The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-01-15

Tuesday, January ID. 1878.
FOREIGN COLONIZATION.

FOREIGN COLONIZATION.
Some twenty-five years ago. IN the
CITY of New York, a handful Of German
clerks ard porters got together one
night and organized company to be
called the "German Porters' Associa.
tion," the objects Of which were merely
self-protective and benevolent. That
Society now numbers over seven thou
sand members, has q magnificent office
in the city Of its birth. and correspond
ents in Cincinnati, Chicago. st. Louis,
and ell the principal cities in the heart
of the continent. Membership Is fixed
at twelve dollars per year. payable in
monthly instsllments OF one dollar
each. This money was kept constantly
at interest, and soon began to yield a
large revenue as the society increased
in numbers. At the end of two years
each member was allowed passage
ticket (steersge. of course), in the Bre'
men line of steamers for any one OF his
friends that be might select. The soci-
ETY. grew 80 rapidly that it soon estab-
lished school of its own in Germany;
where boys we're taught French and
English, so that when they arrived in
the United States they could speak three
languages. and keep the American and
English systems of accounts as we'll Is
those of their own country. Of the
Young merchants of New York. in for
eigu trade, not few owe their prese nee
in the United States to the German
Porters' Association"
No man who has noticed the Puget
Sound country can have failed to OBJ
serve the fact that while the soil is Of
unsurpassed fertility. there are yet no
great bodies Of agricultural lands in
sight. The American wants "all out
DOORS" and don't feel like fencing unless
he has 1t least one hundred aid sixty
acres AZ o starter. Your cautious, pru-
dent German, on the other hand, has
never seen q farm bigger than ten
acres. and would regard q quarter Sec
ton a. a principality. He would aim
to get rich, not so much by cultivating
q broad expsnse Of land as by letting
nothing 60 to waste. Mesgre as might
be the first years profit on his labor.
he would still keep peggins away in
the hope of more ample reward for
the future. No mining excitement
would lure him from his little home
after he once got the title-deeds in his
hand; and his labor and tho profit
thereon, would at once become a part
of the country, and a unit in tho sum
total Of its solid weslth.
Therefore, we ask why Colonization
Society, to import mechanics, artisans
and dairymen from Germany to this
Territory cannot be organized upon the
same basis as tho German Porters' As
ISOLATION" Of New York; The Pacific
Mail Company will sell steeragc tickets
from Bremen and Hamburg, via Pana-
ma and San Francisco. to Seattle for
S02, and this would enable many good
workman to get here instead of toiling
all his life for pittance at home. Fix
the monthly dues for subscription at
two dollars, with twenty charter men,
bers; that would give $3.50 at the end
of the first year. besides what interes.
had accumulated on it during the year.
Let four tickets be drawn by allo:meu,
at the end Of the frst year for members
TO remit to their friends, and on the
next annual drawing, those four could
not contest in the drawing. The Society
would soon increase so that tho money
sent back to bring out immigrants
would 60 up into the Thousands. This
would bring us out desirable element
Of population, and the little ten-acre
patches along our creek bottoms would
soon be converted into pleasant homes
The Aurora Colony was . blessing Il
Oregon. and the name Of William kei
will be held in reverence as long as the
Willamette flows onward to the sea
With q little concerted action on the
part Of our German citizens. We coult
s,on have steady stream Of that mos
desirable element Of population pouring
in here from the Fadcriand. Who vii
head the movement
THE editor Of the Dispatch. last nigh
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