The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-19

| less than the dollar you promised. All rite.
! But look here-come in here, all Nv 700. l
want 700 silver men to know exactly wat 700
are rushin' into"
And this feend led US into the back room
that back room which 0ontanes the subsist-
! ence of the Corners. There in long rows Wuz
! Bascom's stock. There, in barrils, piled one
| on top NV another, wuz the delishus whisky Nv
/ Louisville, Nv different ages, ranging from
! that Nv two weeks old to that witch he'd jist
| LETT the still and was scarcely cold yit. There
1t lay, and as my eye ranged affeckshunatety
| over t l felt eff Good hev the drinkin' NV all
| that l1kker wood be content to lay down and
die when the last drop wuz gone.
Baseom p'inted TO an immense tank witch he
ned erectd within few days, with pipe
running in from the roof.
81 shan't raise the price Nv ikker in conse-
kenee Nv bein' paid for it in a depreshiated
! currencyV sed he.
fell on Bascom's neck, in an extacy Nv de-
! COMP
&C. W. -" remarkt, while teers SUPPOSED nv
| eyes, 81 never placed you much below the an
| gels, but this generous act has histed 700 q
hundred per cent in my estimashun. Bless
| 700, G. W.. bless yoo."
! "ButPl tell you what shell do. by 700 see
| that tank?" sed he.
"May ask wat that is for ?'' / sed.
| That tank will fill with rRneWater," sed he
"The moment 700 get to payin' me in silver 1
shell take out Nv each nv them barrils list eggs
ackiy three and one-hfth gallons Nv likker and
| NIL 1t with water"
| "Mercitul hevingsP' we all exclaimed "and
/ yoor Hkker so weak nowp'
| And when silver gifts down to rs cents on
the dollar shell take out 25 per cent NV
| whisky and fill her up % per cent of water
And so on down. Ell silver goes up shell add
| whisky eggsackly in proporsben. In short,
/ my whisky is jist agoin' to foller CURRENCY
| and nothin' shorter. 700 fellers witch work
| Tor wagis may SWEET, but WON'T
! But YOGI increase the size of yoor glasses ?'
! sed 1.
Not eny. But 700 may drink twice ez
many times to git the same amount NV drunk
ez before, by payin' for each drink"
And Baskom stalked hawtily back and took
his posishen behind the bar.
ez hev never seen. Their wuz hurried con-
sultashun at the deekin's house, and 1 sejested
! that we emancipate ourselves from the domin-
yum Nv this tyrant by startin a grosery Nv our
own, on the joint-stock principle, which wuz
agreed to, each man agreein' to contribbit $40
to the capital stock, which would be euuff TO
| buy barl or two, for beginnin.
We wuz enthusiastic till We come to bal
loun' for the man to keep the place, when it
musiy, es eggspected to be, that every man
he'd votld for hisself. Ez not a soul nv them
would RESIDE, 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 course we can't stand likker dilootid in
that manner. We are willin enuff to diloot
the currency with wich to pay for likker, but
we want our ikker full strength. We coodent
Representative q remonstrance agin' the silver
bill. The Corners is now for honest cur
rency. Wood, o wood, thatw he'd some NV it.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, Finanseer
CoNFEDERIT ROADS (Which is in the State of
Kentucky, January %, 1873.