No doubt he did the right (yet worldly) thing to ease the burden on the members, but...


http://www.kued.org/productions/promontory/script/page_4.html

[Joseph Young]
"I wish to know whether it is the intention of this company to keep President Young out of three-fourths of a million dollars. If so, the Union Pacific will swindle the very men who built the railroad. Remember, the road is out in our country, and I think we can pull hard enough so you can feel it on the other end!"

[Bain]
"At one point one of the board members threatened Young that he was going to have the army descend on Utah and take out the LDS command. And Young replied that he would go to the courts, and he said if its necessary, then this will be a fight to the knife."

Narrator:
Brigham Young viewed the threat of military intervention as an excuse for anti-Mormon forces to destroy the Kingdom of God in the American West. "He put John Sharp. . .a lawyer, Mormon church leader and railroad contractor. . .in charge of negotiations with the Union Pacific. Brigham also worked to quell the fears of financial panic in the Utah territory.

He suspended church tithing payments by indebted members. . .used church food storehouses to feed the hungry. ..and urged his followers to put cooperation above profit and debt."

That's one incident that I don't understand; IIRC, B. Young did get ripped off, and sent his son to plead for redress, but in the end he uncharacteristically wimped out. There must have been something going on behind the scenes.

That's what she said.


I couldn't help myself.

Plus with Brigham, there are so many she's to say things.