Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — Marie Believes in Polygamy. [ARTICLE]

Marie Believes in Polygamy.

N. Y. Sun,, Marie Haselman, of Munich, Germany, one of fifty Mormon immigrant, who arrived on the steamship Wyoming, was prohibited from landing, on the strength of her own sworn declaration that she believed in polygamy, and would practice it if she got a chance, as sne understood it to be a fundamental doctrine of the Mormon religion. Marie’s affidavit reveals the hitherto unsuspected fact that the Mormon agents are proselytizing among the Catholics of southern Germany with success. Nearly all of their converts had been until recently from the Protestant population. Marie says her mother and father were Catholics, and were converted to Mormonism several years ago. She has a sister in Logan, Utah, who has embraced the faith and is a Mormon. She said: “The Bible tells us that the great men of old had more than me wife. Ido not think it wrong. If I was married to a man and he should take three or four wives I should be perfectly satisfied.