Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-02-21
THEY WANT PROSELYTES.
MCRMONS AFTER ANNE
ARUNDEL RESIDENTS.
Wou1d Have a Man Boy Two
Easter Bonnets When One
Would Do The
Tr;rk

In spite of the trying times which
Reed Smoot is now undergoing il
Washington as a result of the Nor
mons penchant for basking in the
sunshine of the smiles of more thar
one wife, two elders of the Mormon
church are working in the neighbor.
hood of Annapolis. in various parts OF
the county. to secure proselytes. =
The men two, who are tall and dig.
nified and wear boards which were in
vogue when Moses was but barefoot
boy making whistles from the reeds
which gave him shelter. OF solemn
mein and dignified bearing they seek,
by those Establishments which come oil
long training, to secure converts &C
their cause. Thus far they have not
been very successful, although one
well known young lady of the county
has signified her intention Of joining
their ranks as soon as sufficient con.
yerts have been secured to warrant the
elders in sending them on to Utah.
In setting forth their religion the
elders deny in the strongest terms that
their church, which passes under the
title of the Reorganized Church OF
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, be-
Iieves in plurality Of wives. They
claim that it is the real Simon pure
religion which John Smith, by means
of a broken spade aud much shedding
of sweat extracted from the bosom of
the earth mauy years back. The elders
deny the blood atOnement, but state
the religious ceremonies are such as
to appeal to the good sense of the con
vert. Such was the plainness of speech
of one of the elders and the strength
of the argument used by him that a
resident of the county but a short dis
lance from Annapolis forcibly propell-
ed one of them from his house.
Although the elders deny SO positive
ly that polygamy is practiced by their
people it is nevertheless a known fact
that such is tho case. Ever since the
discovery of the religion, when
John Smith sat on one side of horse
blanket and read from a broken pie
tin the hieroglyphics which told the
tale, the people who have followed its
fortunes have been in hot water.
Smith was made the chief hygastacutis
aud cut up more dldos than a live gar
goyle on a toasting fork until the bull
let's of the United States regulars put
a quietus on his panegyrics. With q
hiatus in its ranks the Young family
took the helm and has since played a
most important part in its history.
From pillar to post, from Kirkland,
Ohio, TO the tangled depths of Utah,
they were followed by a Nemesis
which seemed TO be ever on the watch
for the first move which would bring
them within reach of the law.
County aud state laws, federal edicts
and the punitive sallies of the border
soldiers did not serve to check their
spirit and they have been dying hard
ever since Each and every time it
has been the federal government which
has started the strongest moves against
them, but in spite of that fact, with
an investigating committee hard at
work in Washington the emmissaries
of the Young family are working in
this county, under the shadow OF the
National Capital itself. to convince a
man that he needs more than one wife
when he finds it almost All impossible
city to keep himself in tobacco money
aud his wife in society. However,
if he is so happy with one how much
happier he must be with two.