The New York herald., 1879-08-11
INFATUATED MORMONS.
Assuming a Tone Of Defiance Tow
ard Federal Officers.
RESULTS OF CONGRESSIONAL LABOR.
Emboldened by the Committees Good Opinion
They Menace ALI Gentiles.
[By TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALp.l

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1
SALT LAKE. Utah. August TO- 1879.
The Congressional Labor Investigating Committee
arrived In Ogden Wednesday evening and were met
thereby number ofpolygamous saints. who escorted
them to this city During their stay here they were
the guests of the Mornons. VINO furnished carriages
in profusion and carried them to places OF in
terest. Thursday morning they visited John
Taylor and looked oyer the Tabernacle. the Mormon
Temple. and then drove out TO the Penitentiary to
visit Cannon and his coexecutors who imprisoned
for contempt. There they partook of collation. to-
gether and had good time. They listened to Can
mons version of the story believed him the victim of
judicial bgotry. and promised to their influence
to procure his release aud to procure Statehood for
Utah. Our visitors SO constantly surrounded
by much marrel saints that Gentiles would not ap-
proach them. The committee and their friends left
for San Francisco Saturday afternoon in the con-
ddent belief that they know all about Mormonisin.
Loyal citizens inqulring il the public money is
paid to their representatives to disloyal
sect in wrongdoing?
THREAT OF VIOLENCE
striking article appeared in the Church organ on
Friday evening which has produced profound i'm
the leader OF the Church 1t declares that the Nor
mons are tried beyond their power of endurance,
and If an uprising should occur outsiders will be
tho sufferers The following gives the gist OF
the whole article:-
1--WE not here to bow down as serfs to govern
ment appointees nor lick the bribestained hands of
imported satraps. We are still in possession of GER
tain inalienable rights. which 90 not propose to
surrender. We shall protect our lives best we
may from the murderous assaults of imported
assassins We shall contend for our liber-
ties and resist the incarceration Of honorable
men in jails, while land sharks, conspirators,
murdercrs. seducers and other vagabonds go at
large. We propose to pursue happiness in our way,
while heaping abuse upon seeking to intro
duce here the foulest forms of vice and establish
among .;o,S us deoauensry ntempersncs infant-
juncts of modern Christian civilization with
which they have been familiar We want nothing
do with the foul brood nor their loathsome, de-
grading damnable influence; and If the issue is to
nave them and their practices fastened upon or to
endanger the financial prospects OF the Territory we
say. let 1t come
On Saturday evening second article equally in
cendiary and menacng. appears It is believed John
ment he received from the Congressional Labor
Committee.
THE WORK OF MORMON OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SUPERIOR IMMIGRATION FACILITIES AFFORDED
BY THE CHURCH-TwENry-FIvE HUNDRED
NEWCOMERS DURING TIE PRESENT YEAR.
The HERALD's Washington dispatches announced
last Saturday that the Secretary of State had
letter to the diplomatic here of the
leading foreign States protesting against the
of those governments in continuing to allow their
subjects to leave for the United States Mormon
emigrants The government through its Min
listers abroad will call the attention Of Great
Britain. Germany. Norway. Sweden and Denmark to
the fact that their subjects in embracing Mormon
ism and in coming to this country to take up tho
poygamous practices Of that religion subject them
selves to the penalties Of the criminal laws II the
friendly representations of our government do not
lead to efforts the part foreign States repress
the zeal of Mormon missionaries and to check the
growth of Mormon proseytism. "then.'' says
Cabinet officer. shall be in position where we
can forbid vessels landing Mormon emigrants our
ports"
MORMON PRosELYTIsM
Not long ago Bishop John Rowberry who in 1877
and for years previous had general supervision
over the interests OF the Church OF Latter Day
Saints in England, arrived in this country with a
party of 700 Mormon emigrants on tho Guion steam
ship Wisconsin. The Bishop, who is o man Of
middle age and the husband of several wives talked
very freely OF what the Church was doing and hoped
to do in its European missionary work. He
admitted that within the past three years
the Church had put forth special efforts
to send its missionaries to the whole
of Protestant Europe. Their work. he said,
had been blessed with very great results Thousands
Of converts being added to the Mormon Church
abroad. and many Of the younger and more active
disciples Of the faith were emigrating to America
and adding strength to the Utah Church. In view
the facts presented and OF information derived
from other it may be said without exaggera
ton. that no religious sect to-day equals the Nor
mon Church in the extent, development and organ
lied efficiency of its proselytism. There are
now 100000 Mormons in Utah and its vicinity
and $4,000 in the Protestant lands of Europe.
It Is part of the Mormon policy to retain its nu-
merical superiority in Utah. The enemies of the
Church have invaded its chosen refuge, and 1t
no hope Of perpetuity that is not based even in
creasng hosts of believers. Last year. between the
months of April and October, the missionaries in
Europe induced two thousand Mormon emf
grants TO come to this country. This year the i'm
migration will be about two thousand fve hundred
which is larger than in any for the st fif
teen years. Last year eighty fresh missionaries
from Utah. enthusiastic. jealous ready suffer all
things in the cousre of their work. won't abroad to
scatter themselves Europe. There are now
about four hundred Mormon propagandists in Eu-
rope They are organized for work under nearly as
perfect system rs that which the Methodist Epis-
copal Church supports
The several countries of the Continent, said |
Bishop Rowberry, are divided into districts con-
ferences. with presiding elder each. and he Is
with as many missionaries as no thinks
well be utilized ia his territory. In Scandinavia
religious work where the seeds of the new dispense
tion arc taking root. There G,0O0 Mormons in |
Mr.. John A. Anderson, q former mis- |
sonary. who returned to Utah with Bishop |
Rowberry's party said that last year he |
baptised 500 converts. In Sweden there |
are three conferences, in Denmark three |
and In Norway two, with eight presiding |
elders. In Switzerland there is conference and
eight missionaries. Bishop Rowbcrry estimated the |
number of followers OF tho Mormon faith in Eng |
land at 10000. and the propagandst work going
in the charge of $50 missionaries. He said that the
majority OF proselytes In England we're from tho |
Meth odst Church. Many converts are won from |
hYteriAua. and the Church nlao fur