| Show MICI MIGRATION RATION TO MEXICO THE taic eastern press seem determined that the mormons cormons Mor mons shall move to mexico it makes no BO difference what is said by those who know the situation the fabrications of reporters ate afre taken for facts and commented upon with the utmost gravity and it really seems that many editors would wood rather ald aid in spreading falsehoods when they relate to the mormon question than furnish their readers with the truth A new york r has learned that a definite plan ot of has been organized heland that the faithful uinta saints whether they prefer to RO go or not are beins 1 removed to their new home borne by a system of decimation this is the method as tie he describes it and as copied into quite a number of newspapers the names of all the malle male mem memoirs lerg of the church are thrown together in a box and then drawn out every tenth name is ia marked for departure to mexico and after the drawing has taken place every tenth man gets a notice and a certain cerrata length ot ol time in which to dispose of his bis worldly possessions and take his bis departure is allowed him many of teem object to the emigration even after they are drawn but the order of the church is imperative and they are threatened with eternal damnation unley they obey instructions all this is sheer invention in the first place there is no extended movement on toot foot for an aa exodus of 4 mor mons mene to mexico or elsewhere our people have not even contemplated an abandonment of this territory where their material interests are centered ceat ered and where they have settled to stay in the second place no such means as indicated in the foregoing paragraph are or lave bave been employed in the set clement of ef any place which the saints have located in the third place threats of eternal damnation are not employed in this church to scare or coerce anybody and the mormon people are about the very last to be influenced by such pretences pretenses when they move their residence it is because they desire to do so or are cor compelled spelled by the force of which they have no control ceaver ae e extent ot of territory said to have been vur purchased chased in mexico through a new york syndicate is about as broad as the reporters imagination four million acres and if it is as fertile would provo prove a productive spot for any colony that might settle u upon 0 a it there are a few ew mormon sett settlers X ers I 1 in n me mex ico but there is no extensive colony of our people there nor any prospect of a migration from the pleasant vales ot of utah will our esteemed contemporaries east and west make a note of this and cease to make themselves ridiculous on the rumors about a mormon Mor moa movement to mexico |
