| Show RETURNING HAWAIIANS THE anti antic mormon Momon press will catch at the smallest straw which appears appear to their brej prejudiced vision a pointer for a vindictive article seven bevel banakas nave have recently started on their return from utah to the sandwich islands this circumstance is seized upon as a sweet for anti mormon animae versions antons en tons and a number of mi state benti we are made to justify the ilina aured comments remarks are am made about the cruelty of bringing natives of the sandwich islands to this itis it is asserted that these people were half starved and the inference is made that they wow were deceived by mormon emissaries induced to come to utah and then through treatment ill their eyes were opened aud and they have gone back bach as apostates from the morfou Mor mou moll church all this i is entirely erroneous the facts are these the seven returning banakas are two men their wives and three children they were with the colony in skull valley where they were doing well but thought they could do better financially in in this city so removed here on the farm the men received 30 per month for similar work which brought them 37 cents a day on the islands in this city they earned from a dollar to two dollars and a half a day but friends on the islands wrote urging their return and an appropriation having been made by the hawaiian government to pay the expenses of such persons they thought they would avail themselves of this opportunity and go back no obstacle was placed in their way they came here by their own desire they returned at their own option they applied for and obtained certificates of their membership in the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and letters to show that they had not returned without approval they have not left the church nor were they dissatisfied with their treatment by the church authorities As to the climate banakas may be seen here who feel no need foran for an overcoat or extra warm clothing when white people complain of the cold though clad in extra garments no cc cruelty is practiced upon them unless higher wages and better food and surroundings than they ever had bad in their lives before is cruelty there are seventy three of these people in the hawaiian colony they are doing well temporally they are perfectly free to come and go as they please they were not induced to come to utah they joined the church in their native homes they wished to be with the saints in these valleys and were permitted to emigrate their sufferings are either imaginary or fabricated to frame an excuse for misrepresent misrepresenting jag the mormons Mor moue mons two men who returned previously to this departure are now clamoring to come back these natives do not apostatize tat ize unless it be by transgressing the rules of the church as to chastity and personal righteousness when though cut off they usually repent sincerely and desire deal re forgiveness an and to return to the church fair investigation will show that all the stories that have been told of filially fici ally and otherwise about the mis fortunes of the banakas in utah are either gross exaggerations or wilful falsehoods but it seems that the anti mormon press can not or will not tell the truth about anything that ro re lates to mormonism or the mor mons f |
