ENGLISH GIRLS IN UTAH.
555 INDUCED TO EMIGRATE BY MORMONS.
Mr. Hans. P. Frcccc, who spent Inst summer in England, ■Holland, Sweden, and Denmark gathering facts in support of his anti-Mormon epilation, declared in New York at the end of December, states the "Daily Mail" correspondent, that scores of English fiirls aro Ikiiiib transported annually to Utah, where, they outer a state of polygamy. According )« Mr Frecce. the Mormons maintain in Great Britain the following force of missionaries:—Utah Apostle, 1, nigi prints, 17; "seventies" (propagandists), U7; elders. 236; til addition to 850 local missionaries. During the year 1010 tho Mormons baptised in Great Britain !)l>3 woiiuin and induced 555 tu emigrate to Utah. they visited «9,U«l homes and distributed 5,5^,115 tracts and 102,222 books. "I have brought back with me;" Mr. Freeee. stales, "bunches of affidavits by unhappy fathers and mothers whoso daughter; have sailed to join the Mormon-; in ("tali. Yon must realise that beioro tlit-e women start they are as--nred that polygamous inariiages no longer cxij-t. The elders and missioniiri-.« are ynuuf, men of goud appeariinre and iuldieis, .iiid tin- women aro llatlered by then- atl.iMilitin-. The women are told th:it if Ihi'.v «i> In Utah they will have <-ll:.IK'(- to »rt -.:i»d |m-itiiPl|.'illld lIHIIT.V v.i'li. 'I'lu-ir hiic- aiv paid In I'tiih by thr Moniu.M ( hinch. "When they jH there they iind tliiii?fnr din'i'i'cnl from what m< represented, ■flry liave no nay ol getliiiß li.uk. Tlu-y have no maiiey and I hey do not belong to Hip chis- of people who ran r-upplv fiiatb for tin- pn,".-.nEo. Tlicy :.r<, oblis«r.d to rortnicUo Ihomcolvcs lo tJicix new siu , - rouadinge,"
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 15
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270ENGLISH GIRLS IN UTAH. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 15
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