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Show Hff ( ATH'ICALDlXUint. I ,J The narration o( one Mrs. It. B. H ' i, Macleod of Chicago, who seye she lias i , spent two yiars shadowing Mormon I , - missionaries In Kurope and forrttlng H - I out Information m to Ihelr general do- Hj t mcanorand especially their Iromlgra- B ) tlon methods, makes nn entertaining H j,i column nml ft hull In the Ht. Louis 'H ! ' aid Democrat of the 7th of October, KB V Tula heroic soul posts at "the only ono HJ of allthemlsslonarleawtaohevogonelo In Europe to InTtstlgate tho methods of H j j the Mormon LMers who lias orcr re- Ml ' turned to tell the tale;" a distinction to R , which she la entitled whsii It I under- If stood that the la the only ono who li found any tate to tell. Two ladles who KB went out ahead of her liavo never been S , hcsrdfromelneo, she says; she doesn't 1 if belleTothty wero murdered her In- Bk , ' credulity mult be rare, Indeedl, Lilt B j the declares they mutt bo held some- H . , where by the KUeri In out of the way R, I place, where they cannot coniniunl- 9 cate with tho outalde worldl Thla m would boamuiluR If Itwerenot aollat. A It It surprising that Mr. Macleod can consider tho Mormon KUcn to mercl- , fuland half-hearted; the muit at least i i think they are starving those two poer R " ladles.pcrnaps alio keeping them In rage nnd darkness and prsctlclnKIIninner Jj ' otlnJIgnltlss upon tliem. Itevldenlly m haa not occurred to her that her two ' absent frlondt may hare found that 3 ' Ibeyoould do tome good by preaching 8 ! and practicing a llttlo Chrlitlanlly JJ themselves, and that bearing falso 8 wltnettcould not be made permanent-I permanent-I )y tatlilictory to the toul, though It 9 might yield notoriety to adepta and a prom temporarily profitable to the R pocket. B I'eur weekt It the average time con- jj ' turned by tho Mormon Kldcri, taya X. I thlt authority, In making a convert; K and the latter are picked upmottly In jl Liverpool, Queenstown(l) and other .3 ' thlpplng polntt, where emigrants, all j I uuconsclous of Mormonlsui, gather for IbJ 11 embarkation for the New World; "they fit are quartered at the hotola, boarding KB I houtet, etc," during the process of Bfl I conversion, we presume, "and many Bj 1 1 of them canuot speak Ungllah." Thvte a 1 1 boarding houses or missions "all have B j. I printing houtea atlaohed," whore "the HI women do all the work and the men KB l stand by and look on." "The con- Bji vertacome now-a-daya by way of New Orlcant, and In addition to forts In BCj Mexico, tbey are building a colony In I!!!! North Dakota." "When the Utah Bwi Commission recently declared that Vj Mormonlim la dying out and HH ' polygamy la net practlt ed," Mrt. ( Macleod "Intonded to attend their BJBf mcotloi;" aud Impart tome of her In- IB i formation; but the waa too tick to go. J She knowa of tome of the Kldsrs who BJ: have fifteen wive a tolerable evl- SB', dence that polygamy It ttlll practiced HH and thla It one of tho thlngt the Bfl' doubtlett wlihtd to tell the Commit- IBB tloo, "The I'.ldera are all bright, Bfl . tmart men" In one paragraph whllo flBi In another they are "a lazy, thlftloet, Bflf brutal let." Bhe taya they nofer tut- BBm pected that the waa not a Arm convert BBl, to their fralth which la certainly a BBJ' joor tribute to their bilghtneea and BflV ttuartbett, and thu to! I them, perhapa BBl, In all thefour language of which the Bflj tayt alio la mlitreM, that the wai "a BBl' Mormtu mlulonary from Utah who BBj, had been aent over t) oatlttthem In BBS thelrwork." In reality the waa doing BBm nil thla tpylng and ahadowlng and Bfli ferreting for a particular purpjie, and BBn "a part" of her dltcoverlet "has been BBfl' turned over to tbn United Htttct BBm' Immigration Uureau." It It to be BBB regretted that tho bureau hai not poa BBfl tetied ltaelf ol the whole of It tho part BBV especially where aho confeasta henelt BBVj' a liar. It Is good In estimating thu value HflVJ of a wltneim to know In Just what cate- BflBj' Kry ho clajweahlmtell;lt furnlshis a BBBT good batlt on which to build In taking BBS further tcstlmouy. There would be BBBi no dllUculty ln proving that In all BBm! Mrt. Macleod'a assertion thele It BBBtj toarcely a tontence that doe not brls- HflVJ1 tie with falsehood; but In view of her BBB own ultimate of the value of her evl- BBB deuce, such an effort, though In Itself n BBB1 pastime, could ho nothing but a work BBt) of supererogation. |
