The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-03
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interest Just now. It contains q moral
which the free and unlimited silver
coinage people will do we'll TO heed;
ICoNPRDRIr Y ROADS
(Which is In the state oil kentucky
Jan. %, 1878.
Iain't 90 csrtin that l want the silver
bill TO pass OF | wuL. The fact iB, the
thing don't work eZ | sposed It wood,
and / amt clear onto IL. There is suttle
principles in these 6nanshel questions
wiCh requires a great deel Nv thought
and there Ia underlying principles wien
a mau has got to understand alore no is
competent to set hiSsslt up az authority,
One thing / am certain nv, Bascom
amt no finanseor, nor meter will be,
and / told him so.
await is a tuanSsor?n asked he.
"a inansser," sed ], aSaooming tho
look Of DAHL Webster, "iS q man wich
kin paw hiI debts with nothiu-a man
Wlch kin git suthin with nothin."
"lhe CcrnsrB, then, is full OF imam
seers,D no remarkt, bitterly, castin a
casual glance at his slate wlch Wuz list
full enua to turn over and begin on the
tother side.
But he hszn't any Nv the science Nv
II. Iwuz ~argooing with him the other
day in favor NV my noShuu NV a leather
currency, though | told him silver wuz
much the same thing, aud, for example,
| would assoom that silver wuz to be
the currency Nv the tucher.
"NoW, don't 700 see, Bascom, that Of
| he'd twlcG OF much money, Good
drink twicL ez much whisky, and pay
for it?'
GLOW much is twice nothin?" wuz
the %unfeelin anser Nv the tyrant who
holds tue destinies NV the Corners in
his hands. That's wot yoor capltle
hez bin over sence / knowd 700"
.PaSon," sod he, II don't SEQ what
earthly difference it's goin' to make
whether silver Is currency or anything
else. How are 700 a.goin' to cit silver
Of it is made legal tenderP III silver
wuz ez bricks, wat hov 700 got to git
any NV 1t with? ~
"Troo, G. W." wus my answers but
can't VOC sec that to hev silver wood re-
looye the dottor claSi2 Even now, aiore
it is legal tender, it's only with o. cents
on the dollar, aud when the country is
flooded with it, It will 90 still lower.
Then ye-or rather sich Nv us ez hev
property to raise money on-kin pay
off,"
'E~ggsae.ly so,n retorts Bascom; you
kin pay me for the good honist likker
Nv mine, witch you hey consoomed IN
coin wien is less than the dollar 700
promised. All rite. But look hero
come in here all Nv 700. / want 700 sil-
yor men to know exactly wat yoo are
rushin' into"
And this ieend lod III into tho back
room-tha. back room Wich conianes
| the subsistence Nv tho Corners. There,
inlong rows, wuz Bascoms stock. There,
in barrils, piled ono on top Nv another.
yuZ the delishus whisky nv Louisville,
nv different ages, rangin' from that Nv
two weeks old to that witch he'd JiIt leit
tho still, aud wasscarcoly cOldyiL There
1t lay, aud OF my eyes ranged aLeck-
~shunately over 1t, | felt Of Good hoy
the drinkin' Nv all that likkerl wood
be content to lay down and die when
tho last drop WuE gone.
Bascnm p'intad to an immense tank
witch no had eroctid, within u iow days,
with a pipe running in from the root.
~ sha'n't raise the price nv iikker in
conscience NV boin paid for 1t In q de-
preshiatid curreucYl' sed he.
Iiell n BAscom's neck in an extacy
nv delito, while tho others SHOUTED,
"Rah for BascomV'
sc. WI remarkt, whilo teora sui.
ioosed my eyes, 81 never placed 700
much below the angels, but this gencr-
m act has hiated 700 q hundred per
cent in my estimashun. Bless 700, u.
W., bless you"
'tBut ri toll 700 wat l shell do. Do
VOC see that tankG' Sod no.
"May ! ask wat that Ia for?' lsed.
That tank will I'LL with rane.waler, +"
sed no. "Tho moment VOC git to payin'
mo in silver, / shol take out ov oech ov
them barrila list ~eggsnckly three and
ono.dfth gallons Nv likker, aud I'LL 1t
with water"
"Morcitul hovingip' wo all exclaimed,
land yoor likkor 50 veal nOw!
"And when silver gets down 10 Sow
enty.hyo cents on tho dollar, | shol takO
ont twenty-five per cent. Nv whiskey
aud nll hor up with twenty-five per
cent Nv water. And so on down. III
silver goes up / shol add whiskey eggs.
ackly in proporshon. In short, my
whiskoy is list agoin TO ioller currency,
and nothin' shorter. 700 iallers wioll
work for Wagis may SWEET but | won't"
"But yoO'l increase tho size Of yoor
glRssesg' said |.
"Not any. But VOC may drink twice
or many times to git tho same amount
Nv drunk OF before, by paving for coch
drink"
And Balcom slalked hawtily back and
took his posishcn behind his bar.
There wuZ cOnstornnshun IN tho Cor.
ners.HlCh or / hev never soon. There
wuz a hurried COnsultnshOn ut tho Dec.
kln's house aud | sOjcstod that we
omancipato ourselves from tho domin.
yum nv this tyrant by starlin' u rrosory
nv ~ own, on tho joint stock princi'
plo, which wus NgroOd to, each man
agrcoin' to conttlbbit ton dollars to tho
capitlo stock, UiCh wood DO onulr 10 buy
n bari or two, for n %bcginnln,
Wo wug cnthOoaiaslic TIL wO como TO
ballotln for tho man to keep tho place,
whom II wuz found inOtid NV my bOin
chosen yoonanlmu'ly, cz ! cgg9pcctod
TO be, that every man nod yotid for his.
soil. III not u soul Nv ON would rccelc,
tho skoem wuE blocked rite there, and
finely bod to 10 abandoned, aud wa
wont back 10 DasCOm'B aud submitted.
That iyrHnt hc2 ua.
Uv'coursO va can't stand likkOr
dllOoiid In tint tanner. We afu willin
cnulT TO diloot tho currency with wiCh
wo pay for likkOr, but want our likkOr
full strength. We Coodont hOlp II, but
that niio wo gIgnod aud SOM to our rop.
fnanmLalIYn q rnmnnalthnrO hglh Tho oil.