Show WYOMING AND THE MORMONS tim THE statesman published at boise mahn idaho is a very partisan paper and has been extremely bitter on the mormon question it is seldom that anything rational on 01 that subject appears in its columns but the following editorial in its jasue issue of the dinst is good common sense perhaps this may be accounted for by the fact that it relates to the mormons cormons Mor mons in wyoming instead of the cormons mormons Mor IMor mons in idaho the statesman says since the admission of wyoming those wh who overe were hoarle to her claims for statehood and who did all in their potier poti poh er to prevent her admission have sLid suddenly deily pretended to find in the new state a haven of refuge for the storm tossed mormons cormons of utah and idaho it is now being urged that woman suffrage and the absence of a test oath or any other restrictions in the way of free voting will attract the mormons cormons to Wyo wyoming miny where they will acquire a balance or of power that will enable them to control the politics of the new state those who reason this way whether sincerely or not know little either of the mormons cormons or of the country even while a territory wyoming offered nearly all the attractions forthe for the mormons cormons that can now be claimed for it in its changed condition woman suffrage has existed there for several years and there have been no attempts at legislation hostile to the members of the so called church of latter day saints still the mormons cormons did not go to wyom wyoming I 1 ng in any considerable sid erable numbers number 4 they have hav pre to stay in idaho and utah where they first selected their homes when the whole country was open to them where to choose their abodes and fields of labor they have remained in the territories named even while w hile for years they have been hunted a d arraigned tried convicted and punished for offenses which in wyo mingia not condoned would have subjected ted them to comparatively slight discomfort yet they did not seek homes in wyoming why for Forthe the reason that neither the climate nor the geographical character of the territory suited them besides they had made a beginning begin nin land and had expended much money a and labor in opening farms constructing dwellings and building teft temples tv es in the localities first settled by them in mid and evidently they are now resolved to stay and fight the battle out where they are no wyoming has nothing to feax from fr om an ingress of mormons cormons Mor mons nor als idaho and utah a anything in to hope from an exodus of these people the mormon problem will have to be met and solved where it first presented itself in these intermountain inter mountain communities muni ties 2 |