The record-union., 1896-09-07
his hands. That's wot yoor capitle

his hands. "Thats wot yoor capitle
hez ben ever since l knowed you
"Parson," said he, Il don't see what
erthly difference it's goin' to make
whether silver is currency or anything
else. How are 700 goin' to get silver eff
it is made legal tender? Eff silver wus
ez plenty ez bricks, wat hev you got to
git any wv it with?"
'TroO, G. w." wuZ my answer; "but
can't you see that to hev silver wood re-
lieve the deter class? Even now. afore
it is legal tender, it's only worth %
cents on the dollar, and when the coun-
try is floodid with it it will go still low
er. Then we-or rather sich NV us ev
hev property to raise money on-kin
pay off"
"Eggsactly So" retorts Bascom; t'yu
kin pay me for the good, honist likxer
Nv mine, which you have consumed in
coin w'ich is less than the dollar 700
promised. All rite. But look here
come in here all Nv 700. I want 700
silver men to know exactly wat 700 are
rushin into
And this feend led US into the back
rcom-that back room wich contains
the subsistence NV the Corners. There,
in long rows, wuz Bascom's stock.
There, in barrels, piled one on top Nv
another, wuz the delicious whisky Nv
Louisville, Nv different ages, rangin'
from that of two years old to that w ich
he'd just left the still, and wuz scarcely
cold yit Their it lay, and ez my eye
ranged affeckshunately over it I felt if
Good have the drinkin Nv all that lik-
ker 1 would be content to lay down and
a bn Ioc CT
Bascom pointed to an immense tank
witch he he'd erected within few days,
with pipe running in from the roof
II shan't raise the price of likker in
conscience NV bein' paid fer it in de-
preshiated currency" said he
I fell on Bascom's neck in an extacy
w delite, while the others shouted, "Ah
for Bascom."
&c. W." I remarkt, while tears suf-
foosed my eyes, II never placed you
much below the angels, but this genrus
act has histed you 100 per cent. in
my estimashun. Bless you, G. W., bless
YOU
But I'll tell 700 wat shell do. Do
you see that tank?" said he.
May 1 ask wat that is for?" sed.
'eThat tank will fill with rane water"
sei he s"The moment you git 70 payin'
me in silver / shell take out of eech NV
them barrils jest eggsactly three and
one-fifth galloons of lilxker and fill it
with water"
sMerciful hevings,'' we all exclaimed,
s'and your likker SO week now."
'And when silver gifts down to 20
cents on the dollar, l shell take out %
per cent NV whisky and fill her up with
25 per cent. NV water. An so on down.
Ef silver goes up 1 shell add whisky
eggsactly in proporshun. In short. my
vhisky is jist goin' ter foller currency,
ard nuthin' shorter. Yoo fellers w'ich
work for wages may swet, but / WON'T
But yooI inkreas the size NV yoor
glasses sed I.
Not eny. But you may drink twict
ez meny times to git the same amount
NV likker ez before, by payin' for eech
drink"
And Bascom stawlked hawtily back
and TUX his posshun behind his bar.
There wuz consternashun in the Cor
ners sich ez I hev never seen. Their wuz
a hurried consultashun at the Deekin's
house, and I sejested that we emanci-
pate ourselves from the dominyun Nv
this tyrunt by startin' a grosery Nv our
own. on the joint stock prinsipel, w'ich
vuz agreed to, each man agreein' to
contriboot SO to the captie stock.
w'ich wood be enuff to by barril or 2
for beginnin'.
We wuZ enthusiastic till we come to
ballotin' for the man to keep the place,
when it wuz found, instid Nv my bein'
chosen yoonanimously, ez / eggspected
to be. that every man he'd voted fer
himself. Ez not a soul NV them would
resede, the Skeem wuz blocked rite
there and finally he'd to be abandoned,
and we went back to Bascoms and
submitted. That tyrent hez us.
Wv course we can't stand .lil1ker di-
lcotid in that manner. We are willin'
enuff to diloot the currency with w'ich
to pay for likker, but we want our lik-
ker full strength. We coodent help it,
but that mite we signed and sent to
our representative a remonstrunce agin
the silver bill. The Corners is row for
a honest currency. Wood, 0 wood that
we he'd sum NV it.
PETROLEUM v. NASBY.
FinanSeer.