| Show ANTI antl l NONSENSE A great deal of nonsense has been indulged in by several newspapers over the now collapsed scheme for colonizing izan a tract of land in northern utah with irish immigrants rants they seem to imagine that by some mysterious means this plan would break up polygamy 11 how many plans have been formed with this object in view which were supposed to be certain cures for mormonism Mormont sm and have failures they are all expected tow eow to creak lup lap polygamy but how bow Is never explained the alta aita california has talked in a very silly way about this colonization scheme and therefore its utterances have been copied extensively by other journals eur pur nals the greater the imbecility Ji splayed by any paper in regard to the I 1 Mor mormon question the wider will be the publication of its asinine opinions here are arc some things that the alta has said that have kave been clipped by quite a number of intelligent editors let congress withdraw the public lands in utah from sale and entry in the usual manner and either provide a 8 special land forthe for the territory or the utah commission with the duty of disposing of the remaining tillable lands in the way which will be most judicious to build up the non nei del mormon ormon population parties Part les ies could be found without difficulty to make eon contracts tracts for placing placing a large number of settlers on lands ands which they tiey could purchase in bulk I 1 does the alda alta know how hoty little arable arabie land is left in utah and unclaimed under the land laws if there were large tracts still open to settlement could coa congress establish a rell reli religious ious lows test teat as a qualification for entry would it be wise to entrust t enta the le disposition of the public domain to a few individuals not governed bythe by the general ot statutes atutes for the sale of government land if parties were found to make wake such contracts as those suggested would not the result be simply hig bik e land and grabs for the eon con contractors tractors andrit and little littie benefit to the settlers and is not the advice of the altalo widely copied the most unmitigated bosh and balderdash this is another extract it la Is in the control of the soil tha the mormon church finds the greatest source of its power and as soon as it can no rio longer promise to give the poor norwegian or English englishman man maa a farm it will be unable to induce him to himml immigrate g ra te and add himself to the numbers of the priest ridden saints the alta and every other journal that attempts to expound the gin mormon lormon question ought to know if they do not that the mormon church does not own the soil in utah that it never did own it or pretend to own it that land titles have been aud are acquired in this territory under the laws of the united states just the same as in other garts parts of the count country that the church has never aromi promised se a farm to a poor norwegian or englishman or native of any other part of the world as an inducement to enter its fold and that it has never had a any ay farms to give uhe the utter ignorance of public journals on this matter Is inexcusable because tf of their continual allusion to it they should either read up or shut up they do not understand the motives that prompt converts to mormonism in their gathering to this land and imagine aine alne a ine lne that it must inest be the ex expectation P ec tation oi of reward in the shape of material wealth they do not stop to find out whether the mormon church has bas any hold upon the soil but jump to the conclusion that it has possession of countless countiess coun fiess fless acres and bribes the poor of foreign countries with offers of land it js Is all a mistake and the people who come to utah under the care of 11 mormon formon 5 missionaries are induced to do so because they believe this is the place of gathering for the latter day saints where they can serve god and live their religion better than in the lands of their nativity those who say that the mormon missionaries have promised land to converts as a reward for fon their gra gratiot grat tion tiou either elther wilfully lie or talk pf af that about which tewo they know iio llo nothing thing the alta california does es one or the other of these two improper things |
