Show GEORGE GEORGEQ Q CANNON T TH DEATH OF GEORGE Q 9 CANNON Utah has Jot one we Q o its fore Zor foremost foremost B By most Citizens and the th Mormon church one of ot its and anI most moat energetic Ic officials The record of ot Mr air Cannons life UCe shows him to have ha e been beel a man mu fl above the th average one born to lead and to achieve He e was In every overy sense 2 nse ru e a man He began UCe in obscurity While V lle still stin a boy he was w LS as robbed of ot Doth both father ather and mother matho Later In life lire Fortune smiled upon him hh a I but only because b his bin Indomitable energy had refused to be vanquished by I y her hr frowns In the stormy territorial days when the Mormon pioneers were battling g persecution and striving to build up the industries of the new now coun coui country country I try none save Brigham Young Tiras wa alI more mora active or a more potent factor in inthe 1 I Ithe the work of ot construction than was wa George Q Cannon Ho He was vas in fact rac much nuch the tho sanle same type of man nan as an the Moses Moos of the tho Mormon faith intensely I religious yet thoroughly practical ambitious but not ashamed to yield to Lo I ILo the authority of ot those in n he considered his rightful superiors untiring Ig g resolute ant an ansi courageous He was another as those who colonized New Ne V England and d the hundreds of others othor who have established th n race in all ab Ii quarters of OC O the globe Prominent In u a church some of whose tenets were looked upon with wil h disfavor by the tie majority of the world Mr Cannon cam came in for his share of hf f persecution in In the thc days when It was rife Always aggressive he carried carrk carrl d l the lIght fight fJ ht for polygamy Into congress and with never a sympathizer sympathiser on the theOr tI floor Or of ot the house made his greatest speech pe ch in defense of or the doctrine in I which be he devoutly believed Later he saw that It was folly to oppose the th ti of he and advocated the abolition of a practice which had done dono so 80 much to bring public censure against the church to which he I ie belonged belonge Probably the most moat mo pronounced trait of this nans mans character char was energy ener y and readiness to shoulder all work that came within his roach This quality never nevel left him and undoubtedly hastened his death It Is related of him hi that once when ordered upon a mission ml slon to the cast east he was ready to depart depa within of an hour after the word reached him Only last In winter Inter when his health wa wu already falling failing within an hour or two after a ti returning from a journey to Hawaii he kept an appointment to address a public meeting It was thus that he brought himself from obscurity to prom and has ha left his hs name so JO closely Interwoven with the of Utah that as 88 a long Ions as the history of this thiR state is read the name nam of ot George Geor e Q Cannon will be remembered I |