Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-25
COnfedrit Y Roads,

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yer bill to pass ez wuz. The fact ID
the thing don't work ez | sposed i
wood, and | amt onto it. There il
sutten principles in these tinanshe
questions witch requires a good dea
NV thought, and there is underlying
principles witch a mar has got to un
derstand afore he is competent to Sc
hisself up ez authority.
One thing / am certain NV, Bascon
amt no finanseer, nor never will be
and | told him so.
swat is a finanseer?" asked he.
"a finanseer," sed l, assooming the
look of Dan'l Webster, sis n maj
WITCH kin pay his debts with nothin-
man WITCH kin git suthin with moth
in"
''The Corners, then, is full OF imam
seers," he remarkt, bitterly, castin
casual glance at his slate witch wuz
list full enuff to turn over and begin
on the tother side.
But he hezn't any NV the science
NV it. wuz argooing with him the
other day in favor nv my noshun NV a
leather currency, though / told him
silver wuz much the same thing, and,
for example, / would assoom that sill
yer wuz to be the currency of the
fucher.
"Now, don't 700 see, Bascom, that
eff ! he'd twict ez much money, | Good
drink twict as much whisky, and pay
for it?"
"How much is twict nothin?" wuz
the unfeelin ansur Nv the tyrant who
holds the destinies Nv the Corners in
his hands. "That's wat yoor capitle
hez bin ever sence | knowd yoo."
"Parson," said he, 81 don't see
what earthly difference it's going to
make whether silver is currency or
anything else. How are 700 a-goin'
to git silver eff it is made legal tender?
Eff silver wuz ez plenty ez bricks
wat hev you got to git any NV il
WITH"
"Troo, G. W." wuz my answer;
"but don't 700 see that to hev silver
wood relieve the dettor class? Ever
now, afore it is legal tender, it's onl.
with 92 cents on the dollar, and whel
the country is fioodit with it, it vii
go still lower. Then we-or rathe
SIGH ez hev property to raise none.
on kin pay off"
"Edgsactly So" retorts Bascom
'you kin pay me for the good honis
likker NV mine, witch 700 hev con
soomed, in coin witch is less than thu
dollar 700 promised. All rite. Blu
look here-come in here all NV 700,
want 700 silver men to know exactly
wat 700 are rushin into"
And this feend led us into the back
room-that back room witch contanes
the subsistence NV the Corners,
There, in long rows, wuz Bascom's
stock. There, in barrils, piled one
on top nv another, wuz the delishus
whisky nv Louisville, NV different
ages, rangin' from that NV two weeks
old to that witch he'd just left the still,
and was scarcely cold yit. There il
lay, and ez my eye ranged affeckshun-
ately over it, | felt eff | Good hev the
drinkin' NV all that likker | wood be
content to lay down and die when the
last drop wuz gone.
Bascom pinted to an immense tank
hitch he had erictid within a few days,
with a pipe running in from the roof.
81 shan't raise the price NV Iikker
In conscience NV bein paid for it in O
depreshiated currency" sed he.
I fell on Bascom's neck, in an ex-
tacy Nv delite, while the others shout
id, "Rah for Bascom!"
"G. w." | remarkt, while teers
suffoosed my eyes, 81 never placed
you much below the generous act; it's
histid 700 a hundred per cent in my
estimashun. Bless yoo, G.. W., bless
yoo."
"But I'll tell 700 wat | shell do. Dc
you see that tank?" sed he.
"May l ask wat that is for?" | sed
water" sed he. ''The moment VOC
git To payin' me in silver, l shell take
out NV them barrils jist eggssacklN
three and one-ffth gallons NV iikker
and FILL IT WITH WATER"
"Merciful hevings!" we all exclaim.
ed, "and yoor likker so weak now!"
Sand when silver gets down te
seventy cents on the dollar,
shell take out twenty five per cent NV
whisky and fill her up with twenty
five per cent NV water. And so or
down. II silver goes up / shell ado
whisky eggsackly in proporshen. In
short, my whisky is jist agoin to follel
currency, and nothin shorter. VOC
fellers witch work fur wagis may SWEET,
but / won't"
"But YOGI increase the size NV yoor
glasses?r sed |.
"Not any. But 700 may drink twice
or many times to git the same amount
NV drunk ez before, by payin for each
drink"
And Bascom stalked hawtily back
and took his posishen behind his bar
Their wuz consternashun in the
Corners SIGH " / have never seen
Their wuz n hurried consultashen al
the Deekin's house, and I s~ejestid
that we emancipate ourselves from the
dominyun NV this tyrant by startin' 6
grocery nv our own, on the Joint stoci
principle, which wuz agreed to, eacf
man agreein' to contribit ten dollar,
to the capital stock, witch would bt
enuff to buy a bari ~r Two for a be-
ginnin.
We wuz enthusiastic till we come
to baloting for the man to keep the
place, when 1t wuz found instid NV my
being chosen yoonanimusly, ca I egg
spected to be, that every man het
votid for hisseif. e not q soul nv en-
would recede, the scheme wuz block
ed rite there, and finally he'd to b.
abandoned, and then we went bach
to Bascom's and submitted. Tha'
tyrant hez us.