Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — Mormon Recruits. [ARTICLE]

Mormon Recruits.

Converts to Mormonism continue to reach this country from Europe. A shipload of Scandinavians, Germans and Swiss, with a sprinkling of English and Trisli people—neariy 800 of them—in charge of half a dozen of Brigham Young’s missionaries, and the result of the latter’s proselyting efforts, landed in New York one day last week, and left

at once for Utah. Most of themf are of the farming class, hardy and industrious, and it is a great pity that such productive power should be wasted in Mormonism, there to be given over to the building up of the glory and power of Brigham Young and his comrades in avarice and lust.