Sentence:  Although certain residents of the United Order towns were active in the cooperative movement, control was decidedly in the hands of the larger and somewhat more affluent Eastern Arizona Stake. Numerical and economic matters doubtlessly curtailed the participation of the "<WSD>Orderites</WSD>," but a more important determinant was the fact that they entertained strong doubts as to the religious  and social soundness of such conventional methods. Lot Smith&#39;s reaction was  characteristic. "Debt ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (orderite); a member of a specified (real or notional) Order (for example, the (United Order) or the New World Order).