| Show THE DETAIN DETAINED D immigrants THE news that the detained emigrants who came over in the latest company of our people to new york have all been released and started on their way to utah will be very gratifying to their friends friend a and to everyone who under stood the situation and is not ailed with antl anti borbon prejudice there was no more bocc occasion ion to detain them than the rest of the company who were permitted to te proceed it was another case of over officiousness and malice against the cormons mormons Mor mons on the part of certain ertain emigration commissioners although bonds were offered conditioned that they should not become a public charge the they were kept like prisoners oriso ners until an 11 investigation was ordered from washington whon it quickly appeared ap eared that there was no authority for tor sending them back to europe as was intended by those who detained them ot of course the reporters for the new york press made the most of the opportunity port unity afforded by this detention dete atlon to manufacture falsehoods about the b Q elders ciders in charge and the church to which they belong it was stated that the company was largely composed 0 young females and insinuations were made even about the innocent children whom the officiate ficiala of cruelly attempted to send back over the ocean which they had lust just crossed but fortunately tuna tely the statistics of the comp company an y were published blushed and according accord lne to the new york tu ork herald which joined in the stupid at id outcry the numbers were as 18 follows the registry clerks at castle garden discovered that there were about seventy five men sixty women and the rest boys and girls superintendent simpson detained all the boys and girls under sixteen who had no natural or legal guardians with them dihe he found live five girls and three boys who came in charge ol of the elders they were detained and three families were sent to loin join them in the landing bureau enclosure the new york telegram in a vile article approving of the return of the children admitted that most of these i new mormons cormons were in families and one of the families which were detained was composed as follows ac there was a swiss nicholas egli with a famil 1 f five lie he is hoary an and wrin wrinkled kled a andris 1 fifty five years ol 01 old he be says he has been a I 1 twenty three years his wife is ia as old as he one son twenty nine years old is an imbecile not larger than a F year earold ear old boy they were bound tor for idaho idaho where they have relatives but thet they will probably be returned return edito to switzerland zer ze and the only reason urged for the detention of 0 this family was the presence ot the poor imbecile son but the as stated by the mail and express had tickets for himself and family to mont peller idaho and in cash than thais there was no excuse for ho holding adint g them under the law as they were not di MB per immigrants in any sense 0 of the tern boroi A and d this Is one ot of the ease ca new cormons mormons Mor cormons mormons Mor mons Is 18 it A new mol bof dpn ol of twenty three years standings standliy another of the detained is mrs cetla tine patterson who has beep in te be church many and was guilty ol 01 being beine 1153 53 years ol of age and ot wi 91 with her two innocent grandchildren ut of course these persecuted people were in great trouble at being beine kept while their friends proceeded on ther journey and at the cheerless prospect ot of having to go back whence they came but mr gibson of the gulon line in new york and delegate cattle at washington took steps which brought the obstructing officials 19 t terms of the law and the scheme C ot detention has fallen to the ground 0 these occurrences are very anno ann olag 1 and much sense senseless leso and malle mali malicco clo TW newspaper comment grows out jbf 1 I them it is to be hoped that when people in utah or abroad arrange for the transportation of children of relatives without their parents parenia all the preliminaries will be attended to so that the obstructing officers at abe abe port of ef new york will wiil not be afforded any pretext for ventin venting their antl anti mormon moamoa Mor moa spleen as in this ilits and some other instances |
