The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-05-25
Give Them q Welcome.

There are many strangers in our city,
and in nearly every city, town and camp
in the Territory. These are the skirmish
lines only of the advancing host on its
way to capture our beautiful valleys
with an eye to lay them under perpetual
tribute for the support of the enlight-
ened society. Give them welcome.
They are here for your good as well as
their own, and timely words of encour-
agement and such information as your
experience has gained you. will do much
to smooth the rugged edges of a first in
PRODUCTION at season that is not always
the most inviting. Already we hear of
some made sick by the sight of snow at
this time and have turned their faces
homewards. Such faint hearts, we all
say are not the kind that Montana needs,
even for the secondhand pioneering
that remain to be done. But there are
those, it must be confessed, old timers,
weather. beaten campers on the trail, b"
who take malicious delight in telling
big stories of untimely SHOWS, fearful ex-
posures and narrow escapes, that set the
poor pilgrim shivering for the shelter of
his early home and the soft words of ma
ternal solicitude. While no harm is in
tended more than the rough sport with
which "old salts" welcome the new land
lubber, it is not the only nor the best
welcome that we can give the stranger
within our gates. We do exceedingly
envy for our people worldwide fame
for hospitality, but many assume often
times rough appearance before strang-
ers to enjoy their surprise and embarass-
ment. This is occasionally carried too
far.
Never let one go away carrying false
impressions of the country. Every one
who GENES is helper in the great work
We have undertaken. We all know how
hard this work has been for 10 years past
with a receding time. We have all been
poor with the excess of wealth all about
us. We shall soon be wondering at our
own stupidity when we see strangers
coming in and picking up as valuable
what we have seen so long untouched
that we have really judged it worthless.
Pilgrims can teach us great many
things as we'll as we.can instruct them,
and the intercourse and interchange may
be agreeable and profitable on both
sides. When it is possible help the pill
grim to employment. If you have no
work help him to find some person or
place that needs work. Don't turn aside
coolly and say that you are no intelli-
gence Office. When you know or can
easily find out what would be of value
to many stranger and might set his
weary feet on the sure road to fortune.
Some people recently from the east say
that railroad men in position to know,
estimate that 200, 900 people will come to
Montana this year. The trains leaving
st Paul every day are loaded
down with emigrants, dropping off
all the way through Dakota
but q large share headed for the
Yellowstone valley. We are within safe
bounds to say that $4,000. will enter
Montana to stay within the year, and
that our population when this year ends
will be 1000 or more. A new and
very different era has come and old
things are forever passed away. We
must all do something to adjust our
selves to the new order of things. I'm
less we will be up watching and ready to
breast and direct the new tide We will
be swamped and swept away as cumberers
of the ground like the poor Indian who
has preceded us. The time we have
been waiting for has come. Let it not
be said that we have waited in VAIN
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