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Says he kept people "poor & humble". Whnever a man got 2 much money [[insertion]] Brigham [[/insertion]] /n wd tell him 2 take ano/er wife, & t kept him poor, or if he w a better class /n ord send him on a mission & if his wives w careless & did x pay / tithg he wd count it up wi 10% int, & when he came bk he'd find hims all n a snarl & [[insertion]] if he [[/insertion]] cd x get out o  debt 2 ch. [[strikethrough]] o [[/strikethrough]] B wd sieze lands - confiscate 2 church. "Ts / way he got money 2 build houses 2 keep his wives n" - Sarcastically. Quotes Artemus Ward glibly & wi sense o broad humor. B. Y. "a numerous fa/er, an extend'd husband, all / children call him pa & he takes it f granted it s so." [[subscript]] [41] [[/subscript]]