Show AN EXPLODED SENSATION IF ANY confirmation of the truth of 9 Mormon mormonism isral was needed other than the proofs which its votaries vot aries have received it could be found in the absurd and untruthful efforts of its adversaries to prevent its growth and annoy its adherents without alluding to the ridiculous stories told tola from the pulpit and the press and the thereby provoked in many places one has but to consider the attempts that have been made to stop the influx of mormon immigration to behold striking illustrations of tills this fact falsehood has marked every official and unofficial scheme to prevent the landing of emigrants at new york who were or were supposed to be mormons cormons Mor mons when truth had a chance to be heard these plots always fell to the ground there is no violation of the immigration or any other laws in III the coming to this country of persons who profess faith in mormonism they donot do not toot emigrate for the purpose of breaking any of the laws of the united states I 1 they are usually persons who become a strength and support to the ration nation and its institutions and who desire to be citizens as as soon as it is possible to do so under the statutes regulating naturalization they are not contract laborers in any sense neither are they pau pers nor criminals of the class claas likely to become such the latest exhibition of antt anti mormon folly and obstruction has been developed on the pacific coast we learn from the san francisco chronicle that attempts were made to prevent the landing of th the e last company of hawaii hawaiians ans tb that it arrived here and who came by the ft forest queen the chronicle says they numbered about sixty islanders who were accompanied by eff several era elders and that deputy survey veyer er fogarty had bad become excited od by the extravagant numbers nun ibers of these alleged converts to the faith of joseph smith and he bellev believed ed they were being brought to this country under contract to work as 0 farmlands farmhands farm hands in flagrant violation of the ijo therefore the officer intended to examine the th banakas and other witnesses with a view to securing evidence of the tb fact that the converts are in reality contract laborers if his investigations prove his theory to be the th correct one the converts will be t refused a landing the chronicle hronick 3 goes on to make the usual strictures about the character of the persons desiring to come to this territory and they sound allf repetitions of the remarks of the tb new york reporters conc concerning erDing mormon immigrants from europe K of course they are densely igno ant remarkably credulous etc et etc the probability is that the reporter never saw the islanders or if he did he was totally unable to converse with them and so could not tell whether they weta ignorant or educated credulous or 01 skeptical or anything about theal the truth is the hawaiian Hawaii ans b that company numbered ninette instead of about sixty that tw had as much right tt land at jtb obber immigrants that they were not p pye vented from land landing I 1 ng that they 00 ce not under any labor contract sf 00 farm hands or any other kind work that they are intelligent oves es and bested to make their bonnes in utah where a few of their countrymen who make excellent eizens ti zens had preceded them the extravagant numbers of sandwich islanders who have come here MV y be understood when we state OW at fifteen others have hale arrived here this year that a number of the ahe im Sr ants were childrens chil child drenas ronas they come and that the total now residing hiding b here ere is about seventy ve ve fear the san ban francisco reporter like his confreres contreres con freres in new icik ork was desirous of making a item and thought thoughts though tas as this object related to the mormon SHe sUon he could shoot with the m bow at pleasure asi as almost anything no matter how false or fool ishi b will go down with the public if tt hicls agin the morcom mormons Mor mons mom the hole arti article elp comments specula and treble bead headlines lines included 8 based qu on fallacy and is a mew mess of if king kalakaua fope permission has to be obtained mabl U the natives can leave for rath h is not concerned by their crex ex fagant va gant numbers we do not ak the chronicle or the people of alfornia aU fornia need worry over the mater torand it is much jetter better to tell we be truth even when speaking inre in IQ atlon 1410 mormons cormons Mor mons |