| Show PROM A GENTILE standpoint the mew york correspondent of the chicago times gayes the following account of an interview with elder stained in new york W C staines the mormon immigration agent who has arrived from salt lake city reports that notwithstanding secretary evarts anti mor mon circular of last year the move ment towards this country of european mormon proselytes prose lytes is more active than ever and the arrivals this season will bo larger than for many years past the au thon ties at suit lako sent abroad early this season forty additional missionaries who will not raburn or two years they have now in england scandinavia germany switzerland and about one hundred of their faith who have left utah for the sole purpose of making converts in europe thy are assisted by several hundred local elders who are commissioned as such in every community where the mormon interest gains the slightest foothold it u the business of the missionaries to establish churches the nurture aal growth of which are left to the care of the elders mr staines says that most of the american consuls who received mr evarts circular took no steps whatever in the matter knowing that the mormon converts abroad had violated no law which auld their governments legal ground apoi which to interfere with their tr posed emigration A few consuls however in compliance with the wishes of the secretary of state called the attention of the local authors aie particularly of certain to england to tho fact persons it uin belief which in practice were contrary to the united states litas wera about to leave tho country the violators of th united ates ute polygamy in Uta hand asked that ahe mat aci be in cages un in airy was ordered and mr bums that the results so ar from the mormon baue abroad ir annoying its converth conver tc has actually leen to the work he said i mail some newspaper talk and routed til curiosity and interest of more intelligent class of people than IM been attracted to the work where inquiry was made it was found that the proselytes prose lytes were an industrious dinou denive class who had broken no law and whose movements could not rightfully be anier it red with investigation whenever instituted he gays made them no enemies but gained them the sympathy if not the intelligent people who had previously known nothing about them it would appear that the cormons mormons have been emboldened tion to ventilate their obnoxious views on the marital relation more freely in europe than they bae heretofore done formerly were not much in the habit of instructing their converts in the doctrines of polygamy until they reached ahe promised land in utah but recently they have begun to explain and justify polygamy in their preaching and in their tracts which are freely distributed this boldness has got a few of the scandinavian missionaries into difficulty and they lave been locked up in jail a few days and then dismiss eil with the warning not to breech forbidden practices for the most part however they have been unmolested the authorities allowing them the utmost license of as long as they violate no law of course alie european proselytes prose lytes if they accept polygamy in theory do not embrace it in practice until they crois the lait year tho number of mormon an ta was anler the now mr about 2500 per hiis A numbering will anio in H lew d on the guon a lare y will soltow in july mallit r n S anil lie iest ot he wall poff ovar in very ow of th f ayser Si ainer ara in utah in pitt lambing iund me all taken up anil are held nt lusher figures than iti agent arc wit bioni yli city into lo 10 Monima arid who it ct bantli lor the im rui granis t alt a lt lake city they are formed into aie w aurlies and to their future humai mr far the that ihly are it hot in the world he says that they develop ilyin briore rapidly and kiili IM money hsin clonita clon its and iho awin i blui thay tale particular pains to include in their colo lizmi parties nil the skilled labor deeded to build up hs naw par is taken that every arty nave carpenter a blicks milti a ard a r one tf the firitz erected is a saw abill by nil ha varieties of labor ne dod in the development of a now country the colonists goon become entirely self reliant and in a short time turn the wil into busy and thriving nl moat of the ire many of them are aided by relatives in utah to ru uh ihl to tho im nii grant fund aggregating large sumi ahre turned into ahn general trea iury in lilt isike aty qty and by 10 mr staines upon the arrival of the botn inias hieye to lie a necessities require ho has aig uig burel as lie lioa paid he union ciciro ri ciro hail road company in one cheas for the the are nt abroad ahei ex peeled to acin n after which they are nt liberty to mont of them luave in utah they aro engaged in cervice in europe the mormon church h beeking converts alo in alio southern tc with considerable wa i onario are naf t work in tha field in st ij busand ev e v e quite a number of resident ron verta to the mormon ciui but the noe of ho go 10 tho new mormon in the west ur staines says tho in that quarter las been in progress for tiro year an that tho thi W VW o mora cumor ou than heretofore two ago tacio was a mormon cum in L I numbering abul bouls aliey had ft church in which feare halil tho most of them afra lobal converth tg of prante alio to try lonine on tho of kirns west the lad did not flour nh in ft worldly point of view anil tap mado VP bleir minds they bonu do belter among the bretheren of their faith su the terri toriM thero are now only bome twenty of them and they have civen up their church mr claim fiat the gentiles and mormon of utah are now living quite peaceably together and that the bitter neM and hostility ot former daiy diy have almost entirely lie imy the gentilee Gen tilea have found that tho maraion Mor aion aro after all well geanine pc oile nd now ui t they understand ach I other better he thinks they will et along amicable iio declined to give any information as to the operation of thu united states anti polygamy statutes in utah it is noteworthy that prominent papers of the east are beginning to tell somo truth about our people and character after all the vilification a carried on for tears |
