Show D THE MORMONS AND CANADA The Ottawa correspondents of some of the eastern papers elaborate on the incident in-cident mentioned in our tele r tins the other morning that Messrs Smith Taylor and Lyman were at the Dominion Do-minion capital to confer with the government gov-ernment about Mormons settling inC in-C uada The New York Suns man represents the elders named as saying They have promised the government to renounce re-nounce their doctrine or polygamy and strictly adhere to the laws of the land They say they are Christians In every sense of the word believing in Jesus Christ and only differ from other Christians in their acceptance of modern as well as ancient revelations They complqin bitterly of the persecution they have been subjected to by the United States government Their colonies aieprospering everywhere in spite of this persecution and adherents to their belief number over 500000 souls They are most anxious to bring over a large number of the faithful into Canada next spring and say that if 6ir John Macdonald does the light thing for them they will flock into the northwes by the thousands next year Mr Stnehouse who recently resigned his FCitiii the British Columbia Legislature to become a Mormon is now an active worker amon the more recent converts They say their time for living in Utah is practical over and some new field must be found where they can ratablisb themselves against per ccutiOD which they think they will be secure from In Canada They sny that the enforcement of the law against polygamy In Utah has struck a serious blow at their sect which however will be equally as stringently enforced in Canada but the blow dealt by the Supreme court of Utah j which pronounces the dissolution of the Church and confiscates most of its property Jor school purposes Is the one which most deeply affects their society By this decision deci-sion they say the Church loses all its buildIngs build-Ings excepting its churches and is deprived of its right to maintain mili ary and police systems Its hold upon the people of UHh has thus been effectually loosened by the courts We dont know of course what Apostle Smith and associates did say but we do know they did not say anything any-thing which could properly be construed into what are above given as their utterances utter-ances For the enlightenment of our contemporaries THE HERALD will say that the Mormon exodus to Canada will take place at about the same tine the general removal of the Saints to l r v i oI d 1 Mexico occurs and both these events will happen when Utah ceases to be the rich the productive the healthful land than is and when the United States government says Mormons cannot can-not live within the boundaries of the American Republic THE HERALD does not speak by authority of the Mormon Church but from a very full knowledge of the Mormon people We know that the latter are very well content with Utah and the United Stales and that it will take far better attracion from the outside than Mexico or Canada presents and far greater pressure from the inside than is exercised to induce any considerable con-siderable number of the masses to leave The correspondents have drawn upon their imagination for what the Salt Lake gentlemen named said to the Dominion authorities I |