New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-27
NOTES FROM LONDON.
SIR ROBERT MoR1ER-rHE SALVATION ARMY
FRANK Ho1L-THz ENCYCLOPAEDIA BE1rAS'


Germany are contending, ought to interest," goou
Americans for one reason il no more. lie IS
Free Trader, but If l may com such terin'
rational Free Trader. Most Of US, suppose, had
we becu Enriishmen and lived in the Corn Law
DAYS. would have been Free Traders in the Englisn
sense. We should have followed Golden ana MI.
BRIGHT in taking the taxes of food. We should
have seen that Cobden's proposals were, for the
time and for the country, wise. Sir Robert Morler
is Cobdenite; with reservations. He unlike
most of his fellow Free Traders, has kept MS nina
omen. He has seen, as Mill said, thai Free Trace
is moi q doctrine Of universal application. lie
has mind capable OF detachment, OF Independence
enough to know that the fiscal system gooa Ior
one country in one set of circumstances may hoo
be good for another country IN another seq Oh
circumstances He has not only capaclly pus
courage He has ventured to say wnat ne thihiSs
"a nut these heretical opinions into print lie
,,as bitterly attacked for it, He ranks among
Tho ablest of living economists as he does among
tbe ablest of living diplomafists. But he has
Maid the usual penalty Of refusing to shut his
eyes and be blind to the facts which poweriul
class preferred TO ignore. Living much ABROAD
keenly interested in great questions, w1dey III
formed on social and economical subjects ana Oh
the actual condition of many different countries
he took the liberty of having an opinion OIL MS
own, instead of adopting with the doclhW now
expected of public men in England the dogmas OF
the earl, fathers OF Free Trade. / have known
three Englishmen OF distinction as thinkers on
economical science who were ready to admit nay'
who did admit that Protection was defensible
doctrine. Sir Robert Morier was one OF them.
The other two were Fawcett and John Stuart Mill
AS for the German accusation againstSlr Robert
Morier have already said that it is here ds-
missed without ceremony as incredible lhere 10
no evidence against him that will stand mo-
ment's examination And it would require the
most conclusive evidence to convince anybody
that Sir Robert Morer did or could oetray 70
Razaine directly or indirectly, information he
had acquired as British Envoy at Darmstadt Oh
the movements Of German troops. The sole ev'-
denee is what Bazaine is alleged to have said to
Major Won Denes, and Major Won
Defines does not pretend that Bazalne
said that Morier had sent the IN
formation to him. If it came from Morier, IL II
was sent by him TO London, and II some thlrd
person betrayed Morier and sold the news TO
Bazaine such transaction may be conceived as
possible But it conveys no reflection Whatever
upon Sir Robert Morier. Nor is there, In fact any
evidence even tending to prove that he sent any
news whatever, or had means Of sending any.
The sting Of it all is in the suggestion, and 1t
is nothing but q suggestion, or rather innuendo,
that Mr. Morier as he then was, learned something
from the Crown Prince of Germany, and that what
the Crown Prince told him found It's way some
how or other To Bazaine And now even the
Germens themselves are abandoning the accusa-
ton.
sGenerala Booth is q product of bis time. He
understands advertising well as the proprietor
of a patent medicine or unpatented soap What
is original about him is his method. He does not
care or care chiefly, foT the publicity TO be gained
by defacing the walls of the city or the beauties
of nature by horrible posters, nor APP
neal to cultivated taste by gilt
puffs on the outer covers of Peerages and
Court Guides He seems TO have calculated IN
the beginning that the same expenditure Of energy
will reach more people if addressed to the ear than
il addressed to the eye. He had reflected, more
over that no passion is common than the
passion for what seems military. So, when he
started out on his present crusade, he christened
his converts the Salvation Army, dressed them
IN in a sort Of uniform, and sent them about the
streets to blow the trumpet and beat the big drum.
The salvation which seems to him best worth
having is salvation by the brass band
Well, he has done, and is doing rather big
business in saving souls after his own fashion.
lie held meeting this week in ST James's Hall
ito celebrate" as he announced it, the COM
missioning of the 7,000th officer OF the army
The General made speech. It was a eulogy upon
himself and upon the Salvation Army, and q reply
70 those who have lately criticised both the Army
snd its General The Times has spoken Of
their marehings and trumpct-blowings as semi
BARBARIAN antics. The phrase is rather striking,
and is descriptive, and the General does not like
II. There might be-" observed this new leader
of the new church militant some antics about
the matter, bat what Christian service was with
out them? say those who live in glass houses
should not throw stones" The Salvationsts are
accused of ignorance. I" / venture 10 say" re-
forts the latest exponent Of Christs teaching,
that our officers are quite on par with the
Apostles He is interested he declares, in the
DOOR but anybody appealing TO me knows very
wen that shall cram salvation dowa their throat"
Salvation is the remedy for all evil; but it must
be salvation according to General Booth He
has bat a poor opinion of the Archbishop Of Can
terbury who, he implies, spends his time in pick
ing holes in his Christian contemporaries
The General has set about relieving the poor,
as about converting the country, in o way of his
own He gives without inquiry Anybody in
Limehouse, one of the most wretched quarters OF
London, may have bed and dinner for penny
or less There is no better way, as has been said
before, 70 pauperize and demoralize whole dis
trict The Generals excuse is that salvation goes
with soup. His language deserves quoting for its
refinement and It's spirit of reverence. Ii we
can get men to believe in our soup, we can get
them TO believe in their salvation, and when once
man has salvation he is able to provide his own
SOUP One OF the critics of General Booth is
the Rev. Llewellyr Davies, Church OF England
clergyman Of distinction and fine character. He
does not believe in Salvation Army methods. The
General is ready at once with his III quoque. :" I
should like TO have list of the souls which Mr.
Davies has been the means Of saving" And so
this singular movement proceeds The Church is
fabooed. II you belong TO the Church you are
not good recruit for the Salvation Army. You
must choose to which you will cleave. You can
have the New Testament or you can have The
War Cry" that highly remarkable journal which
breaches weekly salvation according TO Booth, and
which appears TO circulate by millions; if you