Show MORMONS VS CHINESE the report of the utah commission to the secretary of the interior is being tarn tu piece sall over the nation on account nor only of its unconstitutional recommendations but its inhuman comparison of murmon immigrants to the chinese the press of the territory with one exception condemned that portion of alie report at first but not in such strong and language as that which the press of the country ia dealing with it As an instance ins taace we append herewith a portion of an editorial from alie san francisco examiner the members of the utah commission lave kept their eyes fixed on the mormon problem until they are unable to see anything else in their just published report they say then is greater danger from mormon immigrants than chinese immigrants that 13 the sort of caricature of the truth that we to see while we were discussing the first restriction act the cormons mormons Mor mons are bad enough but it is simply extravagance to say that they are worse than chinese alie non proselytize chinaman is not to be sure a drummer for religious novelties but he is a missionary of alca and counts his converts by the in the human driftwood of our streets the wreckage of once promising lives the peace loving chinaman is at this moment beginning an war in which the bongs and lees will slaughter each other men women and because aliey could not agree about some burying ground he rose in bangkok the other day in a quarrel be tween two highbinder high binder societies and coolies fought with spears and tridents impaling their enemies and carrying tho bodies on the points of their weapons he fought pitched battles in the streets of eureka until the people put him out and kept him out he maintains standing armies of professional assassins in ssi franciaco Fran ciao open to engagement for any undertaking of riot or murder on a fixed scale of fees the docile chinaman is the most unruly and impudent worker in the world he is the terror of alie kitchen and when he works in a factory he demands and obtains privileges which the operatives deside him go without he has reduced the boycott to nn exact science and an employer or landlord who is dependent upon him must humor his ca prices or go into bank there are two objections to alie mor mons they believe in polygamy and licy have 1 government within a government ern ment thai is to justify our opposition to their increase but the chinese have both these faults and innumerable others alie cormons mormons have taken the dregs of europe and turned bliem into what would be but for its religious drawbacks a comparatively de population their towns are neat temperate and moral to say that such immigrants are worse than chinese 73 to discredit the whole argument in which the opinion appears |