the Prophet Brigham became a distiller of whiskey and other intoxicants, and high priests were the wholesale and retail distributors.

. . . Although every man in the city council was a Saint, they attempted to rob the United States Government of its tax on whiskey. O.H. Hollister, Government revenue collector for the inter-mountain district, sued Salt Lake City for $30,000, and succeeded in collecting $12,051.76, as a compromise settlement on the distillation of "moonshine" by the Mormon high priests, and in a distillery owned by an alleged prophet of the Lord.

. . . During the years 1851 to 1857, the Prophet Brigham was Governor of Utah. And under the authority of the territorial legislature, Governor Young was the sole supervisor of the whiskey business in Utah.