HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

THE LAND OF BIG THINGS. LATEST AMERICAN PROJECT. New York, September 13. A big road-making project is now prominently before the American public. The proposal is to construct a npeadamised roadway right across the continent, from New Y.ork to San Francisco, a total distance of 3340 miles. It is reckoned that this gigantic undertaking will involve an outlay of £5,000,000, and towards the fund that fe now being raised to meet the cost of the work the automobile manufacturers of Indianopolis, at a banquet last night, subscribed £60,000. THE DYNAMITE PLANTERS. Boston, September 11. The cases against those mill-owners in Lawrence, Massachusetts, who were recently arrested and charged with having planted dynamite under their factories with the object of casting suspicion upon the textile workers during the late strike, are now being investigated by the Grand Jury. The belief is growing strong that the planting of the explosives was only an incident in a general plot to prejudice the public against unonism, and to discredit, the strikers' fight for a living wage. THE MORMON SPLIT. REVOLTING AGAINST POLYGAMY. London, September 13. At last a section of the Mormons themselves are actively revolting against the Utah creed of polygamy. At the annual conference of the British Isles Mission of the Reorganised Church of the Latter-Day Saints, held on Saturday at Birmingham, vigorous protests were made against the work of the apostate Utah Church, and a decision was come to that its organisation must be countered in every possible way. j The Reorganised Latter Day Saints'! principles are that the "doctrines of polygamy, human sacrifice, or killing men to save them—Adam being God, Utah being Zion, or the gathering place of the saints—are doctrines of devils." The headquarters of the sect are at Lanioni, lowa.

Meanwhile the general opposition to the Utah Mormon elders who are in England in search of "converts" steadily grows. The "missionaries" have been harried from most towns in the provinces by incensed parents, and London is proving no more tolerant. In the last few days an indignant South London populace has summarily moved them on 'from Stockwell to Tooting, and from Tooting to Norbury, and they are still moving.

Their insidious activities in this district have aroused keen resentment on the part of the clergy, who are actively combating the campaign. The Mormon campaign was widespread throughout the country when the Daily Mail early in last year took up the task of exposing its dangers. There were active missions in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Hull, Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham and Sheffield, arid, according to Bishop Welldon, in one year the emissaries of Mormonism paid 63,139 visits to English homes and distributed 117,470 pamphlets and 5,552,415 tracts. The anti-Mormon protest which broke out all over the country manifested itself with particular vehemence at Sunderland, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Bury, Birkenhead, Manchester, HeywOod' and'Smethwick. At all these places the Mormons found it necessary to depart suddenly. The Countess of Chichester stated at a meeting she addressed in Chester that in one year "555 girls were decoyed to Salt