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Show H "sv I w' 0lR nA,rAIIAX COMY. sLH ?5r -" "Dn- Albebt B Carter of llono- H - Inlu.SandsiIcri Islands, Is registered H iii "f f P a, the VTindtor Ho'cl, In company sH ' . K1 VWV k. with Mrs. Carter. The doctor Is. a M y It New Yorker, but soon after Uklnff op S K ill residence on the island, fonr years H , A If "o, be met his present wife. bo ha H l v. 1 1 ' hlch caste na!lre- One object of Dr H of l I Carter's visit to this country was to In- LHI He'll n 1"ire lnto tne condition af Ilawailan H r .r. a."!) 1 rnwlytestotbe Mormon Church. sB f kf5 J51I "Alat3ofthe!.e people bad b-en IW iri lil I induced to follow tbn Mormon Hlders I H 5 to Utah, and rumors highly tUniag. ES Bl .if 4 1 lnc "?.lh? J'er-dav Saints were K B'Ilf (, vafted lack to Honolulu. The doctor W") i mtde a tboropli invesUBation of the LB IB 'f 1 (lj chsree and before leaving Salt Lake V I! I City tiled bis report to the ihUndeov- 1 M V I . frnratV Fl foana tbat "renty ssssB ' 9 I i ' familie bad become dissatisfied to H I iW f ! "uch '? with the pras- B If H.I 3 C ucc' ' .Mormondom that they Ssll- renounced their allegiance to the a-fti church and were recanted as out-flin out-flin V casts. 'I found many f ibem on the ! f verse of starvation said the doctor, H I "f "n no opportunity of geuing em- 'JE I Jloyment and with prospects of freez-jft-X I lnS to death when the cold irtutber HHijp T""".1 I stsm- The Mormons were so much Di Lw incen'ed against the recent members ill? B of their nock that all avonues of se- ssssssB I? -Lfli I t " cnrine a livelihood were shut out sHBfi if "" ! I against them. M 8 I "Atllapproprialiag$SOOOtopiytbe H J F passage of the deluded creatures back iLjf ( 10 to their old homes wis pending before V 2 j at the legislative assembly when Or. 1,3 Carter iefl Honolulu. Tne people H j ' I living la a valley seventy-five miles i if froTO Sill Irtk-City and look forward HH J with the mot anxious solicitude to f H , I any escape from their terrible post- r ' -J, tion. Tne doctor states that those of Wl 'i, , , the na-Ues who still remain faithful to HHH 'I lt?i y the cnarc! are assisted by the Mo- BHH 1 I "3 " j raons and appear saisfled to remain in BsBBa t 3 "t sV ' this country." H !l J .! fl The a'jjve Is taken from the Den- H ' I 7 ver -"" II ' largely erroneous VA IP anl misleading. Or. Carter is a HBB til L mln of Eomo standing In Honolulu, VbB 9' aui It Is stranse that he should lend HBB 5 himself to such misrepresentations HBB 4' if as are contained in the foregoing HBH 1 ' statements. It miy that his re- HHH 4 'K marks have been touched up and HHB ij i W embellUhed by the "enterprising" 1 Jm reporter. 5 There are some facts and some flc- nm Uon in his alleged statement. The W formerarethese: jijh ''9 A number of HawaiUns have, H I ssttled in Utah. They are livioj in ' I a valley west or this city. JTumors S . '? that tuey area-s-uisHed have ' '. . ..i.eacb-g,I-HsS5iulu. Abilltoappro- HBBJ I . priate money to assist them to re- HBHJ I ( )g turn has been under consideration HHBj 11 H in the Hawaiian Legislature. HH jli Jl TllB Tesl of thu EtorJr Js eHher HHB M ' jJ partly or wholly fictitious. We will Vsl vt 1 S lirieDy state the truth In relation to HHHj 'III 0 ihe co,onlziD? of Us Sandwich sBVS 1 r j i Islanders in Utah. BvAl Fit Some of the native members of the BBJ 'i J 3 "ilormon" Church desired to come VS (if I Jlf- to th'3 Temtol3'aaJ received per- HHJ .- Au mission to do so. On their arrival H I I TO they obtained work, chiefly in this BiasssB 'J 1 t la Clty Tla'y Were wel1 "'''fied and H ( V& other natives followed them. But B ST it boon appeared that they v, ould H s jff not rie above ordinary laborers, un- sHB fasf Ie33 mJ btiU:T "I'Portunity than sHB H ' lh!a CHy a(ron,eJ was found for H R. ' litem. Several Elders who had been B f &: missionaries to the Islands joined in Kj '1mt tae form3lou of a company and H fi purchased some land in Skull Val- H W ley as a place for the Hawaiian col- E f& y- Tue natives removed there H j Wl auJ wcro pleased with the change. Hj ft A few of them, not more than ten Hj 9 or eleven, since the first arrival, E ' desired to return to the Islands and HHj ' m went there. One who bad been ex- B j communicated for improper col- i' luet sprtaJ the reports of thedif- ,f satisfactijn of thu colony and thus j tue movement for an appropriation H 'l 5 1 lo take them back was started. H f At the present there are but two HB "' 1 1 persons who coutempbte returning, H 1 ? anJ ey have obtained help from E L theIr frieDds to do Tbey are not H S r liasati'fied with the Church nor H I IT uave tuuy changed their faith H Ik Tnere is no destitution among the' nBl 1 nauves in tosull Valley. Some of mm f ' those wuo ha" returned wereim- Hi I provident and epentmore than their l ' income, so that they ran behind H lheir brethren in the possesion of V "creature comforts." But they iiH have all been supphej with neces- K . ' saries anJ soaie luxuries through IH j i, the kindness of the Elders havin" S j the matter in charge. IhI 3 f , Tue Hawallans, so we Jearu, are B I w .doing very well and are contented 1 l : anU prosperous. Tbey are not any LHj 1 of them in the conJition said to have IH 5 described by Dr. Carter. His B "thorough investigation" waslron- H i duc'eJ i" Salt Lake City. He should H 1,ave sone to the settlement and HHW! 1 pursued his inquiries on the spot L, He would then hav3 arrived at very different conclusions. If his report is made up of such material as he' Is said to have given the Denver reporter, re-porter, It will be of very httle value to the Hawaiian government. H k xi seems as though nothing that B the "-Slormons" do can escapo mis- H H lepresentation. The IntroducUon of L j tho G-Pel to the Sandwich Islands H i has been or marked benefit to the K 1 natives. The cood done by the H Elders among tbem,moraIly and in- H j dustrially, has received olUcial.aye, HH j rjal recognition. It has been a HHH labor vi lore and true Christian iH i chanty. In the same spirit the H J Hawaiian farm in Skull Valley has been obtained and managed. It j , nny do no harm to appropriate 1 ' money to Like the natives back to Bi the Islands.and we are of the opinion H that it will do very httle good. It K will only in all probability furnish a HK "job" for some intriguer?, and the B prospect of this is prsbably tho in- HHHS ctntlvo in moving for the approprla- isBlislllllH |