The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-05-25
Scores the Walking Delegates OF
MOrmOniSm.

conservation OF the public good, and
"A friend of the plain people. This is
right, and such papers and Journals
should have the good will and ma
terial aid of the people and cOmmunI-
ty where published. After all, our
main and best work in life is to help
one another along.
On a recent trip to Grant parish
and Colfax we met with several Nor
mon elders, and on two occasions
collided with them. i am surel have
nothing against these walking dele
gates of Brigham Young and Joe
Smith as men. 1t is only against
their so called religious dOctrins and
PROSECUTING procedure We object and
protest.
1t is striking strange that their
walking delegates of Salt Lake City
will come all the way to the plain I'M
suspecting peopleo Louisiana, make
a house to house canvass advOcat-
inc their beresies and prOpagating
their foolish hobbies. They certainly
have zeal but their zeal is in wrong
direction and in bad cause.
Whoever heard of a Mormon elder
leading any one to better life, or
helping any one TO better knowl-
edge of God, of sin, of holiness-of
heaven or of hell? They are very in
dustrious to teach MormOnism to be
sure, and they will compass heaven
and earth, including Grant parish
and all the rural districts of Louisi-
ana, to make proselytes to Joe
Smith, and they make these unsus-
pecting converts seven fold more the
children of hell than before.
/ Why is it these walking delegates
OF Brigham Young and Joe Smith
avoid all towns and communities
where the people are able to cope
with them, and seek out our plain
people out in remote places, who sin
gle handed are unable to cope with
two or more Mormon elders at one
4 time. Our plain people ought to
give these walking delegates from
Utah a wide berth and cool recep-
ton, for they are no friends to plain
/, people. They SOW discord and trou-
BILE i'm homes, in families, between
husband and wife.
They are the sworn and secret
teachers of plurality of wives. They
deny this because the government
has outlawed them ON this, but every
Mormon elder is secret agent for
the many wives" doctrines. Then.
too, these walking delegates from
) Utah are very fond of proselyting
the women. Some how these walking
delegates have peculiar leaning to
the women. Among men they don't
do much, but among the women they
make heavy effort. All our women
folks ought to keep their eyes open
when it comes to these walking dele
gates from Utah. These walking
delegates from Utah put our women
folks rather low as human beings.
Their great hobby is to teach the
woman that about her only business
in this world is to go forth and re-
plenish the earth with children. They
are careful to have it understood
that these women are to go with
them to Utah and repIenish the earth
with Mormon children. One conduc-
tor on the T. K p. road tells me he
has hauled over hundred of these
poor deluded women out of LOuisi-
ana, all headed for Utah and all in
the tender care of these walking
delegates.
As a SontberDer we protest against
these tender-hearted walking dele
gates, coming among our plain south
ern people and going on "a still hunt
for our wives and daughters to de-
coy them off to Salt Lake City, alto
replenish the Mormon harems. We
do not protest against their still
hunting among the Indians, or the
japanese or ''dagoes', or even the
darkies, but these walking delegates
have no business forcing themselves
on our PLAIN people and sowing their
hideous heresies among our helpless