Show BI1EIGRATION The Howl Against Landing Mormons in New York 1 THE KIND OF PEOPLE THEY ARE II I I Sow York Cltr Could Well Afford to Kxcbanxe CO000 Iopulatlon for 50000 It Mormon There are many things in this world not understood by the majority One of them isthe Mormon question growing grow-ing out of diiferencea between the rights of the deserving pioneers and seWers of Utah and the prejudces that men generally have against what they do not understand Two of the great men this country has yet produced all in all according to the means they had to operate with are Benjamin Franklin and Brigham Young Each had a mission Each believed n peace honesty and industry us great prime factors in civilization Each lived outside of his generation probably as God who ruleth all things ordered and defended Brigham Young pioneered the way to what was lieved to be useless terri tory a desert He felt that religion ave courage pitieuce progress to man gave 3 and He resolved to subdue the land as God commanded He did not call for thieves robbers gamblers hood urns sludgers speculators usurers and all that surging crowd that runs into and over each other but the best most liatdy healthy enduriiig patient hopeful temperate industrious element ele-ment hat could be found who would dire the pain and peril of pioneer life We pass over the question of politics anl1 religion and look upon Utah as it is today S A country of peaceful happy home rihabited by a people so peculiar that ney are indeed a curiosity ieoptc who elieve In prayer to Cod in honesty to man in observing the moods and tenses of women in the education and preservation of hb health vigor ana morality of children A country where dens of vice drinking drink-ing places poverty crime pauperism and general cusednessts the exception and not the rule as here in the great city of New York No other man did and we thereto e jcline to belief that no other man could accomplish what Brigham Yo unit and his system of settlement anti cultivation has done for Utah and thus for the entire country We believe that the Mormon peonle are fairly entitled en-titled to conideration as peaceful peaceable useful deserving citizens All that is good in them is worthy of emu i ation rhe bad which they dots so much less than the bad that is done by their opponents tnat we honor them above auy who persecute them merely believing what they carry out and carrying out what they believe With their religion we have nothing to dono right to complain censure or to interfere With the matterotpolvgamy as endorsed en-dorsed ami contended for by the few we have nothing to do While the Mormon Church israpidly ncreasing polygamy is steaoily dying out and will live or die out nil in its own time as God wills not as man dictates What we present hre is a mater of great importance to the country and of no little importance to Sew York City I There is a law in this State forbidding the landing of paupers or those who are likely to become burdens upon the taxpayers layers Mr Edward Stepbenbonone of the Commissioners of Emigration goes out of his way in a letter which sug gests that we take the ground that Mormons who land here as emigrants are paupers they can all be sent backcross back-cross the sea and the tide of Mormon immigrAtion will be checked lint they art not paupers They come with the best of intentions not to beg or steal but to labor and to produce pro-duce wealth They RO right on to a and they are making beautiful by in dwtr and education 1C tey ara not wanted to land at this port they can land at another at Philadelphia Balti moreetc steamer lines here centering will lose immense yearly business Speaking of this subject the New York DailY Times of August 2 1SSS sayS Thelaw should be rigidly enforced The reports of our State board of charities chari-ties show that it is evaded to the injury of citizens who support themselves and pay taxes The board is continuallr sending back to foreign countries putt pers wno have been sent here or who iaye come of their own accord and have speedily fallen into almshouses or asylums It is well known that many paupersas well as many criminals crimin-als and vicious personsare shipped here It public expense by tho authorities in foreign countries The number of insane persons supported in this State is 33 per cent greater than it was five years ago and the board de clares that this increase is largely due to the admission of immigrants who should have been excluded Many of these immigrants were sane when they armed but were so enfeebled by poverty pov-erty and privation that they soon lost their wits Hundreds of paupers bne come in by way of the Canadian border and Congress has failed to amend the law so mat it would apply to immigrants immi-grants arriving by land Mr Stephenioa holds that the Commissioners Com-missioners ate authorized by the law to exclude the shipload 01 Mormon converts who aie Drought here by the Mormon Church He asks that be and his associates shall be instructed to tar them out While we are ot the opinion that the nation suffers by the admission admis-sion of these person we cannot see that the law provides for their excln sion The problem presented by Mormon immigration is a very dittiuuf one In the erst place how can it be proved that the Mormon intends in-tends to violate the law He intends togo to-go to Utah and to become an adherent I of the Mormon Church but only a small per centage of the Monuous in Utah practice polygamy Very few oC I the converts who nave conic from Europe I Eu-rope in the last ave yeata have broken the law mat fuibitU plural inornate But even if it could be shown that evrry Mormon immigrant who arrives at this port intends to become a po lygamiat under what law coold they be shut out If a convert unable to take care of himself or herself without be < oming a public charge should ar sire that convert should be excluded under existing law But the church sees to it that no converts come in thatcondition and it must be admitted that the history of those who have coma does not show that those who are now coming will become public charges The imported converts of the last few years have become thrifty and selfsupporting citizens in Utah and elsewhere The church brings them to Utah and puts them on their feet Lucy do not burden bur-den the almshouses there They do not burden the almshouses of the east Stilt if they have little or no money when they come into port are the Commissioners obliged to accept the promises the Mormon Church that they will not become public charges undesirable because Tbes < < immigrants are cause they increase the power of an organization that violate the marriage law But it seems to us that violations of this law should be dea with when and where they are committed We believe that it is possible to suppress polygamy in Utah and elsewhere by pfrsistent and unre enting prosecution under the j dmunds act We do not see how it can be suppressed by excluding ex-cluding at this port immigrants who have no become polyganiisu and may never practice polygamy These immigrants immi-grants should be treated as other irami grants arc treated If they are convicts i lunatics idiots or paupers they should St be tent back Out it will not do to return re-turn them for the sole reason that they have embraced the socalled religion of Joe Smith A commissioner who is obliged to deal with these Mo mon converts and who knows under what circumstances thty come here and under what influences influ-ences they are to complete their lives must see very plainly the Inury which is caused by tbeir admission Thousands of persons will sympathize with Mr Stephenson in his appeal for Instructions instruc-tions that will bar out such immigrant But it is not probable that instructions will be given that are not conditioned upon proof that the immigrants are criminals idiots lunatics or paupers New York certainly does not suffer from Mormons Nor dos the country at large Rather are we all benefited by them New York does suffer however from the gangs of Anarchists bggars I ignorant and critninal persons who are from scored of other countries and cities shipped into New York City week after week even as deserving hOnest Mormon imtni rants are snipped irons iverpoo > lotto New York but directly through New York to theirdestination Utah Territory where as the Tiniet says they may or may not become polygamists polyg-amists even as the editors of the Tniz either nay or may not become Mormons or polygamists New York City could well afford to exchange 50000 of her population for 5000J Mormons The only sufferers would be the Mormons who wou d not live here anti the 53 oons in this city who fatten from the 50000 who arc here and wHo ojipose Mornionism as they do Prohibition or any other temperance sentiment The coming of honest healthy labor ersi intotbs country who engage the subjugation of a wilderness and the production of wealth that enriches riches the community and adds o the commercial greatness of a country coun-try is always a blessing Men and women who come to work not to beg arc not paupers We bad rather see a hundred ship loads of vigorous wealth producers Accruing to this country than to see one man coming with hoarded wealth to sit in the shade of U threeball pawnbrokers sign and there engaee in the work of oaking PSUlrfollleroy Democrat |