The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-10-31
A WE'LL MHRIHED RHBUKH
1 Prominent Mercantile Firm Answers
The Yaporinss Of tho Daily.
DISHONEST STATEMENTS SHOWN UP
The strong Light OF Truth Thrown
ON she Actions and Motives Of che
ssTimes,'--An Established House
That Refused 90 ne Ceercea.

you in advance for permission to employ
measure Of your space in rebuking the
alleged daily newspaper Of this city for
its culpable dearth OF character and it's
indecent disregard for truth and man
hood, We desire to observe that, notwith-
standing its blubbering plant over lack
of patronage and its apparent baseness
in attributing it's palpable failure to mis-
treatment at the hands Of enterprising
men engaged In local newspaper work Of
q legitimate character, We are forced to
the conclusion that the publishers of that
sheet are themselves the most contempt
ible representatives Of noble occupation
1t has ever been our misfortune to meet.
You will pardon us, we are sure, for
being positive about this matter; but we
have quite patiently borne with unEer-
tied abuse from that source, until base
insinuatiou and baser inuendo the
weapon Of the coward--can no longer be
endured in silence. Permit us, there
fore, to note point or two In detail.
In answer to the alleged letter of the
alleged q. H. Smith, of Chicago, who
published his alleged inquiry in the al
legged daily newspaper Of this city, We
said: So we are anxious to get
a cash buyer for our stock, which ranges
from SIS, 900 to 100000" To this state
ment the wriggling daily adds, in brack-
cts: "[Sworn to by the firm last May
and now on file among the assessors re-
turns in the auditors office as being
worth $5,500.l"
In answer to this crushing { p insinu-
alton, let US say that the assessor placed
that valuation on that portion of our fall
and winter stock which remained on our
shelves in April, after our winters BUSH
ness, during which such goods as were In
demand for winter use had been sold
depicting our stock, as we intended it
should, before restocking our house with
summer goods. There is no time in the
year when the cautious drygoods mer-
chants stock is so low in bulk and value
as curing that period intervening be-
tween its winter depletion and summer
replenishment--a fact of which any man
of ordinary business intelligence is aware.
This certainly accounts for our estimate
Of stock at the time the assessor visited
us officially. 1t is source both of
pleasure and profit to rs to be exempt
| from such call at this season OF the
year.
We have been too long in business to
be wheedled in attempting to negotiate
an important sale Of any kind through
such an un -business-like and nondescript
concern as the slothful daily Times has
proved itself to be.
Relative to the Times statement that
1t knew nothing Of the existence OF such
q firm as Otter Bros. in North Yakima,
at the time it printed an alleged inquiry
from an alleged friend in Chicago, we
will say simply that the Times solicitor
had previously been to our store and had
earnestly solicited our patronage for his
paper. No other proof that that state
ment is also lie need be given.
Its pitiful plant that competing news
papermen had approached Us with a
view Of Encouraging our patronage OF the
aforesaid daily Times is equally untrue.
No newspaper man has approached us
with any such proposition at any time;
nor do We believe that any newspaper in
this city has at any time found 1t neces-
sary to increase ito effort for business on
account OF the presence of the daily
Times. Further comparison would be
odious to the legitimate newspaper en-
terprises OF North Yakima.
In short. the entire farce--staged and
managed by the bewildered publishers OF
the unread and unreliable sheet which
alone calls itself a newspaper, 10 only an
evidence OF the feebleness of the effort to
"die-a-bornin,' and it serves only to In.
tensify the contempt Of intelligent bust
ness men for the existence Of those who
live only on the booty Of bluff.
Eleven years ago the undersigned came
here with clean business record and
little capital; and by careful and con-
scientious methods, rendering unto Ce-
sar the things which are Caesars" and
spurning all opportunities OF robbing
Paul 10 pay Peter, they have succeeded
in manner satisfactory alike to them.
selves and 10 their generous patrons.
They have never purposely antagonized
any one, nor have they in any way sought
to displease the veriest stranger to their
house. They are prone to believe that
this 10 the only acceptable course for
honorable business men to pursue In any
legitimate line Of endeavor.
/ AS summary, therefore, il is estab-
lished that the alleged Smith letter is
falsehood; the defense of the alleged
smith and his alleged letter Is a false.
hood; the Times statement that it was
ignorant OF the existence of an exclusive
drygoods house in this city is a false
hood; the Timer assertion that new spa.
per men had attempted to prejudice us
against the alleged daily newspaper is a
misunderstanding could be more effect
i've in producing that result than the
Times itself; in brief, its entire TRADE IA
base upon the rankest ialsehood and
no one knows that better than the Times
publisher. ''''
In conclusion. IL may he .Aa.a -.