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Show DEATH OF WM. S. GODBE. Wm B Oodbe died at Brighton In this county jesterday afternoon The cause of his death was nervous prostration and general falling of vital powers He was naturally a vigorous, hearty mm, but ho had passed through enough to break down n giant No one, unless It Is those so Intimately associated with him in the old days and they, even, can only know In part the anguish ot soul and terrible struggles through which he passed at the time of the great movement here which primarily bears his name It was a time that truly tried the souls of men, and from that fierce conflict the soul of Wm S Oodbe emerged shining with a luster that was divine Ho planted his foot on tho impregnable rock of the natural and inalienable right ot mm to the possession of himself inl to the directing of his own career The battle ho led was to thc assertion of the liberty lib-erty of men to direct their energies ln ways of their own choosing, despite tho effort of the domlnint man hire to In vada the personal right of tho Individual Indi-vidual to direct nnd control HU stand for personal Independence wis not primarily pri-marily n religious movement and wis forced to become one only In resistance to a religious pretention of rule tint becime In fact thn claim of despotic power The movement took Its rise In tho determination of Mr Godbo and the staunch men who stood with him that thc mines of Utnh shoutd be opened and worked and In their avowal of their purpose to tike part In such opening The effort to compel them to abandon that right of choice and of action led to one of tho most tremendous tremen-dous upheavals ever seen In any com munlty The famo ot tho Moat conflict Ceciine world-wide, the s)mpath) nf every Intelligent nnl unblasel person being invailably with tho Golbe movement ' It vvas a movement that was certutn nf vlctni) though tho clouds weie nflcn dMk nnl tho way obscure But as tho stars In their course foufcht ngilnst Sisem so natural natu-ral Justice manly rltht and thn feeling of Independence tint rests in every bosom fought against the attempt to throttle the si irit of m inhood for which Mi TJortbe nnd his adheients stood The) trlumtliicl hut at a gieat cost In social ties In natural nlfcrtlon In re-llblous re-llblous alllllntlnn The cost wis ter rlble personal!) ihe victory was for all the tuple an I so nvrrwhi lining vvas that victory that what was then the pilnful core of that uiiKry (nntrnversy has heroine hi re, is It low, hid been elsewhere a mere cominonplsce Mr Oodte was firtunati In living tn see Biich n peifett triumph of the principle for which ho fought mil made sn many sncilllces Ills name will always be held In honor In Utih ns the representative represent-ative of a greit prlncli li whtln his memory will bo kept bright by loving friends tn whom ho was nlwa)s n i-ource of adinlrntl in an 1 comfort Ills mind was n itur illy iintrninmclel ho sought the truth unflinchingly whereve r he might llul It and vns fnirlesa In the erpousal when he was convliiosl Ills character wis dignified siihstintlul nnl honorable he wis open canlld and un biased In tin conlemi lallon of any question hi pinblein presented to hli notice he wis a safe and wise miin selor a steid) iinfilirrliiB filimi nnl this steadfastness he hul tho n linlrnblo quillt) of Imputing to others w, (, hlr frlendi mil supiorters Invirlalily stool by him us dimly as he did by them lie did a great work In mil for Utah Ills fame Is securo as ono nf the tmilest and noblest of her t ns He deserves de-serves publlo honors ami a guileful remembrance for nil time Ills fame Is secure as enduring as the everlasting hills, whose (.lories he so much enjoyed, and under whose shadows he hell that all men must be free. |