The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-12


marriages has called forth protests from scores of
Bostons leading
Mrs Mary E. Cheney, president of the Boston
w. c. I. IT, states that she thinks this is the
greatest menace to the morality and welfare of this
country .,,. .,-. &C.,,
reason for changing my opinion at this date.
MOrmoniSm | think attacks the very roots of our
government. It's religion is entirely foreign to the
in which this country was founded But most
Of all, the system attacks the home and here think
it is most pern1ClouS
The chief aim of the foreign missionary system
of the Mormon church is the increase it affords in
the female population of the hierarcha empire
prolific field is found in those portions of the old
country where ignorance dwels and poverty regns
and it is among the young girls that the trained
missionaries meet with their greatest success.
Unsophisticated youth is the object upon which
their efforts centered and glib takers in the
midst of the young womanhood of the provincial
old world are favored with abundant harvests of
converts.
That the unhinking public may understand the
motive behind this systematic world wide search for
women with which to feed the polygamous nav of
Mormondom one must go back to the basic principle
of the cult
Throughout the ages of paganism and christianity
that have contributed to the history of this old
earth, up the time of the discovery Of the plates
upon which were written the book of Mormon, the
people cropping in error. They were on the
wrong track and the souls of their departed ones,
wandering in the illimitabe beyond unable to
find the pearly gates of heaven,
An immense cOncourSe of homeless shades had
accumulated somewhere in the outskirts of the pro-
missed land to whom redemption could come only
after rencarnation in the bodies of the followers of
Mormon physical life filled with obedience to the
commands of the prophet and physical death in
the faith of the church
Through such a process the vast aggregation of
astral beings that has been exied from the heavenly
enclosure since human time began is to be rewarded
by the nterposition of the vicegerent of God, who
represents the polygamous alliance of Latter Day
Saints
Mormonsm therefore assumed that its first duty
was to provide bodies for these distressed souls and
in compliance with its assumption the founders of
the cult foisted the institution of polygamy the
world and are peop1ing their harems from the back
alleys of civilization that the Lord may proclaim the
glory of His kingdom
The United States government is assisting in the
consummation of this preposterous scheme Of sal
vaton not that it has any faith in the plan but that
it may keep the Mormonized states safely under the
wing of the republican party.
The Boston Traveller furnishes the following in
formation in addition to what has already been
quoted from that newspaper
Boston has always been the favorite port of
trance for the Mormons as until recently, they have
been allowed to pass upon their way unmolested
Their missionaries have departed from here and re-
turned again with a cargo of converts whom they had
succeeded in interesting in the doctrines of the Nor
church.
Like missionaries of other denominations, they
have large variety of literature They distribute
thousands of tracts through different countries
peca1ly in the peasant districts telling of the Nor
mon settlements and of their progress. The mis-
sionares then go among the people preaching their
message and besides explaining the tenets of the