Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-12
WELcoMr THn coLoNIsTs


In the stress and strenuosity Of these
political days. filled as they are with
the din OF battle and the smoke OF
contest, people here in Los Angeles, as
well as elsewhere, are a bit apt tc
overlook the fact that this city Is
again a mecca for so many newcomers
that its hospitality Is severely strained
in caring for them. But such is the
case.
The ooIonist inrush for the fall closed
last week. It was record breaker,
The railroads were swamped by it, the
trains were from hours to days late.
The baggage Of newcomers piled up
at the stations actually exceeded those
buildings in bulk In several instances.
The trains brought in more than 1000
day of permanent settlers who come
here TO live-not mere tourist visitors,
but persons who will make their homes
here and become part and parcel of
the city's population, as fast as they
can find places in which to set UP their
household gods.
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her winter tourist influx, now begun.
It brings many thousands, driven out
of the east by hard winters, to this
balmy land of eternal sunshine. 1t
adds a huge temporary population,
keeps up scores of palatial hotels and
hundreds of smaller ones, pours a gold
en- flood into the laps of the business
men and makes greatly for the city's
prosperity. Los Angeles gladly well
CONS these tourists and makes their
stay as delightful as it can. They are
charmed; this is proved by their in
creasing numbers year after year.
But these visitors are only tempo
rary, after all. They come, stay awhile
and go. They do nothing directly to
add to the city's permanent popula-
ton, upbuilding or wealth. on the
contrary, the incoming colonist does
all this. He brings his family, he set
ties, he builds or buys home and es-
tablishes his business, craft or trade.
He earns the money that he gets, right
here; his labor and ability go to the
Of this metropolis, and what
he spends he puts out here at home,
the good of all. He adds his life to
that of the populace; becomes bone of
our bone; flesh of our fiesh;" one of us.
1t is we'll then for Los Angeles to
give pause and consider this colonist
inflocking. Tourists are all very well
hot ffrna
ure that we heartily welcome. But
the colonist is permanent acquisition
of the highest import; a real factor
in the city's upward march; part of
1t. He must perforce be man of
stamina and ability, else
good part of the United States to come
across mountain, plain and desert in
search of new home in an unknown
land. He must have money, else he
could not make the long journey-he
and his family, with their lares and
oenates. He must have determination,
and skill or he would not
venture from sure living on a prom
Use and hope. He is, in fact, of the
best quality of American manhood or
he would be content to plod along back
east, wringing a miserly living from
begrudging soil.
Hence, it is well for US to take stock
of this tremendous exodus to this, the
promised land, and to welcome kindly
the stranger and the newcomer. Find
him a home; help him to settle; di-
rect him where he may obtain land;
assist him to get a job at his own
trade and be neighborly, courteous and
to him in every way. He has
friends and kinsmen back east who
doubtless await word of his own sue
cess ere they venture on a like pur-
suit; aid him to make favorable re-
port. He Is the sort of people this
land of glory needs; let us do all we
can to extend to him the "glad hand"
that he may rejoice that he came, and
send for the rest of his tribe.