The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04
NVV yHEN the average American.
M returning to his native land.
w conjures in his minds eye

conjures In his minfs eye
the vision of Homecoming
ne sees the Statue of Liberty out in the
harbor. But saw a poor peasant girl
OF Europe looking over the ships rail
toward the Promised Land. She is the
young Mormon convert looking tow
ard Zion. She has been coming to
America by hundreds year after year.
The growth and prosperity Of the Nor
mon kingdom rests on her."
This is the message Hans p. Freeze
Of IS Wall street, New York. took to
the European governments and the
message he is now telling to readers
OF THE SrN because he walked into a
New York theatre the other day and
listened to an actor speak the message
from the stage in the second act Of a
drama that has been interesting New
York for the past four months, "Po-
lygamy."
Mr.. Freeze is a graduate Of Column
bia University Law School and prac-
Using lawyer. He is six feet tall with
the frame of a giant. He was born
and brought up Mormon in a little
Utah hamlet. He left home at seven
teen to make his way in the world
outside OF the Mormon kingdom.
worked his way through a Western
college and then through Columbia.
He married beautiful Western girl
who had been in touch with mission
work In the West. and the first five
years Of their marriage was spent in
travelling and speaking in the interest
Of the board Of home missions Of
the Presbyterian Church and other
organizations engaged in the anti
polygamy crusade. Now Mr. Freeze
devotes every Sunday and many an
evening in the course Of year TO talk
in churches or before patriotic or
ganizati tons on this same subject. He
speaks without money or without
price except when an organization can
afford to pay and offers, when he is
glad to get the money to spend on
printing more anti-polygamy litera-
ture to distribute.
Why?
Because said Mr. Freece reso-
lutely. "polygamy broke my mothers
heart She was just such a peasant
girl from Europe who sailed for Amer
lea believing 1t was the Promised
Land, to be bitterly deceived and be-
trayed. Her sufferings determined me
to devote my life, as far as could, to
fighting this evil.
II was born and brought up In Utah.
My father was Mormon. My mother
was a plural wife. l was born in
polygamy.
I'm the little Mormon village where
I was reared almost every person who
was fifty years old had been born in
a foreign land. In another village
where | lived knew Of but one fam
lily to emigrate to Utah from another
part Of the United States, but arrivals
from abroad We're frequent. This is
the case with many Utah towns, and
there is one county populated almost
entirely with Scandnavians. In 1910
the last statistics of Mormon con-
verts abroad that ! have been able to
get, the Mormon agents baptized 963
persons in Great Britain and sue
ceeded in getting 555 into Mormon
dom Commissioner George b. Bill
ings of the Port of Boston reported
that from 700 to 500 Mormon con-
verts, the majority women, passed
through that port annually. They are
now brought into this country largely
through Canada, though | do not
doubt that many are entered here.
should estimate that of the foreign
population of Utah over 10000 are
Danes.
Both my mother and my father wer'
Danes, though they came from diff
fcrent sections and never knew eacl
other til they met in Utah. In Den
mark, where the religion Is largely
Lutheran, the Mormon elders cam,
talking their new religion all through
the countryside. They didn't say {
word about polygamy, except to den,
1t, just as they do to-day. They talke'
of a new land whore there was
chance for everybody, and everybod!
was thrifty and happy. and it was Ziol
the beautiful, When / went back L
Denmark ! saw the pond in whlcl