Salt Lake City Quotes
At the time, the land there was so inhospitable that other Americans had no designs on it. Surviving and then thriving there was one of the great settlement accomplishments in the history of the world.
The Mormon emigrants to Salt Lake City were vulnerable to hoarding. This ordinance was one of many laws and structures that the early Mormons established that had the community legally above the individual. To many, these cooperative attempts and laws to prevent disproportionate asset accumulation were signs of socialism.