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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1880)
'3 THE WEST SHORE. May, 188c THE GOOD TIMi: I uMINC. Wlillc the leading papers of the At lantic fin a(V rejoicing OVet the im pic, i dented emigration from Europe, this venr, we tliink tint, in rritiiv (he people of the North Pacific Coast arc destined, in the cm!, to reap a grcatri mOWl of good from such a source than tln-ii Baetern Boigfaboiii Without doubt, the Incoming thoMambj from the Old World will have ICatttrod a OOd ileal of money liefore ever reach ing our own border; lnt it may lie safely predicted that, as a class, thev an nVogal ptoflo, writing for themselves ami their chililren, lusting and abiding homes Mowwhtrt west nf the Rocky mountains. To show 0111 fiiends that we ilo not speak omidv iscdly as to mini hen, we are prepaml (0 state, from statistical IHtfaoritmt, that, sin, e the tir-t of January, l,y emigrants have ai lived at Ilaltimore, alone, against hs than 00 for the MUM Dtriod in 8ta, At New York, Ijataj have ai lived hy steamer and vessel against ll.l ptfor last year. Dining lit- month Of Mai.h, uo Us, (him ji.tS wclll,, do rmigiaul. landed on our ensrM1 M . hoard again! 965 during the same mouth last year. Now, should this tide of vigorous humanity continue t.. How arrow, the Atlantic, at its piesent llux, fix few months loiijjcl, it i not an casv mallei l realise in all its phases, the ehanp which will Ik- InovltaUj wrought in the great commonw ealth ofout land It i not a hltle nanifflllg t.. heai the piopiirtoisnml agents., I (he rtriow tians Atianii, rwntyoiUttluii Haw mj that the cmigiaiit BOW Wtmlng hither waul are far aU.vc the average cla, there Isring very few heads of families anion); (hem who do not t in; a sulhiiemy of leady money In make a plcatant and proapcroua stall in the new laud thev have adopted. A hat vest time has come which oui companies, and land king! have so abttsod the good faith of emigrant, heretofore, that those now seeking homes anions 11- arc exceedingly wary in regard " WOal reports thev read and hear. "Away with your guide-book-and pamphlets," say they; " Send to us sample- of the new-papers and magazine- which are sustained hy your peo ple ami which find lodgment in your families." In giving expression to sueh sentiment- a- tlu-e, we believe pros poi live settler- are entirely correct. About a year ago, a l'uget Sound gentleman pmpo-ed to the emigration societies of the Territory, that a com mon fund he ItH a-ide lor defraying the ISpOIUM of sending specified ncw--papers and magazine- puhlishcd on the Ni ith Pacific t 'oast, to appointed agents throughout the Northwe-tern State-, and hy tho-e agent- to he scattered bmadcill in all those districts whence emigration stieains have their source. The novel proposition wa- taken up and highl) raeommendad by the presi of Eastern and Western Washington. In many cases, the publishers were raatt) to donate, for a reasonable length of time, their weekly is-ues to the im migration societies for such a purpo-e. In-tead of aeeepting this munilicent oiler, the societies rMOItod to the ever lasiing ,. hackneved "pamphlet" baseline of ojicrations, and what has btN the rOMtll ? Thousand- of dollar have bean ipanl in the publication and sending abroad of (hi, sivh- it line, f.u whiehonl) a -mall harvest has thus far batn garnered to compensate the time and money expended. It may not b generally known that Immigration McJatiaf sxbi in the At lantic Stale- a- well as on this coast. They are the com else of ours, ROW. ever ; theii aim and object king to re lieve those Slaie- of (heir surplus pop. ulati.m by Informing the people bj low n mil now halting between two opinions, would become possessed of facts as to the inducements offered by this part of the coa-t, which they could obtain in no other way. Since charity is said to begin ?t home, we will make bold to speak a word for ourselves. Not a number of the West SilOItB has been issued since its inccp tion but it has been a well-spring of ju-t -neb information as thousands are now hungering for in the densely pop ulated districts of the Atlantic, Middle and Northwestern States. As our magazine announces in its own words, to "Literature, Science and Art," is it devoted ; a pure Literature, exhaustive Science, and the liberal Arts. Besides this, it seeks to labor for the best In terests and abiding good of the entire Pacific Northwest, I'u ii i iii 1 1 1 ........ . immigration .dir. and well disposed 1 essential to thaw CmlemDHttin I -at til .tuv aM a 'I . ! I a . p'"" ; niovaiioom western iml Northwestc "pollll ' Itonliei. and light hue. we ravr the i n mlv l putting in few woi,s of ,dvic for the lasting lt-mlit ol all who may lr court incd. ANOTHER CHAPTER 0T KKSOUUCES. It should be an axiom in the economy of human affairs, if it be not so recog nized already, that every able-bodied man should be a self-supporting con itituent of the community in which he resides. This was reckoned a sound principle among the Greeks and Ro mans more than two thousand years ago. It was St. Paul's privilege to lia-t that he was at charges to no man tor a livelihood; and in his second let ter to ihe Thessalonians, he distinctly lays it down as a rule that, "If any would not work, neither should he eat." Now, we can as well conceive of an able-bodied country, as an able-bodied m,n- I" thi- tense, the Pacific North west i- eminently able-bodied, and, be htg,ll should be self-supporting in 1,1 those thing- which may be enumer ated among its resources, either devel oped or undeveloped. Hut to our sub ject. A broom-handle is a very simple Wgandcutsbul a -mall figure in the wmmerca of ,K. world . ani, yet) mU. J0j m are -hipped, every year, the Eastern States to San Fran- ""' thence to this part of the w e have taken ll may he laid down as an axiom tint lie, . : .barge to the now suppoM , u vv of the rtn heai - - ....i , ' It Mil .IIIH III It. 11, I .ttl.l.rt..! I . ""'"-'noils . mvi .! ... Oregon :-..d WaaWnitooeodld I . ' "h . Mity, and feel that omo pains to managers ol lho-c That u a . . i locooung wniru, as a rule, have very mkicIu-., Ii ,i,.tt,hution amon " .-..,-,... r,ii- i,,mii,ni popu.alion whi-nce all (hp M s(Kak advisedly on the subject. is Mist a- u,. .1 .. End . let the saquel show. ;worte than an absurdity. It ' llbcl 0,1 the intemdnable forests am! It-giiimale. t .iHiupiilou. tailroal 1 moment, that ihoysands f f,,,,;,- ' , ;' ':"n l"nvir-"fOregonand Wash- phi. I. .suhM by unm.giatH.n .. u i ,r. ! great i.nm,gia(,n inovcnamtl Ul . i ir ira--.su in mis . irtitxiiv tun nu . Un if tec 1 4 mn-t K ,!,n,Ki If -I Broom-handle. are shipped