Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER I 1 have just finished reading the report of A L thomas thom gover of utah to the secretary of the interior dated october 1889 he says the foreign born mormon population has been increased by emigrants since 1880 he makes no allowance for deaths or resignations he probably concludes that mormons cormons Mor mons like officeholders office holders never die and few resign the mormon emigration for 1889 besets he sets down at 1368 1868 a very modest figure compared to the entire immigration of 1889 let us compare this with other sects take the roman catholics we find that from distinctly if not exclusively catholic countries for 1889 ireland supplies 11 italy and her islands I 1 france and belgium Bel giam polaa pola Po laid A I 1 hungary and bohemia austria An spam spain and portugal south and central america W west eat india islands atlantic islands 2109 I 1 total germany and switzerland supply y over and of these there E is B probably bably one half roman catholics s but u t not to overestimate over estimate let us say one third are which gives ives of undoubted catholics laen then canada has certainly supplied over irish and french catho lies and mexico probably about this gives us a total roman catholic immigration to the united states for the fiscal year of 1888 of the grand aggregate of I 1 migration immigration m from all the countries of the world for the fiscal year of 1889 is hence we find that very nearly half of that immigration is unquestionably tion ably roman catholic the grau grand d total of immigration to the united states from 1875 to 1879 inclusive is half of which is unquestionably roman catholic so that the t intimate furnished by cardinal gibbons of his followers is not at all over eftim abed on the contrary it is far under the real figures when the prolific powers of that church are considered it may be said that ireland supplies I 1 11 ea many protestants which are included included in the above but england supplied an immigration of for last half year and we know that a large percentage of that is catholic entirely irish of course there are large colonies of irish in the english cities and the second generation of the irish there emigrate to america any way the matter is handled it will be found that half the immigration to the united states is roman catholic compare your 1868 1368 mormons cormons with your romanists Romanis ts for 1889 and try to suppress a smile if you can ac governor thomas dreadful apprehensions hen that these low few terrible mor mons mono will eat up the poor innocent guileless ui leless sinless followers of leo XIII there Is bout about one mormon to every romans and when we add of other sects we find that this one mormon will get away with poor honest europeans unless congress stops mormon immigration of course I 1 cant help commending the philanthropy of governor thomas for taking such interest in leo XIII and also in helping belpin to co protect hungarians Hung arians bohemians Bohem laus ians and clan na gaeste gaels I 1 hope it is not treason to wish the governor a long and happy life for his christian efforts the governor says the bulk of the mormon immigration comes from england and scandinavia this is no DO laughing matter and it is one worthy of the formidable state document which the governor furnishes why not the secretary of the interior be warned in time of what is coming coining 1868 corrupt demoralized savage englishmen english men and swedes are going to destroy huns hu us vandals and clanna clan na gaela gaels poor innocent babes let us glance ut at religion in general era in this country and moralize a moment in examining the religions of the united states slates we find 5 kinds of adventists 13 kinds hinds of baptiste baptist 3 8 kinds of quakers 5 kinds of luth erans 14 kinds of methodists 4 kinds of mennonites 9 kinds of bs 4 kinds of episcopal lane iana then there are the christian union the congregational german evangelical moravian universal unitarian new jerusalem greek and roman there are probably over 70 denominations of professing christians in the united states of these we weylud fl ud romans baptists methodists presbyterians rians and all these mormonism Monnon ism is supposed to wipe out before breakfast w while hi ae the congregationalists and lutherans Luth erans will jia come in for lunch and all the others will make a snug tea at 5 it is really to contemplate what horrors are ahead of us just fancy mormons cormons are going to swallow up the seventy or more religious religions of f the united states with their of followers when the governor wrote that report he must have eaten a terrible feed of pork ani and beans a few moments before although the governor should not care for the puritan delicacy seeing that he is a welshman welsh rarebit ought to be his favorite I 1 commend the above figures 11 urslis to mr stewart of vt smout there were is considerable talk about renewing the de aying abing new england states with scandinavian colonists and giving them facilities to omet the french canadians but if governor taomas means what he says says the countrymen of Gust gustavus aitio adolphus must be kept out and those of the st bartholomew massacre sacre admitted it is really surprising that we Ane americans ricans who are supposed to have such a keen sense of the ridiculous should make such exaggerated asses of out ourselves on the mormon question perjury misrepresentation and falsehood are openly resorted io to down the mormon and rob him of his little home hoine there is not another people in the world that would allow themselves to be humbugged humbugger hum bugged thus look at wardell War deli and the murdered green the fact is that the utah gang are making a regular mcginty minstrel troupe of themselves junium J CHICAGO jan |