Show PRUSSIA EXPELS MORMONS ALL missionaries WILL BE COM TO LEAVE COUNTRY declarant arat on Is made that elders teach form of rel re g ous belief in campat ble with laws of state and morals according to a berlin dispatch goern governments ments ot of prussia and of grand duchy of mecklenburg have decided to expel the mormon mis slon Blonar aries iea of whom there are in Gerr germany hany and 90 in prussia on the ground that they are propagating a form of religious belief incompatible with ith the laws laves of the state and public morals and because polygamy is not excluded from their doctrines the missionaries who are all kmer mer leans will be allowed sufficient time to settle up their personal affairs none of the have yet been deported the gon government of pros sia defines the expulsion aa as being simply a police meas ire for which explanation need be made peter I J anter sac a german allred in utah first organized mib work heie in 1896 he ile was succeeded in 1899 as bishop bv ainold s a naturalized in utah who directed missionaries hugh J cannon replaced him in 1900 a and nd the latter has steadily increased the number of mormon preachers and has nearly doubled the member s ship p w which ich is now nov 1800 1 when a mor mon men arrived in a german village he would rent a hall and begin to preach and the common result was that the local pastors would complain to the police who not infred bently ordered the mission missionary ary to leave leane the latter would then telegraph to the bishop in berlin who through h the united I 1 states embassy wo would ull obtain a sus pension of the police order indell bitely or its carcel carcell lation atlon the for eign office owing to the number of cases pending tool up the subject with the view of settling the status of the mormons for good instead of being bothered by numerous ual cases the result has been the decision of pruss a and mecklenburg to expel the mormons which course is likely to be followed by saxony there are twenty five mission arles and by other states bavaria some time ago decreed the expulsion of mormons und nd they quietly left without making a stir or attracting discussion mr air cannon who has been informed officially of prussia s and mecklenburg s decisions has not yet deter mined what to do but will endeavor to obtain a reversal of the policy he ile affrus that the missionaries nevar teach never persuade their adherents to emigrate and always ad obedience to the laws the members are discouraged from emi grating mr cannon adds because the church desires to establish a per manent foundation here the mis sio narles in germany at their own expense have distributed consider able sums of money in charity |