Show ON immigration IN view of the bread riots and other disturbances in england which are evidences of widespread distress isome some of the leading papers are urging that government shall immediately organize an emigration scheme I 1 this would perhaps give some little relief to the overcrowded ranks of the working classes who cannot find employ employment employee me nt but it would not strike at the root of the trouble it would only trim off a few of its branches yet there is no doubt that in the british Britis ti colonies there is ample room for thousands of laboring people who might work their way to comparative independence but who are now existing ml ini a state ot of in over populated towns town and dwelling in packed and swarming tenements there is some danger to the united states in the project it is notorious that the efforts of this government to prevent the landing of pauper immigrants rants have been almost a failure atit with but one or two exceptions the european governments have taken no official action of moment to carry out the suggestions and desires of the united states on this matter the laws enacted to prevent the landing of persons likely to become chargeable to the authorities have been evaded the strong competition between rival companies companie s engaged in the passenger traffic has stimulated invention ven tion and methods more or less ingenious have been devised to dodge around the laws restrictions the port authorities tuo have been willing to 10 wink at the doings of tile the ship companies anies for considerations best known between between themselves and since the agitation tation on the subject has subsided s ded there has been little difficulty experienced in landing any kind of immigrants from any part of the world except china if the emigration plan should be adopted to aid in relieving the widespread distress in england we may look tor for a revival ot of the ifie agitation in regard to pauper immigration co connected with this subject in the pubs public mind although there is no similarity between the two is the question of mormon immigration the suppression of the latter would be found much more difficult than tile the prevention of the former and the notion entertained by some folks who pass for dersons persons of intelligence that the mormon arrivals could be excluded under the provisions of the act against criminal and pau perin immigration is 18 exceedingly shallow and farfetched far fetched fetched the mormons cormons Mor mons who land in this country from the old world are not from the pauper or criminal classes the they do not become chargeable to the locut local or federal authorities they do not nil fill the jails poorhouses poor houses or asylums they are of the productive classes they help to build up the country wherever they go 80 their intentions tent ions are to become permanent citizens they have no intention to violate law their belief is their own property ro perty with which the government g has as nothing to do and into which it has no right to inquire governments can only regulate actions they cannot canno t encroach upon the domain of faith if the laws against pauper immigration nave have not been made effective it is likely that a law against mormon immigration would be AM less effective ways and means could be devised by which so foolish and needless a scheme would be rendered completely abortive and the idea of preventing families from landing whose only objection was a religious one seems too absurd for contemplation in a country and an age I 1 like ike this it is quite a musing amusing to note the sage remarks of p popular ap ier journals on the supposed cessation of the influx of mormons cormons Mor mons the castle garden authorities are quoted as affirming the statement that no normans mormons Mor Nor mons have arrived for pome gome time this is snapped up by those wise people who say so much and know so little on the question and interpreted to signify a collapse in mormonism one brilliant editor attributes it to the lectures of kate field he might j just as well have said that the skittish old damsel was responsible for the bread riots in london I 1 the last company of the season sailed from liverpool in october and there will be no more until spring from FromA apt H to october is the usual season for mormon emigration and the same story as that told by the castle garden people to the newspaper men might have been heard every winter it if they had taken the same trouble to Inq inquire aire the gathering of the latter day wats saints will not be impeded by the ex unfavorable sentiment evoked by itinerant lecturers malevolent preachers and a misleading press by the difficulties that the people of utah are placed in because of their religion reli arion n nor or by ex existing n rules about pauper immigration or a any il illiberal liberat and ill ad measures thy that t may be concocted by fanatical tana politicians |