New-York tribune., 1906-02-06
MORMON R0WDYISM
Mrs. Weed Describes Attempt OF
Saints" to Break Up Meeting.

The fact that Mrs Maria c. Weed. the anu-AioT-
mon agftator. narrowly escaped moooins al lle
hands OF a group of angry Mormons In Harlem
last week seems 10 indicate that the Latter Day
SAINTS are changing their tactics Hitherto. while
they have kept a wstchful eye every move or
their opponents. they have kept the peace Ihe
attempt to break up Mrs. Weeds meeting by acts
OF concerted hoodumism which necessitated an
appeal 10 the police is the first OF the kind In Mrs
Weeds extended experience as lecturer on MOT
inonism.
last saturday evening Mrs. Weed spoke on this
subject at the Harlem Mission, in l24th-st' four
blocks from the site purchased for the new A'V''V"
Mormon temple and few blocks distant from the
Harlem Mormon Mission
u knew the saints would come out. SAID MIS-
Weed. "and. a fact, big committee was pres
ent about one-hfth Of the audience should say.
They were packed into the back Of the hall, ana
kent quiet during the first five minutes. Then they
uesan 10 murmur and talk out loud. soufaing Win
their feet iii my voice was drowned in the hupouo
kept on though, while the hubbub grew into an
uproar the Mormons shouting out 'ThatH 90!
cut 1t outr Give US something new? Try again'
and other derisive things, mingled with groans ano
prolonged Ahs.'
They knew I oid not know my audience. and
could not call for help. II it had been in church
instead Of a hall they would never have dared 10
act so. The managers of the mission. who didn't
know they were dealing with saints. expostulated
with them but. the uproar continuing. two or the
girls attached 10 the mission went out for an ON
Ger before he could get ToDfQ lHt AiahaScAo
succeeded putting out two of the disturbers who
left as noisly as possible. protesting at the top
OF their voices.
.,lo sooner was this racket and had re-
suned than the deafening uproar began again
Il stopped short. I astonished gentlemen
] said addressing the Mormons. that you should
employ these tactics. / have spoken on this sub
joct IN fifteen States within the last thirteen
months usually with Mormons present-in Chicago
IN one audience there thirty-two elders pres
had IHn n
experience. am very sure the Harlem Mormons
ere not different from other Mormons.
I'm not a bit afraid I continued. looking
straight at the leader. You think courage and en-
thuslasm belong only 10 Mormon women. A Gentne
woman viii squeal at sight OF a mouse and look
under the bed for q burglar. but when it comes TO
q principle in which she believes she'll die for it,
AT a signal from the leader the disturbance
ceased" 49, ,,o-r,o,s.
next move. Last night she spoke in Willard Han,
Mount Vernon. She has engagements 70 speak In
or around New-York every night Tor the next ioi'-
night ., -, -. l., .t.
Bedford eshS chqFch gbt o. Bro MSr
70 an audience wnicn n ihenaee gss She eI ssys fSev
got hold Of a reporter and instructed him not to
publish anything until after consultation with them
f'vo days later two Mormon women called on Mrs.
MARY J Apnabe president OF the ngs sr bnss
auspices the meeting had @ been heia. ssEs for
pubic discussion OF MoTnonism
L will never confer with any reasonable body"
II is one of the Mormon tricks" according 70
Mrs weed. for several saints" TO attend all the
Mormon meetings that are held, and. sitting
81 p compact group right down in front or else
packed IN at the back. 10 take notes throughout
ana Try stare the speaker out OF countenance.
Nothing more impudent than the fixed smile
with which they sit could be imagined" she says,
hut il Doesn't disturb I'm SO used to II now
7 should il II ] did not feel IL fastened upon
me. Their representatives follow about from
town TO town where ] lecture. that who
1esrd me speak Texas will pop UP again in
Wisconsin and later ] viii him in Albany,
perhaps or IN Boston. But they have never stopped
10 rOWdyism before.
the amphitheatre on the menace of Mormonism,
group Of Mormons sat down in front In the
course Of my lecture / quoted Reed Smoots reply
10 Senator Burrows when asked If he would pro-
test against the polygamous lives of the Mormon
elders when he returned from the investigation in
Washington. When ] repeated his words, No,
will not. the NCrrnons. who were punched down in
front, raised their hands high and clapped noise
lessly the audience could see them
The only time a Mormon laid hands Mrs
Weed at Grand Rapids, Mich. about two years
sgo, when, after meeting. elder after her
demanding 10 his questions Catching
her by the shoulder he cried, You shall stop and
you shall answer"
Mrs. Weed smiled sweetly. You haven't for
gotten that YOU saint. have you?" she in
CURED The saint so incensed that he pushed
her against the wall and left