The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-30
Nasty on SILVER.
How Bascom Turned the Tables on the
Free Co mage Men.

Petroleum Y. Nasty in 1878
Confederate Y Roads (which IS in the
state OF kentGcky). January =. Is7s.-I
amt 50 cert'in 1 want the silver bill 10
Isass ez / WAS. The fact is. the thing don :
work ez / s'posed il wood. ana / amt
clear onto IL. There - suite principles In
these fiTlansssl questions witch requires
a great deel NV thought. and there is IN
DERIVING principles witch a man has 20,
30 understand afore ne is competent TO
set hiSself Up ez authority
One thing I'm cert'ln Nv. BaScon amt
no finanseer. nor never VIII De, and 1 told
him so.
Wat il finanseery' ashed he.
"A fnanseer." sed I, assooming the look
OF Danl Wooster. is a man wien KIN
pay his debts with no1h.a'-a man witch
kin git sutain with nuthin ..
The Corners. then, is fun Of finan-
seers." he rcmarkt, bitterly. casting a
casual glance at hts slate. witch WI. fun
enun TO turn over and begin on t'other
side.
But ne hezn't any NV the science NV II.
/ WIZ argooing with him the other day
in favor NV my noshun NV a leather cur
rercy, though ! told him silver WIZ
rnach tbs same thing. and. for example,
would assoorn that silver was 10 be the
currency NV the fucher.
Now don't 700 see, Bascovn. that ef
he'd twfct ez much money, / Good drink
twict ez much whisky and pay for TIP
How much IS twice nothin' ?" wuz the
unfeelin' answer NV the tyrant who holds
tho destinies OF the Corners IN his hands.
That's wot yoor cap8tle hez ben ever
since l knowd yoo.
Par son." said he. II don't see what
erthly difference it's goin' 70 make wheth-
er silver Is currency or anything else.
How are VOC goin' 10 git silver ef il Is
made legal tender? Ef silver wuz ez
plenty ez bricks. wat hev VOC Got 10 git
any Nv II within
"Troo. G. W." WIZ my answer: but
can't 700 see that 10 hev silver wood
relieve the dettor class? Even now. afore
II is legal tender. It's only wlrth 90 cents
on the dollar, and when the country IS
fioodid with II, IL win go still lower. Then
we-or rather sich Wv us ez have prop
erty 10 raise money on-iin pay Off
''Eggsa.ctly So" retorts Basoon. 'yu
kin pay me for the good, honist hkker
NV mine. witch you hev consumed. in
coin, witch Is less than the dollar 700
promised All rite. But look here-come
in here, all NV VOC. want VOC silver men
10 know aotly wat VOC are rushin' In
to-
And this feend led us into the back
room-that back room witch contanes
the subsistence NV the Corners. There, in
hong rows, one on top NV another, WE
the deIishus whisky OF Louisville. NV diff
rerent ages, rangin' from that NV two
years old 10 that witch he'd jist left the
sim. and was scarcely cold VT. There II
lay. and ez my eye ranged sfeckshuna-
tely over It felt ef Good hev the drink
in wv all that Kicker wood be content
TO Law down and die when the last drop
was gone.
Bascom pinted 10 an immense tank
w'ioh he he'd erected within a few days,
with a pipe running In from the roof.
II sha'n't raise the price wv likker IN
conscience Nv beln' paid for it in de-
preshiated currency" sed he.
| fell on BaScom's neck in an extacy NV
deiite, while the others shouted. An Tor
Bascom"
&c. w" / rernarfkt while teers sur
foosed my eyes, Il never placed you much
below the angels, but this generous act
has hfsted 700 a hundred per cent. IN my
estirnashurn- Bless VOC. @. w. bless yoot
but III tell you wat l shell DO Do
you see that tank?" sed he.
NAV I ask wat that IL for7" scd-
THAT tank will ill with rane water.
sed he. The moment VOC git TO pay7n
me- in silver, | shell take out NV eech Nv
them barrils fist eggsackly three ana one
nth gallons wv likker, and MI TX Win
water"
"sud poor likker so weak now!
and when silver gifts down 20 Is cents
or, the dollar, shell take out . per cent
NV whisky and ill her up With . per cent
or water And so on down. Ef silver goes
ar, I shell add whisky esgsackly IN pro-
norshen. In short. my whisky is jist agoln
10 foller currency, an nothfn' shorter
Yoo fellers w'ich Work lot "asAs ii<AS
SWEET, but I won't"
''But yooH Increase the elze OF s"ol
cfasses9" SD /.
mot eny. But 700 may drink Twice ez
-,arv times 10 git the same amount Wv
drink - before. by payin' for each drink
And Bascorn stalked hawtily back ana
t,ok his posishun behind his bar.
Their vzlz conservatism IN the corners
strh 81 ] have never seen. Their wuz
So. ,,o-,e,,lta sftrr al the DeelSin's
So,,se and I setested that we eTnanct2ate
,,,rss11res from the dorninyun Nv this "
,-an, f,v startin' a grosery NV our own, on
.ha f0fut stock principal. wien wuz
a--aa.s ~. each man agreein' 20 contrlooit
go 70 the capital stock. witch wood De
euu~ TO buy a barl or two ior 0e-
gfnntn-' ..
,,,-l,tIr' Cor The man 70 keep the place
80 = was found. instid NV my oein
,,osao vconz ntmOUsly, es / eggspecteo
=, re rFs- every man he'd vodd Tor MS
~ "a not soul wv them wood recedes
.sa sse~rn was blocked rite there. and
anarfv hei 20 he abandoned, ana We went
ea~k 20 BaSco-n's and s7lo1nfatad' Iha'
tv~ant her vs.. .,-,- ,.,e...y,
~ ~,rr-sA we can't stand hiker dtlooted
4, 49, rrerner. We are willt1' enur 20
se,sot he currency with wStch 10 pay toF
,seIe- but we want our hkker feAi
,-.~.erg-4s. We coodent help Il. out mar
-sts We signed and sent 70 our re2resezl.e-
49, a renonstrance agiu' the silver oiiA
ira Corners IS now fer honest SuI
ne lx-.os a wood that we he'd some
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
w - Flnanseer.