Improvement Era, Vol. 11
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Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 11: December, 1907The change brought about among the Saints by the arrival of the adventurers ¿ocking in with the troops, is very vividly depicted in the Memoirs. Remember, the writer was a Frenchman, a Parisian journalist, well acquainted with Babylon. After describing the move of the Saints to the south, the march of the army through the city, its camping outside the city, his visit to General J ohns ton, who received him most pleasantly, and exchanged with him some common-place expressions, he thus writes: After the return of its inhabitants, (from their 'move' south ward) Salt Lake City became the rendezvous of a crowd of greedy adventurers of high and low class who, believing the newspapers' reports that we were going to abandon the territory of Utah, were ¿ocking from all the states of the Union, to enrich themselves with our spoils. Hundreds of teamsters, discharged from the army, helped to swell this turbulent mob of outsiders. Before the arrival of the army, the 'mormons' were unquestionably the most peaceful, the most moral, and the purest of all peoples. We had then, in all our territory, no guillotine, no gallows, no prison, no stock exchange, no pawn shop, no barracks, no informers, no gens d'armes, no public women, no gambling houses, no saloon, no wine shop, no tavern, not even a billiard hall, or a smoking room, all these judicious institutions which ¿ourish more or less in all civilized societies. In short, i must say to our shame, we were real savages. But when that mob of outsiders, following the United States troops, invaded our territory, things promptly took another appearance. We began to get civilized. Our trading streets, formerly so calm, presented every day the edifying specta cle of dead-drunken men lying on the ground, others, armed with revolvers and brandishing their bowie-knives, were marching through the city yelling obscene songs. Saloons, wine shops, tav erns, sprung up as by magic in certain streets, then billiard halls, and gambling houses displayed their showy signs. But I must tell all: our initiators to civilization could not stop half way, the establishing of houses of prostitution was attempted in an under handed way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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