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Show THE .U.'ITATIOX IX ALDtllTA. Sl'EAKiNa on the subject of tho attempt to prevent some of the Latter-day Saints settled In Alberta, Xortb-west Territory, from obtaining obtain-ing a charter to enable them o do business under the Dominion law?, the Lcthbri Jge Aetc recently said: "A large number of Mormons have been allowed by tho government to settle at Leo's Creek, and it Is too late now to talk of interfering with them. All that wo can now ask the government govern-ment to do is to prevent anymore Mormon seUlers from faking np land injthe samo locality. Hot while doing this we cannot fairly ask for an Interference Inter-ference either on the part of the Dominion Domin-ion or Xorthwest governments with any rights which these Lee's Creek Mormons have already acquired. This Is, as wo understand it, what the people peo-ple of Macleod now wautto do. They are petitioning the Lieutenant-Governor to refuse to grant letters-patent to the Cardson company. How the Lieutenant-Governor can rightly do this we cannotsee. It does not appear I that any of the objects of the proposed company are heyond the scope of the Companie)' Ordinance or of the Northwest North-west Assembly. As wo understand it tho ground on which tho Lieutenant-Governor Lieutenant-Governor is to be asked to refuse to grant the desired charter is that applicants appli-cants aro Mormons. The Mormons tn this matter are to be regarded purely as et!er: their peculiar tenets which servo them for a religion aro not to be taken into count. If those who have the granting of the latent cf Incorporation see no objection to ostablih!ng an em I re dass of tho community com-munity as a trading company we cannot can-not sea on what grounds the application applica-tion can be refused." |