Show WHAT NEXT THE immigration officials of new york seem to have dropped upon a hodous plot to disrupt the american republic As aa usual the conspirators spira tors whose machinations might had they not been nipped in the bud by vigilant patriots have sealed the doom of the nation are mormons Mormon Mor mons 8 ap they are members of a family of scandinavians under the leadership of the husband and father andreas olson oison in the background of the plot the ominous tinous on figure of a mormon elder looms up more or less conspicuously it appeared that the company of sa ut nta s on the way from europe was likely to stand the test of close scrutiny to which they were subjected at virtuous gotham for the purpose of ascertain ascertaining bag whether there had been any violation of the anti contract labor law the zealous and patriotic officials were doubtless in despair at their inability to discover a case when their intelligent activity was rewarded by finding doubtless with the aid of an interpreter that the aforementioned mormon elder bad promised to find work for andreas olson this startling development appears to have made it perfectly clear to the officers that the said olson and his family were totally unfit to live in america and should be returned to the country whence ley ey came the basis for this official position is we presume that Br brother arther ther olson having a prospect owing to a promise that had been made to him that he could get employment was under a labor contract it is easy when a mormon mermon is the object of attack to assert that a one sided promise is a contract althou although gl a contract is never viewed as a one sided promise in cases of the kind in question absurdity becomes logic by a process not known to any other conditions ordinarily with no mormon element associated it would have appeared to the officials that andreas Ol the basis of a promise of being given work was likely to be able to support himself and family consequently was free from the action of the anti pauper immigrant law had there been no prospect for sustenance for himself and family and the mormon phase been present then the advisability of returning them to the country whence they came on the ground that they might become a public burden in the country might have been the basis of detention this anti mormon zeal which some people are breaking their necks to exhibit causes the zealots zealous to play some strikingly fantastic tricks 11 f which viewed from an unprejudiced standpoint have the appearance pe arance of burlesques on common COMMOD sense |