Aided by federal authorities and fraud, a non-Mormon government was installed in Salt Lake City in March, 1890. Only nine months later a mass meeting of gentiles met in the Methodiest Church to denounce the changes that had occurred since “their” people had assumed power. Houses of prostitution and gambling were opening with no limitations, saloons were now open on the Sabbath and crime was rampant. On the night before the meeting there had been six highway robberies. A set of resolutions was adopted saying that the new city government “by it’s failure to enforce the laws against gambling, brothels, and sale of liquor to minors, and the opening of saloons on Sundays… is thereby imperiling the cause of morality in this city. Was that an admission of greater morality under Mormon rule?
Latter-day Saints Millenial Star. Liverpool, England: January 19 &26, 1891.
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