The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
NASbY ON SILVER.

| yer coinage people will do we'll to heed:
CONFEDERATE K ROADS
(Which is in the state of Kentucky,
| Jan. %, 1878.
amt so certin that / want the sill
yer bill to pass ez wuz. The fact is,
the thing don't work ez 1 sposed it
wood, and [ amt clear on to it. There
is suttle principles in these tinanshel
questions witch requires good deel Nv
thought, and there is underlyin prin-
ciples witch a man hez got to understand
afore he is competent to set hisself up
ez authority.
One thing l am certin Nv, Bascom
ain't no fnanseer, nor never will be,
ard told him so.
"Wat is a finanseerf" asked he.
"a fnanseer, sed |, assoomin the
look of Dan'l Webster, els man witch
kin pay his debts with nothin man
witch kin git suthin with nothin.
"The Corners, then, is full Of finan-
seers," he remarkt bitterly, castin
casual glance at the slate WITCH was jist
full enutf to turn over and begin on the
tother side.
But he hezn't any Nv the science Nv
it. | wuz argooin with him the t'Other
day in favor Nv my noshun nv leather
currency, though I told him silver wuz
much the same thing, and, for example,
I wood assOom that silver WIZ to be the
currency nv the fucher
"Now, don't 700 see, Bascom, that ef
l he'd twict as much money Good drink
twict as much whisky and pay fur it?''
GLOW much is twict nuthin" was
the unfeelin arser Nv the tyrant who
holds the destinies Nv the Corners in
his hands That's wat your capitle's
bin ever since l knowd voc"
''Parson," sed he, Il don't see wat
earthly diff renee it's goin to make
wether silver is currency Or anything
else How are 700 agoin to git silver
eff it is made legal tender? Eff silver
wuz ez bricks, wat hey 700 got to git
any Nv it with?"
"Troo, G. w. wuz my answer,
"but can't 700 see that to hev silver
wood rcleeve the dettor class? Even
now, afore it is legal tender, it's only
with 90 cents on the dollar, and, when
the country is flooded with it, it will
go still lower. Then we, or rather SIGH
Nv US ez hev property to raise money on,
kin pay off,
"Eggsackly SO, - retorts Bascom, "yoo
kin pay me for the good honist likker
Nv mine witch 700 hev consoomed in
coin witch is less than the dollar 700
promised. All rite. But look here
come in here all Nv 700. WANT yoo sill
yer men to know eggsackly wat 700 are
rushin into. -
And this feend led US into the back
room-that back room wich contaues
the subsistence Nv the Corners. There,
in long rows, wuz Bascom's stock.
There, in barrels, piled one on top Nv
another, wuz the delishus whisky Nv
Louisville, Nv different ages, rangin
from that Nv two weeks old to that
wich had jist left the still and wuz
scarcely cold yit. There it lay, and ez
my eyes ranged affeckshunately over it
felt eff / Good hev the drinkin Nv all
that likker 1 wood be content to lay
down and die when the last drop wuz
gone.
Bascom pinted to an immense tank
witch he had erected within few
days, with pipe runnin in from the
roof.
81 shan't raise the price Nv ikker in
conscience Nv bein paid for it in de-
preshiated currency" sed he.
I fell on Bascom's neck in an extacy
Nv delite, while the others SHOUTED,
"Rah for Bascom"
&c. W., l remarkt, while teers suf-
foosed my eyes, Il never placed 700
much below the angels, but this gener-
Gus act hez histed 700 100 per cent in
my estimashun. Bless 700, G. w, bless
yoo!'
but I'll tell 700 what I shall do
Do yoo see that tank?" sed he.
MAY ask wat that is for?'' 1 sed.
"That tank will fill with rane wa
ter" sed he. "The moment 700 git to
payin me in silver 1 shell take out ov
eech ov them barrils iist eggsackIy 1-5
gallons Nv likker and fill it with wa
ter.
"Mercifpl hevings!' we all exclaim-
ed, 'and yoor likker so weak nowr'
'And when silver gets down to rs
cents on the dollar 1 shell take out 25
per cent Nv whisky and fill her up
with rs per cent Nv water. And so on
down. Eff silver goes up, shell add
whisky eggsackly in proporshun. In
short, my whisky is jist a-goin to foller
currency, and nothin shorter. Yoo fell
lers witch work for wagis may SWEET, but
won't"
''But yool increase the size of yoor
glasses?" said l.
''Not any. But yoo may drink twice
ez many times to git the same amount
Nv drunk ez before, by paying for eech
drink
And Bascom stalked hawtily back
and took his posishen behind his bar
There wuz consternashun in the Cor
ners SIGH ez l hev never seen. There
wuz hurried consultashun at the dee
kins house, and l sejested that we
emancipate ourselves from the domin-
yum Nv this tyrant by startin grosery
Nv our own, on the joint stock princi-
pie, witch wuz agreed to, eech man
agreein to contribbet $40 to the capitle