Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-15
N ORM0NISM
D Developing
THROUGH
BRITISH Isle
PoIygamy Ensnares Girls Who
Learn Of Enslavement
After Leaving Homes In
Great Britain.
By FORBES w. FAIRBAIRN.

BY FORBES w. FAIRBAIRN.
Universal Service staff Correspondent,
London, June l4.-Greatly dis
turbed England is face to face with
a new problem. This time it's Nor.
monism, and writers, lecturers and
defenders of the public morals"
profess to be perturbed over the in
roads Brigham Young's religion is
making here. They are fearful for
the morals of the young men and
women, emigrants to Utah, who
have fallen, are falling or are about
TO fall under the influence of the
pastors of the Mormon church.
They declare that marked re-
vival of the Latter Day Saints be-
lief us on foot in Britain and that
the PROSECUTING elder is very much /
alive to the opportunity thus cre-l
ated. The scarcity of husbands.
due to the late war, is evident to the
missionaries and they are wasting
no time replenishing the Utah
households with beautiful English
naidens who. it is said, are willing
to believe the old story that polig-
amy no longer exists"
Unquestionably there are a great
many Mormon clergyInen in Eng1,
land. They are very quiet. hardly
ever appearing in public, but il il
stated that they are gathering snu-
merous converts to take back to
Salt Lake City with them. II Isl
even stated that the church is will
ing to pay the fares Of these entilu-
siasts to the home of Mormonism.
Winifred Graham, well-known
English writer, is putting up a.
two-fisted argument against what
she terms this expectation Of
British women who find themselves
enslaved by system of unspeaka-
Bile degradation" She breaks into
print via the Daily Express and ex-
pounds her argument in terrific
exposition of methods Of Mormon-
ism.
Woman Writer Fights.
"Mormonism is run by po,yga-
mists," she says. 1t is the root and
groundwork OF their faith. For years
these degenerate men have sent out
their disciples to draw on the
peasant blood of Europe, and it is
appalling to know that our own
country women are being daily en-
shaved by an organization which
violates the sanctity of the home,
makes marriage d farce, Turing thou
sads into unspeakable degradation.
Scores of British-born maidens
are yoking themselves in marriage
to the American Mormon soldiers
who are in England and are going
back with them as wives.
These girls will have to embrace
a so-called religion which has
never expunged polygamy from its
doctrines and whose leaders re-
Gently appointed a polygamist presi-
dent in place of the defunct Smith
husband Of FIVE wives and father
Of more than 40 children.
Numbers of British converts are
waiting to go back to Utah under
the supervision Of elders, who will
pay their fare. Once they arrive
owing passage money--these un-
fortunate dupes are unable to es-
cape on account of this debt to the
church, while the English wives will
be forced to submit to the stern
rules of the cult. English women
will be amazed when their husbands
introduce them to civil life in Utah.
How can girls, brought up in this
country, stand the initiation cere-
mones of the Endowment House,
so ridiculous and degrading in its
pagan profanity?
"Let the Mormon's financee
picture herself. after the public
cleansing, when she will be dis
robed and washed in the pres
ence of her companions, having
to take the oath of obedience to
the priesthood, with its pledges
that bind her forever in the tolls
of blasphemous creed. Then
when her Mormon boy casts
covetous glance at a younger
charmer, it will be the fate of the
wife to join her husbands hand
to that Of her rival, in the secret
ceremony of his second mar
rage"
According to Miss Graham, Nor
mons in England are spreading
broadcast thousands Of tracts, leav-
ing them from door to door, holding
meetings in public halls, starting
Sunday schools and conducting reg
ulas Sunday services, which by their
simplicity artfully conceal the pit
falls never divulged until the victim
is across the Atlantic.
ITO the Mormon" she asserts,
Utah is Gods Zion and her great
est ambition is to compass the
downfall of the United States. It is
really kind of kaiser rule. and the
Hohenzollern bully might we'll stand
as replica of the Mormon church
power. working its evil for personal
gain and using Gods name q .
weapon and boast