The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
POLICE FORCE
IS INCREASED
Crusade Against the 'MOrmOns
at BirkenIead and Other
British Towns.
WELL-KN0WN DIVINES
LEAD THE MOVEMENT
Saints Denied the Use of Public
Baths in Many Places for
Baptism of Converts.
By Leased wire to The Tribune.

LONDON. April 20.-The crusade
against the Mormons which found cx-
preston in several mass meetings of
protest Friday night and tonight will
be followed by other meetings Sunday.
Many Of the leading preachers and
church dignitaries Of England have
entered the movement.
One Of the leaders Of the crusade is
Father Bernard Vaughn, one OF the pull
pit powers Of England, The tension has
become 30 strained at Birkenhead that
the police force was increased for to-
day and Sunday to prevent further anti,
Mormon riots.
The Mormon leaders have, many Of
them, gone to Sheffield, where Sunday
meetings are to be held. The Mormons
are holding services in many Yorkshire
towns, and the Rev. r. Huggard, vicar
OF st. Johns, found it necessary to
warn his panshioners.
Regarded as Menace.
e'I desire" he said, "to refer to
body-I cannot call it religious body
which poses under the name of re-
hgion as the Latter~day Saints, [ re-
gard them as great menace to the
morality of the country 1t is an in
sidious body, going about under the
guise of religion. exciting the religious
sentiments Of the female population,
out of the country. Whatever faults
can be laid TO the door of Yorkshire
men, they cannot be accused of lack
of interest in the morality Of their
wives and daughters, and once they are
reused to a sense of the great and
widespread danger which exists they
Will rise up and hound the Mormons
out of the country
After 4 house meeting Rev. j. P NJ
Wilson, rector OF Beywood, Lancashire,
led his auditors and the Rev. T. NJ
Tozier, vicar of st. Johns, Haywood, to
the usual meeting of the Mormons at
the trades hall, Some OF them went
into the meeting and crowd of men
stayed outside. Rev, Wilson asked the
Mormon elders to promise to leave the
town within seven days or take the
consequences. After a little waiting
they gave a PLEDGE that they would
leave the town within a week.
Town Meeting Called.
There was another attempt to break
up Mormon meeting at Birkenhead,
but the police prevented the crowd
from rushing the mission hall The
Wdo dohSo lO GILL IL tOWn meet
ing OF protest against further toler-
ance OF the Mormons.
The Mormons are said to have left
Smlthwlck. Following the indignation
meeting IN the town hall, deputation
of 800 citizens attended the residence
of Mormon elders in Cheshire road,
when their leader was informed that
the missionaries had left the town. Al
Blrkenhead the anti Mormon agitation
has caused some riotous scenes
After demonstration Of protest
against the Mormon campaign, a LARGO
number of people proceeded to the
Mormon meeting hall in Armyll street,
Admission was refused to the hall, bat
one of the leaders of the rrotestors
presented, on behalf of the citizens of
BIrkenhead, a written document demand
ing that the Mormons should leave tho
district within seven days on the
ground that their presence was not con.
duclve to the best interests of the peo-
Pile. p''
Elder Young firmly declined TO ac-
cept this ultimatum, and riotous scenes
Followed. The crowd surged around |
the doors Of the meeting hall and the
police were called A large number of
officers were quickly called and five
arrests were made. The police were
assaulted by the demonstrators with
stones and mud. The police had to |
light their way to the police station. |
The Mormons have been denied the use
OF public baths In many towns for the
baptism of converts