The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-09
GOING TO MEXICO.

The New York Mail and Express has
found something else as basis for a
combined attack on the Mormons and
the Democratic party. 1t is dresry,
NoVemher-hke day when the III. and E..
cannot find something mean to say
about community concerning which
it knows less than pretty nearly any
other newspaper in the country. Its
present cause of distress was found in
the telegram published last week, to the
effect that the Mormons were preparing
for grand rush into Old Mexico. hav-
ing acquired the title to large tracts of
land in the State of chihuahua. The
paper named says:
It is nothing new 70 hear that the Nor
mons are contemplate a move to MexIcO,
or at least the foundation there of a la ge
colony, to which, in case Of a more rigor-
GUS persecution, !" the Utah saints may re-
tire. Such scheme was much talked of
TWO or three years ago, but II apparently
came to nothing. Now the report is re-
yived. 1t appears that the Church of
Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints" has
lately been acquiring good zeal of properly
in Mexico, in the State of Chihuahua. This
land has been purchased from private
parties and the Mexican government does
not seem TO have been at all concerned in
the transaction. 1neGe can be little doubt
that the MOrmons exc c. to use this pro-
perty as q foundation Tor colony, but it
may be doubted whether they intend to re-
move thither in a body 1t would be
good scheme for them to ship off the polyg-
smists to Mexico, and keep only monogram
lists at Salt Lake. Then the Mormon lead.
ers could claim that they are just as good
citizens Of the United States as anybody,
and that they Dug mt to be entirely let alone;
and if this claim should be allowed, as no
doubt it would be by a great many ul-
thinking people, they would proceed 10 get
admission for Utah as State, and then
make whatever laws they p eased, on the
subject OF polygamy or anything else. We
do Il t Say that this is the Mormon scheme,
but tits not at sll unlikely that they will
t Y something OF this sort before long,
especially if the Democrats remain i'll power
at Wasnlngt,n
This removal of Mormons to Mexico
is a piece of standing news
Every little while it is promulgated
under startling headlines, as If
it were new discovery and something
very important. It's commented upon
editorially and in thu case of newspa.
pers like the MGiL and Erp reSs viciously.
1t seemingly does little good to deny the
Oft-repeated story, and to show hat it
is largely the work Of imaginative re-
poTters and correspondents. It has
little or no effect to prove that the Nor
mons are not removing from Utah in
large bodies, that they are not pur-
chasing vast tracts of land in our sis
ter republic, and that they are not
forming extensive colonies in Mexico.
The same old lies ara repeated every
few weeks, just as if they were new and
just as if their falsity had not often
been exposed.
The HERALD cannot speak for the
Mormon Church, but it will not be de-
MED that this paper, with its eighteen
years existence here, is somewhat ia
miliar with the people of Utah, and
knows something of what is going on
among them. If there were anything
like hegirs contemplated The HERALD
would be quite es likely to know as much
aboutiL as Topeka newspaper reporter
or Washington correspondent.
We have said it before, bat will repeat
it here-at the same time expecting 20
see the removal to Mexico doomed with
the usual sgularity-that a Mormon
hegira to Mexico has not set in, and
that one is not likely to be inaugurated
Utah is a better country every day in
the year than Mexico, an6 the Nor
mons know it; Utah is largely owned
by Mormons, and whatever else the
Saints may be, they are not fools and
idiots; they know a good thing when
they see it, and being human, are not
above doing the best they can for them
selves; they are not in the habit of de-
liberstely working against their best
interests, OR with their eyes open &C
cepting the worst side of a bargain.
They are not the kind of people to vol
unfairly leave comfortable homes,
peace, plenty, and prosperity and 60
into wilderness which they know in
advance can never be made to equal
what thsy leave behind. And, above
all, they are not going to indulge in ex-
patriation, there being too great love
for the stars and stripes and too
much faith in its protecting folds.
The Mormons have way of thinking
the same as goo many Gentiles
think, that Utah is one of the best
spots on topcf earth. and that the