The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-12-05
THE ARMY.
Something About Its Inception and Trans.
ference TO America.

ference to America.
The idea of the Rev. William Booth,
a Methodist minister (when leaving the
regular ministry he started the Saliva
ton Army was clearly borrowed from
that of Ignatius Loyola when he found
ed the Society of Jesus under rules Of
military discipline. To the idea which
took possession of the e~x-soldier, Logo
la, Mr.. Booth added the itinerant sys-
tenn of the founder of his own denomina-
ton, John Wesley. The uniform OF
the army and the war cries attracted
many, just as the cry of "No Popery'
drew the apprentices Of London, at the
Lord George Gordon riots. Happily
for Mr.. Booth and his ~lieutenants, the
adversary they vowed death to was the
abstract devil, and the weapons of their
warfare were not more carnal than
tin kettle helmets and penny trum-
pets. By paying and provision
ing his soldiers, Mr.. Booth insured
the continuance of a standing army,
ready to march and get in e~yerybody's
way at the word of command. The
novelty and eccentricity of the move
ment, and the fact that it offered Q new
field for the combative energies OF the
groggy bruisers of London gave 1t head
way; Che commissions granted to bel
ligerent females were q positive RELIEF
to the domestic circles of the British
kitchen, and all those aggressive ana
~pugnacious humors which flesh IS heir
to found vent and safety-valve IN the
duixotic encounters of the crazy patch
work. regiments with the windmills OF
sin. With a keen business faculty, the
Rev. William, now General" Booth,
invested in real estate, purchased puDiic
houses for barracks. and even gained .
lease of the notorious Eagle Tavern"
and low concert hall in the city road.
The income of the Salvation Army IN q
single year was 9800 900, which not
only made it's officers and privates con
tent with their wages" but enabled the
General, after the manner OF Capt..
Gen. Ignatius, to send his regiments
to foreign parts. it was an IN
happy hour for the United States, ana
particularly for the City of Churches,
| when Booths awkward squads came
marching through u streets. Our IN
telligent police stared with open
mouths at a law-defying adversary thai
that took possession Of the Cisy
Hall steps, and when q charge was
made upon them repulsed it with Q am
Of unearthly usic compared Win
which the united war-songs of Chero-
KEGS and C~hippewas would be soothing
and peaceful. The nervous system q
the finest proved quite unequal TO tn5
confused noise and garments rolled ia
blood" of the Salvation Army.
But like the Roman and British EN-
pire the army became too vast for sun
gle management. The Rev. Gen Boom
forgot his usual business cunning when
he dreamed that real estate could pe
purchased and held in his name the
same in this country as In ma
own. Hence the schism whlcn
has led to the British commander OF MS
forces here becoming SO Americanlzeo
that he has Incorporated the army I'M
der the laws Of this State, thereby max
ing it independent of British control.
Booths empire is dismembered; ms
colonial SUBJECTS have revolted and lift'
cd the banner of the stars and stripes
instead of the union jack. There seems
no reason why Mai. Moore should no.
make as good a thing ont Of the AMER
can Salvation Army, which has issued
its declaration Of independence ane
beon recognized by the State OF New
York, as Gen. Booth. who. by the way
has made his regency a hereditary mon
arcIy by appointing lbs eldest son
Booth III, as his successor has made 2