Show THE NEW immigration LAW new york papers have announced the arrival of a company of mormons cormons Mor mons at the barge office in that city they also called attention to the fact that under the new dew immigration laws polygamists are excluded some of them are anxious that this provision shall be applied to the newcomers new comers but most of them concede the point that the information as to their status must come from the immigrants themselves and they think it unlikely that the facts will be obtained if these doubting editors would take the trouble to think a little which they seldom do when the mormon question is 18 agitated tuey they would perceive the fact that even if polygamy was being taught by the mormons cormons Mor mons and some of the immigrants had polygamous intentions the possibility that any of them are practical polygamists is extremely remote polygamy was not practised practiced by the mormons cormons Mor mons in the countries where they embraced the faith even when the doctrine of plural marriage was proclaimed by the church and now that its practice has been interdicted interdict ed edit it is the hight bight of folly to try to include the immigrants who come to this country under mormon auspices in the term polygamists and seek to pro pre vent their landing on this ground the people who form the companies of mormon emigrants are not lawbreakers nor do they have any intention of breaking the law but they are am among the very best beet materials thao enter into 10 the composition of the com commonwealth moia honest industrious sober thrifty god fearing workers who come here to stay to be american citizens and to identify themselves with the nation and its institutions those persons who desire to beatrict immigration so that incongruous elements may be kept out of the united states should turn their attention and energies against the criminal and pauper cla clas classed sec and never worry their souls about the mormon I immigrants who would be a profitable accession to the population of any country on earth |