Show I I i SAY CHURCH DOES NOT AID IMMIGRANTS Mormon Officials Issue State Statement Statement Statement ment in Connection Conne tion With Boston Incident PRACTISE OF ASSISTING CONVERTS DISCONTINUED MAJORITY OF PERSONS DE DEJ DETAINED DETAINED SAID TO HAVE STARTED WEST WESTA J SQ A S 3 The church has not extended h han any an help to the Immigrants who were detained d at Boston Time The church does not pay the passage v of Mormon immigrants or con converts Converts verts crts any an longer lon Er My y advices ad vices are ares s that all save possibly twenty of those thore detained left Boston J and are arf nov no Jon nn their way west vest westward westward ward I 1 expect the others will fol lot lots v s low a soon as ItS the examinations 0 are the examinations ale aie al C slow Elo 1 L presume that the ease case of ot the two Roe girls who 0 were driven from rein home homo by b their father CathEr in England En is II timit caused ii all the delay Anthon H Lund second counselor coun elor In the first pres 5 of the Mormon church churchs s i The Th church formerly maintained 3 an Immigration fund which grew i from a very small beginning to an anif f if Institution Involving millions About the time of the passage of ot a 3 the act the Im S migration immigration fund which was handled by a church company called the v vJ J Perpetual Immigration fund was 4 I Abolished d This fund was start i by lW donations of people here hereS w co S some large and some small was used for the pay pa 0 ment of the th passage pa sale of converts t the money being advanced a note o i signed by b the recipient for or its re rt reS repayment r ro o S payment in one or two years ears and ando anda v vv o v a very ver low rate of interest charged char ed When tIe money mone and the interest o 5 were vere paid they the were vere turned into o 6 Immigration fund again and thus 6 b it grew tew to great reat proportions v s o After the of or the thes a ao o s fund Cund the time church has not paid the theo v o passage of oC any person save In ox cx x xv v rare cases siy S one In a ab i b thousand The church does how however however 0 b ever eer act as the agent for Cor the in I Jr who desires to send s nd tOT for tOTo 3 o his relatives in Europe Europ The FYS i item tern tem Is one adopted merely to sim b the transmission of ot money mone moneo o f The person on who desires to bring iJ i his relative to Utah deposits the Co Coi 0 money mone with the tIme trustee in trust 0 i o President Joseph F Smith and andI I b the head rf cf f the foreign forel missions mission which Is at Liverpool Is notified J b that there has been placed to the 0 credit othe person p to come hither ro roa y a certain sum This sum Is then 0 b paid to the person On for whose bene benefit I Ii i fit lit it Is i Intended In this way sway the I church officers act as a you might 0 i say sa a concern would or oran oro oran o an express company compau or a post postoffice postoffice ii iii i office The church does not as assist l lIst any Immigrant except in the thes i s extremely rare cases S which I have a Ii b mentioned d The money transmit transmitted o ted by bv the church offices is that 1 S paid in in by bo the individual for the thes s 9 benefit of the person whom he de dey desires a ab y b sires shut shall make use of ot It Brit ham H Roberts one of the seven een ct i presidents of the seventies sevenths of or the 0 Mormon church churchIn 0 In the two preceding condensed I statements the time position of ot the h Mormon church is given with reference to the part palt it takes in bringing converts to Its faith from Europe or other countries The Time matter of church hurch aid In bringing converts to America Is once o again keen keenly keenly keenly ly brought to the attention of or the news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper reading public by b reason of oC the fact tact that on Sunday Mormons ant ann their converts were detained by the I ft 4 I Oft ft ft 4 L U IVI n Boston The examination Is described d as having been and at the he end of or the time first day ay there re remained of oC the lOS still to bo be examined Owing to the slow show rate of ot speed with which the inspectors inspector work there remain according to President President President dent Lunds advices about twenty in inthe Inthe Inthe the detention quarters Approximately Approximate ly seventy are on their way wa westward so foO his lila telegraphic intelligence runs The Roe fro Flo Girls the Immigrants rants who were de tie tamed are aloe two girls named Roe Ont On Onis is Margaret aret and the other Catherine Preceding tIme the arrival of o the Republic the ship which bore the immigrant the father of the Roe girls die dim patched ji 11 t cablegram cable m from rom Liverpool urging that his daughters be detained saying that they the had run away awa from Crom home and had been carried off of by bythe b bythe the Mormon missionaries The father Cather Catherin in contradiction d cllon of or his daughters state statements statement statement ment ments declares that the girls Eirls could not have paid bald their own tares fares faresI baresI I dont see se why hy we are re detained Margaret Roe Is quoted as having haing said We Ve did pay our own fares fare The Mormon elders accompanying the I party say the Roe girls are 22 and 21 years old respectively but the Immigration gration officials say sa they the do not look the part by at least four tour or five years year What the final outcome will be he re remains rEmains remains mains to be seen for or no advices are areat areat areat at hand In Salt Lake that shed light HiM lighton HiMon on the matter After the Franklin System In a pleasant chat Mr Roberts after he had stated the position of tho the church said The Idea of or helping pee peo people pie to this country to be bl with their families and to take advantage of or the tho opportunities offered by the west I think was the outgrowth of o a famous system of o which Benjamin Franklin was the author When Franklin was In London an American came to him himin himIn himin in distress ress Franklin perhaps more out of a whim of humor than anything else passed to the man a note for fol hit his Continued on o Page 2 1 SAY CHURCH DOES NOT AID IMMIGRANTS Continued from Page 1 signature which road read r ad in substance that he was to pay after atter a it certain time and provided furthermore that If any other American ever came to him in like circumstances he was in duty bound to extend and to re require require quire of the beneficiary a like pledge It was sias as a beautiful and ideal system and much mItch was Avas written and n printed about Jt t tat at the time Helping the Exiles I think the tle first application of this or similar simlar methods of o extending ext help to those of or our people who were In need was when the people coming here berc exiles from Nauvoo made a covenant to help those who were left behind and to cease not to extend the th helping hand until all should haye have been enabled to Join their th lr families In this valley The undertaking was no small one as you nay may easily asHy realize when you under understand understand stand that the exodus involved twenty or Ir thirty thousand people That at any rate was the begin beginning beginning beginning ning of the perpetual immigration fund which was in existence for many man years and was abandoned only when the gov government government ordered Its Evarts and Gladstone This Incident calls to mind con continued continued Mr Roberts with a smile Ta a little passage at arms that occurred between Mr lr Evarts who was then see sec secretary of or state and Mr Ir Gladstone the English premier Mr had un undertaken undertaken undertaken to make the emigration from England of ot Mormons an International affair and by means of or an international al agreement to stop it I believe the correspondence was pointed on both sides Mr 11 Gladstone finally stating the position of his government to be that If It any person desired to leave Eng land to Join the Mormon faith he had no doubt of his or her right to do so as well as any other person to Join any other faith 0 |