The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-07-31

Nasby the First Populist.


The following is an extract from
Nasby's letters written in 1878 refer
| ring to the political questions OF that
day. which presents a new financial
scheme, and is little amusing:
"But es we want to pay, we must be
furnisht with suthin to pay in. Silver
amt agoin to do it, for how kin we git
the silver? Eff our notes wood git sill
yer, and other people wood take that
silver at any discount, then it wood
anser, for eff ther is any one thing that
. Cross-Roader delites in, it is givin
his note. We wood even 60 so fur ez
to sekoor em by endorsement. Iwood
endorse Deekin Pogram's paper and he
wood endorse mine, and we wood all
endorse for each other, eff it wood
soothe the minds NV the lenders and
make EN- any more contented. Re
pudiashun is jist ez easy and vastly
more comprehensive and all-embracin
In its effex than any sich parshel re-
leef ez debasin the currency. Ef they
hev mortgages and see fit to foreclose,
let em. A dozen men with shot guns
kin easily hold the minyuns Nv the
law at bay, and by the time dozen or
more Nv the graspin oppressors hev
the tops Nv there heads blowd off, they
will begin to remember that the debter
class hev rites that will hev to be re-
spectid.
"But there amt no yoose Nv talkin
NV this. The public lack confidence
in us. / don't suppose / Good go to
any Nv the money centres Nv the
world and borrow a hundred thousand
dollars on my own name, with the
endorsement Nv the Deekin. / never
Good find any one more conidin than
to lend me 1892 at one vencher.
"Wat We want is money that we
kin git hold uv-that everybody kin
git all he wants Nv. Eff my sejestion
Nv maxim leather dollars is rejected by
a unwise generashun wich don't rec
o.nize their benefactors, why then let
us hey suthin wich is at once substan-
shel and kin be made plenty My
plan is this:
"Give every corporashen the rite to
ishoo jist ez much money ez it wants
to, based upon the faith Nv the corpor-
ashen wich ishoos it. For instance,
the corporashen NV Confedrit X Roads
ishoos its scrip to jist sich an amount
ez it chooses, and distribits it pro rata
among It's citizens. That scrip shell be
legle tender for everything, and any
one refoosin to take it shell be i'm
mejitly taken out and hung. Some
sich legislashun ez that wood be neces-
sary to inspire confidence.
.The effeck wood be miraculous.
Then we wood all hev money, and
Good pay the bloatid bondholders with
out trouble. We shood hev money
with wich to stimulate enterprise and
give the spirit Nv progress wich he
longs to the American character full
scope to run and be glorifed. Then
we Good bid railroads, and factries and
distilleries, and go ON in a way that
wood astonish the effete governments
NV the Old World. Then wood there
come period Nv prosperity onto us
that wood make up for the depreshun
NV the last four yeers, and things wood
be smooth agin.
"This is better than the Silver bill,
or anything that / know Nv. Moon
issipal bankin is the remedy for our
finanshel woss, and it is the only thing
that will save us. Let the friends NV
silver abandon their skeem and come
to the support nv whine Silver is only
a parshel relief-my idea is complete.
With such money / Good pay off
Bascom and hey enuff to live on to
the last dav NV my life"