Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — STICK TO MORMONISM. [ARTICLE]

STICK TO MORMONISM.

Young O.rls and Grass Widows Not to be Influenced: The authorities at the Barge Office at Ne w York on the morning of the 2d used an immense amount of moral suasion on the young Mormons that arrived that day od the steamer Wyoming, to induce them to forego their intention of becoming proselytes to the Mormon faith. The girls were separated from the other passengers as they landed and placed in a room by themselves. The female missionaries from the Emigrant Girls’ Home went among them and tried to convince them Of the folly of the course they proposed to follow. It was a very hard undertaking. One of the girls, Karen Sylvestersen by name, who acted as spokeswoman for the party, frankly acknowledged that they were all willing tQ.be one of seven or eight wives and were fully aware of the principles of Mormonism. The girls are all young and some of them remarkably pretty. The attempts of the missionaries to influence them proved an utter failure, and as all that the barge offloe awthorities oaa use is persuasion, the entire party will proceed on their Jpurney by the Old Dominion line via Newport News, Va. The party comprises all told 202 souls, of whom thirty-two are children, Among the lot is a married Englishwoman who left her husband in England to take up the Mormon faith. She said she was called and compelled to go. She refused to tell her name.