Show MORMONS IN MEXICO AMONG the papers which are now making foolish remarks on the latest false rumor about the mormons cormons Mor mons m ving into mexico is the st louis gibu democrat an able republican journal but nearly always entirely off on the mormon question that paper says it IB to be hoped that the story of a large purchase ot of lands in mexico by the mor mons to is true and that they will proceed to transfer themselves and their religion to that country without delay that Js Is probably the only way in which the be mormon problem will ever be thoroughly and permanently manent ly solved the ignorance of the 0 D is quite as apparent in the foregoing as its malice towards the majority of citizens but we need say no more on this matter the following will be sufficient it is a re joinder to the above paragraph by the doming deming N M of dec 1880 1890 the truth la Is that the vast majority of the american people have absolutely no sense senne of right and wrong as affecting any question wherein the mormons cormons are concerned and yet those who have had opportunities for observation will testify that these are an industry industrious IOUs i people who pay their debts and regard the rights of their neighbors 1 1 hey take a country like utah and make it blossom as the rose they are developing northern chihuahua tn in a similar manner no one ever sees seen a mormon under the influx once enoe of liquor or hears bears of a mormon thiel thief they care for their families and educate their children and yet so BO bitter is the prejudice against them that when the people express a readiness to obey the law and announce the purpose of abandoning the practice of polygamy our people as a mass refuse to believe in their expressions of honest purpose and decry the whole mormon community as hypocrites and liars our treatment of the mor mons MODS is one of the darkest pages in american history |