What did Brigham Young discourage?

Answer 1

Brigham Young was a religious leader, so he mostly discouraged people from participating in sin or sinful practices or practices which seemed likely to lead to sin.

1. Brigham Young did his level best to discourage mining. He was not successful. The mountains of the West were full of precious metals, but Brigham saw the miners were not steady family men, and that was kind of life he wanted for his people.
2. At one point Brigham Young discouraged people from doing business with non-Mormons. It was his intention of driving non-Mormons out of the state. It had been the Mormon experience that they were only safe when they were isolated.
3. He discouraged people from drinking.
4. He discouraged people from using tobacco.