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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
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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
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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.