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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