| Show devarti EVARTS AND MORMON IM MIGRATION AGAIN tue THE following dispatch came over the wires iviry 4 this adeer afternoon n oui ori hav having anh ing been r sent bent ent from washington as a special to the chicago rim tim times ea i it sho bho shows the disposition of certain fairi tairi parties to stop Mormon immigration an and d at a the same saoe time exhibits exhibit their impotence to do anything any thing but talk taik tal tai k warning and threatening gung jung but effecting nothing the tho mormons cormons Mor mons li have just the same right to come to to f ollis flip country a as I 1 immigrants mal grants of any other faith there is nothing in law to prevent prevents them their intentions cann canh can elther neither be pro 11 edv nir andr presumed sot not until ungil they actually break a law can call its penalties be inflicted upon themy or a case he hd made I 1 put out on which to proceed 1 ohp mormon normon Wo mormon rmon immigration will go 90 ti the attention n of Secretary Evarts was today to day called to the fact that a number of emigrants hadam ha d embarked baiad from europe for this country evidently with the lention indention in ot going 0 to salt lake to join the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons having left their own country jt t is supposed suppo iuppo sed the they would be unmolested hi in the full 1411 4 enjoyment of bf the religious belief and customs of that sect it will be remembered that gme time agg ago a large page numbs of emigrants 0 passed ali through rough the country westward to utah to escape the restrictions place placed d upon them because of their belief jn in Mor monis monia m and especially the practice of polygamy there was atthe atlle time and is now a law in force in ifa the territories abid and particularly utah prohibiting polygamous marriages at that time secretary evarta issued circulars to the dina dinn dinnies tes af pf the goate tate department in foreign countr countries 1 w i s givin giving g notice ao to foreigners preparing to go to utah wih a view of practising practicing polygamy that they be duly prosecuted if they thoy jid did eo so in violation of this law lair the object of bf the tho the circular was the discouraging of foreigners from coming to this country with a view of joining the mormons cormons Mor mons secretary evarts was asked what lie ile proposed to do with the immigrants now on their way to he said sald if they attempted tocarra to carry out their peculiar views in regard to marriage they would be proceeded against at once on ce for polygamy th they ey would be treated as criminals and punished accordingly they had received due warning in in the circular issued to foreign countries and in accordance with this circular which has been widely circulated prosecutions would at once be instituted against them there could b have ave ate been no mistaking the circular it instructed the tile representatives of this country abroad to communicate to foreign governments the position of the administration upon the mormon question this was that this government intended to take the most active and anti vigorous steps stepa for the tile abolition of the institution of polygamy in this country the circular was issued and it was so stated therein for the main purpose of securing operation cooperation co upon the part of foreign governments in preventing the emigration of their subjects who intended to come over here to join the mormons cormons and practice polygamy the circular created a good deal of sensation at the time because the administration merely indicated a desire to shut oft off additions to the polygamists from outside sources but at the same time took no steps to punish mormons cormons who actually practiced polygamy in utah beyond a test case or two which resulted in practically nothing |
