Show A SPIRIT OF FAIRNESS The spirit intolerance is very prominent prom-inent in man It takes a long time for the race to outgrow it some sanctified ones regard it as a hardship to live on the same planet and breathe the smear sme-ar with those whom their piety dubs sinners PeriodiaIly one lcran11x hibits that kind of a spirit towardsthe Mormons and various mWns have een suggested to exclude them from immigrating immi-grating to this country Several years ago Granny Evarts JJ then Secretary Sec-retary of State in Hayes administration ad-ministration Issued a circular to some of the European power asking I them todevise some meansof prohibiting prohibit-ing Mormons from leavingtheir shores and thus cooperate with the United States in suppressing this supposed great evil We < need not add that the circular became the butt of ridicule in each of the powers receiving one Of late another effort has been made to prevent the Mormq > > immigrants from landing under the pauper act The laws oft J the United States provide pro-vide that any person who is a p uperlr or i3aigent person likely to become a public burden maybe may-be refused a landing andreturned to the country from whence he came by the vessel that brought him to our shores Under this law sev aJcfft panics of Mormon ifumigr have 5 l f i J 11l I been examined and to tile tiisappomt ment of the immigration commission stationed at Castle Gardens New York they have found the Mormons in such t financial 4 f condition sthat T they could bt prevent th irlaI dink theyUiadpaic their own passage from tje Old World were prepared to pay their railway fare into the interior of the country r Poi n and have at 4leasfra small niargin Iof 1 t means left on tneir frival at theiii destination I des-tination Those that were not in such a prosperous condition as this had I friends who were willing to give a bond thatttfey shouldfnot fiecomeapajBlic burden a modificationof thpauper act and so the immigration commission commis-sion could not prevent their landing however good their disposition to do so indipg there was no law existingjthaj f i f I IOI 1 would barCheMonrions one oFtlieim migration commissioners Mr Stephenson Stephen-son wrote to Jdr Fairchild at present the acting Secretary of the Treasury objecting to these bonds Beintpiiveuby1 t r I J ii the friends of assisred > irnrnigmn i syfj and urging that the immigration laws should be invoked to exclude Mormon immigrants trtm the shores of the United States To this atter proposition proposi-tion the acting s cM ry said j i i With reference to the point urged by Mr Stephenson that our immigration laws should be invoked for the purpose of excluding Mormon immigrants frohi our shores itissufficient to say that there isno warrant of law for any such course of procedure If it be found that any Mormon immigrants are of the classes prescribed by the immigrant immi-grant law they will be dealt with ac cordmgly as being of such classes without regard to the fact that they are Mormons That manly answer to a bigots folly may not be palatable to the bigot and others who have becpme v insane in their zeals to suppress Mormonism Mormon-ism It never entered into their narrow contracted souls that a Mormon was entitled to the same rithts as other men who seek our shores for the purposej malnng homes and becoming l coming citizens of thfs country Thc statement of Mr Faircbld that Mormons Mor-mons are to be treated as other immigrants immi-grants without regard to the fact of their being Mormons may make Stephenson Steph-enson 5udthose ot likesjcharacter gnaw their tongues from very madness ot disappointment dis-appointment but the Acting Secrstary answer wasacurt statement oflaw and S the rights of the Mormon immigrants under the law Of course he did no more than was his duty to do but iti is quite refreshing these intolerant I times for the3f ormons to hear o amari who can fearlessly discharge his duty when any of their ri hts are in question This is why we speak of its If it-s L I > |