| 374 We sit down amid the debris of building, and the unorganized chaos of an office removed, to greet our readers from our new home in Iowa. We bid our contributors and correspondents a hearty welcome to our new quarters.
We have not yet succeeded in getting things in order, but shall do the best we can to keep the Herald in motion. The weather at our arrival in Lamoni was horrible; the elements having organized for a ten days rain, which was fairly fulfilled. We succeeded, however, in transferring machinery and office furniture with but little delay and loss by breakage, and shall soon be turning the press wheels again, merrily as ever.
Thus was the removal made without loss to the patrons and with comparatively little friction.
In the contest case of Cannon vs. Campbell for seat in United States Congress, the Supreme Court of Utah, Chief Justice Hunter, decided October 31, 1881, that the naturalization of George Q. Cannon in 1854, was fraudulent and therefore a nullity.
November 9 and 10, 1881, there was a discussion held at Paige, Bastrop County, Texas, between Elder J. A. Lincoln, of the Christian Church, and Elder Heman C. Smith.
Elder J. L. Bear wrote from Hedingen, Zürich, Switzerland, November 12, giving a lengthy account of persecution met, especially from the Utah elders, and deplored that he was alone to combat so much opposition. Regarding the success of the missionaries from Utah he wrote:
The cause of their success is of a two-fold nature: First, there are a great many poor people in these countries who would like to better their situation; so a portion of them readily embrace Utah Mormonism, as their leaders inspire them with great hopes of emigrating to their land, which is flowing with milk and honey, and is a land that is blessed above all other lands in richness of soil, and bringing forth the produce of the earth in astonishing manner, and that they have an emigration fund through which all the poor who are faithful will be gathered to the glorious land. . . . If I could make such promises, that we as a church would help them to come to Missouri, and provide for their temporal wants, I would get hundreds and thousands to join the church, and Utah Mormonism would soon be played out here. But you know I can not do that and have no desire to inspire their minds with false hopes as the others always have done. . . . The other cause of their success is: There is always a certain class who like and take pleasure in the lust of the flesh, and to let those lusts loose to the fullest extent they embrace Utahism.
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