. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ARTEMU8 WARD. 45 He is a man of enormous wealth. One-tenth of every thing solcj in the Territory of Utah goes to the church and Mr. Brigham Young is the church. It is supposed that he speculates with these funds at all events, he is one of the wealthiest men now living- eral millions, without doubt. He is a bold — bad man also a man of extraordinary administrative ability, no one can doubt whohas watched his astounding career for the past ten years. It is onlyfair for me to add that he treated me
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ARTEMU8 WARD. 45 He is a man of enormous wealth. One-tenth of every thing solcj in the Territory of Utah goes to the church and Mr. Brigham Young is the church. It is supposed that he speculates with these funds at all events, he is one of the wealthiest men now living- eral millions, without doubt. He is a bold — bad man also a man of extraordinary administrative ability, no one can doubt whohas watched his astounding career for the past ten years. It is onlyfair for me to add that he treated me with marked kindness during mysojourn in Utah. -worth sev--but that he is. The West Side of Main Street — Salt Lake City — including a viewof the Salt Lake Hotel. It is a temperance hotel.* I prefer temperancehotels — altho they sell worse liquor 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 u
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