Putnam patriot., 1912-10-11
Letter from Boston

Dear Editors.
 The name of your paper indicates your patriotism of "sane and sound pattern, with good flavor of General Putnam's courage. You are always willing your readers should read both sides of a question and to iutelligently decide for themselves what course to pursue.
 The weather in this section has been of decidedly mixed character the | past six months One day in August | when the thermometer registered VI degrees in the shade, snow fell in two towns near Boston. It seems evident 1 that the many huge icebergs, one oi which destroyed the Titanic, have been slowly melting of our coast, causing strange combinations oi tenn perature. In fact everything, reiigi- ous and political, is in state ot un' rest and hesitation.
 We even have Mormonism to hght in Boston. A woman recently left that sect and before a justice oi the peace declared, under oath, that the so-called Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlche- | son had been Mormon elder and ms | sionnry in this city, for years before ne prolessed to be Baptist. A nice Methodist family in Dorchester was broken uD by Richeson and his fellow workers. They persuaded the wite and daughter of this man to become Mormons and they are now in Sait Lake City, with the husband and fa- ther of once happy and united iami' ly, heart broken. certain promi- nent business man found one ot those "eldefs" at his home, recently, trying to convert his wife. He quietly asked his wife to get his rifle. She brought il to him and the missionary found Il wise on his part to leave, but he con tinued to walk back and forth before the house threatening to have the man arrested for pointing gun at him, Al length he laid down his gun, rolled up his sleeves and went out and told the missionary @ if he did not leave at once he would give him one of the worst thrashings he had ever received
 Had the Dorchester man had more courage he, doubtless, would have saved his family from destruction These smooth.tongued missionaries only seek to convert or rather perverl the women in order to enlarge the harems of their chiefs in Utah, Last Monday we had one of the aoleSt and most convincing lectures an Mormon' tstn by Hon. Frank Connors, formerly A senator in Congress. His father wa, one of the "twelve apostles and he well knows the whole history of this terrible institution. lie il was who in duced the Mormon leaders to give uI polygamy and become d loyal state oI the Union. But seeretely and openly they have so broken their oaths by adding new wives to their harems, he has been compelled to leave and eN pose them. The head of that church
 President Smith, confessed before an investigating committee III Nohst tess that he had himself added five wives to his family since he had taken a solemn oath that he and all his follow CTS would give up polygamy and obey the laws of the l.. S. All credit to Putnam, which city turned such a cold shoulder on two Mormon mis- sionaries lately that they left in dis gust.
 The political pots are boiling furious ly in the old Bay State. If the stand batter" and the "progressives' of The Republican party could nave chosen a presidential candidate agreeable to both factions il might have saved the "G. OPP from division and deslrue-