The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-22
IMMIGRATION.
The Howl Against Landing
MormOns in New York.
THE KIND OF PEOPLE THEY ARE
"New York Citg Could Well ford
20 Exchange 1000 Population
FOR $4,000 Mormon

There are many things in this world
not understood by the majority. One
of them IS the Mormon question grow
ing cut OF differences between the
rights of the deserving pioneers and
settlers of Utah and the prejudices that
men generally have against what they
do not understand.
Two OF the great men this country
has yet produced. ell in all, according
to the means they had 10 operate with
are Benjamin Franklin and Brigham
Young.
Each had a mission. Each believed
in peace, honesty and industry. as
great prime factors in civilization.
Each lived outside Of his generation,
probably as God, who ruleth all things.
ordered and defended.
| Brigham Young pioneered the way 70
what was believed to be useless terri
tory, a desert. He felt that religion
gave courage, pltience, progress to man
kind. He resolved TO suOdue the land.
as God commanded. He did not call
for thieves, robbers, gamblers. hood
luns, sluggers, spectators, Insurers,
and all that surging crowd that runs
| into and over each other, but the best,
most hardy, healthy, enduring, patent,
hopeful, temperate, industrious ele-
merit that could be found, who would
dsre the pain and peril OF pioneer lie.
We pass over the question OF polItics
and religion, and LOOK upon Utah as II
is to-day,
\ A country of peaceful, happy home.
Inhabited by a people so peculiar that
they are indeed a curiosity. A feopte
who elieye in prayer to God, IN
honesty 10 man; IN observing the
moods and lenses OF women; IN
the education and preservation OF
the health, Visor ana. morality oil
children.
a country where dens OF vice, drink
! ing places, poverty. crime. pauperism
and general Gus edness is the exception
and not the rule, as here in the great
city of New York.
No other man did, and we thereto e
Lifeline to belief that no other man
could. accomplish what Brigham
Young and ms system of settlement
i and cultivation has done for Utah. and
thus for the entire county We believe
that the Mormon people are fairly en-
1
peaceable. useful, deserving citizens. AL
that is good in them is worthy OF emu
, lation. The bad which they do Is SC
much less than the bad that is done by
their OPPONENTS that we honor them
above any who prosecute them merely
q for believing what they carry out, and
4 cafrying out what they believe
With their religion we have nothing
to do-uo right to complain, cenSure
: or TO interfere
With the matter OF poly gsmy, as en-
y dorSed and cOntended for by the rev
we have nothing 10 do.
While the Mormon Church IS rapidly
. increasing, polygamy IS ste2aiiy dyin'
3 out. and will live or die out all IN It
own time, as God wills, not as mai
dictates. What We present h-re Is
e matter OF great importance TO Tn
S country. and of no little Importance q
i New York City.
d There is n law in this State foroiddinl
the landing of paupers or those who ar
likely TO become burdens upon the tax
~ PAYERS. Mr.. Edward Stephenson. one
!. the Commissioners of Emigration, zoe
I. out of his way IN letter which sug
y gests that we take the ground tia
Mormons who land here As enligranI
Is are paupers, they can all be sent eac
a across the sea, aud the tide OF Mormo
! Immigration will be checked. Bu
L thsy are not paupers. They CON
with the best of intentions, not 70 be
or steal, but 10 labor and TO pr
pc duee wealth. They 90 right on TO
y land they are making beautiful by II
" dustry' aud education IL t.ey are M
III wanted to land az this port they c.
land AZ auotber-at Philadelphia. Bait
i'll more. etc, steamer lines here centerir
rs will lose an immense yearly business
a Speaking OF this subject, the Ne
he York DGily Tines Of August ?, lSe
Zee says:
Thelaw should be rigidly enforce
The repOrts of or State board OF char
AEe ties show that il is eyaded. TO the injul
of citizens who support themselves al
SCI nav taxes. The board is continual
iLe sending back TO foreign countries pa
y, pers VINO have been sent here, or VI
' have come OF their own accord, a.
have speedily fallen into almshouses
err asylums. IL Is well known 70
the many paupers-as well as many GRIM
l 8 ais and vicious persons are shipp
ran here at public expense by
our authorities in foreign countries. I
in number of insane persons supported
this State Is 50 per cent. greater than
was i've years ago, and the board
ok, clares that this increase is largely q
OF 70 the admission OF immigrants v
SIS. should have been excluded. Many
, of these immigrants were sane when Il
row arrived, but were so enieebled oy p
1t It erty and privaIion that they soon
will their wits. Hundreds Of paupers 81
are come in by way OF the Canadian bcrc
-un- and Congress has failed TO amend
law so mat il would apply 10 I'M
u grants arriving o. land.
1 N Mr.. Stephenson holds that the Go
y T. missionerS ale authorized by the
4 its TO exclude the Shiplead OF Morn
" IN converts who are brought here by
1da- Mormon Church. He asks that be
are his associates shall te instructed 10
YER them out. While We are OF the opIn
Raid that the nation suffers by the adm
the sion of these persons, we cannot
that the law provides for their ex
sion. The problem presented
Mormon immigration Is 5 very diff
one. In the rrst place. how can j
Pure proved that the Mormon immigrant
,I;t tends 10 violate the law de intend
90 TO Utah ard to become an adhe