The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
PROSECUTING in England.


book entitled Ezra, the Mormon, has attracted wide
attention. contributed an article to the London Dis
patch Mormonism in general and the work of the
missionaries among the simple girls of the British
kingdom
She confirms what has long been known, that the
working people of Great Britain and Scandinavia
especially susceptible to the efforts of Mormon mis-
sonaries who go to their work with pretended
gospel on their lips and treacherous intentions in
their hearts. They their seed in the name OF
salvation and reap their harvest in the of lust
1t is a notorious fact that they seek girls and
young women. The who fall into their net are
permitted to come to Mormondom, but it is the other
sex that is welcome and for which the PROSECUTING
band is striving
1t is proven by the shipping records of England
and the immigration records of Boston that young
women are in a large majority among the converts
that are beguied from decent foreign homes and
turned the ownership of the lecherous saints
of the mountain empire They are through the
temple, sealed, isolated and forbidden to speak
They are surrounded by wall of secrecy that is
impervous to investigation. They carry their burd-
ems through life fully believing that their punishment
on earth will be atoned for by those ineffabe joys
of eternity that are denied the homogeneous woman
The British islands are yielding continuous sup
ply of de1uded womanhood in response to the be-
that Winifred Graham writes. She says in the Lon
don Dispatch of the 3oth of last August:
The latest development of the scandalous Mormon
propaganda in England has just been revealed by the
decision of the American federal board of inquiry at
Boston, Massachusetts, to send back to this country
thirteen women who were recruited by Mormon
emssaries in Europe They include two English girls
who came from Liverpool against the wishes of
their father who cabed to Boston that his daughters
had run away, and asked that they should be sent
back The girls were accordingly put on board the
steamer Republic, which is on her way to this
country. The thirteen women formed part of body
of ffty-four mostly Scandnavans. They are to be
deported because they have no resources OF their
own, and were financially assisted by the Mormons
The incident will surprise those people who are
unaware of the crafty missionary work. which the
enissaries from Salt Lake City carrying in
the United kingdom This so-called religion, which
had its origin in nothing less than vice. daily draws
which they can seldom If ever escape The Latter
Day Saints would have their victims believe that
the old celestial" law of polygamy has been stamped
out by the preudiced American public.
Simple English girls who become infatuated with
Mormonism little realize that plural marriage is still
secretly practiced under the following pretexts:
The testament which their Prophet Joseph Smith
left contained supposed revelation from God con-
corning the patriarchal order of marriage law
which exalts immortal beings to Kingdoms, thrones,
principa1ities and powers, and everyone knows how
Joseph and his followers obeyed this law and added
to the number of their wives religious duty
Now the question arises, must the saints obey the
congress of the United States or the original law of
their "martyred" chief? The Mormons hold that
all members of opposing churches children of
Satan and is it likely that they going to aban-
don the rites of their privileged faith to please
nation which they describe STEPPED in sin and
ripening for the damnation of hell?" The more
wives, the salvation, the old rule and this
creed is largely practced in secret by wealthy mem
bers of the sect in Utah, who have women sealed
to them i'll the of the Lord.
| did not hesitate to reveal many hideouS crimes
in my recent novel, Ezra the Mormon" which is