Show i A Little i Have the Mormons' forgotten i who brought the the the and the cigarette to are or preachers- in Salt Lake will not join the temperance wave Utah will where it was on that subject previous to 1880 and for fear the Mormons wilf get credit for a Mormon it-was so to the Mor- and in was the largest city in If historians- tell the Nauvoo was an ideal temperance- city without the prohibition big The Clemment D. in his history of religious denominations speaking of and the is almost unknown among and is more remarkable as a large of their are from the lower order of the large cities of the United States and Historian H. H. Bancroft thus speaks of vice is meant to be no grog shops The drunkard is scarcely ever seen on the streets as in other And Utah un- til about 1880 the exception of a purely Gentile was an ideal temperance The Jeremiah M. as as- before the senate committee on made the following allusions to the Mormons in are a temperate not addicted the use of and crime and untold miseries-that issue from this Pandora box do not fret and vex their domestic-or social for abstinence from the most potent source of discord and is a fundamental principle in their economy and In 1889 Congressman Springer made the following report to congress during the population of the territory-may be classified generally as Mormons Non-Mormons is universally conceded that no locality equally populated is freer from the vices that afflict communities than this territory It is singularly free from houses of and the and it is undisputed that the peo pie generally are and n pj Bancroft in his history of Utah Page Mormons are loyal to their consciences and They are essentially i in highest sense moral people of the more they claim then the average American or They do not cheat or Adultery is scarcely known among they are to They are tb to true to the Herewith I brought down compiled from the census of police and penitentiary and of commissioners appointed under the Edmonds bill comparing the distribution oz Mor- Prostitution Q 96 Keeping brothels- 0 27 Lewd insulting women 4 47 Drunkenness Violation of liquor ordinance 0 18 Gambling 0 52 Confined in penitentiary 6 22 Confined in Salt Lake City jail 24 97 Confined in Oneida jail 1 30 In 1880 the population of Utah was Again Bancroft on page the time the Edmonds bill was all the keepers of and nearly all the gamesters and saloon were Two hundred out of two hundred and fifty towns in the territory contained not a single Until tiles settled in Salt Lake there were seldom heard on the streets or dwellings oaths imprecations or There were no place hunters or and there was no of the United States internal revenue from Utah were tor 1883 about The re from Salt Lake City post of-hee tor the same year were people of don't let any faddists come to you with their black and white because it isn't It is very IU WOuld listen to the words of wisdom on the temperance question and return to your first principles as they were practiced previous to V cannot V. S. |