St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-04-19
HENILOCK GREEN
Discusses the silver Question.

Mister Editor-Dear Sur: Tine all
riled up.
(But fore begin, femme tell We. Eff
youv gut emmy cannerdy mummy, you
git red ont. Gin it to the poor. Send
it to the Tirks. Send it to the mish-
narys ont to the sanwich ilans; er
lend it ter the Lord sum way sost
you'll git the fails vaIyoo ont. Don't
pay no newman diets with it cos you'll
hev ter disskOunt.)
Wal, I'le tell We. | was up ter the
Bend, an | went inter Charles Blane's
store 1--WE call him Chilblanes for short)
an bot a pound er males ter tinker up
the big poolIy with, down to the mill,
ye know.
GLOW mulch be them ~ SEE |.
"a sents;" SEE he.
hended i'm a cannerdy 5 sents, an
he pOot it in his pOckit an sed nOthin.
CANT thar little change cummin ter
me 7" SEE l.
mo" SEE he, eve diskount that can
nerdy stuff 30 pursent; 10 pursent on
acct o. the tax, and ten more on acct
o. the bother. No ther amt no change
Wal, didn't say nOthin; cos | all
ers hated emmy jawin i'll publick. L sOt
round an heerd Jinks tOk bout who
was gOin ter be pinted Jege in plais o.
Wait longs | wanted tew, an then |
rode off home. But all along [ KEEP
thinkin.
Now You may think a sent, speshally
a cannerdy sent, is pOotty small sub
iect to think erbOut or rite erbOut but
wen small thing like that sets on
nest man, like me, thinkin on a big
subieck, the results is sumtimes tire
menus. "Big Okes from little tO-corns
gro" We no. Wal, | thunk an thunk
bout that sent an bout the hole silver
kweschnn. An | red up on it tew. |
red lot o. speeches in the COngresh
nal Globe that Grout sent me cos
voted for im,-all erbout whuther tina
shOOd make silver dOller way so
mulch or so mulch, an | red sum in
the Trybune an sum in the Argus.
Then | made n arrant over ter Jinkses
and sOt i'm ter tOking on silver till L
see he didn't no nOthin bout the trew
innards o. the case.
u Stt, L tCl OiCSti hON
ter the hide an find out wy it was
necessary tew tax cannerdy mummy an
WV we cOOdn't hev Il dollar ekal tew a
hnnderd sents jest as shillin is a
shillin in highland. I've ben over the
histry o. the hole subjeck an Pine gun
ter gin We the substuns ont billed down.
In the fust pIais, them miners out
ter COlyrardO an MOntarny dug out
mona what fo1y wanted fer
spoons an SIGH, an the prise begun ter
go down. POOtty soon Onnest fOaX be-
gun ter say tibet, seein silver warnt
with ez mulch ez it yuster be, we OF
ter make our kOins bigger, sOst dol
Ter wood be with IL dOller. But them
miners he'd different idees from Onnest
foax. Tia new that fOax warnt han
KERN tew swap greenbacks for silver,
an tina new that poor mummy will drive
good mummy out o. sirkelashun. Uts
Gurus, but it's fack.) SO tina hired
cOngriss q mean jest what [ say tew
make law that atey- tew sents with
o. silver was with Il dOller, an that the
mint must go rite on kOinin these atey-
tew sent dOllers, so menny every
munth, an that fOaks was Obleeged ter
paw THAR diets with um. Yew rekleckt
all bout that.
Wal, foax was mitey skeery o. them
atey-tew sent dOllers, an tina KEEP akew-
merlatin in the treshry; but cOngriss
he'd sold hisself to them rapskalyun
silver miners an was bound ter pOOt
them dollers in sirkelashun. So con-
griss drawd in most o. the | dOller bills,
an then made law tew isshu silver
stiffkits. Tina was determined foax
shood yuse them dollers sum way.
Then cannerdy kinder lafft, an, SEE
she, "HO, no! it's small kwarters tina
want, is it 2 Send EN- down a lot Ov
Ourn. Ourn's smaller'n thairn." An
tina sent EN- along. Then congriss was
skairt cos that wood cut off sum o. the
chans fer sirkelatin them God we trust
dOllers, an tina made a law taxin can
nerday sirkelashun. NObuddy paid no
tenshun tew it; but every wOnts in a
while sum cuss nOOly pinted tew offs
will go an reed that law an purtend
he's gunter enfoarse it. FOaX'll be
skairt, an fer 6 munths or so tina wont
take cannerdy mummy cept at diskount.
That's the hole nakid storey. Thar
amt a Onnest streek in the hole pur-
fOrmuns, cept the speechis that was
made agin it fust an last.
Now ter cum tew biZness. The man
Il NOI0 IOE res InuSO new SOOu,
sound, skwar idees, jess like mine, on
the silver kwesshun. You tell Ide
bout that fore he Cos ter ShecargO. My
idee is ter wok rite up an make the |
kurrensy with hundred sents on a
dOller, an then let the sirkelashun
alone. The kurrensy Orter be jess like |
the atmusferric air-jest the same evry
day. What shOOd you say, spOsn the
Lord shoOd say tew hisself evry wonts
in while oval, L CESS We'll poot
leetle more nitergen an carbolick assid |
inter the atmusferric air terday'n what |
we did yisday ?" Don't you spOse foax
wood be breethin short fore noon ?
Jess so with mummy sirkelashun. Eff
cOngriss is medlin with it evry few
munths, traid will git chOakt. Evn |
Chilblanes edmits that his traid haint
everijed so much by tew dOllers a |
week ez it did fore this last skare-an |
he's a demmerkrat tew.
Aw revor,
HEMLOCK GREEN.
Gresham Before Vicksburg.