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nothing to produce results. Their advertisements painted
America in the brightest colors without a single shadow.
Few if any immigrants could command the wages
promised until they had become familiar with the language
and customs of the laud. The wages quoted were often
reckoned in depreciated currency,—a most serious
misrepresentation. Prospective emigrants were incapable
of taking in the vast distances of the American continent,
for the agents told them nothing about the cost of
arriving at their destinations. Apparently many
immigrants expected to step into smiling wheat fields a stone’s
throw from Castle Garden. For these reasons more than
one immigrant family upon landing was penniless,
without shelter and friendly advice and assistance. The lands
advertised were often poor and inaccessible, far removed
from other settlements, augmenting the trials and
discouragements which usually accompanied the
immigrants’ first years in America. There was considerable
complaint in Sweden about the activity of Mormon
missionaries, and more than one Swede came to
America a convert to Mormonism with little or no real
concept ion of the true nature of that religion and of the
conditions in their western colony. [1]
Castle Garden, the Ellis Island of that day, swarmed
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