Show suppressing ino teo P X immigration T jr 0 THE chicago inter ocean auksi what do you your propose to do sma ata it missionaries from the mona church are in france sweden ki na way germany ireland scow beom and england with plenty of mont moni persuading innocent people to en ez grate to the tho land of the free 2 we propose to tell the truth ald aid it mr incer infer ocean while you bouc u many any of your contemporaries sol SKI to P prefer refe r shutting your eyes to tobt toft b facts and opening your mouths i pour ur forth fiction it is to tri that that missionaries of the chet chut of jesus christ of latter day balt bait are laboring in many parts of and america as they have the rii rig to do preach preaching ing lAg the gospel of jos christ christs baptizing repentant bellev belief for the remission of or sins and a ca firming them by the laying mi OBI hands for the gift of the holy gis glik but it is not true thit that theli th eyu eye with plenty of money pen per nusis auaiS innocent people to emigrate 0 missionaries either travel with witla purse pirse or scrip kor sor pay their own i with their own scanty money ec vis ed by honest industry in utah B D aa a rule nule they are in the samen same d as to silver and gold as I 1 peter when he healed the larne 0 near the temple gate there i need for them to persuade people emigrate to this country TU tin who embrace the gospel goepel that ft preach are only too anxious to nit fit here and are continually pilo with their friends to help heip tho to the church to advance net which they promie promise to repay vj vy able that they may gather to I 1 bosom of the church but supposing it was all 0 have not mormon rilio arles aries as good a vi right to tor toe mote emigration among masses of the old world ss si il 1 body else and if they went were d plied piled with plenty of money to people to come tog to tho the ind bt 4 free what wrong would there be in expending it for that purpose and to echo the words of the inter wet met ocean what dodou propose to do about it we propose to perform the work imposed upon us by divine commandment man dment that is to preach this gospel of the kingdom in all the world asa aaa witness to all nations that the end is near to aid in the work of gathering the elect from all parts of the earth to prepare the way before the coming of the son of man to build up zion to labor as god shall direct for the establishment of the latter day kingdom and glory no matter who may object or oppose what do our opponents propose to do about it aney propose to interfere in the work of the tent Jehova jehovah ix they should remember the adage that man proposes but god disposes and we can promise them in advance that they will fall all that they do to hinder this work willaid to spread and increase it as it has been in the past so it will be bein in the future according toa to a dispatch from washington the department part ment of state intends to do something to check mormon immigration or as stated to diminish the influx of deluded female converts this may be one of those manufactured bits of news which correspondents at the capital are so famed for working up when there is a dearth of sensations and it is possible that the rumor is correct lin jim in any event it would be wise for those officials and journalists who are interested in the subject of mormon immigration to post themselves on the facts and figures in the case before taking any rash I 1 steps te p g which ehm elm might ight succeed in nothing g but in making aking themselves ridiculous it will be found on invite ti gation that the object held in view by mormon immigrants is to gather with the saints in obedience to gods goda commandment camman dment for the purpose of serving him and fulfilling ful filing the scriptures also that the marriage feature of our faith which seems to attract BO so much of the attention of its opponents cuts but a small figure if any in the minds of these gathering converts they are bound for zion they are not select persons as supposed suppose ds picked out to swell the plural families of utah they are mostly in family th the hii ahna band wife and children childrens frequently the grandame and grandpas grand pap people of all as from the infant to the octogenarian generally honest industrious dust rious thrifty people who make good goa gom orderly law abiding citizens in most instances the parents have been members of our church for years and have been steadily saving a portion r tion of their earnings to pay thi their way to zion they are not the scum of european cities as frequently alleged but the worthy working classes the right kind of material for colonizing and nation building the popular notion and one that seems to nave been imbibed by national officials is that our elders are sent out supplied with cash on a woman hunting expedition and return turn with cargoes of females specially for 11 mormon ll harems hares there is a no foundation whatever for such an idea in the first place there is no marrying mania in utah as imagined outside those these who have plural families have accepted responsibilities and cares that none but they can appreciate out of regard for sacred principles there is no anxious desire to multiply these conditions but where assumed they are accepted as a matter of duty in the second place our missionaries hion sion narles aries are simply preachers of the gospel evangelista evangel fata iata of the jatter day huricks ibm twy j vw no special mission to women more than to meu med in the next place the companies nies which they bring home with nem gem them when they return are of the character we have described and in which unmarried females do not by any preponderate in numbers and finally these immigrants are not prompted by any such motives as supposed but call cail them deluded if you will wiil are animated with the simple and main desire of into the tops of the mountains to leaa team the ways of god and walk in H his is paths th 9 as predicted by the ancient jewish prophet malachi the telegram from washington says 66 whether the act of march ad 75 passed to exclude chinese women which makes unlawful the immigration of women imported f for or immoral purposes is aepli applicable cable cabie to this claa clabea ia is unsettled this is positively absurd and the Cun unsettled settled question arises from a total misconception of the actual truth the administration in the ridiculous circular of evarts and in the present consideration has been led like the government under buchannan by those altogether unsafe guides popular rumor and scheming impecunious officials an am army was sent against utah to suppress a rebellion which had no existence to punish the mormons Mor mons for burning government property that was found intact and the whole affair was a fiasco as expensive as it was needless and shameful and now measures are being considered to check a class of immigration that is as imaginary as the cause of the mormon war and to apply to mormon immigrants a law that has no more bearing upon them than it has upon the disgraceful deadlock in the united states senate the mormon immigration cannot be stopped because it is the work of the godif god of israel hearit hear it presidents and kings poten potentates tat a and peers rulers and magistrates editors and priests I 1 the god of heaven has set his hand to gather his people from all nations his spirit moves upon them to forsake their native lands he preserves them upon the great deep he guides them to the spot where his house is being reared it is his law that they observe in their movement and in it thay break no law of man either in the old world or the new find out the facts before you attempt to block up their way and do not allow prejudice and falsehood to influence you to folly lest you not only expose yourselves to human derision but find also that you have been fighting against god 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