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...beach town on the west coast of India. Wading into the warm rollers of the Arabian Sea, he and 76 followers scooped up a little water, set it on the beach to be evaporated by the sun, thus broke the British law which makes the extraction or sale of salt a British monopoly...
...British Government of India did nothing last week. His Majesty's viceroy, Baron Irwin, sat as placidly and as expectantly at his desk in Government House, New Delhi, as did St. Gandhi by the sea. When the sun evaporated enough water to produce a few pinches of salt the momentous grains were sold to eager bidders for a total of $160. This act was analogous to a sale in the middle of Main Street of a case of Scotch...
...remains to be seen whether the Government will tolerate, as they have tolerated our march, actual breach of the salt laws by countless people...
...salt tax is one of the most immoral acts this Government has ever been responsible for, especially because it is collected stealthily [i. e. as an indirect tax]. [Our] next attack should be on [other] taxes which are just as immoral. I mean the liquor and opium taxes. Through the Indian Government's monopoly of opium production, India has been made responsible for drugging the world, and her own children have been made poor and miserable by the contraction of these degenerating drink and drug habits...
Mormon wealth, though impossible to calculate, is apparent to anyone who studies Salt Lake City commercially. The Church owns The Deseret News, two hotels, two office buildings, the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., and Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (first U. S. department store, 1868). Through the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., the Church owns 24,539 acres of farm lands and operates numerous beet sugar factories in Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, South Dakota. Board chairman of this company is Heber Jedediah Grant, now President of the Mormon Church. But though net current assets are listed at $3,466,860, worldwide...