Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-09
IN GREAT BRITAIN.

! mon agitation The Herald, published
az ghat cit,, says that on sunday. Aug
p. Messrs. Lumby and wood held
protest meeting" on the Town Hall
squarc. Lumby. who seems TO be a
follower Of Jarman told his awe-striok-
IN hearers that "Mormonism was
founded on witchcraft, and was the
/ creed of the devil Wood told a story
about woman who was worried 10
! death. literally speaking. because she
/ could not pay her tthlng So a repre-
sentative os the Herald was sent over
/ TO Bradford TO learn an he could about
the awful "Mormons" His report to
the paper Is pretty good reading. He
says.
when my chief told me to 90 over
| TO Bradford and beard the Momons in
/ their den ] confess I was filed With a
! considerable degree Of fear. for the
stories about graves dug iu back-yards
| Tor dOubtcrs OF MOrmOnism / heard told
| by the anti Mormon speakers ON the
| keighley Town Han Square came vi
| wildly 10 my mind ! felt somewhat like
/ lamb being driven 10 the slaughter
/ by this editorial edict / went and was
| surprised by the genial welcome / re-
| ceiVed from the representatives Of these
| terrible Mormons.
y unfortunately got the wrong adj
| dress and inuocently called at the house
| | had been directed 10. pretty young
lady answered the door. and my first
thought was one OF admiration for the
taste these plural-wived Mormons pos
sessCd in making their selection.
Is this where the Mormons live%
l questioned
MormOns Who are they?
such is fame. thought l. but ! add
ed
They are the people who are said
TO have So many wives each.
The lady staggered under this infor-
nation.
No she said. once she had recov-
cred from the shock. My husband
works ,n the office, and he has
| only got one wife-mev
II admired his taste and fastened to
l explain 10 the lady that / too was a
| believer In only one wife. This ap-
/ peased her and she answered my fur
ther questions quite afrably. No, she
/ did not know where the Mormons lived.
In fact, she had never heard Of them.
and certainly had never heard Of any
man in that respectable street having
more than one wife. Perhaps her next
door-neighbor could tell
Il went next door The lady there.
when ] explained my mission looked
up and down suspiciously, and then,
satisfied that I did not look quite a
wicked person. became communicative.
oh, yes she said. 4 think ] can tell
| you. There are some strange people
\ whom my husbands brother heard
about from his wife's sister that
Yes can you tell me the address
| I interrupted, seeking 90 stop this tor
rent Of what lawyers cali hearsay evil
/ deuce
FIRST bay window In street.
she snapped haughtily. Then she shut
| the door
Il proceeded 10 the address indicated.
| ! could not get an answer at this house.
so failed TO crafty my curiosity as 10
/ whom the strange people who lived
there really we're
Ladies. whom. had ignorantly
| thought would have known most about
| Mormons, having failed me. I tried
/ mere man TO help me TO locate the Zion
/ Of the Latter day Saints. struck luck
! straight away. and the person / asked
/ directed me aright.
THE house ! reached. and with fear
and trembling knocked the knocker. 7
| expected 20 ind at least half-a-d dozen
women rush al me or a modern blue
beard appear. I was pleasantly disap-
| pointed a tall well built, goOd-looling
! young man appeared.
Come right in was his cordial
| greeting. and mad I been an angel in
stead OF an impairment. prying jour
| nalist I could not have received a more
| cordial welcome
In what was the drawingroom OF the
| house. room that was furnished with
| almost Spartan frugallty, 7 found other
/ two young men making with the one
| who admitted me three OF the Mormon
Elders / could see from the open
| Bibles I'm front OF them they had been
| al Bible study, which "A guarded question
| ELECTED is an important part Of their
! daily lifc I had sought the head OF the
/ Leeds Conference. President Horley,
but found he was absent
"I Immediately started 10 ply the
| young men with questions
Arc you crystal gazers2' ] asked
There was "a roar of laughter at
that. Then with the object Of proving
I that they were ] handed over "a copy
of the Herald In which was Mr. Lum-
| bys speech alleging that they prac-
! tsed crystal-gazing and made mon y
! thorefrom with which they purchased
property in Bradford.
zone uf the elders read this out fOr
the behoof OF an Loud was the laugh
Ten that greeted the kcighloy Town
| Han square allegations.
Come now, . said. u want 90 see
this crystal
Renewed laughter
"I guess. said one elder. you can
/ have a. sovereign for every crystal you
can get here or amy where else in Nor
| mon homes
a looked carefully round with the
object of winning some soyereigns.
! was positive ] should, through my iu-
/ fallblc belief In Mr. Lumby's state
! ment become rich Not "a crystal did
! discover although the prospect OF
I gold made my scent the keencr / felt
| extremely grieVed at this
Now said What property DO
| you own loo BradfordF
None. answered three voices earn
/ cstly
"Not even thls house" ! impertin-
entity asked. determined o. get at the
bottom of the matter
No We lease a.
one of the young men rose went
to desk and. bringing forth docu-
mcnt adioined,
And here is the lease of this house
I for YOU 40 sce'
Eyes hut perhaps YOU are interested
/ in property elsOW here" I Ncntured
Only the hail we occupy for our
services
land has n been bought by the
money you have made out OF crystal-
/ sa1iasT
There was moro laughter
Mo- answered one. we Lease d
| also and here d tho lease.