Show appreciated KINDNESS THE Anto antonito col sentinel re produces the following kindly disposed V article which originally appeared in the deml doming ug N M headlight there to is little doubt that the mor mont mona as a elass have entered upon another and a fourth movement in the nature of a flight though this time freed from many the annoyances the 1 haste and the cruelties cruel ties of former instances 1 of banishment from homes their industry and frugality bad created there is something pathetic in the hickory and movements of these people beginning in northeastern north eastern ohio they were forced by local persecution successively through missouri illinois and across the great plains thousands of miles of weary march on foot dragging their earth and living on such roots and game as they could find oftentimes half starved into the mountain deserts and fastnesses fast nesses of utah wh re it was supposed civilization in other forms could never come they were not then polygamists mormonism was simply a form of divine worship differing from other forms of devotional exercise yet they were persecuted through the three states named with all the vigor that characterized the pers cautions of the early christians they rhey were robbed beaten and stoned and their prophet murdered not because of any lawlessness or crime not because of any unfaithfulness ulness to their obligations of citizenship or for the nonperformance of any public duty or for any dishonesty in their dealings with their neighbors but simply because they had bad evolved a new religion and chose to adhere to it and to those of their faith as all other devotees do and always have done but they are again on the move this time for old mexico they are going this time quietly and in peace singly and in small parties as suits their convenience and pleasure and beyond the bounds of the united states though they are american citi cit zone zens attend strictly to their own business and pay their debts for sixty years they have received nothing but beatings under the american flag and now they are going to try a foreign country to met their lot with an alien people and swear allegiance to a foreign flag large numbers of these people are already located in the vicinity alu 0 of ascension and diaz some one hundred n d or two hundred miles south of dem finx and more are passing here for abal that locality almost daily they have purchased from the mexican government considerable areas of land are r reducing uc it to c cultivation ti living quiet and order orderly lk lives and building themselves comfortable homes it is to be hoped that they will now be let alone so long as they continue to live quiet and orderly lives and obey ebey the laws and that they are certainly doing so far as anybody can be judged by appearances the passage toward old mexico of latter day saints seeking seeding homes in that country formed a justifiable basis for the presumption that a general exodus was contemplated this however is not the case several settlements have been es in mexico and the attractions tr of soil and climate together with a prospect of immunity from the assaults of bigoted religionists and self seeking politicians are inducing a number of mor mons to pu pull I 1 I 1 up stakes and seek the new field for colonization the headlight is right in its estimate of the people to w v horn hom it refers in words of kindness the sentinel from whose columns we clipped the article odeas ks in the same vein of commendation regarding the saints who once settled in conejos county colorado with whose status its editor appears to be familiar it characterizes them as the most thrifty farmers and says they c make the best of citizens in conclusion it says the san luis valley farmers owe much of their success in growing crops from examples taken from the cormons mormons Mor mons one they are our best farmers especially those from the northern territories the gentlemen who conduct the two journals from which we have quoted may rest assured that their words of kindness and sympathy apok spoken en at a time when the people they refer to are vituperatively assailed from almost every quarter are much appreciated it has always required unusual courage to be a 11 member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and maintain that status it now requires no small degree of the same quality in a journalist who will say a word of that community the editors of the sentinel and Read headlight appear to possess it |