The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-22
NOT SO FAST.

We wonder if the time will ever come
when the Mormons here in Utah will know
as much about themselves and their inten-
tons as is known regarding them elsewhere
in Americal About twice year, for the
past decade, it has come to US from outside
the territory that the Mormons are develop
ing a scheme for abandoning Utah and
leaving the United States, and occasionally
the hegira has actually begun. The news
papers have had the Saints going to vari-
GUS islands in the Pacific, to several of the
states in Mexico, to Canada, to Honduras
and so on. Not long ago it was announced
that the Mormons had purchased the pen
insula of Lower California, and were about
to take up their residence there. Now
comes the Louisville CourierJOurnal with
an editorial under the head; 1.-THE Removal
of the Mormons," which develops and dis
cusses the latest removal project. 1t is the
latest, so far as we are aware, the eX-
changes arriving by last nights mail not
having been examined. The CD. starts
out thus
The Mormons in Utah, having realized the
futility OF the struggle against the laws OF the
United States, are talking of removing their en-
tire population to some other part of the world,
Just as, after the killing of JOSEPH SMITH, they
emigrated in a body from Nauyoo 10 salt Lake
CITY. They have not yet chosen home, but they
are anxious to get out of the United States.
One OF their leaders has stated III an interview
that they had received request from the
government of the Argentine Republic to come
there, guaranteeing them the free practice of
their religion, and also Offering them semi
independence in a territory of which they shall
have the entire local authority.
Notwithstanding all these removal
schemes and predictions. the Mormons
seem to be here in very large numbers,
and there doesn't appear to exist any very
great desire TO depart. On the contrary,
it would seem to the casual observer that
their actions are decidedly peculiar for
people who are getting ready to go or who
even think of going. From one end of the
territory to the other improvements are be
ing made as never before in the history of
the country. More land is being brought
under cultivation, more irrigating canals
are being dug, better homes are being
erected. finer churches are being built, and
the Mormons are acting in all things pre-
cisely as if they expected to live and die
right here in Utah and also as if they be-
lieved their children and grandchildren
would do the same. In fact THE HERALD
does not fear contradiction when it says
that the intentions of the Mormons regard
a domicile, are practically the same now
as they were forty, thirty, twenty and ten
years ago, their intentions embracing Il
permanent and contented residence in
Utah. This is their home, here is their
wealth, America is their country and the
great republic is their government. There
is no other spot on this great big globe so
dear to them as the mountains and valleys
of their loYed Utah, and no other country
or government can offer sufficient induce
ments to entice the Saints hence. We do
not claim to speak for the Mormons in this
matter; it Is not necessary for anybody to
speak for them, their own actions talking a
good deal louder than words. Their actions
tell Enthusiastically that the Mormons are
not going to leave Utah; that they are here
to stay, in spite of what the newspapers
say to the contrary, and in defiance of those
who would be only too well pleased were
the Saints to abandon their comfortable
homes and desirable possessions.