| Show A TYPICAL DEFAMER the narration of one mrs B P B macleod of chicago who says cays she hi has flient two years shadowing mormon missionaries in europe and ferreting out information as to their general demeanor and especially their im migra tion methods makes an aa entertaining column and a halt bait in the st louis globe of the ath of october this thi heroic soul poses a as the only one of all the missionaries who have gone to europe to investigate the methods of the mormon elden who has ever re turned to ten tell the we tale a distinction to which she he is entitled when it 1 Is under stood food that she eke is the only one oae who found fiarand any tale to toll tell two ladies who went out ahead of her have never been heard beard aromo from since noe she says saye she believe they were murdered her incredulity must be rare indeed Inde edl but she he declares they must be held somewhere by the elders eldera in out of the way places where they cani cam ot 09 communicate with the outside world this would be amusing if it were not 0 o D flat it is in surprising that mrs macleod ORD can consider the mormon elder so BO merciful and halfhearted half hearted she must at lout least think they are starving these two poor ladies perhaps also keeping them in rap rags and dar darkness knes and practicing all manner of indignities upon them it evidently has not occurred to her that her two absent friends may have found that they c uld do some good by preaching and practicing a little christianity themselves vm and that bearing false witness boum not be made permanently satisfactory to the soul though it might i notoriety to adepts and prove temporarily profitable to the pocket four weeks is the average time consumed by the mormon elders says this authority in making a convert and the latter hitter are picked up mostly in liverpool queenstown Queene Queens town 1 and other shipping points where emigrants emi grante all us of moi monism gather for embarkation for the new world they are quartered at the hotels boarding houses hou seil etc during the process of c conversion we presume and many of them cannot speak english these boarding houses or missions all have printing houses housea attached 02 where the women do all the work and the men stand by and look on J the con veris come nowadays now a days by way of new orleans and in addition to forts in mexico they are building a colony iu in north dakota when the utah cammic commission Cem mission sion recently declared that mormonism is dying out and polygamy is not practiced mrs macleod Cin intended contended to attend their meet g and impart some of her information but she was too sick to go she knows of sonae of the elders who have fifteen wives a tolerable evidence that polygamy Is in still practiced and this is one of the things she doubtless wished to tell the commie sion the elders are all bright smart benji men in one paragraph while in another they are a lazy shiftless brutal delpy set she says saya they never suspected that she was not a firm firca convert to their fraito which to is certainly a poor tribute to their brightness and ema smartness buess and she toli told them perhaps in all the four languages of which she says flays she to is mistress that she was Is a mormon missionary from utah who bad been sent over t assist them in their work in reality she was doing all this spying and shadowing and ferreting for a particular purpose our Dur pose and a part of her discoveries has hag been turned over to the united states immigration Bure bureau aue it to Is to be regretted that the tee bureau has not pos DOS owed hessed itself ot of the whole of it the part specially especially where she contemn confesses herself a liar it is good in estimating the value of s a witness to know kaow in just fust what category he classes himself it furnishes a good basis on ehigh to build la in taking further testimony there would be no do difficulty la in proving that teat la in SO all mrs macleod macleodo Macl eods Is assertions assertion there is scarcely a sentence that does dam not bristle with falsehood but bat in view of her own estimate of the value ot of her evidence sueh such an ef effort fiert though hough in welt itself a pastime could be nothing but a work of supererogation |
