Show MORMON EXODUS TO MEXICO I I VII1 lie Competed Onlj ol snlnu XV ho U Ult in Practice Pnlninmj From lie S F Alia California May iti3 Among the recent arrivals at the Talnce Hotel are Major Robert C Walker ol Helena Montana mil Mr Sahiobury and I wife 01 Salt Luke City Mr Salisbury hoof ho-of tIn firm of Gllmcr A Salisbury mail contrictois anl one if the bust known citizen of Sill lake Mrs fcahbur U I a mci o of thor famous Rcimbtlcan chief lain Tamos G I 11111 her lather Major I nlkcr Inv mi mimed a rioter of that distlnBUidied le ulcr Major tumtlker ito lotlrcd irmv olilcer anti a boot nimble and courteous uMitlcmnn who o trainmr ami duration have been such as to lend the weiUil of atilhoril to vvhatovcr opinions he tony express on questions of t J nl l e11e public moment To an Alia retx > rter who had tho pleasure of meeting him yes terdav Major Walker siid that las visit to this cil was snnpl i plenum trip and that ho should letnrn Inafovv div < to I his home in Ilelcni Montana I v nLvriLr vii ws Major Walker has spent some time lately In Salt Lake City and in convcrsa lon relative to the Mormon question all in respoiiflo to severil qucric put toy the reporter he said In regard to the Mexican colonization scheme projcctel toy tho leaders of llio Mormon Church It is a mistaken Idea to think that a general exodus of the Saints 1 from Utah to J Mcxi I I can territorv is contemplated The facts are that bv tho piinent of 100000 the Mormon Church acquired the title In fool simple to nil immense tract of land In Chiliualiu l I II1 nnd secured the leave of in ilditional trict three hundred mmsiles tile and seven hundred miles long running clear down to thednlf This land Is so I cured all staled rite of payment the Mexican Government having stipulated to sell tho land nt 300 for ever 1GO monA icre omuth I make the tales onlv to Mor HIIVT IXII VIIANTEFS It isjictl will underslooil I in bill ike I tint the leaders of the limmtril I h have been guirintcpd bv the MixunnCiovern ment absolute Ireeilom lo ractiee nl lont Ib901ntu freolol plrtoo Jioljj am without fear of ofly fiovprnmi ntal interference 1 is 0113 those Mormons or rather prmcipdly those Mormons who desire to cnjov ut pluralit of matrimonial JI I oltl joS j who will emigrate to tho Moxicin i colon Alreul some seven hundred and llllj families have gone mlo Mexico nnd it is i well understood now that tho Church his MVCII out that no more polgam cal hue carried on in Utah and thntthoso who wish to indulge In that practice must go to Mexico Tho great nnjontv of time Mormons are not pohg ainistH hut of course the look upon tbo arrests mid prosecutions of their core htionits on charges of practicing polg am itS nothing less than persecutions I was Homo little time before I understood under-stood the distinction made by the Ed mitmnuls Act between poluim and un law fid cohabitation charge of polyg itimmy can ba brought against u mm whom who-m iv hive l mado n plural marriage i three t years pnor to tho preferment of the ch chnl A ClllltOI 0 UVLVWFUL C01IVIII1 VTION Cm be brought against any man who was m ned to a pluralitv of wives before tho paiago of the Act and who persist Iasago in living with moro than one of those wives Such a charge can be brouph once 1 week or oftencr providing tho allcgitlon can be sustained I was in Salt lake w ben Governor West I1rr ode and by I od-e vvav ono of the illustrated Nets ork papers recently published n picture of the now Governor which is a I libel Gox ernor West Is n pleasant mild mannered eentlcman and not at ni the bluff pugilistic looking personage de I pictcd hy that woodcut Iho iniimeipa authorities who are the Mormons ten dcred him i reception and ball upon his arrival and presented him the freedon 01 the city fho reception outs attcndei bv the Mormons and a few Gentiles At addrc of welcome was mado bv motor toot antI 1 In response Governor West de rllb 1GI bvcred to frO and 1 felicitous nd Ireps staling however scry unequivocal Ilia ho hil come to Llab to cnforci the luv i I Tiummr 10 was I NOT MCCIt LNCOlllAniMI I lot the Mormons in what ho said Uu I I Satmdav I following the municipal bill Mr and Mrs Sahlsbtimy tendered t Oovor nor West a reception which was atti ml 3rbVrl IIQ 3rb the Gentiles 111II I i Quito i n number of salt I Lake peoi I In tsio I now m this city and 1 a tentlemaii whom I Ian I Ian I-an Alta reporter chanced to meet estci i I rt but who for business re isons would not allow the uito I of his name kol of i I list poliim question substantial 11 I follows Itis 1 latter of fact that in Halt Iake Cilv the leaders of thn Mormon I Mor-mon Church nr convinced Hut hil ISnJiam Vounn been living at the timo llllu of HIP pl sago of tho rdmmids Ail ho I woull have unlouhteill seen tho I Im I porlinio of iinolhir revelation whlih woul 1 halo noiineeil polygani IILOIMV SOl OS TIM WASH m ttmes thtt Itrfhlllt i l m rnlmti nf mi I 1 > imlsts is dca I poljgani will oild tou HO far as Utah in i concerned Thero is I ill Utah a lino svstem of lommon 10110n fccbools and in every lard there is a cthool house I due ition is almost oblig ator for the Ilishoii in each I ohlg 1 forces bv command 1 or iwrstiasion 1 i thin ittindinio of f be ehillrcn This cdti i itiunal will elu piociSH wi kill polgam us surcl asaiilhinn can be I Most of the converts who arrive trout uropein eonn tries art very ignorant and befoio tho influx of tho dentilo I hordes the were of course BO iniiili cia in tho hands of thu Church leadirs Hut now with eihica wih tioml ficilitiiH and lommunication vvilh the oiitcrworll thu state of Iffalr wih dilleiint My opinion is that Iho Mormons Mor-mons aro now llioroiirlil onvineed tint tiuit3 must go to t Mexico If titey want to tiko unlo theIPcllo alt lttrahify 01 wives IreHidi Taj lor is BUJ posed to bo there now and of course lie will govern tho Church an long as ho lived 1 ho Mormons have BO much valuable property in bait Iuuige I that I think that city will ulw IJH remain thy head center HO wi I slumtk of Dint particular faith |