Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-12

| A private letter to this journal from
Pittsburg. Penn, informs al as follows:
The following pamed persons left this
city this evening, for your place: j. X.
/ Weitzell and family J. L. Carney and
family, q. Bele, II. Williams, q. Fros'
Messr-. O'Nei!l. Gill, Hanlin. johnson
and others. The accompanying Chron-
icle-Teiegrdph will give you further il.
formation conceraing the party" The
Chronicie- Telegraph said:
A colony # ap,nt y persons will
leave PIt,sbuig today for Seattle, Wash
Tngton Territory. for the purpose Of
making IT. then feture home The party
Is made up wholly of young or middle
aged men with their families: sober,
steady and industrious people, " no hope
10 find in a nev and gro wing country
better reward for their labor, and a
chance to acquire something beyond a
mere living. They are just the class of
people to add 10 the prosperity Of new
State, and such as PittsburR can i'll af-
ford t. loss. Ia conversation last eve
ming With reporter, one of them said:
~ % 10 20 sssk houlos and fortunes for
ourselves and families, aud IL, after q
thorough investigation Of affairs iE
Washington Territory, our report is
favorable, We will be followed by sew
eral hundred of our friends and ac-
qnaintances. Cannot we make a living
here? Well, yes, a sort Of living. But
every year il is becoming more difficult,
AZ the different trades aud avocations
become more and more crowded by for
eign immigrants, giving employers an
opportunity to reduce wages b low the
point where an American. even of hum
BILE pretensions and desires, can live
mfortably. It is impossible for as to
live comfortably aud lay by any pro-
vision for old age, or even for
sickness, and year after year the
struggle for existence grows hard
or. We hear the most encourag-
ing reports from Washington Territory.
and believe 1t is just the place for poor
men to go to. The climate il one Of
the most delightful in the world; there
is work for everybody, and the wages
paid to mechanics are high, while food
and clothing are nearly or quite AS
cheap as here. tell you. sir. immigra-
tion has become a curse instead of a
blessing to the United States. The peo-
pie coming to rs now are Of an entirely
different class from those arriving q
quarter of century ago, taken AS a
mass. Then We got the honest peas mt
farmers and laborers of England, Ire
land and Germany. Now the country
IL filling up with Italians and Hunga-
rians, who are willing to live like beasts
and work for just enough wage to en-
able them to do SO. They are ignorant,
superstitious and brutal; aud can never
be made over into good citizens. We
are actually running away from them
and the consequences Of their importa
tion."
IL Is learned that hundreds of our
more thrifty working men are seeking
homes in Colorado. Dakota and other
far western States and Territories,
moved thereto, i'll most instances, by the
same reasons AZ those going to Wash
inRton Territory. While no other regu-
larly organized colonies are known Of,
they are leaving singly, er in small
groups and the aggregate number thus
lost from the oity's population will be
very considerable for the season. They
go provided with sufficient money to
establish themselves on farms or In shops
of their own. not empty handed, as in
many cases where Eastern people have
tried the West and failed to make homes
for themselves.