San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22


posal of the cream of the refuse of London
To begin with, there are the broken vict-
uals, the endless store of old crusts, which
will be capable of being served up when
steamed and dressed as human food.
Other crusts will serve to diet the horses,
of which he will have sufficient for cav
airy regiment when the brigade is in full
working order. What the horses will not
eat will be passed on to the innumerable
clutches of poultry with which the estate
will be studded, and what the poultry will
not eat will come to the pig as the residu-
AIRY legatee. The army piggery will be the
largest in the land. Round the piggery
will snring up an industrial community to
feed, to kill, to cure, and to work up the
invaluable porker
We now come to the third and final
stage Of the remedial scheme, the establish
ment of colony in the new Britain over
sea. Gen. Booth condemns emigration as
usually conducted, and insists that if emf
grafton is to succeed the land must be
prepared for the people and the people pre-
pared for the land
THE COLONY OVER THE SEA.
His idea is to take estates in the colonies,
by preference in South Africa, and have
vent of the colonists. He would fill a sail
ing ship with colony of men and women
who had passed the probation of the farm
colony and had proved themselves to be
capable and willing workers. This saliva
ton ship would call at ports on the routes
and hold parades and great assemblies for
the furtherance of the good cause The
voyage would be utilized for winnowing
ha hot 60,
ing all the colonists to the finishing touch
of their probation.
When they arrived at the colony they
would at once be taken in charge, con-
Quoted to their new homes, and established
in their new surroundings in such condi-
tons as are calculated to keep them
straight and enable them to make new
start in a new land The colouists would
De debited with the cost OF their transport
and the capital value expended in provid-
ing them with a house, stock, land, and
food for few months.
They would repay this by an annual
charge or land tax, and by this means the
general hopes to see the scheme made self
supporting. After the first initial expendi-
ture he thinks the money might be en-
ployed over and over again without any
thus explained the threefold scheme by
which he proposes to deal with the unem-
ployed, Gen. Booth proceeds to set forth
how he would handle the other factors of
the social evil.
Chapters under this head for the most
part deal with extensions of work already
being carried on by various agencies. More
novel are some of the schemes suggested
hx-( ho ha1, 3 ba ctr,r linn,
poor, "Poor Mans Metropole," q white
chapel by the Sea-" matrimonial Bu-
reau" (Which, however, is not very clearly
explained, poor Mans Bank" and a
"Poor Mans Lawyer"
COST OF THE WORK.
The Salvation Army is not going to be
turned into great pawnbroking establish
ment, but Gen. Booth declares that if any
one would give him the price of race
horse or an old master, he will make the
experiment on a small scale of bank
| which will endeavor to do for the poor
man what the ordinary bankers 10 for the
we'll to do trader.
His Poor Mans Lawyer is a still more
ambitious undertaking, involving as it
does the providing of a father confessor
and a family lawyer to all the poor and
destitute of the land. Among the depart
ments of this new departure would be
those of defending the defenseless prison.
ers who can make out prima facie case
of their innocence. Gen. Booth sets forth
the credentials of the Salvation Army, and
brings into clear relief the fact that he
does not propose TO do anything OH large
! scale which he has not already proved his
ability to perform by practical experiment
upon small scale. He recapitulates the
advantages of his scheme, rebuts objec-
tions, and then asks the vitality important
question, What will it cost?
He says that no one can say what eN-
penditure will not be necessary to deal
with all the sunken tenths of all nations,
but in Britain he is prepared to grapple
with the question if he has el00,000. down
and an assured income of e30,0O per an
mum. That is to say, Gen. Booths scheme
demands for its effective application in
this country million sterling-one-tenth
down, and the rest as an endowment real
izing 10000 per annum.
This, he says, may seem large sum, but
John Bull, who spent nine millions in the
expedition to rescue two prisoners from
King Theodore, of Abyssinia, will not
grudge a pound head for the rescue of
the million men, women and children who
are at present the hopeless victims of vice,
crime and destitution.-Pal Mall Gazette.
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