Show THE LATEST COMPANY OF immigrants THE company of immigrants which arrived today to today day doy created some com commotion m 0 on landing in now york they were described in the herald of that city as ct swedish converts s and on tho the alleged authority of health officer sanborn san sau born as one of the foul est eat crowds he had ever examined some of them were crippled at least one was blind and all were dirty this libel was of course telegraphed all over the tho country anything that seems to ha be to the disfavor of the I mormons cormons Mor mons in any way la Is too good to be ba kept private it must be bent sent upon the wings of the tho wind or the shafts of lightning to the ends of the earth that all may know it and that the pious may gloat over it the new now york world however has the following concerning this bame game company athe ltha rha tha gulon guion steamer nevada which arrived yesterday from L iiii v arpod brought in her steerage etee rage mormon converts who are to settle in utah they are aro under the care of mr P P F goss who 19 Js 19 assisted by twenty seven mormon elders all ol of whom letb left salt bait lake city about two years yearb ago as listion arles aries to europe about I 1 of df tul uhe B party are scandinavians an and d th the remainder come from switzerland r rn nd s germany and the british isles the majority of the converts convert bare nrc in families but there la Is also niso a number of single men and women the con verts as a rule are of a better cissa class than have arri arrived veil for many yearb years yea vea ra the heads of families are all md moderately do supplied with money moneys with which they intend to purchase land and farming implements as they are all agriculturists but the single men are mostly expert med mes hanica the world also aiso publishes an account of an interview with elder gessin which he showed that these persons have not been persuaded to gather to utah but have desired to do so themselves theme elvea he said thoy inthey they come to us we have lived among them have explained our religion to them and they have asked us to take them to our homes in utah they havo have paid their own passage i 0 money none of them receiving cerv ag any assistance from us many of them have been converts to our faith for many years in their own homes and have at last determined ter mined to visit the great centre of our religion but I 1 11 said bald the reporter they y could not ot enjoy a plurality of wives wives in the old country gino no one said they could replied mr goss ano no one said they wished to do so young man you yon have an altogether erroneous idea of mormonism it is not on the doctrine of a plurality jt wives that our faith Is founded people come to us to enjoy our liberty our peaceful mode of living and our happy un union i on they come to us because it la Is the only true religion the new york sun describes the children among the immigrants as all having rosy sheeks and laughing eyes and gives a favorable description of them but says nothing about their being dirty the company of mormon immigrants whose landing a few fow months ago some officious persons endeavored to prevent was described by the emigration commissioners as 91 superior in every way to the general class of immigrants this present company the world bays says Baysa arens rensa areas reasa a rule of a botter better class than have arrived for many years how then in tho light of these two statements can they be truthfully denominated a foul lot pro Fro probably bably babiy mr sanborn has a strong aversion to mormonism and is therefore unjust in his description of those who believe in it ris his language Is quite improper and his charges are certainly untrue another misrepresentation in regard to this company Is concerning it a young woman who came on the nevada it was stated in the herald and telegraphed to chicago Chic aaro that her name was begina berina It egina erlna anderson a swedish wom woman 35 years of age that her brother leander beander and sister anna who live in philadelphia persuaded her to abandon tha almor mormon proselytes prose pros lytes but the althe mormon missionaries were strongly opposed to the woman leav eav ing the party but the matter was brought before superintendent jackson Jack and the woman was persuaded to go to philadelphia with her br othor broiher she had prepaid her I 1 passage to salt balt lake and did not re calve her money back the new now york sim says bays ali ail all the morning a man and a young woman brother and sister had bad awaited the coming of the converts con verta in the garden they were expecting their sister egina egins johnson a swedish girl they were not cormons mormons Mor mons nor did they propose that she should become one if they could prevent it they had journeyed from philadelphia to meet her hers and when they saw a pretty neatly dressed young woman come como into the garden with the others they threw throw their arms around her herand and embraced her warmly she bhe returned their caresse burst buret into tears and expressed her willingness to HO go home with w th them at once moly tried to hina bina hinder tr her hey and mr johnson and his two bisters sisters started for philadelphia in the afternoon bome some of tho the new york papers attempt to find fault because the passengers on landing at castle castie garden were jealously guarded from gentile gan corl coil contamination tamina tion the Herald describes how they were hept kept t together 0 on one side of castle garden and conversation with visitors and outsiders strenuously discouraged 11 and yet the bame came paper gives par honyara honiara llo lle ulars which convey a very good reason why xula xnia leu istance vigilance IsU ance on the part of the elders to is wise and necessary cos ces bary sary in an article headed musing immigrant alris it states that including two recent cases therein described there have been no less th sn seventeen immigrants nearly near all ali youn young g women who have unaccountably count abl abi y disappeared from castle garden bince since january lat entering into conversation with visitors they have been persuaded to take tae a walk valk or go somewhere for refreshments and have been jn in into some infamous resort when all trace of them has been lost our emigration is conducted carefully sandwith and with regard for tor the best beat interests of 0 f the people who leave their homes to gather with the saints because of bf their faith in the gospel they are not from the low and degraded class but from the working portions of the old horld m ord oad they pay their own way to utah having saved the money from their hard earnings by thrift and belt belf denial which tere eire evidences ol of their worth and their value to this country their object in coming here is not marriage either plural or but to dwell with their co religionists build up zion berve serve god and attend to choso ordinances and requirements of their religion which could not be fully observed in their own lands evil minded persons may malign and misrepresent them but they are with but few exceptions the saints of the most high god the elect gathering in from the four our quarters of the earth in fulfillment f ul fili fill ment of prophecy and in accordance with the purposes of the almighty and they are an acquisition of which any now country might be proud for they help to form a permanent commonwealth become lecome stable citizens and greatly aid in the material of the he resources of any region in which they ahey make their homes attrude itt elde eide Is Is continually one of de defence abt of attack and this may pe be jaima from the kent jent gentle gentie lemens mena own subsequent remarks in the foregoing raia rafa graph continuing ha hii states a san admitted badt that the guon amor mor polls folis nairi IA the this past have committed atrocious murders but says bays the As ewa did the bamo bame in old testament times and christians christiana teach the children in the sunday school that they did right s elere here again hi he has credited reports instead of re lating what he saw and learned for and is mis i taken if any atrocious murders i have been committed in this thia terri tory lory they are not rightly chargeable I 1 I 1 to the mormons cormons Mor mons aa a community i j for their creed la Is most uncompromisingly i opposed to murder and kin bin j dred crimes it Is ia and uni i wise to charge the acts nets of any individual j upon the community or soi boi clety of which he may be a member 3 especially when those acts are con frary to the teachings and obliga 1 eions of that community or society t but mr copeland talks vary soundly when he treats upon ques ilona iiona from hla hia own standpoint anu and 1 la is not nov swayed by things that have been imposed upon him hina I 1 he does docs not believe in any of the nieth methods proposed for the sol bol solution ution of the mormon problem tv f gg persecution only drives them to 3 1 t gether and strengthens the power of I 1 the priesthood brute force may i 4 avail but with what shadow of authority can brute force be used need the mormon system civil government and nud all Is a religion religions just as much as romanism or methodism I 1 afir or unitarianism Unitarian ism iam and it if the united states tates have the right night to destroy the IMor cormons mormons Mor mons they have the right to Idest destroy rby presbyterianism and eo iro sm if mormonism is oknox ox loos to the people of the united estates and can be destroyed by and hye bye maniam Bo Ro or Protestant Protest aniam ein bin inay imay ay be equally obnoxious and may I 1 tie yie destroyed which forever puts an I 1 fald amed to religious religions liberty better read redd mol moi cism were the evils a thousand lana land som toa tod gwm mow www than they are than tule tile the tiie loss loea of religious liberty nor can the various churches established I 1 I 1 aal aai mag mug the mormons cormons avail any L ething to the power of the priesthood riest hood for these ch urchea nichea profess to be founded on ithe althe the same book on which mormonism niam Is founded for it is not the book of 4 bommon but the holy bible which to is the foundation stone on which mormonism rests but few are led 0 out oot of mormonism into y rian churches when a mormon apostatizes he Is through with biblo bibio religion altogether I 1 the gentleman thinks that edu cation commerce the impatience of P priestly dictation which wealth yil yli III ill b bring ing and a liberal religion not confining itself to the hebrew eibie bibie are the agent agents destined to settle the mormon question guestion he concludes his in the following words y mormonism to my mind is ia of jg great greal tent rent malue maae to the religions ea ious lous world alt fil it shows the growth growt and ana d genesis of a fa 7 religion shows us ns just how christ 1 tiani ty may have hava started and grown grawn yit tit it repeats repents the history of the first century in the christian era so that the world has an ob object eject lesson to which it cannot close its eyes and mormonism niam further shows in nits aits its completeness a truly bubli cai cal ical church with no doubts double s with no conceal ments I 1 with no twisting and turning mormonism niam stakes the bible literally literacy as it must be taken it it Is ia a revelation and makes its religious system accord ling fing inato to the plain teachings of the book mormonism egowa to the world nat whala what a church founded on th the a must X and not checked and changed by external influence here in zion via a theocracy such buch as aa the bible Wt teaches eaches buch such as all churches churche 3 would become which are founded on the 4 a bibles bible were vere they relieved from ex influence other churches are modified theocracies tho the church of th the latter day saints the genuine thing we have found it out of jol joi joint with the times it la Is an an archi ar chism sms and we are driven to the col conclusion that its fountain the biblo ible 1 belongs to another age we iri irh arc compelled comp aUed to listen to the voice of or god and more or less reduce our de dependence epen dence on hebrew W scripture the candid admissions contained arthe tho the i foregoing and the kind and I 1 tonal manner in which mr cope kv alarid nl ared lEid nas bas handled hia hla subject 3 he has no destro desire to in mib mis is represent anything connected with it he would find it worth month his iwhite hile to tb th thoroughly examine the ltd lid of mormonism and it ic lelum to divine origin and b h would learn that while it ib is lin jin in close conformity to the ancient gospel and plan of salvation and therefore bears nesem resemblance b lance to the biblical church in organization principles Inci ples pies power and spirit it is ff the voice of god in ia iatter latter t ter tin tiu oa that has established its it and that guides guide directs and animates it in the present it is that upon which the latter day saints depend in stead of on ancient scripture and it is that to which they bow and not the edicts or dictates of man we commend mr copeland for his impartiality and fairness in the me ors ois cus sion slon of a subject that is ia usually trea tres inn ina deiy very different manner by professed ministers of religion sent 2 WI twe THE IM 57 |