Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-01
Coming Events.

GASoa0AAy Al AShoAouS ANNSSee ~ b~Ao
war abroad with hard times and
starvation at home, will doubtless
induce an increased tide of immigra-
| ton from that country to our own.
This, at least, is the opinion of lead
ing business men on both sides of
the Atlantic. Our British friends
! will gladly part with several millions
Of their broken-up tradesmen and
idle mechanics, now that such a
business decentralization exists with
in their borders. These elements
will probably compose the great bulk
of the emigration wave, if possibly
they may have saved up enough
money to pay passage expenses.
Years ago, when New England was
only sparsely settled and the Middle
States constituted the far west, q
hundred ship loads of settlers could
have found pleasant homes within o
few hundred miles of New York and
Boston. 1t is not so now, however.
With the exception of some of the
Southern States, the country from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi river
may be said to be replete with cities
and villages we'll backed by an in
telligent and industrious rural pop
ulation. From the Mississippi to
the Nevada range on the South, and
the Cascades on the North, there is
a kind of neutral ground upon which
settlers do not like to stop longer
than to pitch their tents and strike
them again, and the song they sing
is,
I'm pilgrim and stranger,
can larry but night"
The "Union" once implied the
Atlantic coast. In time it was
the Atlantic coast and the "Fal
West;" now it is prominently and
, jointly the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. Hence, people coming from
, Europe or, as we colloquially ex
, press ourselves, from the " States,
, are getting into the habit OF ignor
ing the great plains; acting, itwould
, seem, upon the conviction that, tt
, comply with Horace Greeley's in
junction TOGO west simply mean
, to stop not till they strike Pacif,
tide-water. But all we have said
thus tar, is entirely preliminary
, We started ouG to show that tn,
{ great stream of immigration, dur
ing the coming Spring and Summer
will have very few reflections befor'
reaching the Pacific slope. If thi
point be we'll taken, California Ore
gon and Washington Territory viii
stand in the way of receiving larg'
: accessions to their population. L
} will become our people, then, to pu
, forth all legitimate efforts to secure
their own share of this great influx
of Humanity While our emigra
, ton societies lsave done much in thi.
direction, much remains to be done
by private and individual effort. W.
have sug gested the plan of increasing
;. the eastern circulation of our leadine
newspapers. We trust that we ARE
not disposed to be clannish in this
, business; ON the contrary, we main
tain aud assert that what is good fol
one part of our Territory is good
us all And to this end we would
renew the suggestion of scattering.
like Autumn leaves, our best weekly
papers throughout the eastern anc
} middle portions of the Union. Lee
; these. papers be seat, indiscriminate
iy from the eastern part of the Ter
, ritory and the length aud breadth Of
} the Sound country We know Of nc
: better way of inducing a wholesale
' and healthful immigration into OIL
borders than for the people say, o1
Waila Walla. Olympia, Seattle and
) Port Townsend to jointly raise q
small fund to be applied exclusively
} to the dissemination of half-a-do
of the best weekly newspapers of the
Territory, throughout those portions
, of the Eastern, Middle add North
. western States most liable to contrib
} ute to the immigration stream dur.
ing a year ortwo to come. Immigra.
ton tracts and pamphlets do not sui
inquirers. They sometimes think
they see a big cat under the meal
that possibly such pamphlets are got.
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