So that the Mormons, comprising seventy-eight per cent. of the population of the Territory, contributed one-eighth of the arrests made during 1882, and the non-Mormons, having only twenty-two per cent., contributed seven-eighths.
In those pursuits having a demoralizing tendency, the distribution was as follows:
| Mormons. | Non-Mormons. | |
| No. saloons and breweries | 16 | 146 |
| No. billiard tables and bowling alleys | 1 | 46 |
| No. gambling houses | 10 | |
| Total | 17 | 202 |
The number of brothels throughout the Territory was twelve, all kept by non-Mormons; number of inmates not given.
The criminal record of Salt Lake City, for 1882, shows that in a population of about 25,000, divided between Mormons and non-Mormons as nineteen to six, the total number of arrests was 1,561, of which 188 were Mormons, and 1,373 non-Mormons.
If it should be suspected that these territorial and city exhibits show an unfair discrimination in favor of the Mormon population, through the sympathy of the Mormon police officers and magistrates, such suspicion will be removed by the summary of the records of the territorial penitentiary for the same year. It will be recollected that for the conviction of this class of criminals, the whole machinery of the law, judicial and ministerial, is in the hands of the Federal government. The number of penitentiary convicts for the year was twenty-eight. Of these but one was an orthodox Mormon, and she a woman, confined for one day for contempt of court; five others were Mormons only by reason of their parentage, and the remaining twenty-two were; eight Catholics, four Methodists, one Jew, one Adventist, one Presbyterian, and seven of no religious faith.
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.
In 1870, according to the United States census report (taken in Utah by non-Mormons), Utah's enviable record stood as follows:
| School attendance, 5 to 18 years. | Illiteracy, cannot read or write, 10 years and upwards. | Paupers. | Insane and Idiotic. | Convicts. | Printing and Publishing Establishments. | Church Edifices. | |
| UTAH | 35 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 19 |
| UNITED STATES | 31 | 26 | 31 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 17 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 30 | 10 | 45 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 14 |
| NEW YORK | 21 | 9 | 59 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 12 |
| MASSACHUSETTS | 25 | 12 | 55 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| DIST. OF COLUMBI | 27 | 40 | 23 | 35 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
| CALIFORNIA | 24 | 10 | 41 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 9 |