Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-15
theiy brethren Of the mother country,
rrpud. pireff. honored En2iand-

tai and labor. orr welcome ID not ies
enthusiastic Yoa are by 10 means To
FIRST Of your eountrynen TO come owe
the water and align themselves scros
tie continent You have met IN ever,
city. in every torn along yocr line O
travel, rnen and women from the father
land Yo7 viii meet them here The.
have been coming fer many years
adopting oeY cus:oms, setting on
lands, donnina the gsrb Of oar citizen
ship, sharing our properties and I'd
veYsisies. fehting for oor national IN
ss0rity, doing honor 70 themselves an<
the country Of their adoption Hoidins
tender nemsVies Of the homeland, the.
adhere s.renuouAly 10 some old time
honored usages, while at the same tirs
readily accommodating themselves u
the ens:oms. laws and circumstances
Surrounding their new home Repre-
sensatives Of such q people coold not b
otherwise than welcome. And, speak
ing for the vas. body Of our people, not
alone for those Of the country yoo have
traversed, bat for the citizens Of this
Republic, We are very glad to see VOC
over here.
You have passed over a land Vas.
in extent and prolific in resources, a
country capable Of sustaining the sur
plus population Of crowded Europe
without jostiing or friction, with room
to spare. and have come 10 q region in
ferior TO none on earth in soil, resources
and climate. Over all the vast domain
you have traversed floats one flag, ex-
tends one government. You have found
content, peace, and honorable ambition.
You have found sparse police, stand
ing army remarkable mainly for its nu-
nericai paucity, and a total absence of
press espionage. You can tell your
peasant farmers on your return that
here are lands. fruitful in every variety
of natures products, to bs had almost
for the mere asking. You can tell your
young men that when they have attained
majority they Own themselves, can go to
work each for himself, exempt frem
military duty, save only when the gov
eminent of his adoption is in peril.
Your artisans can find q field illimit-
able and scarcely entered. You can for
yourselves Sc opportunities for the in
vestxent of capital. which guarantee
indubitable profit, impossible among
the rivalries Of older and more fully de-
veloped regions. Yen have come from
q land famous for its literature and
learning; where education 10 made CON-
pulsory and the standard Of scholarship
is high, and where the average of edo
estion is the best in Europe. You have
doubtless noted while sweeping toward
the western confines Of our vast Repub-
lilo that in every town and city fine edi.
6ces for education are established, and
in every hamlet and on almost every
cultivated section the pnblic school
house, filled With healthful, bright eyed
youth, adorns the landscape and stands
with opened doors for tina education of
the settlers children. You have seen
among the people of your own race
and blood, who have made their homes
amid the fruitful valleys Of this far
western land, health, content, thrift and
prosperity, and in another generation
you would ses II living Q race Of hardy
men and women, to the manor born.
whose instincts, love and aspirations
are all American.
And 60. gentlemen, you can on return
ing tell 70 the tired and overworked, the
ambitious and enteTprisine, the honest,
intelligent men and women Of your
that these 10 . land awhere
the fierce struggle for existence, which
has come 10 your older and crowded civ
has not yet been born; that
here IN the far west are homes and op-
porsunits rnappreached on earth, and
the blssai n Of . government depend
ing wholly for success, prestige and per-
petuity upon the faithful adhesion and
l,yal efforts of it, citizens; where popu-
lar education is fostercd, public enter
prise stimulated. and, above all, private
rights protected. Through you and BY
you 10 extended 10 the industrial classes,
- veil a. 10 the accumulated capital Of
Of industry and progress, .
oordial invitation 70 come here and
abide With as.
The Representatives of our own Ma
tionA and Btats antonomiss, the men
sslsctsd BY their fellow eiti,sns 10 serve
ths common veal q sxsesAss. hv
makers and asbitseu, ass sasDly vsleems
70 this persiea Of The rspah,ic. We vel
Sons yoa, not - stsaAGsrs, bot - mem
bsrs Of thas va1e as.ay of citizen self.
9oyernoss vhe soohtns - eonstitats
The ne1 hbseal, ~ compiler and pow
aRfd nvvesansnt Upea ~ slobs. We
welcome yss - . psspas essspyiaG IN
aaM paxt saly, 60 - ~ araadsat di-
Visions h ~ domain e go eossea-
0snA We sxvsse 20 10 invss1iaaAs II
yssnsavsa, sAeesagAly. soapssAsadvs.
b - ass1satslytAs pssssa1 soatss. -
lit&sAl sseial anA eeameeuial q this ~
gisa; - taniliaTis yoarsslvss - Il. q
0Ay - vt1A ~ pssdns1a resources and
saUabahtisA 70 jsdGs a IL nssds and 70
dsviss nseheds aad sxssuts plans 10
usss ~ ds0anas q rapidly growing
localities. We expect that yoa vim and
hare In NsRthvss1sen WashinRtoo an
arsa Of lanA and vaAsr unsnrpasssd in
natural aavan1aess and sndsvslopsd ~
sources By any trast Of equal sxtsnt un-
der the deninion Of cur rspablio Or on
the Auerisan continent. And II yuu
% dstsr0iAs. Ne hops that a. reprsssu.
sasives, not Of spseial localities, bat of
tina. undivided whole, called the United
States. you viii lss the fact ~ known