The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-12
PoIygamous immigration.

lished in that city, said:
This week. after two years of continuous and al
most daily agitation the part Of The Traveller, the
United States officials in charge of the immigra-
ton service have taken step toward the ending
of the remarkable inflow of Mormon converts
through the port of Boston.
The record of ship arrivals for the past few years
tells almost the same story-more Mormon converts
brought in from Europe by missionaries, and always
the maority of the converts young women and girls
yet III their teens.
yet not until this week did the government Off
Gals act IN manner to blast the charge that the
republican administration willing to trade the
concession the part of the immigration service
for the support of the state of Utah.
The Traveller has filed protest after protest, the
leaders of prominent WOmenS organizations have
raised their voices against the nacon the part of
the government, but always-until this week-to no
end.
The disgracefu1 story related by the Boston
paper from which the foregoing excerpt is made says
that during the past two years, $4,000 Mormon con-
verts have landed at the port of Boston, in violation
of the federal immigration laws, and shipped there
from to the mountain states.
They have been railroaded through Boston in
cargo lots attended in each instance by sufficient
number of Mormon missionaries to keep them from
making their escape, should any of them be so dis
posed, and have been hurried to the Mormon states
with as slight exposure possible to public sent
attention been directed to the outrage.
That the federal government has connived at these
repeated violations of the law is matter of settled
opinion in Boston, The Traveller having stated in an
editorial printed within the last year:
The immigration officials of all the Atlantic ports
resent keenly the violation of the law by these Nor
mons, but when they attempt to hold them up on
their arrival the elders impudent and boastful,
an attitude justified by the sequel it invariably
follows that orders for their release come from
Washington which enable the elders to take their
converts to Utah, where they are swallowed up.
Discussing the matter further in its editorial
columns, just after the arrival of batch of con-
verts in 1907 The Traveller said:
When the matter has been put up to the govern
ment the authorities to have always balanced
the violation of the law of the United States against
the political fact that Utah and Idaho controlled
by Mormons who are republicans, and in position
to resent any attack the Mormon church, which
they regard any effort the part of the government
to be. AS consequence, Mormon elders coming
in at the immigration ports with girls destined for
slavery, worse, permitted to be inSolent and
abusive to immigration officers. When attempts have
been made by these officers to enforce the law they
find the republican Mormon senator's more pow
erful in Washington than they are, and these Nor
mons are the only persons who free to fout and
sheer at the law of the United States
Those residents of the Mormonized states who
have followed day after day, week after week,
month after month and year after year. the conse-
quenceS OF the compact MADE between the Mor1lloH
church and the republican administration and senate,
through which Reed Smoot represents the theocracy
in the senate will recognize truth in all that is
said by the Boston Traveller
They are familiar with other evidences of the
damnable deal through which the government of the
United States committed itself to every policy of
the po1ygamous church and they will not wonder
that the government at Washington entered into a
conspiracy with the hierarcha1 rulers of Mormondom
to openly violate the immigration laws of the country