The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-12
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

Europe and ASIA have been brought into the port OF
Boston by missionaries That there are thousands
of people who believe that this Importation is
ace to the United States has been matter of record
for years.
The probe which started to find out who paid
the passage of the 1856 Mormon converts who landed
here the Republic last Sunday has resulted so
far in the debarment of IA of the number, the dis
charge of IS, and % others being held until
their cases can be reported upon by an Inspector.
An immigration Inspector will be sent west by the
federal government to verify statements made by
these converts. His trip will take him through the
west and he has orders to spare expense in find
ing out whether the funds that brought the converts
the water belonged to them the Mormon
church.
A board of inquiry has worked the of
these Mormons since last Monday and taken evil
dence covering pages of manuscript. All those that
have been debarred have filed appeals in Washing
ton, through representatives of the Mormon church,
and unless special instructions come from Washing
ton they will escape deportation the Republic,
which sails Saturday.
Information at Washington later than that fur
nshed by the Boston paper says that Secretary
Straus has confirmed the action of the Boston Off
Gals in two cases and that several other cases
before him for review.
In no case has it been shown that the Mormon or
ganization paid the passage of the immigrants. One
of the immigration ordered deported on account
of admission of belief in polygamy and another for
physical causes.
Senator Smoot, of Utah. Mormon apostle, was in
Washington while the enquiry was in progress, max
ing of his political pull in the interest of the dis
graceful traffic in the bodies and souls of ignorant
women and Senator Sutherland and Governor Cut
1er both of Utah, in Geographic communica-
ton with the secretary in defense of the cause of
Mormon immigration.
So there is scarcely probability that any consid-
cradle number of examples of punishment will come
out of this infraction of the law 1t will not be pos
sib1e to prove that this Mormon immigration is pc
cunari1y assisted by the church, for the hierarchy
took warning several years ago and changed its
tactics.
The treasury of the saints once contained large
immigration fund, accumulated through levies on the
Mormon people, in addition to the tithes but the inn
migration was becoming too conspicuous and it was
discontinued The discontinuance of the fund never
meant that immigration discontinued.
The tithing fund is ample for all purposes and the
tthng fund is drawn upon by the first presidency for
any purpose to which he may devote it, public pri
vate. AS the presidency does not have to make an
accounting to anyone but God, the immigration in
spector will not be able discover evidence that i'm
migrants are pecuniarily assisted.
Neither will he understand that the browning vir-
tue of the Mormon establishment is its capacity for
lying and he will go away freed from suspicion.
The Traveller, discussing this phase of the subject,
says:
Many of these converts are young girls who have
been earning very small sums in their country,
and the idea that they have enough money saved
to pay their passage across the Atlantic second class,
and then to Salt Lake City, is regarded ridiculous
by those who have made study of the matter
Some of the Mormon elders claim that it is true
that the church has directly purchased the tickets for
transportation in some cases, but only when the
vert forwarded the money to the church first, for
this purpose The idea here, they say, is to
trouble and worry for Europeans who not so
able to attend tO The details of their passage