Show MORMON immigration the vagaries indulged in ill by many otherwise sensible people in reference to mormonism are remar remarkable fc ab ae A prevailing erroneous impression im is abroad that the chief attraction that induces people to come to utah through the preaching of the elders is the bettering of their temporal condition anybody taking the trouble to inquire could easily discover that the movement ia is purely religious there less some ax professing of to be latter day saints who come from more sordid reasons but the number of such is comparatively insignificant the arrival of the second company of saints from europe yesterday at itt new york inspired the following dispatch f three hundred in men oil women and children arrived from europe yesterday to eb go to utah they might have been secured for any other colony were the alleged opponents of mormonism enough in in earnest to put money into the business of offering counter attractions to the europeans among whom mormon missionaries always work tf it is a mistake to suppose that all the outside acquisitions to the church come from abroad tile ciders meet with considerable success in the states from which colonists come to people this western country ve we do not expect the flow of the oceans tide to be retarded with a pitchfork neither do we anticipate the stoppage of tile stream of mormon converts to the west As po possess many noble qualities and are always ready to make more sacr sacrifices to sustain their honest religious convictions than alian any alif other r people with whose circumstances and history we are ire familiar to stop the free flow of mormon formon A immigration by the intervention of legal restriction would involve the trampling under foot of some of the highest principles as well as the spirit of the constitution of the country surely the nation is not yet ripe for that |