The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
MORMON PAUPERs.
The.Refuse of Switzerland Being Shipped
to the United States by the Swiss
: Authorities


) Authorities.
The following dispatch to the
Oregonia,s dated May 9th, speaks
for itself and shows plainly the ex-
traordinary efforts which are being
put forth in order to strengthen
Mormonisn, and yet we find an o.
casional one who fears not the con-
sequences of the Mormons' continu-
al violation of the laws Of our coun-
try, because they say there will
never be enough of them to amount
to anything. And our government
with impuaity permits her laws to he
trampled under foot by them:
"Collector Robinson yesterday re-
ceived from the treasury department
an official communication from Frank
Fl Mason, United States Consul at
Basle, Switzerland, in which the at
tention Of the authorities is called to
All alleged serious violation of the
laws forbidding the importation into
this country of criminal or pauper
immigrants. It appears that on
board the Nevada, which sailed from
Liverpool on the 18th, are 600 Nor
mon immigrants, returned from diff
ferent parts of Europe by mission
aries from Salt Lake, who are con-
stantly ransacking the old world,
and who send to this port about 1000
proselytes every year. Over 200 of
these on the Nevada are from SwitZ-
erland, the Consel says, and are OF
the vile, degraded and pauper class,
many of them women imported for
base purposes. The whole party,
without exception, it is said, are uE-
desirable settlers and mere paupers.
and are burden on the communal
authorities of Switzerland, who are
exceedingly glad to be rid of their
troublesome charge. Nearly all the
immigrants on board the Nevada are
raked up from the slums of Switzer-
land and Germany :. swell the ranks
Of the latter day saints in Utah. .:
The consul says those from Swift
zerland are mainly poor, demen:ed
creatures, whose passage to the Uni
ted States is paid fer by their native
communes, which thus rid themselves
of burdensome citizens. Consul
Mason makes an earnest protest
against the continuance of this illegal
practice, which has been resorted to
by Switzerland liz particular for a
long time past. It is charged that
polygamy in the United States can
never be exterminated while its
harems can be freely recruited from
the dregs of European society. The
collector forwarded to emigration
commissioners copy Of the cousul's
letter, and requested that when the
Nevada arrives he be Informed at
once, and the Mormon passengers be
detained at Castle Garden until an
investigation is made. The emigra-
tion commissioners will make inquiry
into the status of the immigrants
complained of, and if it can be shown
that they are paupers, insane or Grim
inals, or that their passage was paid
to this country by the Swiss author
tiles, they will not be allowed to re-
main. ..... .
The Tribune says part. of the
cargo on the Nevada, now on her
way to this port from Liverpool, is
most decidedly what we do not want.
1t consists OF l6o or more paaper
mostly women. Now, it
is bad enough fer the morals of
country TO be obliged to take Nor
mons, even when they a.e of so called
respectable classes, but when it
comes to polygamous paupers;. endu--
rance ceases to be a virtue. The
latter day saints would receive these
poor creatures willingly enough, ;.
probably, for it is a we'll known fact
that the time has passed when re-
spectacle women in this country can
be converted into their peculiar be-
lief SO Mormon missionaries are
sending over these pa,sper women.
The emigration commissioners, how
ever, are on their guard, and an
these human rubish Will
be returned TO the Swiss communes1
whence it came"
In another column will be found
The announcement Of State Superin-
Lendent MoElroy. to- the effect that
The State Teachers association OF
Oregon for 1883 will berheldS at Sa-
lem son June 26, p, % and 90 The
of education are advancing
in Oregon and Mr.. McElroy is doing
a good work. for the cause. In, or
der to continue this good work on TO
successful results to~that extent of
Which, every friend of education will