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u. The Daily Reporter. Meat.................................. Iron and steel................ Sawed lumber................ D. C. IRELAND A CO. PUBLISHERS. Cotton goods ................ Boots and shoes.............. Nub*criptioii Hate*. Sugar and molasses........ By Carrier per week........................ 10 cents $85.000000 FOR OUR PUBLIC (Payable on Saturday.) Public education.............. Single Copy...................................... 2 “ EDUCATION. Home and Foreign Mis By Mail 10 oents per Month (In Advance.) sions ............................ Records of the Internal Revenue Depart $900,000,000 FOR LIQUOR. Kate* for Advert hint ment do not Lie---Figures that are Appalling. Will be made satisfactory to all applicants. McMinnville, Or. - - Meh. 28, 1887 303,000,000 290,(»00,000 223,900,000 210,000,000 106,000,000 155,000,000 85,000,000 5,500,0000 Thus our liquors cost $900,000,- 000, or one-eight more than all ouA- meat and bread ; Three times as much as our iron and steel ; Ten times as much as our public education. Our tobacco costs $600,000,000, or one-fifth more than our bread; Twice as much as our meat an iron ; Three times as much as our boots and shoes ; Seven times as much as our public education ; Our liquors and tobacco costs one billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000), or three times as much as our bread. Five times as much as our meat and iron. Seven times as much as our lumber. Seventeen times as much as public education, and these two items alone cost more than four-fifths of all the rest.— Mrs. Beecroft. NEW TO-DAY. NEW SPRING GOODS That we are a thirsty people is pretty generally submitted, but The Southern Pacific. AT few suspect just how much fluid, A great deal is being said about besides water, it takes to keep the what the SPR Co. “will do” after throats of our population in a it becomes possessed of the nar satisfactorily moist condition. row guage system, as well as the The records of the Internal rev OCR, of this valley. Some things enue bureau throw some light on it may very reasonably be sup the question, and, being officia posed “they will not” do, chief besides, leave no room for doubt amongst which is the construct or dispute. If all the beer drank ion of two or three bridges, un- last year by our people was im CALL neccessary to shortening the haul partially allotted to every man, I between Junction and Portland woman and child in the nation, via McMinnville. It has been in equal quantities, it would give stuted over and over that the each one ten and three-quarter AND SEE THEM. valleys of western Oregon will gallons. To this must also be support a population of 1,000,000, added one and one-fifth gallons and then people will not be as of spirituous liquors. thick as in Ohio or Illinois. The But pursuing these figures a Southern Pacific is going to be little more closely give us other one of the great agencies in fill results worth mentioning. No, Our State Pride. ing up the Wallamet and Ump every man or every women Salem is spending more money pro qua and Rogue river valleys. drinks beer or whisky, and none portionately for public schools than They will do more in this direct of the children. It is safe to as any town in the state. A special tax Hear ye, people of Yamhill county, I trill five and one-half mills was levied ion in one year than the Ul’R sume that one-third of our pop of my fine stock of BOOTS and SHOES by the annual school meeting last sell now on hand at ten per cent discount, and and NPR will in five. The SI’R ulation, or about twenty millions week.—Oregonian. my people are not philanthropists, of our citizens, absorb all the Badly mistaken. Pendleton has lev Large, New and Ele ied a six mill tax, and would have but they are sound businessmen strong drinks of the country. levied more,'which would have been gant Stock is en route, will be sold at a profit of and they are residents of the Pa This would make the allotment collected readily, had it been needed. That ten per oent. There is cific coast Unlike many rich men of beer to every drinker at least East Oregonian. ONLY The Dalles, at the last public meet BOOT and SHOE store in McMinnville in Portland, they are not afraid thirty-two gallons and nearly ing. levied a tax of seven and one- One where yon can get your moneys worth, and half mills. Who is ahead now? Dalles that is at Deilschneider’s. Come and see roe. to invest a few dollars unless they four gallons of whisky. Next door to Yamhill County bank. Times Mountaineer. can see a certain 10 per cent, at But they indulge in other lux Astoria levied a nine mill tax some F. DEILSCHNEIDEK the end of one year. The build uries also. Enough cigars ?re time ago, and collected 98 per cent, of R. B. HIBBS. ing of the Hotel del Monte at smoked in the country to give it. Next.—Astorian. Montery is an example of i isking forty-two to every inhabitant, be From all the above it appears a large sum for a distant future sides several cigarettes and three that the principal cities of Ore Third St., McMinnville, Or. return, and it came. The SPR and a quarter pounds of chewing gon are proud of their public are going to boom Oregon just tobacco. It is estimated the cost schools, and willing to give them •O as they have boomed California. to the American people of drink liberal support. It strikes us ing and smoking, if equally dis that McMinnville should go Is still adding to his large and well Geu. Bullers report concerning tributed among the portion of ahead in point of beauty and selected stock of patterns for spring landlordism in Ireland was dia our population which does drink adornment This city certainly metrically opposed to the interest and summer wear. and smoke, would give an average has natural advantages second of his employers, and that’s what ----- o ■ cost to each of $57, or enough to to none, which could be very ’s the matter. He frankly told buy all the food they can con easily utilized to make it the Suita made to order at lowest living them that in the counties where sume in a vear. The army ration handsomest city, if not on the rates. an extra-legal refuge has most cost the government $38 per an coast, at least north of Califor frequently been sought there is num, and it gives the soldier nia. And these advantages no such thing as law for the poor should be made use of. The more than he can • eat. In short. 7 and it is a mockery to tell such the drinking population con city council should make an an that they must first “look to the sumes enough beer, tobacco and nual appropriation of an amount law” for relief. whisky to buy them food supplies sufficient to put the streets in E. W. ALLEN. The Oregon-fur company, in (Successor to H. Hinson.) presentable shape, and to keep for the entire vear. corporated in this city, have a Wholesale and Retail Dealer In But study the following recent them so. A very small apppro- Farffl. Garden, Flower and Tree Seeds license to kill ever fur bearing ly complied by a Hartford con priation would do this. Prop —ALSO— erty should be secured for a pub animal in the country in season, temporary as showing how we lic park; we need better school Frnit, Shade and Ornamental Trees, Garden ait if they can. They have already spend our money. buildings, and all that; what if Orchard Tools, Etc. ’ furec a mink, a coon, and an Liquor . captured $900,000,000 it does cost a-bit-a-piece around. Send for Catologue. otter )r;land have only been organ- Tobacco 600,000,000 There can he no pockets in our 171 Front Street, Portland. Oregon. O^en°r Mle *D •VIoMinnTil,e bY Chari«* ized, i-i’iTOutsix weeks. Bread . 505,000,000 shrouds. * F. W. Redmond’s BOOTS I SHOES V MERCHANT TAILOR, Give Him A Call. SEEDS.