PORT ORFORD POST.
T h e E m ig r a tio n fro m
E u ro p e .
as here our acreage is so vast, and
the conditions of climate are so
D uriug the last five months of
THURSDAY, - JUNE 30, 1881. this year 182,108 immigrants were various, that general disaster to
the crops is now next to impossible.
lauded at Castle Garden. The cor­ Every year must be a good aver­
responding period of last year was age year, taking the country as a I
1’O V E K T Y 'S P E T I T I O N .
remarkable for for the activity of whole. English immigration, now
There is an organization in New immigration, but the arrivals for
extensive, is likely, therefore, to
York known as the “ Im pecu­ 1881 exceed those for 188(1 by 46,- continue to increase while pros­
nious C lub,” composed of poets, 772. They have steadily increased perity reigns in the United States.
The Scandinavian countries are
scholars and, as they express it, month by month,and in May alone
they were much more than half the
“ statesmen out of a job.” We total number for the first five now sending us from fifty thous­
and to a hundred thousand immi­
n n n t below a petition to the Board months of last year.
grants yearly. Tho causes which
How long this unparalleled im­ induce (hem to cross the ocean are
of Aldermen, by this Club, to bo
allowed certain privileges in the migration will continue, it is, of permanent. They inhabit regions
course, impossible to estimate.
City Hall Park on the occasion of The European social conditions where life is necessarily hard,
and they long for a more genial
a grand re-union pending:
which produce it are not. however, climate and a richer soil. The fa­
G entlem en : That impecuni- likely to be immediately improved cilities for their immigration have
c-sity is one of the w orld’s hard and we may reasonably expect that greatly improved of late years, and
facts, emphatic and incontrovert­ during every Spring and Summer the enthusiasm by which it has
ible, you yourselves are well for many years to come the arriv­ been distinguished was never A n I n d e p e n d e n t J u u i-n n l, d e v o t e d to t h e ln te r e a t» o f t h e M o u tlirrn C onst
aware. If you had not been aware als of new settlers from abroad stronger than now. They must
C o m itiv a G e n e r a lly , a n d o f t u r f y C o u n ty P a r t ic u la r ly
of it before your election as hon­ will be more numerous than in the continue to come in vast numbers.
past.
Every
immigrant
success­
orable members of our municipal
Irish immigration has also much to
Legislature, wo believe there is no fully established here draws many encourage it, though it is no long
room to doubt that some of your more to our shores. Inform ation er the greatest which we receive.
c onstituents have made you ac­ of his prosperity, usually, of
There is every reason, therefore
course, much exaggerated, efosses to expect that even the enormous
quainted with the fact since.
Impecuniosity is honorable. crosses the Atlantic and reaches num ber of arrivals for tho first
Adam never handled a greenback the community whence he came, five months of this year will be
r.o ra trade dollar, and no well reg­ and serves as a stim ulus to immi­ exceeded next year, ami that the
ulated, even-balanced man can go gration.
total num ber for the decade upon
'ack on old Adam. Eve never had
The great majority of the G er­ which we havo entered will be
•925 to pay for a S pring bonnet, mans especially who have come double that for the period between
«and she was the finest lady of her over here within the last twenty- 1870 and 1880. 'That is, it is not
day. In the limited ley icon of live years have vastly improved improbable that d urin g the next
onr original parents tlier« was no their condition, There is no ques- ten years between four and five
such word es “ boodle.”
tion about that, They have not millions of im m igrants will be
Im pecuniosity is a social condi- only escaped the painful exactions landed on our shores, or about
: ion that knows no geographical of militarism, but they have also half ¡is many ¡is wo received d u r­
lim its; it is universal, and, there­ gained in material comfort, am ing tho whole sixty years from
fore, ought to be rospected.
many of them have possessor 1820 to 1880.—N. Y .'Sun.
Impecuniosity has dono more for themselves of wealth. W hat they
cae world than wealth has ever have done has been told to their AA I I . I, T H E P IIO N E C U T IO N S I I I
done, for if all men were wealthy townspeople in Germany, and
1 'ltls s lio
-¡one would work, and human pro­ therefore, as soon as this country
gress would come to a standstill. began to recover from the prostra
A W ashington w riter in tho N
'Ve know that an indisposition to tion of business, a desire for em Y. Sun is very positive that prose­
labor frequently accompanies the igration pervaded. Three times
divine gift of genius, and henee as many Germans camo over in cutions against the Star Route
unless genius felt the pricks and 1880 as in 1877, for instance, and thieves will not amount to much if
spurs of im pecuniosity and a h u n ­ the num ber landed in 1873 was Mr. Garfield can help it. Ifo says
gry stomach, you, gentlemen, greater than that in 1875 by over
No penitentiary has yet been
could nevey have the superb ami one hundred thousand.
built that will hold * Dorsey,
___ luminous literary treasures that
We see from these figures that Brady or Elkins inside the walls
uIT the broad shelves and book­ tho emmigration was prom ptly af­ for Star Route frauds, while 'Gar­
cases of your individual libraries. fected by the business condition of field sits in tho W hite House or
Im pecuniosity is honest and res­ the country. When the times Blaiuo remains in tho Department
pectable. I t never wrecked a rail were bad it fell off greatly, but as of State. Remember the prosecu­
•oad nor fattened on a Star-route they improved again it again he tion is in tho hands of irresponsi­
contract. If it had,it would instant­ came active. This is evidence that ble agents. Remember the Attor
ly cease to bo itself, out of pure the desire to seek homes in the ney-General has abdicated his
shame.
Republic is always strong among proper function in tho “ great
Im pecuniosity has its rights. If the Germans, hut that they p ru ­ case.” Remember that the A ttor­
it can’t sit down every day to a dently choose a favorable time for ney of Boss Shepherd’s Ring gov­
Delmonieo dinner, it has the right making their start in the New ernm ent has been made a special
io go to Oliver H itchcock’s or Cof­ World. A very great p art of them Assistant Attorney-General for
fee P at’s for pork and beans, or come hither with sufficient capital this occasion. Remember that the
e ven go hungry. I t has also the to establish themselves, and they wires of the Court connect with
right to sleep out under the broad, are more cautious than tho im­ tho W hite House wires. Aud do
blue heavens, if it has not the migrants of some other countries, not forget, above all things, that
price of a b ed ; and it has the right who usually transfer merely their the juries, grand and petit, are to
to bid this world good-by without m uscular strength.
They take bo chosen by tho President’s p er­
<» tear, and, looking down from the advice, and cross tho ocean with a sonal friend. G rant forbado the
piazzas of heaven, smile a smile of definite object, and when they conviction of H arrington for the
pity on the money slaves who op­ think they can best use their capi safo burglary, and welcomed him
pressed it here below. These last tai. The German authorities may as a guest at tho W hite House in a
two rights aro God-given and in­ try to cheek them by stories of distinguished
company.
W ill
alienable.
probable misfortune in the United Garfield do less for Dorsey, Brady,
Gentlemen, you, as popular rep­ States, bu t they rely instead on and tho rest of them? We shall
resentatives, should lean toward tho reports they get from their see.
«mpecuniosity. It is ever in the friends already here.
m ajority; elects its ticket every
So long, therefore, as our crops
Spanish history says that a ship
time.
continue to bo good, ami our b u si­ sent to South America in 1800 to
Gentlemen, our club is a large ness to be active and prosperous,
tribute from tho colonies
one. Its active members are men we are likely to see a steadily in­ collect
of Spain was sunk near the mouth
well known— to their creditors; and
uring stream of German immi­ of tho Rio do la Plata, with nine
its honorary members count by the gration, which now is the heaviest million dollars on board. The
millions. The sun never sets on that pours into tho country. The money is supposed to I io to-day at
the Im pecunious, and the silvery Bismarck empire has consolidated tho bottom of tho ocean, in a
moon, if rolled up to the door of may be strong, and it may be dom­ stronn iron safe. An expedition
some mighty m int and turned in ­ inant in Europe; but. tho German ms just sailed from Philadelphia
to coin, would not afford a ten- leople are neither happy nor to recover this treasure. Tho lead­
oent piece—the price of two beers prosperous, if we take tho classes er is ('apt. Chas. A. Jones, who
—to each qualified member.
lependent upon labor, and they ¡as already made a fortune in tho
These considerations will, we were never Avere so anxious as now South American wrecking busi­
feel assured, be quite sufficient to to get away from their country.
ness. Ho goes in an iron steam­
suggest to vu.ir expansive minds
The depression of the English ship, supplied with apparatus for The POST Establishm ent being Supplied
the wide spread infiuence and im ­ agricultural interests is something removing the deep mud supposed
W ith tho L atest and Bost Stylos of Job Typo,
mense power of im pecuniosity, from which plainly there can be to cover the dollars.
and you will, no doubt, see the po­ no recovery. The farmers can­
litical wisdom and judicious judg­ not withstand American compe­
An Ohio paper says that the
W o Solicit Orders for W ork in th a t Lino.
ment of adopting the inclosed res­ tition. The tilling of tho soil„in w riter of an article in May Jlur-
olutions.
England grows less and less prof­ »er’s, who ascribed his recoverv
We remain, gentlemen, your Im ­ itable, and there is always uncer­ rom pulmonary disease to tho air
pecunious fellow men. Signed on tainty concerning the crops. A of the Adriondacks, is, sad to say,
behalf of the club,
tad season affects tho whole of now dying of consumption.
W illiam G eooiieoan .
tho comparatively small region
President and Treasurer.
which the farmers cultivate, wherc-
Commodore N utt id dead.
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