Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-25
IMPORTED SAINTS.
4 Large Consignment OF Mormon
Converts.
TALK WITH THE soss MISSIONARY.
The Missionaries Now 10 Foreign Lands
How Married People are Initiated
Into Polygamy-Prospeets
ofthe Newcomers.

NEw YORK, April 2.-Ths Associated
Press yesterday announced the arrival Of
800 Mormon recruits. The Evening Tele-
gram has the following 70 say OF them:
Young men and old men. young women
and old women, pretty little girls and stur.
dy little boys, and infants just able 70
crawl, and infants in arms, crowded the
pier Of the Guion line this morning.
They we're $50 emigrants Who had just
landed from the steamship Nsvada, and
Who are on their way to Salt Lake City.
They we're we'll dressed, most Of them, and
their Heterogeneous baggage, piled around
them Indicated the possession Of more ex.
tensive goods and chattlsa than the smi.
grant usually bears 10 our shorea They
were met BY Mr.. J. II. Hart, the Utah
Emigration Agent In this city, Ia Bat.
tery place. Nr. King, secretary W this
company OF Latter Day asints, told
the Telegram reporter that he would DO
happy To give asy Information Ia his
power. 81 have been . missionary "
Great BritaiR," he said, ''for tWo-Anda.
half years. | spent silteen months labor.
ing in Nottingham and Wa rewarded by
l25 converts. During the thirteen months
| was in London I made only sixty con.
yerts, bat then there are arc many Others
working in that city, while had Noting.
ham ali to myself. OF the SO people We
have now brought over, los are from Den.
mark, Sweden and Norway, and the re.
mainder are English, Scotch and Welsh.
We have not single lrishman OF woman
among them.
I'm September last Was sent TO Ire.
land, and in the north, which 10 Protestant
aud resbyterian, ! found
A LiheraISptsit
toward Mormonism: but In the south and
west | found IL unsafe 20 preach. 20 great
is the devotion OF the people 10 the Roman
Catholic taith. ! wss again called ~ Ire.
land in January, but the political troubles
made il unadvisable to go. IS Americans
were then liable 10 arrest as suspicious
persons on account OF their nationality.
We have no missions in Irelsnd-thry
woGld be useless. We have nov shout Q
hundred elders in England and 30 In Eu.
rope altogether. In England there are at
present about 5000 Mormons who have not
got the means TO emigrsts. Four more
companies are expected TO arrive bere
during the summer-by the NeyAds, II pos.
sihle."
How did you organize this large body
on board?'
"On leaving port We held . meeting aud
appointed q captain. Then We divided the
people into three wards, with . captain to
each ward Every might and morning W.
assembled for devotions, singing hymns
from the Mormon hymn hook and having
eItempore prayers sad preaching. The
captain OF the Nevada says that the Nor.
mons are among the best and most orderly
passengers he has.
We Have Ne Tsssbls
or disagreement whatever with the other
passengers, many Of whom Attsn led our
meetings and expressed themselves n dis.
abused Of many erroneous Preiudices aud
impressions"
"what 10 the position OF people already
married arriving Ia Utah.
"A man already married has 10 undergo
a probation before he is allowed 20 enter
into pOlygamous relations. lie must ob.
tain q certiiicate, signed by the Bishop and
by the President OF the church, of his good
conduct and honorable character, and OF
his ability 10 support . plurality of wives
and the children that may be born. There
are two parties among the MOrmons. The
Josrphiies, or followers OF young Joseph
Smith, reject polygamy, and term the
polygamous Mormons BrighAmite. In
England We neither preach nor prartics
poly gamy and the authorities do not inter.
lers with us. II has been repeatedly urged
on Mr. Gladstone that he ought 10 take
measures for our suppression, bat he ai.
ways gives the answer Of . true statesman,
that 30 long as We respect the law he has
No Right % Istssfere.
As to Utah, ! hardly know how the III.
munds bill has worked. Mr.. w. N. Evarts'
circular was received with great contempt
both in England and France, but In Ger.
many We had 10 disband, although We were
making great hesdwsy there. We were
also Obliged TO desist for time In Sweden,
but now that country IL our best field. In
Turkey We have had small success and but
little In France and llaIy. Spain We have
not attempted. In America the pulpit 10
our worst enemy"
what are the prospects OF these people
In Utshg'
well, they are mostly mechanics and
farmer. Very many Of them have rels.
tiyrs already In Utah, who will give them
or get hem employment. We have had
no arrivals who have failed 70 get some.
thing to do. There are now sbout 2D,OO
Normons in Utah. These emigrsnts have
all paid their sIpenses Of coniag here, and
most Of them have come pscuniary re-
sources. The mines and the various In.
dus:Ties OF the country sre developing In
proportion 10 the number Of newcomers.
and there ~ no fear but there will bs
enough and TO spare for all who may Join
Us. We start, ] think, for Utah this even
ing. Good.by."
Among the elders who arrived by the
Nevada sre Aessrs. David Mckay. David
Davies, Alfred Dsiy. Charles lambert.
Josep Sharp and n. X. LindshI. The only
Irisbman Is Mr.. Tbomas Emnet. one Of the
family Of Robert Enmst, the Irish patriot
Mr.. Emmet has been . Mormon Tor upward