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.
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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
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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