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Daily Alta California , San Francisco, May 31, 1876

The responsibility of providing facilities for the reception and direction of the enormous immigration constantly arriving, having been shirked by the Legislature and City, devolves upon private enterprise. We cannot afford to ignore its importance; and the indifference we have maintained in this respect cannot long be continued without serious detriment to our best interests.

In other States to which immigration is directed, every facility is afforded the new comer to inform himself on the resources, inducements and peculiarities of the locality in which he proposes to settle. He is welcomed and encouraged on his arrival, and his first impressions rendered as pleasant as possible.

What a contrast is presented by our opulent community! We have no organization to assist the new comer. He is landed at our wharves at the close of day. In the morning, bewildered by the novelty of his situation, in a strange city, he seeks in vain the information that would be cheerfully given at the public expense in Kansas or Nebraska. His disappointment is the more severe that, like the rest of the world, he looks to California for peculiar liberality. If preternaturally sharp, he escapes the dangers that lie in wait for him, and finds his niche in society. If unsuccessful, his letters, or return to his friends, give us a well-earned but unenviable reputation for short-sighted parsimony.

Surely there is public spirit enough in us to remedy this state of affairs. Every consideration of right, justice and good policy demands a change—a practical change that will work for the mutual interests of the State and the stranger.

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Page: http://www.maritimeheritage.org/news/immigrant
Date Entered: une 1988; Revised November 1999
Source: Geographicus, Newspaper Archives, Daily Alta California, Family Papers, Historical Records, Submissions from Researchers



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