The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-29
AN ANNIVERSARY.

Nine years ago to-day the spirit OF
oas OF the great men of the world took
its fight to another sphere. On August
2J;h, 1877 Brigham Young died at the
ripe age of 76 years. There have been
comparatively few men who were great
during life and continued great after
death. Brigham Young may be num-
bsred with that few. There have been
many who made a noise in the world,
and who we're famous while they were
on top OF the ground, but the moment
they we're placed beneath the surface
their fame dImmed and they were soon
forgotten. There have been others who
we're little known when living, but
whose lame and glory came when they
CEASED to live. Forty years before his
death Brigham Young's name began
20 be heard throughout the land and
fro n tina. moment till his death, it grew
familiar and prominent, until it was
one of the best known in Christendom :;
and when death came the name and
fame of Brigham Young we're not
buried and forgotten with the clay that
was deposited in the cssket; they con-
tinued 70 spread and shine. and
exert their influence until to-day,
nine years after the Ieave-taking of the
soul and body, the name and fame of
Brigham Young are greater and more
glorious than ever. As the years roll
round and impartial history takes &C
count of the man and his work, and
deals With his character his motives
and achievements, his greatness will in
crease and his name be universally rec
ognized as belonging to one of the
worlds most remarkable men.
When Brigham Young died a gentle
man connected with The HERALD. to
crafty a fancy aud also to get the in
teligent estimate Of the world as to the
man, preserved such newspaper com
ments as fell in his way. These to-day
incomplete as they necessarily are.
form a most interesting volume. No
man who died during the decade, if
there were any who died during this
century, had more or so much written
about him in the journals Of the day.
The volume referred TO i made up
Of what was written in perhaps
$50 newspapers, of the States and Terri
tories and Europe; and the matter in
ordinary book type would make a vol
ume of probably 500 or LOCO pages
When one understands that in the
Unite States there were in 1877, perhaps
u go newspapers, and that with few
exceptions all had more or less to say Of
Brigham Young at the time of his
death; that thousands OF Euro
pean journals published accounts
of the mans life and his
work, and that the comments
Of $50 newspapers " Id make a book
OF ordinary size leaves {. ]. 900 pages, he
may obtain something Of an idea of how
much was written on the death o;
Bingham Young: and when one reads
these comments. whether or not he has
personal knowledge of the subject, he
cannot help but conclude that Brigham
Young was great. Whatever may be
the personal opinion Of all these edit
ors aud writer's as to the work in
which Brigham Young was engaged.
however bitterly they were opposed to
him and his religion, all proclaim him
great as man.
But We intended merely to write that
this is the anniversary of the death of
Brigham Young, the founder of Utah,
whose name will be honored by the
world, and revered by the people TO
whom be was so much and by their
descendants through all time.