--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Alder, Lydia D. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 3 published: 1920-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alder, Lydia D., "Love’s Gift," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 3 (January 1920): 205.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2303unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2303unse start_page: 205 end_page: 205 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2303unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Love’s Gift : IN DEFENSE OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS 207 mediately. Only last week one was bound over in a London police court for falsification of a passport in her efforts to go to Utah." Winifred Graham is the pen name of Mrs. Theodore Cory. She sails on the Baltic October 29 as the British delegate to the World Citizenship Congress in Pittsburgh, which begins November 9. She will speak on Mormonism. Her anti-Mormon work here, she says, has caused her to be shadowed and threatened by the Mormons. United States consuls are on the lookout for any Mormon converts. Owing to the strict passport regulations there is little chance that any of these English girls will be able to sail. Some of the girls to whom passport vises were refused recently were suspected of being Mormon converts. Mr. President, I thought the time had arrived when the newspapers of the country would cease publishing such rot. How easy it is for any newspaper to send a representative to the Bureau of Immigration and find out just the number of immigrants entering the United States going to the State of Utah for any year in the past, and also to find out the professions and occupations of the immigrants, and the different classifications of each as provided by the department. If the newspaper doing so wants to publish the truth it would never publish such statements as I have just read. I went to the department, upon my attention being called to the newspaper article and asked for a statement of the number of immigrants for Utah for the years of 1917, 1918, and 1919. The statistics taken from the annual report of the Commissioner General of Immigration show some interesting facts. I have taken the State of Utah and compared it with the State of Colorado and the following is the result Profession. Utah. olorac lo. 1917 1918 1919 1917 1918 1919 (*) 33 19 (*) Professional I ° 49 (*) 98 43 (*) Skilled laborers .- I 96 501 202 (*) 448 185 (*) Miscellaneous occupations I No occupation (including women and | 362 254 (*) 398 326 (*) children) . immigrants 965 513 588 977 573 738 Grand total of all 48 (*) 136 56 (*) Total of immigrants from England..! 118 *Figures not available. The above table shows that the total number of immigrants with no occupation— including women and children— going to same class Utah was smaller on a percentage basis than the going to Colorado. ,. , c *i- . . It also shows the percentage of English immigrants of the to both states, the percentage being about the total which went same.