Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-28
Is GENERAL BOOTHS SCHEME
FEASIBLE,

WE have already presented som,
views in relation 70 the plan Offered
by General BoOsh, in his new book,
for the temporal elevation of-the
crime-steepei, poverty stricken.
miserable waits who dwell in thu
siums of the grelt cities of the
British Isies-with special reference
70 the lowest class OF the people OF
London. Funds are rolling in for
the purpose OF piling up the re-
quisite one million pounds to be
used for the gathering up Of the
s4ualid multitude am conveying
them, for colonization, to the Dark
Continent.
The subjec. is one OF intense in.
terest, AMI there is no harm in
,skins questions couce rning it. The
leading interrogation ought to be. i.
the plan philosophically philan.
throPie? II the answer be In tn,
Affirmative the scheme should be
supported AMI ought to succeed.
Society, like the earth crust. ex-
lists in Strata. The very lowest
stratum General Booth, Of the
Salvation Army, proposes to clint
nate from the chief cities Of Great
Britain. VIII the places vacated
by the waits and criminals remain
empty or viii they be flied by
Others? II the latter be the case
then the social coniit ion Of the
great cities viii not be improved.
while that Of the former occupants
of the slums may he.
Every part of British society de-
pends upon the othSr portion or
class An innumerabie army OF
small merchants, hueksters and
gen raj traders in the great nation
ofsho2-keepers depend on the low
est class Of people for subsistence.
Take away the source OF their SUP
port, AMI they go down to ill the
places vacated by their cu-tom-
ers-remoyeI TO Africa. To 90
a little higher up, there
Is anDther army Composed Of
larger merchants and dealers. WIN
are dependent upon the class he. |
tween them and the slam-jwelIe-s
Tor leir patronage. Remove thai
support by placing those extending
II one step lower in the social scale
and another portion Of the people
tike downward slide. Take these
considerations in combination with
the fact that there is n constant
sravitation of large proportion Of
he population toward the very |
owest human stasls and it will be
Deserved that General Booths plan {
Voald probably no: work 9 bsnef.
mt revolution in The lower grades OF
british society.
At first the General proposed to
I r
onfine his enterprises to In. re-
lemPtion Of such OF the lox est stripe
u English undercafrent existence
S pTofessel Christianity. He has \
the scope OF his pan. how
yer; aud proposes to take people OF :,
Very shade Of rsliy ions lsanlnz. rs Il
Tell rs those who have no lneiina. Il
on in that direction. And. $50 v
esp peace in the family,'' he has IL
greed to foreso the Christian rites d
baptism ami the LORDS Supper. r
ne wealthy Englishmsn, the Earl :
Derby, has contributed a thous- a.
nd pounds, with the express a.
that ne does so onthe =
round of general benefits, wilhour :,
'istion to Christianity, which. he ~
'erts, has iaiiei 10 elevate the n.
'or. OF course he mas reference 10 n
'2rious Christianity. ~
1t Is impossible to avoid a sus,;c. al
n that General Booths change of N
'se was occasioned by the fact that IA
Mess the step should b. taken ut
le money, which is coming in from a
Glasses, would not be forihco;n. -
8 in sufficient quantity to in.ur- -
ate and conduct the project n,
mong the colonists viii lie repre-. wi
natives of the WORT. lowest and
ost brutal criminal classes. who m,
erywhere live by preying upon he
cir fellow creatures. Itonly needs he
lsther phase Of humanity 70 be- sal
ded IN order 10 constitute a CON- chs
unity that would no. only feed lat.
on each other metaphor;cally but an'
suaIy. That elenent would be- the
: can nihaiistie nstires Of the land .n''
here it is intenied the over the sea iorl
,ony shall be established. ,eli
imagine the character of a c,r,- .s.
my 50 constituted The reform he he