[Brigham Young]
President Young said that he had a few words to say to the sisters who has husbands in the army [Mormon Battalion] that has sent them back money by the hand of Brother Parley P. Pratt... I saw women slinging smut saying we will never see the first cent of what our husbands have sent to us and some have gone so far as to write back to their husbands not to send anymore for fear the twelve gets it before we had even time to count it ... What would the sisters do with the money? Go to Mr. Sarpee where they will have to pay just about three prices for everything that they get doing them but little good to them and none to their poor brethren who are needy as themselves, who are daily laboring and toiling to sustain and support them ... were they to leave it in hands of the three men appointed and let them go to St. Louis and lay out to them the amount of their money clothing sugar coffee tea and co at much lower rate then what can be purchased here and let the profits be for poor and thus do the poor saints good instead of throwing their money away we should do all the good that we can and be kind one to another, this is the law of celestial beings. ... stop your whining about loosing your money and saying that the twelve will keep it, etc. for I will not bear it. My brethren shall not be slandered by such poor miserable whining cursed apostate. If they do not stop it we will stop their wind. Now run and tell that we kill folks here, like a poor miserable curse that Brother Kimball bought eighteen bushels of beans from and left him two bushels which he divided with some of the brethren then run back to Nauvoo and said Brother Kimball took all my beans from me.
[Source: John D. Lee Journals (LDS Church Reporter, 1845-47), in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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