Show THE OTHE sympathies S A OF or THE SWISS the chicago new is is one of our most valuable and valued exchanges ch angs being generally on the ri right lit side of the fence whenever it is informed on the subject it speaks of but like al lother human being beings its editors are liable to be ignorant of some questions and matters in the former case they are excusable for to e err is human but in the latter emergency they become reprehensible if they attempt to put up a structure of deductions duct ions on the fleeting quicksand of ignorance of this tho the chicago news was guilty the other day by perpetrating an editorial paragraph on tho tile swiss converts to the church of 4 latter day saints the begins by seail staring ing that it is becoming 9 a mutter matter of question at the east and in ill europe why switzerland should furnish so large a proportion of the european mormon immigration now though in our estl esti nation mation the tile immigration to utah from the alpine republic can never be too large lar geha be it in their own interest or in behalf of their ad apted country we are sorry to catch the news writer on his first manifestation of ignorance in the second sentence of his paragraph when ho lie says that out of a total of mormon emigrants who embarked at rotterdam Rutter dam within three years have been f from rom switzerland while germany furnished but 8 87 and the netherlands 56 11 the news man would do well to remember if ho he ever knew that in accordance with the best possible 0 a nar thal agns ml grants to utah have always embarked at rotterdam thence to be transferred to liverpool mostly by the way of hull and there incorporated in the whole bod body y of emi grants of which they f formed ormed more than an aberago one tenth so large a piro proportion portion tho jan language of theAre the news ws paragraph 0 seems to imply either that all the mormon emigrants start f from rom daup dan or that great britain and scandinavia which furnish the overwhelming contingent of converts verts do not form part of europe it is true comparing the population 0 of switzerland less than three million million souls with that of other E eu u c countries and then figuring out the rate of mormon converts wo no find the largest percentage for the descendants of the heroes of morgarten Mor If garten and laupen kaupen to whom judge E emerson merson paid BO to well de served and well expressed a compliment in hia his decoration day oration on ogden cemetery may iray 1883 aud and of this thi we are proud individually and otherwise as the acquisition of an clement element consisting of a peculiarly dome domestic tic and simple natured mountaineer moun ef race chicago N aws ins must be desirable to any community the news is puzzled to find out how and why it is that I mormonism a appeals in some special way to the sympathies of tho the swiss having fortunately some knowledge of the facts in the ilis case we are pleased to worm the chicago journalist nihat hat in mormonism appeals to the sympathies of the swiss swim is first its truth As a rule the swiss swim are a religiously disposed people eople especially the domes domestic ic and dimple natured mountaineer part of them at the same time their unexcelled educational status as official statistics previously given by us prove amply ar is euch such that the christian creeds of the modern day arc are too transparent for their keen judgment an As in the days of zwingli E co lampadius and cali vin they had b become acome disZ disgusted with tho the hollow pomp and heathenish pageantry pageL of popery so in these days they have grown dissatisfied with the shallow superficiality r ot oi protestantism and those who desire the truth in matters ot of faith and believe in the bible look for a christianity of christ not f for or a church according to reverend A t pastor B or pa parson rison C asnin tha the swiss people love liberty and laa la hayand yand and both of theae I 1 they find beat be it exhibited in the pilu 4 ys y s caples and preempts precepts of mormon ism the gospel makes free and the lords household is one of or ors der blore moreover over they have always had and generously manifested strong sympathies with the down trodden the oppressed the persecuted the shortest and meag crest erest recital of the history of the latter day saints cannot fail to appeal to their sympathies the injustice intolerance illiberality evidenced by many of the people and authorities of the we united states towards the cormons mormons Mor mons in days past and present and we are afraid in days da days y s future also arouse in swiss hearts that sense of indignation which drove tella tells arrow through Gess lers lees tyrannical bosom which burled hurled the fatal boulders from the sides of the gorge of Nf Mor garten on the serried berried phalanx of t the he austrian invaders and which impelled to bury in hia his heroic breast the deadly spears of sempach that liberty might live it may also be that the very geographical configuration a of utah haa has a charm for the mountaineer race whose lungs have expanded in the bracing breezes of the alpine valleys but above all it is the power of truth the convincing influence of the gospel that appeals to their sympathies and causes them to leave their dear homes in the alpine valea vales and on the lakesides lake sides to gather with the saints in the ap pointed place how the news writer knows that they are apparently more widely removed from tho the polygamous idea than almost any other we are unable a ble to divine at any rate they sec bee and appreciate in mormonism something infinitely diall different erent frem from a coarse and brutal religion |