People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — The “Cheap Dollar.” [ARTICLE]

The “Cheap Dollar.”

Prison Trusty. Lansing. Kansas.. “See here, oldDutchy, I think you’ve made a mistake! You did’ntgive me as much sugar for my dollar as you gave that hayseed for his.” “Veil, I ust tolt you how dat vas, Mr. Republican Editor: Dot hayseed say his tollar is honest; you say dot silver tollar you bays me ish one dishonest tollar, and not vort more ash 57 cents, and so I gif you ust so much sugar ash you tolt me in your baper dot tollar be wort, See?” “Aw, come off, Dutchy; my silver dollar passes for 100 cents everywhere. Here! give me the rest of my sugar.” “Veil vot you tolt dose beople dot silver tollar be only vort 57 cents?” 1;

‘ ‘Oh, that’s politics, you know The dollar is all right. It is worth 100 cents.

“You ust pick oop dot sugar and get mine store out mit it. Ov you told me dose lies, dem Republican pollyticks is ' lies. Dot vos burty fool make mit dose beoples bout dot pollyticks.” “See here, Dutchy, if you have confidence in the silver dollar, it will go all right; anyone will take it for 100 cents.”

“Veil, if you ust have gonfidence in dot sugar, it go for von toliar’s vort. You git out o’ here or I vissel oop my big dog, and he make you get home so quick like you say Shack Robinson.”