| Show indebtedness I 1 v THE present la Is an appropriate time to call the attention of the people to the subject of emigration L last ast year at this time everybody interested in helping the poor from europ europe was making strenuous exertions to raise means to send for foi them the season was in one respect an unfavorable one times timea were wore very stringent throughout the territory and money was scarce yet with proper exertion considerable means was raised and substantial help was extended to a great many at the present time money is much easier it circulates freely and mamy many who last year had to take trade as pay now receive money as wages for their work if the people are so disposed there is nothing to prevent the raising of considerable money this season for the assistance of the poor there are thousands of persons throughout the territory who are indebted to the perpetual emigrating fund for the cost of their passages from europe to this city much of this indebtedness debt edness has been due fo for years yearb various reasons have been assigned by one and another for its nonpayment which they who made them may have thought were sufficient but which in the case of any other creditor but the P E F co would have been declared trifling and insufficient why people should feel themselves under no special obligation to settle with the company for their passages as 3 s a geb after they have been brought baroug ht te here r e by it is a mystery while in the old country panting for belive deliverance r from forn raby eaby babylon on they would have ma made e any y pledges 1 ag to haye have obtained help to come topi tops to zion ion lon if they ked been told that they would not after reaching zion pr promptly and gladly pay it bace back again they could not have believed that they would be BO so ungrateful and care carel leet ept debtors to that fund should try to i recall the feelings which they had ahel they left their homes how thankful they were to have the tho privilege of eona eom ing how full of good resolutions they were never to forget the kindness whick which had been extended to them and ther thea try to carry them out now ItIs it is scarcely honest for a man to buy property pro perty to possess teams and wagons and fur fot nigh niah his family with every comfort before he thinks of refunding the money which was spent him to bring him here there are others waiting to t come from abroad who are aa as anxious as he was when there and who are praying and hoping for that deliverance which he by his lack of punctuality helps to keep from them but the perpetual emigrating fond pond company CO m any is frequently not the only cred creator tor in such cases people are als ale helped by their neighbors and friends who are left behind with the positive promise that if they will let them have the money they will refund it out of the first means they earn atter atler they reach this country years sometimes pome times pass away without the cred ored tr ra hearing from the emigrants NOW how any person who believes in the justice and providence of god can be so untrue to their solemn promises promises and engagements is another another mystery it might be bei thought thac that a man who had bad any faith in god would be afraid to do any such thing he could not act net iu in fh jhb J manner and expect to be prospered there are many people in great britain who are now we hear bear anxiously waiting to get the money back ironi from their friends which they loaned them to assist to come here with the emigration of many persons depends on an this and those who have had assistance froni from them thern should exert themselves tore to refund them their money to bothem them the present is as favorable a time to pay up indebtedness debt edness to the P E fund and to return borrowed means to friends as there has been for years and years may again ela eia elapse se before a more favorable time sho shall arrive irr P we trust that these suggestions may be acted upon by those for whom they are intended if an exertion be made there is scarcely a person in the territory but what can do so methin something something creditors creditors in europe would be relle relfe relieved vei the hands of the P E fund company would be untied and thousands of or anxious hearts would beat with soy joy at the prospect of speedy deliverance |
