| Show THE MORMONS IN CANADA BOMB of the good people of canada ito go well as some that are not so BO good have been greatly exercised exer clied over the toleration ration that has been exhibited toward the cormons mormons Mor mons 19 who have hare duade a thriving settlement in alberta there have hare not been wanting from the beginning of that small nall colony persons persona who thought bome violent measures should be devised to prevent the it flux of Mor mormont mons and even drive out who had made hornet home in that country but bat the better portion of the community have taken higher ground and investigations have been made of an official character have had the effect of dissipating to a large extent those apprehensions which the uninformed had indulged in ID we notice that some of the canadian papers pers have been devoting space apace to this Is subject among them the montreal witness that paper recently wired to its correspondent at winnipeg Winne peg to obtain reliable information in reference to the mormon colony near mcleod and be at once went to work not to make up ap a sensational article after the fashion of too many american Amer iian reporters reporter but to get at the facts acts he applied to the member of the north weft assem bly for that district who had bad made special inquiries tind and become fat familiar nillar with the situation that gent gentleman lethan mr C A magrath gave him full particulars tic ulars to lie sent bent to the gancos and we here append the closing paragraphs lf if mr r abrath s communication so aa published in that thai paper Varie conditions give different wants and the mormon cormons who settled utah ana and made their own laws cannot be put on OB the same fame footing as those coming into alberta where laws were already 1 iu U existence there may b be e 0 objections b eject ions to haying having them in our midst and proba blythe greatest greate bt objection raised by those antagonistic to mormons cormons is their system of cooperation in this however there can be no harria so long as it is in not used as a weapon against not reached by such a system this co brings about what others term their exclusiveness something I 1 have not yet seen among the mormons cormons of southern alberta then as to the question of plural or what they term spiritual marriages this I 1 am satisfied does does not exist in the alberta colony before the settlement was started a delegation visited ottawa and I 1 understand the government opre were asked if polygamists could bring their several families into the country so long as they as a community agreed that no effort should be made to perpetuate the system the reply being no I 1 honestly hone believe no attempt has ever been made to break our laws in that respect doubtless a few cases can be found in the cardston bardston Card ston settlement of men who have more than one family but only one has been brought into canada the others remain in utah however the question of polygamy gamy need not trouble us as it is no polygamy Foly longer permitted by their church this step was taken about one year ago having been found necessary in view of the various laws aimed at plural marriage by the united sattes st idec though no doubt a great many mormons cormons believe it to be the only remedy for tho the great social evil chave 1 I have met these people continually since they entered the countr country tn 1887 and am intimately a quainter quain ted with mr card one of the principal gentlemen oi of to my relations with them on behalf of the corporation po ration with which I 1 ana am connected I 1 think I 1 can with a certain degree of modesty say eay I 1 am in as good a po altion to speak truthfully of the mormons cormons of southern alberta as ang an one residing in the district 1 I bave have also bad ample opportunities duran during m my fourteen years e experience ermence in the canadian north west west of seeing all the other allement sl lement and I 1 conscientiously believe the mormons cormons to be among the best cottiers that ever came into the territories in the truest sense of the word they are my experience is if they contract a debt it is paid on due date and so far as a strictly attending to their own business to is concerned they might stand as an a living example to some of us canadians in conclusion I 1 might say that I 1 have no doubt some mormons cormons will get into trouble there are good and bad to be found in every community and they as a whole should not be judged by the misdeeds of a few no more than we of other denominations should be taken to account for those unfortunate members of our faith who are now serving their time lime in prison there are people who view the mormon influx from what they consider christian standpoint and feel they should not be permitted to remain in canada thereto there is nb ab charity in such a feeling allow them hem to come and let those opposed to mormons cormons on such grounds supply them with missionaries w whose hoo treatment will no doubt be cordial and a soul saved in alberta is ie I 1 presume sume of an aa much importance as if in china I 1 do not say this with any desire to be sacrilegious legious I 1 am seriously in earnest |
