Show colonization A great many newspapers throughout the country ai are lust just now exercised over the qu question estloA of mormon colonization aiza niza tion and the gloomy f foreboding ore boding nw they andul indulge e in and the anxiety they manifest iii in watching and aud noting ever c adi ery cry move made by bv the little nitle banda handful ul of adherents berents to the th e most unpopular creed in the world remind us of the words of the savior in comparing his followers follow ers eis to a city set upon A hill the tha liht ht of which could not be hidden the saints a tits are certainly the cynosure of all observers and th the concern that is felt over their increase in numbers an ano and power and the Import importance alace aiAce attached by the tha world to every missionary or ing scherie scheme undertaken by them are rather remarkable the f fear with which they are regarded is almost equal to that expressed by the chief priests and pharisees Pharis ees at the time the savior raised lazarus lazhrus from the grave after he had been dead three dvis they held a council and said if it we ire let him thus thug alone all men wili will olieve on him and the romans shall command come and take away both our place and nation I 1 I 1 I 1 it must be the extraordinary union displayed by the saints and the power other than that of man attending them theril which inspires this fear that people have concerning them for numerically they are an insignificant people and handicapped as they are by the partisan artisan laws which have been enacted and enforced against them and the universal prejudice they have to meet one might think their political power need not be feared but certain it is that everything they the do is considered omit ominous ominious ious lous and their leaders are credited with a degree of shrewdness and worldly wisdom which they never made any pretensions to possessing athe elthe following is a speculative and apprehensive wail wait which the sn francisco bulletin sends up the at crowding into the territories with or without polygamy but with few exceptions polygamists polygamists at heart the mormons cormons Mor mons by c colonizing 0 methods hope ultimately to hold the balance of power in arizona idaho and montana Ion lon tana with utah already secured to them the drift of immigration is the more notable one of the day it i may y not be any part plan to ob obtain t a in a preponderance of the power in these territories at present but rather rathar to f furnish a part of the basis of population whereby these territories can become states and afterward to appear in force in all these new states A mormon state would not be admitted to the union buta but nut a state with a lar iare large lare e mormon element clement and with a strong levera lev erase b for f future operations might be admitted adi Witted through the tactics here outlined the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons hav have e been colonizers z for half a century now had it not been for lor their energy and enterprise in the thy in matter itter of colonizing utah and the surrounding territories would lot not present such an advanced state of civilization as they do at present the faculty of being able to colonize even under the most adverse circumstances Is gone lone of their strong characteristics Scar celya year ear has passed in the last fifty without their pushing out and forming some new colonies and ad wherever reyer rever they have luve settled through their indomitable perseverance and Industry the faculty they have of adapting themselves to anew conditions and the conciliatory course they have pursued towards the indians the or original owners owner fi the soil they have invariably impi improved oved the coti country and rende rendered red it easier and safer for those who have followed after them to live therein in spreading out into the surrounding territories now and in sending aj their missionaries to make known their religion tsofi among the various aboriginal tribes as well as amon among g civilized nations they are merely following out the policy which they have always pursued and we see no special reason why any political significance should be attached to their movements amov cements |