The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-28

be Ito the most humble citizen Nv the
Republic. Wherever there is COW and a
tannery, leather kin be perdoosed, and
why we shoodent yoose that ez medium
Nv exchange, beeus me.
What is a dollar? A dollar Is idee
Whatever the government puts its stamp
onto Is a dollar. The bonanza men in
Colorado want the government Ito put Its
stamp on silver, and nuke dollars Nv
silver, becoz they happen to own the
mines witch perdoose silver. They will
then deliberately quit fioodln ther mines
and they will pile ont the silver by the
ton, and pay of their debts with It, and
see their ltities cleer ITO lUhe property they
now owe for, and win retire in afluence,
and conscious they have done a smart
finanshel thing. But wat good will dh ~
do us Nv the Corners witch can't get
ther silver? Wits the yoose Nv sayin
to starvin person THAT he kin get bred
at CENTS a loaf N he hesn't got the S
cents? We haint got rs cents ON the dol
lar NV wat we owe, and the passage Nv
the silver bill is only godn to help the
parsheiiy penoonius.
Wat we want is full and entire relesf.
We wan. u currency witch we ourselves
kin furnish, and that l am going to
move for, / want silver coined and made
legle tender for the benefit NV THE Middle
States and the East. In this holy croo-
sade agjn the creditor class insist that
all seckshuns shall start nlir, and that
no one seckshun shell dIev an advantage
over the either
1 want leather coined into dollars. l
want every man which hez a side NV
first rate sole leather to llev the privilege
NV depos]ttn 1t In mint Nv the Yoonited
States, nnd hevin 1t stamped into pieces
witch shel represent dollars, and that
them dollars shel be legal tender for any
debt, public or private, that 0he may owe.
Understand me, I am no dnhashundst,
nor DO desire ITO tnjer the public credit.
I desire shat everything shall go along
smoothly and properly. And to that
end / sfinll insist that
FirstLThe deajuher shall be sole, NV first
quality hemlock -tanned, and entirely
mercnantabie.
SecondLThat 1t shel not be In the pow
er NV everybody to coin leather. won't
hey every man wich kin git a punch and
a stamp maxim his own money, for then
tJher wood be an over-ishoo. To prevent
that I srlel require tbDt THE coinin Nv
leDuffer shel be done at regierly ins'tltoot-
ed government mints, and by nobody
else. So much to perfect the currency.
Third-To perfect the people and be
shoor that enuff currency shall be fur
nlslYt to supply the wants NV trade,
insist that every Eran witch kills a bull
shel be privileged ito hev the hide tanned,
and Shall be allowed Ito take that hide,
when tanned, to a minE and hev 1t
stamped into money each piece to weigh
so much, and that when the government
stamp is onto 1t, 1t stel be legal tender
for a dollar.
The simple process will edullize the
east with the west, silver can be lifted
out In Colorado and them sechuns ez
easily ez cattle can be killed in the east
and ez they want their mejum with witch
to pay ther debts, Nv course we want
ours Ito pay ours. We FIev cattle and they
hev silver. ann willin itlDllt they shall
make legTe tender NV ther silver-I want
to make legle tender NV a small part
NV our cattle. Of 1t is urged that It
will prevent US hhvin slch shoes ez we
ought TO hsv my Rnser is ready. The
Corners hewitt worn shoes to any ex-
tent for a great mhny yeuns. The Cor
ners hez other yoose for its money.
The advantages OF this medium are OBJ
vlous. While we want more money we
want money THAT anybody can get hold
Nv. When we ask for a flnanShel FISH
wat Is Glhe use NV Offering us IA stun of
silver? Eff we amt got the silver We are
ez bad off ez before. We want Ito pay
our debs and git out. Leather is attain
able by the most humble. He is a poor
man indeed who heznit got "a bull to
kill, and when he kin sell the carcass
and coin the hide he kin pay. Then he
Is solvent Then he kin start new and
go into debt agin conshus THAT the meens |
NV payment are allus Within his reech. |
The government stamp onto 1t pertects
1t and makes 1T good, and whal. more does
uny one want?
Do l hear a earper say THAT other
countries won't take leather currency7
Wat do I'VE. witch are in debit, care about
other countries? My deelins hev never
hin In furrln countries. deal prinsipally
with Bascom, and eff kin hev a currency
witch will puy with him, DON'T keer for
much else. Wat want is sutflin that will
stlmoola,e trade here and let me out.
That done everything is done so fur
ez 1 am dorcerned, and wat do l keer
for anything else? NOEhin.
1t seems to me thnt this settles the
currency question entirely and that ther
is nothln more to be said Give NV US
not only NV double but II triple cur
rency. Let us hev gold, silver and leather.
Only make elm an legle tender and help
us out here in THE east THE same ez yoo
do them in Ithe west. Give leather a show
for us the eame ez ybo do silver for them
In the west. And especially as silver In
the west kin be perdoosed jlst ez rheeply
ez leather kin In the east. Wat l want
is fair play In the general scoop /
want my show.
PETROLEUM v. NASBY,