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MORMONISM AT HOME.

THE "SOVEREIGY STATE" AND ITS COLONIES.

By a correspondent of the Times: - The discovery of the California plasers, the exploration of the Comstock Lode, the founda- tion of the State of Deseret-those are the three pivotal events in the economnis history of the Far West. But for the adroaturgas gold nookers whe soiled round Cupo Horn or took the fer mare difficult and dangerous overland journey, Californis might have remained a colony as long as Cuba-in which cars the question of the ownership of the whole Paside slope from San José np to Janssa and

WEATHER REPORT.

leaders of Mormonism had thrust woman into a far wer place than man: she was created, so may seem to be in the nature of an apology for At the present moment the foregoing remarks they taught, for man's plassare and to be his humble servitor. Now it appeared that the have striven to out themselves off from Wester risen moderato ever, the E. and N.E.-coast of... peculiar poople, who, like the Albigedes, eivlization. There is a disposition to

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would not herself be saved except the wors

sealed" to some husband among the Latter, crusade against the Mormon missjunades day Saints, in order that she might have Theirs is an evil sans and doomed to failure. children. The doctrine, regarding celestial But evil cases are ape to prosper if they can marriages appeared in the Milion at Star in add to the list of their deluded martyrs, and it January, 1853; it was said to have been is sinosrely to be hoped that the justifiable July 12, 1843-Ungusstionably this horeille have been approached by these propagators of

given to Joseph Smith, the seer, in Nauvoo, indignation of Englishmen whose womenfolk document, with its roferences to the Old Testa religions imposture will choose the wiser and. ment, was consected by Brigham Young, whose more dignited way of dealing with the latter morning at oli. 41m, Standard Time. The Note-A slight sarthquake was felt this motives were (1) to add a new and attractive Otherwise Mormonism will got the advertise-initial shook was followed 15 seconds later by a feature to the Mormon propaganda among the ment it requires. Indeed, it has got it already, stronger one, which lasted 4 seconds. carnal-minded, and (2) to accederate the increase in the population of his State of Deseret, which

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COMPANY MEETING.

SEREMBAN RUBBER ESTATE COMPANY (LIMITED).

Company was held recently at the London of The Second Anna General Meeting of this Chamber of Commerce, Mr. G. H. Alston presiding.

to judge by the massage he ent latet been answered by destiny in another way. But for the finding of the Comstock Lode hy of the mountains, would include the whole of placer-mlusts from California who had worked the Inner West, Brigham Young's political eastward through the mountains in search of ambitions were in many respects comparable poor man's diggings." (ie, deposits of dust with those of Paul Kroger: like the latter, be gold which could be rifled with the help of a treated those who were not of his way rocker and a little water), and were slow to religious thinking ne outlanders, and underrated discover the true value of the fiod, the exploits the power of the civilisation that was advancing tion of the mineral resources of t the whole of its frontiers against him and was bound in the Silverado might have been reserved for a later oud to envelop and destroy his generation, The

great intentions without pality. There are many points of similarity in patty prinal. which mining could not have become a perman. the characters of these two men, neithor of eat industry in the mountain States-for ex-whom was lacking in certain elements of graat ample, the square sets which imitates the wax news. For example, both of them had an itch- cell of a honeycomb, and was used to all up the ing pals and Biled it plenteously.

rand the notice convening the meeting and the The Secretary (Mr. Sydney H. Smith) having auditors' certificate,

The Chairman observed that the erop turned out most satisfactorily. The estimate originally left after taking outere, and the V-shaped

put forward was 330.0001. In the middle of flame, the endless trough with its ruall of

THE. PROGRESS OF POLYGAMY.

the year receipts were increasing so much that water to abolish friction, by means of which the

the estate stat raised the estimate to 370,000lb.. Far Eastern bills have been stripped of the tim- patriarchal order of matrimony, as it is called 384,440lb. The majority of the crop was

The revelation concerning polygamy ("the white tho actual orop harvested ber indispensable for mining-were all thought in the actual document) has never been abrogat secured from the older fields, Nos. 1 to 7, of WAS ont in Virginia City, the creation of the Com-ed by the Mormou Church. It is dificult te 574 seras. The directors had given in the stook's wealth and it must also ha re say what extent it has been acted on. There report the yield of the various delds, and he membered that much of the capital used for can be donkt, however, that the vast majority of thought that this was very useful and most in- establishing the mining camps of the less Mormons in Utah and in the many Mormonteresting information. The older Helds, Nos. 1 accessible portions of Nevada, of Colorado, colonies in the surrounding States bave content to 4, in area about 350 soros, gave the very and Idaho actually came out of the amazingly ed themselves with the statutory allowance of a large yield of 8701b. per acre, against 5861b. in rich boasaza," or deep-lying packets of the single wife. Polygamy, has always been a rich 1909. The yield of the 23 sores which were great lode. Yet it is probably true to say man's harry the pleasure and prerogative of only planted in 1905 and 1904 was most satis- that the foundation of the Mormon princip the dignitaries who had a share of the fastory, being 5721b, per acre, against 242lb. in ality (which is to this day something of a woolth accumulated by means of the tithe 1909. With regard to the next Beld coming into imperium in imperio) in the midst of

astical organization. The tribute paid by tlement scheme engineered by their ecclesia- menoed in 1909, and yielded then only 211b. per the settlements of "stakes" fonuded in States as for afield as California and outside the territorial limits of the United States doss not represent the whole of the profit gatherer in by the Mormon Church in its capacity as a colonization company. The lands on which these settlements have been planted were bongbt en bloc and retailed at a much higher price per to 500 par cent) to the settlors. It would be sore (in some cases at a profit of 400 per cent. interesting to know how much of the huge gains from this scarce have gone into the coffers of the Church, and how much has been collected as commission by its leaders. A portion has been spent in purchasing the favour of the members of the State Legislatares in the surrounding States, where the Mormon vote a bi-partisan minority whenever there seems any likelihood of an attack on thoix Church has a political value out of proportion to its numerisal strength.

athensand miles ahead of the so deserts and, in Inter days, by the large Innd set-bearing, of 141 aores, tapping was only com-

acre, but in 1919 there was a yield of 1541h. per nero, their profit and loss account on the working, a As regarded working expenditure and sum of over £5,000 was spant on acreare from which the company had obtained no yield at all. cont. on the capital of the company, and for that That £5,000 practically amounted to 22 per reason, therefore, nothing had yet been written of to the reserve fund. He had before him taken from month to month in the various particulars of the measurements of the trees felds, and the growth might, he thought, be considered very satisfactory,

THE FUTURE.

As to the futurs and the increase of their aaras and another of 60 acres; and of this area 350 acres and 30 acres respectively were opened area, they started during 1910 a clearing of 500

during 1910, and in January, 1911, 50 sores of the 500-acre clearing and 30 acres (the balanes

140 acres of jungla belts lying between the also proposed further to close and plant about the 60-acre clearing woro completed. It was

ing froat of westera agricultural settlement meant more to the big country" tegoud the Great Lakes than all the achievemouts of the pioneers of placer mining and rock-mining The Mormon satters were the first to explore the possibilities of farming on irrigated lands, and wherever "wet farming" is practised to day in the semi-arid areas of the States, Western Canada, and Northera Mexico pro Afable

use has been made of the lessons the Latter-day Saints learat by experiment and experience. To live in comfort and provide for their growing community it was necessary to make their desert blossom like the rose, and this they succeeded in doing at a time when, except here and there in the oldest countries of the Old World, the modern methods of irrigation were utterly unknown. Americans, who know the history of their Western heritago, must needs be grateful to the Mormon ploudera for the part they played in the conquest of the Western wildernes30, and for that reason and alan, perhaps, there is

a tendency in the Bat to United States to believe that a insa has a right of polygamy, it is certain that it is now a rich return to the question of the practice to his own morality as well na to his own's incory. It is also certain that those who present fields and to oloar up the swaps dis- religion are inclined to deal gently with those still have the who still uphold the doctrine of the "pelestial marriage by precept or even by practice Moreover, it is generally beloved in the United States that polygamy as practised in Utah is A vanishing institution, bound to disappear as the "Gentiles" increase in numbare and wealth within the limits of the State's territory and the pressure of external opinion is mere strongly foll by the old-fashioned Mormons Here, no doubt, are the reasons why the addition of a class expressly forbidding polyga mous marriages to the written Constitation of the Uolted States has not yet been wale a party question or even seriously discussed in Congress,

CELESTIAL MARBILGEE.

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tract selestial marriages the income to contributed over the estate. Thoir programme for the conseils of the Church (which sto involves year. The plant in the uid factory had

marriages obtain advancement in buildings was rather a hang one for the using opportunities of enay money-making) much been duplicated, and the new factory was op more readily than those who avoid them. And pleted and was just about to be started. They it is not denied even by the apologists for were therefore now well in Mormonism that these marriages nes still con with the increasing orops. In connection with tracted by the younger mombers of the families factory work and the manufacture of rubber, they position to doul

governance of the Mertoon imperium in imperio possible that other methods of preparation who have been of wely associated with the were really ry ignorant yet, we was quite since its foundation, and form a wealthy and would be discovered which would be found more socially paramount aristocracy in these latter earviouable, cheaper, and produce sa article more days. The celestial households" of these men in accord with the wants of the manufacturer. are to be found at City, and in some of the that, havin sold their orop for the surrent anbarks of

at Forestdall and Bountiful, The company in a way had an advantage, in towns

to the south Farthermore, there is year, prepared in the partinalar manner they reason to believe that some of the leaders of were now adopting, they could wait and see Mormon society bare wives into remote what would be the outerme of present experi- colonies founded on irrigated areas in the last mente in the manufactors of rubber. 20 years.

It seems certain that polygamy was no part of the original Mormon creed. Mormonism was one of the innumerable elusions and impes tures produced in the burnt-over areas New England (that is to say, the regions subject City, and naturally endeavoured to ascertain

Some years ago the writer risited Salt Lake THE CURRENT YEAR'S ESTIMATE. to successive revivals), many of which were transplanted into the West and flourished for

whether the tales he had heard regarding the year, it had been put down at 430,000lb., but With respect to the estimate for the current a time, only to die what may be called a opet praction of polygamy were correct. It the directors thought that the estimato was a from the Middle Bister of the Atlantic sonboard. information; natural death when immigrants came

was impossible, however, to obtain trustworthy cautions one. Owing to the severe drought "Gentiles" who had lived in which had existed since the beginning of the The history of the delusions and impostures what seemed more probable, did not wish to not show that increase which they had antici the city for years had no exact knowledge, or year their crop to the end of March did (generally one finds the deluded person and the risk the loss of business connections by divulging pated. He was glad to say that Impostor working in partnership) has yet to be wetten; it is a curions chapter in the annals of discomfortable facts to Americanism, which seems to have bean cars-

a passing stranger, The younger Mormons, however, many of had fallen, und that the trees were responding they had wire from Klang to say that rains received fally ignored for the same patriotic reasona.

whom were cultured men, were more com to the moisture, but the effect of this would which have led the fabftention scoute be seen in the for this month

for the use of school-children of the the man who had made polygamous marriages he hoped the shareholders would not be disap- and War of Independence. Of all thess fantastic since the manifesto of 1890, which declared painted if the month's orop should not be as absurditios, Mormonism is the only one which them unnecessary to salvation, still maintained large as they might have anticipated. In the took root and grew lazariantly; owing, ro their numerous households. Nor did they deny current year part of the yield would be got from doubt, to the fact that after the failure to that a few polygamous marriages still took place:c0lb, sold at six rape por lb. delivered i

about 469 acres of young clearing. Of the

year," said one inform-

in

foster it past the scoding stage at NauTCO

"Perhaps a dozen in a in the pathway of wastward emigration it was aut, who had been educated at Yale. But it was Colombo, np to the 16th inst, 60,000lb. had been Bocessible that a suficient period was actared a rather subtle trap. When asked if the red of that contrast were that it included all the transplanted into a field so remote and so in possible on one or two occasion to catch them in delivered and paid for in Colombo. The terms for bringing the weed to maturity. In the Lamp," the danger-light of prostitution in other rabber produced, with a proviso that the black early stages of the Mornson progagands, American cities, was frequent in Salt Lako which was based on the dreary and idiotão parody of the Bible supposed to have been read of from an they would invariably reply in the negative. / shankl not exceed 2 per cent. of the whole.

why was it set Because (twice the answer quantity. In the case of Seremban their manu SCOTCH WHISKY.magie spectacles, it was not easy to distingalah in a Mormon community; the help of the police to be delivered up to 403,02010. ander the con- the Ziphook plates through the famous pair of took this form) the "social evil" is impossible facture was so osrefully done that he thought they might look for practically the whol crop the missionaries sent to the Eastern States and is not required to suppress it." Is that because tract. As to the England from the more ferrent and self-satisfied the social evil has been legalized, so to speak, black manufactured was Daly 1.38 par cest orop of 190, the amount of types of the Methodist. They seem to have and even sanctided by your Church-so that no Ha thought that the company owed its thanks been welcomed with some cordiality in the West

woman nood descend to the last resource " To of England, where in the sixties they made

this question a dubious and esitating answer

very much to the staff of superintendents work. many converts. Their "love-feasts did not was returns, which left the visitor with a strong ment of Mr. Mansergh, but they could congratu ing on the property. They regretted the retire- differ in any appreciable degree from the revivals impression, almost amounting to a conviction, late themselves on the appointment of Mr. conducted by Primitive Methodist preachers, that polygamy was more widely practised than P. W. N. Farquharson, who took over the and what has been called "The Marseillaise of bis informant cared to admit, and also that the Mormonism"

necessity of covering it up was generally and was now in charge of the company's pro management from the beginning of the year, recognized.

perties. In conclusion, the oksirman proposed the adoption of the report and accounts. The "sovereign State" of Utah is still stated that he visited the Seremban estate in Mr. B. B. Heinoker, in seconding t the motion. Church. It is tras the "Gentiles" must now of it was that it was one of the finest in Malay. trolled, politically speaking, by the Mormon the middle of February last, and his impression be in a majority, but the wealth of the Mormon He thought that the shareholders had a very leaders and their enormous influence, invariably valuable properly. (Cheers.) exorted against business man (residents or tren-

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POLITICAL MORMONISM.

All glory to them in the highest be given. aisut) who "talk against Zion," still enable The Chairman, in answer to questions, stated Henceforth and for ever: Amen and Amen them to control an easily corrupted State Legis. that he did not fear drought provided it was too might have been printed without offence in latare. Moreover, they still possess, an has long, as the rasting of the treas undoubtedly almost any hymnal used by Dissenters. Daring been pointed out, a good deal of political in strengthened them. Directly any forward sale the sixties, however, additions were made to the nenca in all the other Irrigation States." was made the shareholders would be advised of Mormon system of words in such a connection may be pardoned) by survives of Brigham Young's State of Deseret, Sesus as funds were available.

theology (if the use of such This subterraneen political polity is all that it by the board. He added that it was their in-

tention to pay

interim dividends from time to means of the

revelations" promulgated from which was to swallow up the West and then time to time by Brigham Young to the com devour the East, digesting them at its leisure. The motion was unanimously adopted and munity of the Latter-day Sain. The mest Bat will this insubstantial State survive the resolutions were afterwards passed declaring a notablo of these additions we tho

final dividend, payable forthwith, of 21 per celestial marriage. Space was throud of the unceasing influx of immigrants from the

80 the sympathetic world outside? Not unless it can cent, less income-tax, making the dividend for congregation of the faithful were informed, with add sufficiently each year to the numerical 1910 364 per cont, or 78. 31. per share, sud re- sonls seeking the body without which they could strength of the faithfal. In Utah the new settler, electing the retiring directors and auditors.

malo or

or female, has a vote after five years rs-

The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to what den such as wanid lit the idea would

un-

not in any way work out their salvation. Idence; and it is to inoresas the voting power the chairman.

of the Far West. Then came the practical ap-millionaires with concubines that the mis plication of this strange picture of the darkness sionssics have been extending their propaganda of night crowded with crying souls seeking the in England and the Scandinavian countries. In gate into heaven. It was every man's duty to the Mormon settlements in the south-west corner help as many as possible of these souls to pass of Alberta no evidence can be found for believ CONSUMPTION, through the cater gate, and the duty of every ing that polygamy is practised or advocated.

woman (since she herself was the outer jus cedi) to oo-operate in the task of adding to the population of heaven. From the first the

The writer knows those interesting settlements Well, and could never find even prima facie evidence for such a belief.

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HONGKON TIDE FABEN.

From May 16th to 22nd, 1911.

HIGH WAZE.

Days of

Month

Height

Height.

LOW WATER.

H'kong

F'kong

Mean

Mean

Time.

Jime.

M.

Et. in.

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69 m 3 48

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REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, May 15th.

Previous Ou Dato On Date

Day

at

Barometer Torture Wind Direction... Humidity

Foresti....

Werther Rain

At

at 4 p. 10 am. 4 pm.

29.89 29.86

74

732

29.77

82 94

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2

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Highest open air Temperature on 14th, 83 Lowest open air Temperature on 14th 76