Show VOICES FROM THE PEOPLE afe A few w words about those swiss mormon haupers paupers Pau pers EDITOR it was with disgust 16 u st as well as dismay that the writer of this noticed the telegraphic announcement the other day about the edict of the secretary of the treasury ordering the detention or rather refusal of admittance to a number of presumed swiss mor r mon paupers haupers pau pers alleged to be on their way to this country I 1 say d degust because beca it is is i certainly derogatory to the dignity of this great aud and glorious land of the free and home of the brave to lay in their don quixotic lances against a few immigrants from abroad whatever their char character acter might be ant and all this ou on no antho authority tho rity or information ou on no knowledge of the facts in the case I 1 also say bay Jt dismay inay because it is is certainly erta a matter of serious apprehension het ision for every lover over of liberty and friend of freedom to see the official powers of a government ea through the agency of infidels like lika thomaa thomas Jeffe Jef fierson raon being perverted and degraded to acts of proscription of f people forthe for the sake of their religion whatever that might be and aud which by themay the way a customs collector or commissioner of immigration at new york port has infinitely more trouble and inimitably illimitably less cli chancre ancs of ascertaining than the grade of the imported sugar or the nationals nati onali I 1 ty odthe of the immigrating stranger strange r but mr editor there are a fayr more features connected with this abraira afra ira few facts which show not only lythe the absurdity bu t the al injustice of the ilia moy movement ement to 10 which mr folger has evidently al ali i owed himself to be led by bv some evil I 1 advisers for the first th tiling aug formen missionaries be they active in the dales of norway the glena glens of I 1 england ng the valley valleys of Gerni germany uny the alps of S switzerland erland or t the he islands of the sea do not pick up alpers au pers true enough their proclamations fai nations 0 of the glad tidings of the gospel of revealed gh gli joseph smith 9 goes oes to the massetto mas sesto those of humble extraction and lowly status as did the message ot of him whom lire the pharisees Pharis tees ees and scribes crucified the money makers the thel world worshipers the gold grabbers the learned the mighty the rich as arule a rule turn a deaf ear car to the nies message sage of salvation i in these days as the some clabes did in days of old thus not only proving roving that histo history ry repeats i itself ff but also furnishing furn furnishing ishin an evidence odthe of the truth of the latter day lay gospel as it meets the fate prophesied of old however How everi though the converts to and laid ne ac herent fl of mormonism be mostly of the humbler walks of life it by I 1 no means menus follows that they are pau ars g rs in the odious sense of that casary treasury rea sury mandate or the ts an ill advised and evil meaning res the people who join mor louism nonis meither either in tae the cords 0 of f scandinavia candi navia the manufacturing towns owns of england the alpine tiles inges of switzerland or elsewhere are not only imbued with native re legious ious predisposition 0 n SA and d arral conviction their own but they are the hardy sons and daugh daughters tem of f toil t toil which they ther cannot make remunerative under the adverse social and industrial condl eions of their native lands but which lich they are bringing to bear rich ch fruit in this country where inexhaustible natural resources resource area only waiting for the industrious land to yield abundant harvests liar Lar vests secondly to confine myself specially teci ally to the swiss iu in question not t only are fire there no inon mon paupers haupers as alleged nor hor swiss at all but a severe and porously executed law of the swiss riss confederation positively y pro hibits bits the emigration of any per sons not posse possessed esedor of the of travel and rg life in the land of their des destination ion A few isolar ed cases mes let us eay tay and I 1 am able ble to 0 prove it by official figures one in n ten thousand thou have occurred where acre persons of depraved habits and unsavory record penniless penny less lees and ho pelem have turned their barks on the boundaries of the cantons and made their way to america but ut such never have been cormons mormons Mor mons neither could they have lave been cormons mormons Mor mons i experience of not no t a few yeara years bears cara mo out in asserting that them missionaries aries of the stormon Mormon 1 church lurch in switzerland are lonely careful in the admission of converts to their fold all persons of ill I repute bad baa habits or shilly record d being refused hence liene no 1 undesirable persons from sw switzerland r come ever did or ever will co come eto e to america through the aid of mormon missionaries it is true there have ben been swiss mor 10 r mons arriving in utah wh who did not have enough mo money 12 to invest in stock of the S salt alt L lake a eie tribune f but ut they have done more than that hey they have arrived in early spring rone e to the canyon worked in the s and all summer and fall and built homes houses of their own next year and in a couple of they have aur surrounded rounded th c I 1 with the simple comforti cona forta of ife life besides having havins redee redeemed large i tracts of land from the unproductive wilderness wilde rhesa rhess and helped to build u ip p the country through their indo fatigable ati fiti gable industry and unexcelled ruf a faUly la III ta fhe third thiril place mr ar editor I 1 I 1 1 might ref eryou to what the swiss have done no coonly only for the civilization of the hitman race hut but for the enlightenment and of the ef entile refe monarchic as anvel well as aarfor forthe of jhb fiann cea albert gallata Galla tm hi spread of bf natural and development ot rati rational dind krusi i in thia this country it also refer the sniveling editorial harpy of the 8 L tl tribune abune to the fact that switzerland isa ignot not only the countr country y of gotters goiters goi but ther the head center and headquarters headquarter a of the greatest T of the nineteenth cen century tai rv tho the geneva c croas the international postal tal union and the international telegraph union I 1 might refer to avery brano branch of science science arti and I 1 literature u ra in iii wh which i eh ama na or ther othe descendant odthe rellow citi zens zeus of wilhelm ell and arnold van von played a prominent part but I 1 1 I fear it would be carrying coal to newcastle tle for I 1 the I 1 I 1 e minded part odthe community t 0 or r casting pearls borc sving for for t those h oz gruve groveling jing characters who denounce everything mid ever everybody Y labe 1 it I 1 am vertaim that no detary of f the he treasury will stop swiss 3 tori T mons from entering the Uni tedi states neither T rill iu adivi sc scribe ribe prevent coming to utah U tall anali and to build country which whick lie is disgracing byi hia his pres citco I 1 I 1 yours respectfully r t I 1 ti tim m 0 ie afa y 27 |