Show B B WASHBUBNB Goed and great men are scarce in this world and there is one less now that Blihn B Washburne has gone over to the majority During the twenty years from 1860 to 1880 Mr Washburne was a prominent character in American history his-tory mush of the time he was in high office and all the time he occupied a onspicuous position in the full view Of the public It was a trying place or would have been to a man with flaws in his character or spots on his record There are not many men who could have stood where he did so long without with-out displaying more or less that they would have liked better had it remained hidden Mr Washburne endured the blaze without developing any vulnerable spots and has died admired respected and loved not alone by his own countrymen coun-trymen but by the peoples of other lands His death wll be mourned by thousands wdo will feel that a orave and true man passed away when his noble heart ceased to beat Mr Washburne while never in sympathy sym-pathy with certain practices the Mormons Mor-mons was ever their friend and whenever when-ever occasion demanded had the courage cour-age to speak words of fairness and jus tite for them He also had great faith in Utah and many times predicted that this would be a mighty and glorious State in the American family He used to say that with suchan honest iudn ions and sturdy community and with such a grand and rugged country there rnEEtJiecessarilj ba graatneea It would ba better for the republic if I all the public men were as honest and I circumspect as Elihu B Washburne if they did not possess half his ability I |