Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-27
lord MIMIC ON
THE MORMONS.
Governor General Of Canada Praises
Their Thrift and Industry.
PREJUDICE HAS VANISHED,
spee Regarded with suspicion Now
welcomed Into Canada Among
Her Hest Pioneers.

Lord Mimic, governor general Of
canada. has recently paid a visit TO
p, Mormon" settlements near the
s,lfhwest corner Of Alberta,
Jaws the New York Sun, He and
bIs party were greatly pleased with
tbe evidences they saw Of thrift and
e5ptentment No pioneers on the plains
81 western Canada have made a better
r.e.rd as good citizens and happy and
rro,perous farmer folk. What the
followers Of Joseph Smith did for the
valleys Of the Salt Lake region the
s.c5id and third generation after them
have done for their little corner OF the
great Alberta plain
Within sight Of their eight villages
and their thousands Of acres OF wheat
ANA grazing lands are the Rocky noun
tln ranges and the glacler-fed streams
rsu these mountains have been tapped
by lrra-,i0n canals, and their waters
ia 10 All the villages and farm lands
FiI- Mormon settlements. on this
pralle dry. bare and few years ago
iarantless the "Mormons" raised last
yesr 10000 bushels Of wheat for export.
ground AN their flour al their own mill
In Cafdston, shcarcd the wool from TO-
00 sheen. and made a great deal OF
cheese Az their own factory and sent
ain their children 10 good schools. Their
villages have no hotels or saloons but
they are blessed with clean streets.
ll1l drainage and neat houses. The
gppr5yal which Lord Mintos party
c'1fsrs upon the "Mormons' and their
work Is In striking contrast with the
spspll0r and mistrust they aroused
during their early days In Canada as
shown IN the annual reports OF the in
terror department for some years after
1856
In June. 1856. twelve families Of Nor
cons" comprising sixty souls, arrived
on lie plain OF southwest Alberta
after long wagon journey from Utah.
They were under the leadership OF c.
o Cara whose wife was a daughter Of
BHgaCm Young Mr.. and Mrs. Card
on, stlll the most prominent members
%, the colony, now numbering 5000
souls. and one Of the reports OF Lord
Mirto's visit says Of Mrs. Card who is
potent force among the Immigrants
that TO her own force Of character she
owes The remarkable influence which
she wglds with admirable intelligence
and sympathy for the good Of ALL
In the following year Mr.. ]. s. Den.
mis-. agent Of the Dominion government
was sent to the colonists TO see
what manner Of people they We're. In
MS report to the interior department he
EXPRESSED establishment at the progress
they had made IN so short a time; but
DE- thought their immigration In large
numbers was not 10 be encouraged. He
said they were silent when he asked
them n they practiced or professed
pJlygamy, though they said they would
obey The laws OF Canada. Undoubtedly
some Of them were fugltives from jus
tce In the United States, having prac-
ticed polygamy In Utah. u cannot
help feeling he wrote, that decisive
action should be taken to prevent the
growth Of a power that, beginning in
the same small way In the United
States has for years set the law OF
that country al defiance"
Shortly after this report was printed
% was discovered that there was no law
in The statutes Of the Dominion that
seemed wholly 10 III the case Of the
Mormons' and parliament lost no time
IN passing a strenuous antl-polygamy
law that is sim In force The accounts
Of Lord Mlnto's visit agree as one OF
The reports puts Il, that mot only is
there no uolygamy among the Nor
mon immigrants. but. as visitors 10
their settlements win md. the practice
OF POI. Eamy Is now regarded among
item with precisely the same feeling VI
adherence as among men and women
IN any other part OF this Christian
land
The accuracy Of this latter statemen
may be doubted The "Mormons" I'm
canada have not violated the law OF
the land, and there is no reason 10
believe that they have any intention
10 incur its penalties. But no Mormon"
IN THIS country or any other has alb
lurel NE principle Of polygamy and he
c1l.l not 90 so without repudlatlng the
Artyles Of Faith Of his Church, Of
when article VII Is the basis Of his
belief. that the revelation OF the right
ana duty 10 practice polygamy was a
message from the divine ruler They
are dumb today when asked II they
DtI.e'e IN polygamy as they were
Nhsn Dennis questioned them. This
iset does not detrsct from the many
admirable qualities which the Nor
mons In Canada have exhibited. Not
we east pralseworthy feature OF their
We for fourteen years in Alberta is