Show A RETURNED IMMIGRANT THE new york papers are trying to make a mi mormon ormont l mountain out of an immigration molehill with the company of emigrants that arrived at that port on the dinst in s t was a young woman named elizabeth mcgee she was not a member of the church but was sent for by her father who ho it ap appears ears has been in utah some time and desired that his daughter who was left with her aunt and grandmother iu in england might come to the home he had prepared for her he sent the means for her immigration and knowing that she would travel safer and more comfortably fort ably with a company of saints and in charge of returning elders be so arranged and she came over on the wisconsin on the way a woman who was prejudiced against the cormons mormons Mor mons l told the girl what she bad heard about utah and the awful doings in that remote regions and obtained the help of some some saloon passengers who corroborated the woma comans womans nills statements and nearly frightened the girl out of her wits on her arrival she signified her desire not dot to go ary further and was allowed to go with the woman who had taken her in charge on the ship but was subsequently turned over to the commissioners and will probably be returned to england the new york papers have teemed with articles designed to put a false face on this simple matter and have intimated that the elders acted improperly on the way and that mr gibson agent in now new york of the guion company tried to coerce the girl into going to her father but the facts elicited by the reporters go to disprove all this and to narrow the matter down to the proportions we have defined benned and now what is there in all this to justify such a pother nobody is compelled to emigrate to utah the mormons cormons Mor mons have never exercised any undue influence to prevail upon people to come here it was natural that the father of this girl should wish to have his daughter with him the people she was left with were poor the girl had to work for her living and would be much better off here it is only the absurd ignorance of the people who poisoned her mind on the way and of the press writers who have imagined a great deal of nonsense which they have reduced to printed matter that has raised this mountainous mormon nJ bugaboo if the cormons mormons Mor mons naP wanted recruits all as the papers call them all they would need to do would be to pay the passage money of 0 f appl applicants I 1 ca ats and the quion guion line of steamers would be found inadequate for the rush of immigrants that could be brought over the sea and poured into these mountain valleys the new york papers would do well to exer exercise clad a modicum of common sense but it is too much to expect that when they chev undertake to say anything in relation to imor mormon affairs |