The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-16
A SOCIAL REPORMER
General Booths Plan for the Sal
walton CT the Vicious Glass.
CARDINAL NEWMAN's LETTERS
a Collection of Them Soon TO be Published
ENa Andrew Carnegie's Diatribe at Dundee
is Severely Condemned

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch. |
LONDON, Sept. IA by cable to the N
\. Herald. Booth, of the Salvation army,
mas undertaken to settle off hand, in book
ne Is about to publish most of the great
social questions that have perplexed phil
osophers, theologians and political econo
mlsts for ages. In a recent interview in the
Chronicle the general set forth at some
length his ideas, from which the following
are selected. Remarked General Booth,
the scheme is big one, and hope also
one likely to do some good. 1 am glad and
encouraged to find eminent men sympa-
thetlc toward it. l have had inquiries
about 1t from men like Cardinal Manning,
Earl Roseberry, Lord Wolsely, Henry
George, Michael Davitt, DR.. Clifford and
others.
The functions of our social system, as
they appear to me, seem to work wrongly.
The idea of reformation does not seem to
enter into most of our calculations when
dealing with the vicious population. If a
man falls and becomes social wreck it is
either the result of his own fault or he is
the victim of misfortune. The purpose of
my scheme is to rescue that man, whether
ne has fallen on account of one cause or the
other. Ii mans poverty and destitution
are the result of vice on his part, you must
change that mans nature for if you donot.
ne Will most readily sink back into his old
condition
Likewise, if man is the victim of Cir
cumstances you must lift him away from
tnose circumstances and put him in the way
beginning new life. If man is starving
II he sees his wife and children starving, he
hles to the gin cup to drown his care The
result is increased degradation. In the
cities we shall have Industrial refugees and
homes for the immediate reception of our
peop-e. From these refugees and homes
they will gradually be distributed to rural
settlements, to agricultural villages, and
communities which we hope to settle in the
country and from these again to settle
mentS IN the colonies, settlements which
may, who knows! be the foundation of
another empire.
My latest work has been upon that part
OF the scheme IN which, perhaps, special
interest will be taken. | mean the great.
matrimonial agency. How many thousand
men are IN far-away parts of the earth who
would be glad to get good wives and who
cannot get them. How many women are
there IN the ranks of our home society who
would make the best of wives, but who re-
main spinsters. Would it not be touching
our social conditions intimately if those two
classes, by proper method, could be brought
in touch with each other. This may seem
a surprising notion to some people at first
sight, but believe there is a great deal in
it,"
Speaking of the negro, the general said:
The negro personally is, as yet an I'M
known quantity. His moral character, in
tellectual ability and spiritual capacity as
yet are comparatively undiscovered. We
see him only in savage state or almost,
Just emerging from slavery; but even now
where in Individual cases he has had an
equal opportunity he will fayorably com
pare with the white mar. 1t is quite pos
sl0le for US to argue, therefore, that after
years of civilization, education and
Christian influence, he will equal, if he
does not actually surpass, the white man
In those things that now make the latter so
much his superior"