Mormon Menace Alarms Germany.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 28, 1912:
Propaganda Said to be Making Great Headway Despite Authorities' Efforts.
ACTIVE IN LONDON SUBURBS
Missionaries from Utah Find It Easy to Interest Domestic Servants — Clergy Start a Counter-Campaign.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, July 27.— Under the heading, "Mormon Menace In Germany," the National Zeitung publishes an article, ascribed to a woman belonging to the highest circles, who declares that she speaks with a knowledge of thirteen years' closest association with the sect,
and asserts that its propaganda is making great headway here, despite all the efforts of the authorities to discover and expel the Mormon missionaries, of whom two, it will be recalled, were recently driven out of Bavaria.
    She declares that polygamy is secretly taught and practiced despite the Mormon Church's proclamation following the Edmunds act, and describes a meeting at Salt Lake which was held a year or two later.
    She asserts that she attended this meeting, which she describes as a meeting of the pillars of the Church, and describes it as follows:
    "All polygamists were dissatisfied with the anti-polygamy order which had been issued by the Church President, and this meeting had been called to permit the President to explain the order. He said:
    " 'We hold unconditionally to the revelation which our prophet, Joseph Smith, laid down in the Book of Mormon. There are three heavens or grades of perfection. Every one, man or woman, bachelor or maid, may enter the first.
    " 'Into the second can enter only the man who has had more than one wife and the woman who is the first or second wife of one man. Into the highest can enter only the man who has had more than two wives and the woman who is one of three or more wives.'
    "I heard this announcement with my own ears."
    The writer declares that the missionaries are working successfully in Germany, Great Britain, and Scandinavia.
    No Mormon can enter Germany if his belief is discovered, and cases of their expulsion are not infrequent; but it is undoubtedly true that their propaganda is carried on vigorously here despite all obstacles.
    It will be recalled that Sweden recently expelled two Mormon missionaries and issued a warning list containing the names of twenty-nine others, who undoubtedly will be expelled if they attempt active proselyting.
    It may be remarked apropos of the Mormon situation in Germany that not only the Mormon but all religious propagandism outside the established churches meets with manifold hindrances. Members of the Salvation Army, for example, are not permitted to sing, pray, or parade in the streets or to preach publicly. Moreover, the courts have just held that the selling of The War Cry must be considered a gainful business undertaking, as such rendering the army liable to industrial taxation.