The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-28

nothin."i
''The Corners, then, is full of finan-
seers," he remarkt, bitterly, castin a
ca sual glance at his slate witch wuz
Just full enuff to turn over and begin
on tother side.
But he hezn't any Nv the science NV
it. l wuz argooing with him the
other day in favor Nv my noshun Nv
a leather currency, though L told
him silver wuz much the same thing,
and, for example, l would assoom
that silver wuz to be the currency Nv
the fucher.
"Now, don't 700 see, Bascom, that
eff L he'd twict ez much money, l Good
drink twict as much whiskey, and pay
for it?"
"How much is twict nothin?" wuz
the unfeelin anser Nv the tyrant who
holds the destinies Nv the Corners in
his hands. 'That's wot yoor capitle
hez bin ever since knowd yoo."
"Parson," sed he, 81 don't see
what earthly difference it's goin to
make whether silver is currincy 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 700 to git any Nv it with?"
"Troo, G. w." wuz my anser, "but
can't 700 see that to hev silver wood
relieve the dettor class? Even now,
afore it is legal tender, it's only wuth
90 cents on the dollar, and when the
country is fioodid with it, il will go
still lower Then we-or rather SIGH
Nv us es hev property to raise money
on-kin pay off"
"Eggsactly SO," resorts Bascom,
'yoc kin pae me for the good honist
likker Nv mine, witch 700 aev consoom-
ed, in coin wich is less than the dollar
700 promised. All rite. But look here
come in here all Nv 700, want 700
silver men to know eggsactly wat 700
are rushin into"
And this fend 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 barrels, piled one
top Nv another, wuZ the delishus
whiskey Nv Louisville, Nv different
ages, rangin from that Nv two weeks
old to that witch he'd jest left the still
and wus scarcely cold yit. There it
lay, and ez my eye ranged effeck-
shunately over it, felt eff l Good hev
the drinkin Nv al that likker l wood
be content to lay down I'm die when
the last drop wuz gone.
Bascom pointed to an immense tank
witch he had erectid within feys,
with a pipe runnin in from the roof.
81 sha'nt raise the price Nv likker
in conscience Nv bein paid for it in a
depreshiated currency" sed he.
1 fell on Bascom's neck in an eXsta-
cy Nv delite, while the others shout
ed "Rah for Bascom."
&c. w." remarkt, while tears suf-
foosed my eyes. 81 never placed 700
much below the angels, but this gen.
erous act has histed 700 hundred
per cent in my estimashun. Bless 700,
G. W., bless 700.
'But tell you wat l shell do. Do
you see that tank, sed he.
''May ask wat that is for?" sed.
"That tank will fill with ranewat-
er" sed he. The moment you git to
payin' me in silver, I shell take out
Nv eech of them barrils jist eggsactly
three and one-ffth gallons Nv likker
and fill it with water"
"Merciful hevings," and your
likker is so weak now"
"And when silver gifts down to sew
enty-fve cents on the dollar 1 shell
take out twenty-five per cent of whis-
key and fill her up with water. and so
on down. Eff silver goes up, shell
add Whlskey just in proporshun. IN
short, my whiskey is jist goin to fol-
Ter currency, and uothin shorter. Yoo
fellers witch work fer wages may
SWEET, but WON'T"
'But yoo'll increase the size Nv
glasses:" sed l.
"Not eny. But you may drink
twict as many times to get the same
amount Nv drink, by paying eech
time 700 drink"
And Bascom stalked hawtily away
and took his posishen behind the bar.
Their wuz conSternashun in the Cor
ners sech ez hev never seen. Their
wuz a hurried consultashun at the
Deekin's house, and I sejested that
we emancipate ourselves from the do
minyun Nv this tyrant by startin a
! grocery Nv our own on the joint stock
principle, witch wuz agreed to, eech
man agreein to contribute ten dollars
to the capital stock, witch wood be
enuff TO buy bari or two for a be-