. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. quor than other kind of * ^^Temperanee Hotel. At the date of our visit, there was only one place In Salt LakeCity where strong drinlc was allowed to be sold. Brigham Young himself owned the prop-erty, and vended the liquor by wholesale, not permitting any of it to be druni on the prem-ises. It was a coarse, inferior kind of whisky, known in Salt Lake as ** Valley Tan. Through-out the city there was no drinking-bar nor billiard room, so far as I am aware. But a drinkon the sly could always be had a
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. quor than other kind of * ^^Temperanee Hotel. At the date of our visit, there was only one place In Salt LakeCity where strong drinlc was allowed to be sold. Brigham Young himself owned the prop-erty, and vended the liquor by wholesale, not permitting any of it to be druni on the prem-ises. It was a coarse, inferior kind of whisky, known in Salt Lake as ** Valley Tan. Through-out the city there was no drinking-bar nor billiard room, so far as I am aware. But a drinkon the sly could always be had at one of the hard-goods stores, in the back ofiBce behind thepile of metal saucepans, or at one of the dry-goods stores, in the little parlor in the rear ofthe bales of caUoo. At the present time I believe that there are two or three open bars in SaltLake, Brigham Young having recognized the right of the Saints to liquor up occasion-ally. But whatever other failings they may have, intemperance can not be laid to theircharge. Among the Mormons there are no paupers, no gamblers and no drunkards.
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