The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-03
THE ENGLISH CAMPAIGN.

The Tribune is receiving many news
papers from England, which give vol
luminous accounts of the agitation there
against the Mormon missionaries on the
point of polygamy. The Vicar of Boil
sover, Derbyshire, has come out in his
parish magazine in a vigorous article,
advocating the application of the ''or-
der of the boot where it will be most
appropriate 10 the persons of the mis-
sionares who accost young women on
the street. who make personal calls at
houses. and in this way make them
find the account of this in the London
Daily Mail of April 18TH.
In the same paper is a long commu
nication entitled "Thc Girls Who Go
TO Utah. written by Basil Clarke, in
which he is rather sarcastic about Liv-
erpool and the move there against the
Mormons He asks very pertinently
what it is that has stirred the Liver
pool conscience all at once, since the
Mormons are doing nothing new. fThey
they have not been doing for years
past He might. in fact. say for two
generations past. The Mormons have
not hidden themselves, he says, and al.
though their growth has not been rapid,
it has been sure. As to the rabidity
of that growth, it has been depleted to
a large extent by emigration to this
region.
Coming to the charge that the Nor
mon missionaries are inducing English
girls TO go to Utah. and there "cause
them or force them into marriages with
polygamous Mormons. Mr.. Clarke calls
for proof, notes the missionary denials
Of the char"es, and demands evidence
This evidence, he thinks. should be two
fold. that from Utah and that from
England. The evidence from Utah he
holds is chiefly from Mr.. Hans T.
Freeze, who is now conducting very
lively anti Mormon lecture campaign
in England. OF the English evidence.
he SAYS, "he found enough in Liver
pool TO prove this much that girls OF
small means find money to 90 to Utah,
and that they go on the promise of
good engagements III the occupations
they have followed in England - He
finds further that in some cases money
has been advanced, not by any official
Mormon institution, but by the en-
ployer to whom they were going. This
employer "might be a woman Mar.
riage, he finds. is not mentioned TO the
was already married and "she took
q child with her. deserting her hus,
band AS If that hinderedD He
sums up that "Though the girls have
been told that Mormonism was the only
thing wanted OF people who went to
ducements being offered to the men
converts of Mormonism in Liverpool,
or the married couples among them to
go to Utah. - He holds that "oTbese
things look bad, but hardly bad enough
to be incapable of explanation He
concludes IN the following paragraphs:
II passage money is advanced TO come
~ EHsnsn slrls, ana III girls rather than
men or old women are welcome to Utah,
that Is no worse than might be said OF
many anot her State In the world Cana
da is making a bold bid for 5000 wives
just now. The real cruX OF the question
is what kind of treatment awaits these
converts In Utah. They are nice girls
mill girls. workshop girls. shop girls
and even school mistresses. They de-
serve well OF country. and il behoves
the Mormons To produce irrefutable evil
dence that they are well done by In
cidentally. 1t bchovcs us also TO see that
they do produce IT, So far the evidence
from Utah is against the Mormons very
badly against them. But is II broad
enough and unbiased enough evidence