, 1885-09-15
A IFS OF
A Traln-Load Of cranks Pass Through
the City on lhe Way 10 Utah.


A motley crowd of Mormon immigrants
passed through the city Sunday morning
en- route for Salt Lake City and other
western points. 1t was the most woe be-
gone looking collection Of human beings
ever seen in this city. There were 1913
heads in the drove, for they were as nearly
cattle as one could imagine hunNn beings
to be. They were of the lower classes,
evidently the scum Of the slums Of the
Northern European countries. There
were many cripples and helpless children.
j. w. Thornley,, who announced himself
as an elder of the Latter Day Saints, !"
was in charge OF the party, He was a
rough looking individual, very tall
and rather slender, with a faded
dark beard. He informed II reporter
that there were ninety Of the
party from Great Britain-only two of
them Irish, however; 1919 from Scandi-
nayia and 100 from Switzerland and Ger
many. They left the other shore Aug.
90 on the steamship Wisconsin. This
was the fourth importation this year.
Last season there were five, and they
proposed making another trip this year,
leaving Liverpool in October. They were
destined to fourteen different towns in the
territory Of Utah Some few were gong
to Idaho. He said he did not know the
number of children in the lot, but claimed
that they all came in families. A count,
however, revealed the fact that over one
third of the the number are children
under 10 years of age. An insignificant,
dried.up little Englishman was ap-
preached on the intentions and objects of
of the party. In reply to inquiries he
said; DO you suppose all these people
would have left their friends and homes
to come thousands OF miles to embrace a
faith if they did not know that they were
right? They know that they are
battling for the blessed teachings of the
Bible.
Are you not Il little ashamed of being
a Mormon
At this query the little old man (for he
was not less than 60, at the voungestl
become enraged, but glancing at the re-
porter, whose physique, compared to
his pigmy form, doomed up like John L.
Sullivan to Il light weight. This had a
cooling effect, and the poor misguided
creature continued: mo. l am not
ashamed of it. / am proud of the title.
| have come over expecting to be perse-
cuted and perhaps put to death for up
holding my principles, but that is what
Christ did. The bible is the foundation
of Mormonism. | am sorry the poor Gen
tiles cannot be made to see that they are
all wrong in their religion. They will see
it some time, bnt l am afraid it will be
too late. We are sorry for you. | ex-
pect to see the day when We will all be
as one big family, brothers and sisters.
Then there will not be so much jealousy
and e%nviousness of one another's good
fortune,
DO all Mormons practice polygamyf
No, only the most worthy. | am one
of them. l am to be one of the blessed -
By this time visions of cholera germs
and smallpox had begun to appear in the
reporters vivid imagination, and the pc
culiar sewer gas odor which only steerage
passengers can produce, had become 50
Extensively realistic, that the Mormons
were left to their fate. After eating a
breakfast of bologna sausage and other
delicacies the newly imported would-be
saints and sisters were hustled onward To
their promised land.