Show NOT TO MEXICO The sensational lie which was started on its i course a few weeks ago to the effect that the Mormons were about to emigrate to Mexico in large colonies and occupy an immense i tract of land lately purchased by Hon Jonx W YOUNG is still being industriously indus-triously circulated It is even enlarged upon one prominent newspaper saying that the Saints are already moving to the land of the cactus and greaser THE HERALD HER-ALD professes to know something of the people of Utah Mormons and Gentiles it knows enough to be able to say without fear of a successful denial that when tho Mormons pull up stakes and leave Utah it will be after this country has ceased toe b to-e the rich and productive and beautiful land that it is Like BEN BUTLER tho Mormons Mor-mons have been abused and slandered and charged with all sorts of proceedings and also like BEX nobody has ever accused them of being fools When an intelligent editor charges the Saints with idiocy or with doing those things which fools do i will be time to place confidence in such stories as the Mexican hegira tale The fact is and the Mormons know it better than anybody else Utah is the best place on the top of this great big globe for the Mormons It is so because the Mormons Mor-mons have made it the best It is their home tho home which they have created and which they love here many of them were born here most of them have lived the greater part of their lives here is their all in tho matter of worldly goods and here they expect to die and be buried To say that they will abandon their possessions for tbe announcement of an intention to remove to Mexico or elsewhere would bo equivalent to deny themselves customers for their propertywould be to say that the Mormons had gone mad But the hegira yarn is only one of those stories periodically sent forth by sensational sensa-tional newspaper correspondents At least once a year the Mormons are sent out of the United States They have been dispatched dis-patched more than once to the Sandwich Islands to Lower California to Canada and even to Honduras yet they persist in staying right here tilling tho soil opening the canons dicping canals building houses developing the resources of the country and enjoying life in spite of the efforts of those who are miserable because the Saints will not be discontented and unhappy |