MEXICAN MORMON COLONIES. 
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war to restore such confidence among 
the whites that they can settle the dis¬ 
turbed district in a bona-fide way. I 
should, however, except the Mormons 
from this class, but to do so without 
an explanation would appear somewhat 
unreasonable. Their long and almost 
constant frontier experience has taught 
them how to weigh Indian matters cor¬ 
rectly, as well as others pertaining to the 
ragged edge of civilization. Although 
the Apaches had been subdued a dozen 
times by the Mexican and American 
governments alternately, they knew 
when the subduing meant subjugation, 
and before Geronimo and his cabinet 
were halfway to the orange groves of 
Florida, Mormon wagon poles were 
pointing to the rich valleys of North¬ 
western Chihuahua. 
