The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-24
MORMON ROUTE CHANGED.

And so the Mormon immigration
route has been changed. For many
years. Boston was the preferred port
of landing. This was after New York g
port officials became too inquisitive on
the polygamy question. For good
while the u S. officials at Boston were
lax, and allowed the Saints to come in
without much inquiry. Then all at once,
they woke up. The remarkable prepon
derance OF women in the companies of
! immigrants attracted suspicion and in
quiry, and the port officials sent some
of them back; and the examination Of
the immigrants became strict, with es-
pecial care on the polygamy exclusion
provision Of the law.
Last year, il will be remembered, a
band of immigrants were detained at
Boston, and Smoot hasteued there 10
help get them through, law or no law,
and succeeded as to most of them. But
one young woman in particular, Miss
Delphine Doddsworth. admitting her be-
lief in polygamy, was sent back to Liv-
erpool whence she had started to the
United States. But before any one
could have believed it possible, this
Young woman was found TO be in Salt
Lake City. She had sailed from Liver
pool as soon as she returned there, to
Montreal, and at some point not dis
closed, had passed over the line into the
United States. She was again deported
70 prIto ,tbn ho has no
doubt returned TO some point in Nor
mondom; she may even be on the quiet
in Salt Lake. But in any such case as
hers, If the Objectionable immigrant
goes to some outside or remote settle
ment OF the Saints, either in the United
States. in Canada, or in Mexico, the
chance of her discovery and deporta
tion is exceedingly slim.
The special indication of the change
of routing of the Mormon immigrants
is IN the following dispatch dated Mon
treal, May 18th: "Thirty women I'M
Mormonsm, arrived here today en- route
TO Utah.
Short, but significant. And the same
old prepondcrance of women, this COM
pany being all women. And they will
get into the United States at some
point whore there Will be no special in
quiry into their cases, no questions
asked as to whether they are believers
In polYgamy or not, or whether or not
they are coming here TO engage N the
practice of polygamy. For, there are
abundant indications Of the continued
entering into new polygamous relations.
| Indeed, the April conference Of 1907
expressly admitted, in its "Address to
the World,' that there had been such
new polygamous marriages.; and, even
more significant, admitted that the
church was not able TO stop them. For,
they had, as claimed, been entered into
in defiance Of the church.
| And, another thing; How did Miss
Delphine Doddsworth became be.
liever IN polygamy if it is true that the
church no longer teaches polygamv7
The manifesto which ostcnsiby forbade
any more polygamy (and polygamous
living also, according TO the sworn tes-
timony OF nil the presidents of the
church since IFS issue, including the
| president who issued that manifesto
and the present president Of the church)
was issued i'll 1890 Miss Doddsworth
could not possibly have received this
l'polygamy idea at or before that time,
as she was too young She must have
received it afterwards. She must have
received il from Mormon missionaries
And yet the claim is made that the
toaching of polygamy has been discou-
tinucd from and after the date of the
manifesto,
! Here is the contradictory dilemma.