Show BUILDING UP MORMONISM MIgI kye nye tells how Cony converts erts are made hade and denies denes that inducements du arc are offered A A tonne girls view if Y world june 21 the largest party of mormon converts which baye have been landed here in several years passed pawed through castle garden yesterday on bleir way to tt utah they came in the steerage of the guion gulon steamer arizona and were accompanied by twenty five mormon missionaries the whole party were under the leadership of elder E 11 II nyo nt who has been abroad for several yeara years the other returning mission aries had bad been six month to two years abroad and are well satisfied with their work the converts numbering in all are mostly in families and are from scandinavia with the exception of who were gathered in england scotland and wales principally tho the former place there are no irish trish converts amon among them an unusual number of little 0 children are with the party but very few old people be being ng noticed marriageable young women and men are also scarce there not bein being goyer oyer in all mr nye said yesterday many of these people have been converts to the mormon faith for twenty or thirty years and were only waiting for an opportunity to go to utah did the church pay the passage of any of them asked a world reporter not one these people all saved people enough to bring themselves ves liere here and many zoany have snug little sums of money about them to invest in agricultural implements or some business fo for i r we have haye many skilled mechanics in the party will the church provide them with land for cultivation adno no free gifts of any kind will be m made ado people here have made a great mistake in reference to this immigration the church offers them nothing but a good true re ligion if wo we were to offer premiums for converts to our religion we could fill utah territory in in two years tears with people from t the he old J world orld every soul who ft ho goes to utah from europe goes of his own accord and without any inducement from us are many attracted to the faith by your belief regarding matrimony 11 emphatically they are not anil and mr nye became indignant indignant people here a again ain make a mistake in this particular particular we believe in direct revelation from the lord jesus christ through oni our prophets joseph smith brigham Brig liam young and john taylor our present leader lealer tho the lo 10 lord rd favors and commands a plurality of wives aa as communicated our prophets Prop liets and our lord believes that this command will make the world better and cleaner human nature is prone to wickedness nc g and you will find that in lands where pa polygamy birou agamy is is a belief female debauchery and weakness are at their minimum tim any woman would prefer to be an art honorable mother and wife to leading the other life and where a man has wealth and can gi give e his attention to his wives and children a plurality of wives is a blessing to C civilization but nevertheless this pait part of your religion is a crime among civilized people it is not according to alie I 1 law v of god 11 declared declare dAt mr fr nye we are civilized and more so than our oppressors pres sors the latter object mora more to our belief indirect revelation than anything else Wea we are rethe alie true believers and our converts come cowe with us knowing this and believing balio ying as wo believe one odthe of alie single women in the party with whom ta the reporter aler bad a conversation said t that t her liar parents had bad believed in mormonism for many years and had sent lier her to utah because the they could not get et enough money akere seli to go there them themselves es they will come over here she c continued as soon aa as they can get money and will ill join me in utah what are your intentions there 1 I am going to my uncle but bull I 1 sup pose I 1 shall marry somo some man who loves loves me do you believe in a plurality of w wives iye well I 1 dont like the idea and w would not care to marry a man with another wife wire if I 1 truly loved liim him mother says s it would better for me to marry a man who could support me with twenty other wives than one who could not support himself let alone a wife esmeral single men in tho the party are joing going to utah to earn a living which they L aey could not do in england tile they fy believe in mormonism niam and will follow its teachings tea chinga and will if successful in business have no objection to a plurality of wives the entire party started for ut butali ah I 1 late in the afternoon on a special train over the erie eric railroad they will distribute themselves in all portions odthe of the territory |