Show OUR immigration wun TUB immigrants who have llave already arrived here this season with those wio who will soon boon le be here have jive had bad a very different experience in traveling to those who came to this valley in tile the early days of its settlement to the first set tiera flera the trip across the plains was in most instances one of unmitigated toil toll and md hardship they had no luxuries and but few conveniences to render the journ journey y a pleasant one having avida been rat ruthlessly lessly deprived of their possessions an and compelled to leave their homes they had bad to come as best they could and but very few even of those who lad bad had bad been most wealthy in nauvoo had bad it in their power to supply their families with shoes an article so necessary to comfort in our inclement winters every year the difficulties of the journey have been lessening under tile the guidance of experienced captains and having the starting point at the missouri river and the liberal aid of teams and teamsters and provisions from this territory the trip has haa of late years been made kompara dively pleasant and comfortable but this season the distance traveled by teams has been so short that to the most of the immigrants it has been the plea jeantet portion of the journey the ox teams have reach reached bd this city from the terminus in twenty one days a mere pleasure trip when compared with the time occupied in former years the fatigues of he journey were so great in the first years of our settlement that it was thought they had the effect street to deter many persons of weak faith who might not have liked the country from leaving and some of the people have thought mat that kind of experience peri ence was so eo necessary to prepare latter day saints to live here that they have never had much faith in the early completion of the railroad to this city but it will soon be here and while the facility with which persons can go east and west by it may be a t temptation e m p tation to leave to such as are inclined t to 0 apostatize it furnishes on the other hand an equally ready means of travel to the faithful who are abroad to come here so that whatever disadvantage may accrue to the people who immigrate by it not being tried as they were who came of oldis more than counterbalanced by the advantages which it brings there la is much happiness inythe reflection that this great work is the lords and is not dependent upon the wisdom and management of the latter batter day saints and their leaders for lur itar perpetuity and aud success whether the railroad is built or not whether it comes through salt lake city and thence south of the lake or leaves the city and goes north of the lake makes no dietl difference erenee our people are happy in the knowledge that it will be all right and that everything connected with it will be overruled for good and for their prosperity if they will only do right many have wondered at the indifference manifested by our citizens respecting the railroad and its route this is the explanation of it let the companies build it where they please and they will still construct it where it will suit us and bo be to our advantage van Vau tage there is one feature in our settlements in country which must strike observant men who mho visit them and that is the absence of poverty the people everywhere are above want they may not always live in the best of houses be surrounded by the luxuries of life and be able to dress dresa in the most fashionable style according to new york or parisian tastes yet they carry about with them an air of comfort and independence they are not harassed by anxiety as to how they are to obtain food and the tho other necessaries of life this is very perceptible through throughout our territory when it is remembered that large numbers of these people who are so comfortable and th thrifty came bame here totally ignorant of the art of making a living in a new country like this their condition appears yet more remarkable le remarkable new york reporters have in some instances this season alluded in disparaging terms to the appearance of our immigrants when they landed we look for nothing better from a certain class of unthinking ignorant writers when they speak of anything mormon 11 but to read some of their sta statements te a person unacquainted with the subject would infer that the immigrants in in I 1 to utah who had landed at their port ort orb were much inferior to the non mormon immigrants who who nho come to settle settie in their city and neighborhood yet with these people so inferior in their eves we are building up a chri thriving v 1 g flourishing state if this tuis can be d done 0 n e with what they view as such unpromising materials what will be accomplished eaby by the rising generation born and bred hero and accustomed from childhood to battling with the difficulties incident to our country surely if the people who come here are such as these writers describe them great credit must be due to a system which makes of them industrious reliable honest self sus and wealthy citizens the secret of this success would be partly explained to any unprejudiced man who should have opportunities of seeing the pains which are ta kento instruct the people who come here and nd to initiate them into the art of obtaining a living in other places the immigrant lands and finds himself among strangers few if any of whom take tile the least interest hi in his welfare if he be unacquainted quain ted with the language his fate is in every way pitiable there is none to take him by the hand to sympathize s with him and to speak words worda of encouragement ra and hope to him or to give him reliable advice as to how he had best proceed true measures have been taken in some places new york for instance to protect and assist the immigrant but they are found to be inadequate but how different dif dlf is it in utah here the people work in unison with the authorities in rendering their foreign co religionists the aid they thoy require there is no class to oppress but high and low do all in their power to encourage them and to give them the benefit of their experience the results which have been wrought out we already see they are patent to the world and from them it is easy to perceive that ere erb erelong the latter day saints will be the most comfortably situated and the wealthiest people on tile the continents |