II feel differently toward the currency
! now, and wish could undo what
4 have done. Were called upon again to
c jerk the Archimedean lever / would moi
be so aggressive, especially as regards the
currency. Whether 1t is inflated or not
1 silver dollars, paper certificates of deposi
n or silver bullion, il does not matter to me
4. 81 yearn for two or three adult dough
. nuts and one of those thick, dapplct
slabs Of gingerbread or slat of pie will
gooseberries in II. | presume that
/. could write scathing editorial on tn,
I abuses Of our currency yet, but am no
so much in the seattle business rs | used
+, to be.
II wish you would state, II you will
through some great metropolitan journal
that my views in relation to the silveI
coinage and the currency question hav,
/ undergone radical change, and that an,
plan whatever, by which to make th
American dollar less skittish, will NEE
y with my hearty approval.
y "lf have done anything at all through
:, my paper to injure or repress the flow o
u u our currency, and Ifear have, ! nov
IL take the occasion to cheerfully regret II.
He then wrung my hand and passed iron
=, my sight.-BW Nye, IN Boston Globe.
e -As he sat on the steps one Sunda
~ evening he claimed the right IN N k;ss o.