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Helen Gould and Her Anti-Mormon
Activity Though Decidedly
Amainst the Seating of senator
Elect Reed SmOot, She Has Not
Been So Publicly Active Against
Him as She Was Agninst the Seat
ing of COngressman-EIect Roberts
from Utah Some Years AgO-Then
She spent Money Freely, and Even
Employed the Services of One of
brigham YOung's GrandsOns in
Making InvestigatiOns-The Sale,
of Rudyard kipling's Country
PInce in Vermont and the story
1t Recalls.
New York, Nov 2S.-For some. rea-
son Helen Gould. has not been nearly
40 prominent in the movement to keep
United States Sehator-elect Smoot from
taking his seat, because he is Nor
mon. as she was to Keep Representa-
tive Roberts out a few years ago for
similar reason.
It is true that she has lent the
weight of her influence to the anti
Smoot movement, but her opposition
to him has not been nearly so active
as her opposition was when the seat
Of the congressman-e lect was in
question. Then she spent thousands
in the campaign; in fact, it has been
said that the majority of all the dol
lars expended to keep Roberts out came
from the capacious money chests of
over, she gave freely of her own time,
going so far, even, as to appear per-
sonally upon the platform and make
addresses showing the people how
pernicious Mormonism is, and how
sad thing it would be were one of
its representatives to sit in the national
halls of legislation.
In order to get the necessary am
munition for the anti-Roberts' cam
paign, Miss Gould sent agents to Utah
TO make special Investigations and re-
port their findings to her. Reports
aggregating thousands of closely
typewriter pages were received by
her as result The personal history
of many Morgans processing to live
homogeneous lives since the admit
lance of Utah as a state was ferretted
out and placed in Miss Gould's private
archives Among the agents she en-
ployed was a grandson of Brigham
Young, at that time connected with
one of the New York evening papers.
He was renegade from the Nor
mon faith, and, of course, he was able
to furnish lot of information which
could have been obtained through no
other source. 1t was understood then
that Miss GouId's brothers objected
strenuously to her prominence in the
anti Mormon movement, and that may
be the reason she has not been so
prominent in the movement against
Reed Smoot. Besides, she is now
tremendously interested in the devel-
opment of the American Institute for
Social Service, for which She has
furnished the bulk of the money, as
she did when the seating of Roberts
in Congress was comba tied.
The sale by Rudyard Kipfing of
Naulakha, his country place in Yer
mont, is virtually the severing, of the
last link which bound him Alto the
country his admirers once fondly
hoped he had adopted at his own =
The story of the property and his
ownership thereof, could it be written
by deft hand, and with, complete
knowledge, would be a most interest
ing composition. Bits of it are still
told with gusto by the rural Vermont
ers who "neighbored" the novelist dur
ing his life there, and probably will
be handed down from father to son
for two or three generations.
Beatty Balestier Kipling's brother
in-law, furnished the foundation for
great many of the curious yarns in
question For some reason he and
kipling never could get along, and, as
some readers will remember, their
differences finally became so acute as
to require an airing before country
Justice.
Something that K.ipling said or did
threats. Nobody who knew Balestier
would have said his threats BODIED ill
to anyone, but Kipling was clearly
frightened, for he had the young man
arrested and hauled before the
square" Everyone of my readers
who has lived in the back country"
East or West, knows how entirely hill,
arlous an occasion lawsuit before a
country justice is. In this instance
the ordinary limit of farcial travesty
OF the laws majesty was reached and
passed. Lank, grizzled, angular old
farmers and. their husky sons turned
Vut IN force ito hear what Kipling and
MS orother-in-law had to swear to-
turing the. taking of testimony the
sspat copiously and commented audi
oiy and sarcastically 1t was a reg
uIar picnic for the farmers.
Naturally Kipling was annoyed.
anybody would be. But no American,
with all his buttons" would have put
hlnlSeh in a position to. be loaded
WITH the sarcastic comments of the
KIND OF Yankee crowd that gathers at
country lawsuit. This comment that
stung Kipling most was from one old
chap who wondered" why the author
had not spanked his brother-in-law
instead OF having him arrested?
kipling's Introduction to the Bale
stier family was through Charles VOL
Sott Balestir, Beatty Balestier's older
Wolcott Balestier, as he signed his
name in his later years, was in Ores
zen, Germany. when he first met Kip
mig kipling was in the early flush
Vi literary success and Balestier was
vohhected with a publishing house that
vas Vas issuing books in English. At once
ne. icy struck up a partnership, for both
.teIsry and business purposes. The
.anRlble result of their coalition was
novel OF Joint production. which ran
NJ serial in one of the big American
magazines, and had unite a sale when