Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — BAD FOR THE MORMONS. [ARTICLE]

BAD FOR THE MORMONS.

The Mexicans Don’t Want Them, and a Judge in Utah Bears Heavily Upon Them. [Paso del Norte (Mexico) dispatch.] The Mexicans have begun active warfare against polygamy, and people of all shades of politics, as well as the Catholic Church,are arrayed against its introduction upon Mexican soil. An emphatio demand has been made upon President Diaz to cancel the grant of 100 sitios of land recently granted to Brigham Young, Jr., iu the northern portion of the State of Chihuahua. The Catholic priests ore demanding that the terms of the agreement, which stipulate that the Mexican laws must be fully complied with, shall be enforced as they are in the United States. This operates against the Mormons now in Mexico, and unless they strip themselves of a plurality of wives they will have to vacate Mexican territory. The Catholic Church, which is the prime mover in this opposition to the introduction of polygamy upon Mexican soil, is backed by a strong public sentiment. especially in the Northern States, and should Brigham Young, Jr., succeed in locating another colony of Mormons he will have not only rigid laws, but a social and religious element to encounter which would make the United States a more congenial climate for his “Latter Day Saints.” The press of the Republic and the politicians have also taken up the cudgels against the Mormons, and assert that in addition to the pernicious social evil of the saints other and more serious trouble might result to the republic through their colonization. Regardless of the grants made by President Diaz, the edict has gone forth in Mexico that the Mormons must go. [Provo (Utah) dispatch.]

Judge Powers, in his charge to the Grand Jury of this district, instructed them that a separate indictment could be rendered for each day which a polygamist had lived with more than one wife since the passage of the Edmunds act. The penalty for each indictment is six months’ imprisonment and S3OO fine.