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DAILY REPORTER VOL. II. NO. 1 M c M innville , O regon , S aturday . J anuary The Daily Reporter, Entered in the Postoffloe at MoMinnvillefor Transmission Through the Mails as Sec ond Class Matter. ----------o---------- D. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE. ». C. IKFLAN» A Co., PI HLIKHEHN. T he D aily R epobteb is issued every day in the week exoept Sundays, and is delivered in the oity at 10 oents per week. By mail, 40 cents per month in advanoe. Rates for ad vertising same as for T he W eekly R epobteb . Beak & Jok Printings We beg leave to announoe to the public that we have just added a large stock of new novelties to our business, and make a special ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Note Heads, Statements. Business Cards. Ladies Calling Cards, Ball Invitations (new designs) Pro grammes, Posters, and all descriptions of work. Terms favorable. Call and be con vinced. D. C. IRELAND & CO. E. E. GOUCHER, M. D. PHYSICIAN "AND SURGEON. M o M dimvillb ... O beoom . Office and residence, oorner of Third and D streets, next to the postoffloe. DR. I. C. TAYLOR. Late of New Orleans, La., Piles and FiMula a Spe ciality. Consultation firee. No Cure No Pay. gP" Offioe with H. V. V. Johnson, M. D.; MoMinnville, Oregon. SAS. M’OAIN. WVSLSY. McCain & Hurley, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW AND NOTARIE» PVB1.KJ, Lafayette, Oregon, Especial attention paid to abstracts of title and settlement of ee^iee ia probate Offioe—Jail bnidinptt up stairs.__________ Mrs. M. Shsulden. Fashionable Dressmaker. gp*The Taylor System of Cutting and Fit- ting employed. ______ Third street, Next to Bishop A Kay's store, McMinnville. Or. -=McMiMTilh Sr«?. - ■air Cwttiwg, Stoaviag aad »baas, paaim* Parlar. 15c SHAVING 15c. C. H. FLESIS8, Proprietor. (Bui BBSS nr to A. 0. Wyndham.) Ladies and children’s work a specialty. have jast added tomy parlor the largest and ftnost stock of cigam ever la this city. Try them ». C. IBELAN» 4k €•., Fine Job Printen, ■cMianvill«, •rogo«. A Thought BI K. L. B. W. I. Drifting down Time's river— Swiftly the hours oouie and go. Yesterday, now and forever Fade into the sunset's glow n. Into the dream-land cf mystery, Over the meadows sweet, Across the deep gulfs of adversity. To the land where angels meet. • in. Brightly the stars are beaming From high in the vaults o’erhead: “ Blessed be the dear one's sleeping,’’ Are the words the sweet lips said uu. As she knealt in prayful position With her tiny faoe upturned to God; Herself a beautiflu vision Floating 'neath the golden orb. V. Came a low sweet voioe saying. “ Holy Father in Thy right, (Then I knew that she was praying), Guard and bless them all. to-night ” The Uncle Ezra Papers. E ditors R eporter : Having been on a visit to McMinnville, the business center of Old Yamhill, I was vividly reminded that the holidays are upon us as indexed by the magnificent display in the several business houses. Home are ask ing, why are these displays made? The gentlemen making them want you to under stand that they are energetic and enterpris ing. It is no trouble to display goods, and some of you would not know that such ar ticles could be bought this side of Portland or New York, if they did not expose them to your gentle gaze. Hence many might have been rushing off to Portland or New York to buy holiday goods. Just compute the saving in railroad fares and ex|M>nses for each of you having to go to either place. The saving to Old Yamhill has been im mense. Besides, all the business men have been there, and learned the lesson; hence they have shown enterprise and sagacity by securing early a line of goods that would be a credit to larger cities, even those having more metropolitan airs. Because these dis plays are made you are not compelled to buy all you see; but it is done so you may select and purchase at home such things a* you each desire at about the same price as you could have bought them abroad. Any who do not fee) able to buy can admire the display; it coats you nothing. Each must determine for themselves what to buy and when and where to purchase; only buy and sell at home as much as possible; don’t go off to secure what has been brought here for sale, or what has been produced here to sell: by so doing we are working to our mu tual interests, and retaining the money in the county to be kept circulating among us. No saving in price can or will compensate any single buyer in giving or sending abroad for hie or her purchases. This is equally true of all. whether producers, la borers. editors or professional men, al) who expect patronage from others must practice what they preach. If. you don’t practice what you preach you have no right to oom plain of others for doing what you do. The American people are a pecnliar class. It is said they liked to be humbugged. It Memo Yamhill people are no exception to this rule, not very long since they were by some unscrupulous parties inveigled into risking a large portion of their hard earn ings and the saving of years of toU on a foot race. Owing to the unscrupulous ones going back of the agreements and under standings made and entered into our peo ple when that race was run was left with i. iss 7 emptv sacks, and many owing to businese depression had not fully recovered from their losses, when a tire occurred at Sax's mill destroying not only a large anil valu able mill property, valued at lift.(MO to|?U. **X) partly insured, but also some 22,<XM> bushels of wheat belonging to the farmers in this immediate vicinity. This wheat was well worth ♦ lA.tXX). Next came the failure of Messrs. Blackburn A Peckham of Carlton, which entailed serious losses, not only to the firm ami the wholesale Imuses but also the farmers having stored wheat there, many of them not receiving their pay. and as the matters are now in litiga tion and no telling when or where it is to emi, the loss cannot lie estimated. Ami lastly, but by no means tlm least here only recently ‘here appeared in Portland a spe cialist. a ciiarlatait or moi.(chuck, a miracu lous healer, riding around in a golden chariot. It was not in this instance a plug hat or kid gloves, that golden chariot was the b»it used to catch suckers, w hat a grand success was made of it if we were tu judge the state at large by old Yamhill, It is variously estimated that citizens of old Yamhill spent no less than from three to five tlion sand dollars in going to see that wonderful Doetress, not for medicine or for teeth pulled, but for their railroad fares and other expenses; what was the necessity of this, are not the doctors here good doctors, all tell me they are, and judging from tlieir success all must admit they are well up in their profession and are worthy of your confidence and esteem, why leave those whom you have tried and known so long for those unknown and un tried. The question is, are not all or most all mushroom specialists bilks! I believe its admitted that in the professional life a large majority are, if so in the professions why may it not be equally so in business life' Let others answer, some may argue it is no ones business but the ones interest ed, with all such 1 shall most respectfully differ. It was not those alone who lost on that foot race. It was not alone those who owned that mill that was burned nor the wheat that was burned in that mill, nor was it alone those who lost by that failure at Carlton, neither was It alone those who spent their money so foolishly in patronis ing that golden chariot business, the loss was upon the whole community just in proportion to the amount of money lost to the several citizens with railroad fares and other expenses added, just to that extent did tbs community loose To illustrate, suppose the losses on the foot race to ag gregate. |ft,(MX>; the losses on mil), wheat ft C., 996.000; the losses <m Carlton failure, 96,000; the losses on chariot show 96.OUO; We have a grand total of 940.000 taken out of circulation in old Yamhill, still people wonder of the lack of money in circulation, wonder at the dull and pinching times, the depressions in business ftc. Is 11 not one of the strongest arguments that could be used to prove the fertility of our soil and the producing power of our people to sus tain a community who practice economy and purchase experience at so great a sacri fice. How long will it be before our people learn experience enough to stop soeb prac tices. and to practice only such principles as have been tried and proved to the most successful principles governing all the bus iness relations of life. Home time ago the Reporter published an article on sentiment in trade but confined it to the buying and Miling of grain, when it purtook of the bearish side and It was all buy without any regard to price paid or the fundamental principle of supply and demand which gov erns all things whether its wheat or other products of ths farm or land itself or the mercbaahise bought and sold by your merchants. For instance, If the buying sentiment is on lands whether farms or town lots.made so by railroad booms or other causae, ite all buy and its bought without regard to price or what use is to be made of PRICE TWO CENT». it or what margins is to be got out of it, just as was the case in our metropolis Portland; only n short time agoeverbody seemed to think and say town lota or lands hi ami around Portland was u good buy no difference wlint you paid or where it was m> long a* It was within dx or eight miles of IXirtlaml, East Portland, Albina, St. Johns or Vancouver, so our people catching the buying on sentiment »rutin bought at fearful rates and at fearful price.». Soon the bubble bunded ami it as sumed the bullish or selling side the mo ment prices la*gaii to fall. Those bolding these town lots as securities lor money obtained to buy with in consequence of their losses in tranaeontinental having swept from the stronghold of our capitalists five or six millions of their money. Their necessity become great and all were com- pel led to call in the means they loaned the parties, hence from necessity and tear of further losses they liecome bulla and cry, "Hell; sell the worthless stilt!’;’' ami it is sold with n vengeance. The losses are immense and is equal to your deal on wheat. Does it not seem as though our buaiuem men ought to have foreseen and warned the people that three prices were exorbitant? that no oity of the proportions as laid out by the real estate danism, and those interested in booming it, oould be sustained with the ureaeul population of Oregon, and that time alone oould build the two together. That it would require a lifetime or more, for Port land, or the state, to grow to proportionsraf- Aoient to spread over suoh an extent of coun try and to make land thus valuable. If soaue one pooled would take the trouble to com pute the moneys lost to this state in this land and railroad gambling noheme, the wonder would be still greater why so few failed en tirely, and why and how it iathat wo should, in an few venm, have recuperated from such a fearful loasaa. The same lias been true with reference to your farm lands. It was buy, mortgage what you had and buy more, ami when the depression came and wheat tumbled to HU eta., It was very a hard strain on some for their lands tfl produce wheat enough at this price to pay the coat of production and interest on your mortgages. Now that lietter times are promise«!, better tallies are here, you better economise, save enough to pay off these mortgages and improve your credit by keeping a bank reserve. In one of niy articles 1 spoke of some progress having been made, it has In some things, in the instter of economy our fatliera and mother's ideas were to purchase ami cut the cloth according to the purse. When they went to town to buy something to make the boys clothes with, if the puree is light, they bought tow and if they did no* get cloth enough to cut shirt and pants both, the boys wore a tow shirt and wen* without shoes or pants. The girls and mothers wove tlieir own garments. When we got to Oregon in the Forties our pio neers practiced very much the same rulee of economy, whether they came from Mis souri or elsewhere, ths only difference be ing instead of a tow shirt we wrapped our blankets around us, either going barefoot or trading for moccasins How ia It now days; our boys must have not only tbs full suit, but pants of high price, costing 910 to 915 s pair, with spring bottom er dude cut and all, when you pay about 99 or 96 for the panto and the balance tor tbs style. We do not mean by this to differ with any wbo can legitimately afford such style, but slightly admonish those who can not I have beard some were practicing economy to that extent they are not able to discriminate at fattening time their own from their neighbors bogs, and get their neighbors hogs io their pens to fatten and kill. Now if you would practice the <r site of this and Instead make the ml