Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-12
JUST As GOOD NOW.
what Petroleum v. Nasby of Confed.
crate X Roads snid Of Silver In 1873.

ity.
One thing I'm certain NV, Bascom
amt no finanseer, nor never will be,and
l told him so.
"What is O finanseer?" asked he.
"A finanseer," sed /. assooming the
look nv Dan'l Webster, .'is man wich
kin pay his debts with nothin'-a man
wich can GIT suthin with ,nothin'."
"The Corner, then. is full of finan-
seers." he remarkt, bitterly, castin a
casual glance at his slate wich wuz jist
full enuH to turn over and begin on
tother side. ~
But he hezen't any nv the science Nv
it. wuz argooing with him the other
day in favor NV my noshun NV leather
currency, though I told him silver wuz
much the same thing. and, for example.
/ would assoom that silver wuz to be the
currency nv the fucher.
Now, don't yoo see, Bascom, that eff
I he'd twict ez much money Good drink
twict ez much whisky, and pay for it p
How much ez twict nothin' ?" wu1
the unfeelin' answer 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. II don't see what
erthly difference it's going to make
whether silver is currency or anything
else. How are 700 goin' to git silver eff
it is made legal tender? Eff silver wuz
ez plenty ez bricks, wat hev 700 got to
git any nv it with?'
"Troo, G. w." was my answer
"but can't you see that to hev silver
wood relieve the dettor class? Even
now, afore it is legal tender, it's only
wuth ninety-two cents on the dollar,
and when the country is hoodid with
it, it will 60 still lower Then we--or
rather sich nv us ez hev property to
raise money on-6n pay Of"
"Eggsactly so," retorts Bascom "you
kin pay me for the good, honest ikker
Nv mine, witch 700 hev consoomed, in
coin, which is less than the dollar 700
promised, all nv 700. want 700 silver
men to know exactly W w'at 700 are rush
in into"
And this feend led US into the back
room-that back room wich contanes
the subsistence Nv the Corners. There,
in long rows. wuz Bascom's stock.
There, in barrils, piled on top nv an
other, wuz the delishus whisky Nv
Louisville, Nv different ages, rangin'
A1Oiih thou Nv OWo WCCho Olu W tudu
wich he'd jist left the still, and was
scarcely cold yit. There it lay, and ez
my eye ranged affeckshunately over it,
I felt eff Good hev the drinkin' Nv all
that ikker l wood be content to lay
down and die when the last drop why
gone.
witch he he'd erected within few days,
y,iv> ;,,fy
81 shan't raise the price Nv likker in
conscience nv bein' paid for it in de-
preshiated currency" sed he.
l fell on Rascom's neck, in an extacy
nv delte, while the others shouted,
"Rah for Bascom
sc. w." l remarkt, while tears suf-
foosed my eyes, II never placed 700
much below the angels, but this gener-
GUS act has histed 700 hundred per
cent in my estimashun. Bless 700, G.
W., bless yoo."
"But III tell 700 wat l shell do. Do
yoo see that tank?" sed he.
MAY l ask wat that is for?" sed.
THAT tank will fill with ranewater,"
sed he. THE moment 700 get to payin'
me in silver shel take out Nv eech NV
them barrils jist eggsackly three and
one-fifth gallons Nv likker and fill it
with water"
"Merciful hevings," we all exclaimed,
land poor likker so weak nowp'
"And when silver gets down to rs
cents on the dollar, shell take out 25
per cent Nv whisky and fill her up with
25 per cent of water. And 80 on down.
Eff silver goes up shell add whisky
eggsackly in proporshen. In short, my
whisky is jist agoin' to foller currency,
and nothin' shorter. Yoo fellers wich
work for wagis may SWEET, but won't"
But yoo'l increase the size Of yoor
glasses?' sed 1.
mot eny. But yoo may drink twice
es many times to git the same amount
Nv drunk es before by payin' for each
drink
And Bascom stalked hawtily back and
took his posishen behind his bar.
Their wuz consternashun in the Cor
ners such ez hev never seen. Their
wuz hurried consnltashun at the
Deekin's house and ! sejecsted that we
emancipate ourselves from the domin-
yum Nv this tyrant by startin' grosery
NV our own, on the joint stock principle,
which wus agreed to, each man agreein'
to contribbit $40 to the capitle stock,
which wood be enuff to buy barl or
two, 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. as I eggspected
to be, that every man he'd voted for his.
self. Ez not soul Nv them would
recede the skeem wuz blocked rite there,
and finally he'd to be abandoned, and we
went back to Bascom's and submitted.
That tyrant hez us.
Wv couse we can't stand likker di-
looted in that manner. We are willin'
enuff to diloot the currency with which
20 pay fur ikker, but we want our lik.
ker full strength. We ooodn't help it,
but that mite we signed and sent to our
representative remonstrance. agin' the
silver bill
The Corners is now for an honest cur
rency. Wood. 0 wood that we he'd
some nv it.
PETROLEUM. V. NAsBY, Finanseer.
The Decline of Silver.
There is simple and unanswerable
reason for the decline of silver. Take
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