Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-01-02
AL.
A Euceinct anI,
What Gen. Booth,
Book An Ex.ralorsllnar,
forming Britaln's Paubers.

DAILY taSk-that IL the first: the second Ia
that when it falls down, whether it be by
Its ownfault or by mischance orby tho fault
of others, it is helped UP again, all oues.
tions rs to who was responsible for its fal;
being deferred until it is set upon its feet
again. -. il
Having stated bis ideal, Gen. Booth pro
ceeds to the second and more important
part entitled "Deliverance," which occu.
pies more than two-thirds of his book. His
scheme is three-foid, consisting of. ~ the
city colony, G) tho farm colony, and is) the
colony over the sea His first step is to
take that hungry, worthless wight and give
him some food for his belly and shelter
for the night. This he proposes to do By
the extension of his food and shelter de-
= The result of their operations goes to prove
that you can give man filling supper
and substantial breakfast and bed in y
well warmed room ut cost of little more
than fourpence, but if he has no fourpsnce
he must not 60 out therefrom until be has
done fourpennyworth Of work to pay for
his bed and board.
GEN. BOOTHS PLAN.
This work Gen. Booth proposes to ind
for him in the first instance by the eska6
lishment of labor yards or factories In con.
nect!on with the shelters, where tie PENN.
less unemployed will be engaged on such
rough and simple industry as chopping
wood for fire wood, making mats, sewing
sacks, etc. Their work will he duly meas.
urcd, and when they have done their four
pennyworth they will be free to go and
seek work elsewhere. This scheme has
been practically tested on u small scale in
connection with the Whitechapel shelter
There exists u small. labor yard in which
seventy to ninety men have been working
for their rations for some time past. The
labor bureau has been in full swing for
many months and has found situations for
many unemployed. Steps have also been
taken to pave the way for the organization
of the sandwich men, and the result 30
far has been fairly satisfactory. -:
The next development Of the generals
scheme is novel. lie proposes to organize
out Of The unemployed what he calls tho
Household Salvage corps, or the Waste
Not, Want Not brigade, the members of
which. in uniform, numbered and under
strict discipline, would undertake the col.
lection from house to house Of broken vict-
uals, old clothes, old newspapers and such
like exuvin Of the household.
Take old umbrellas. The itinerant UNI.
brelia member is almost the only agency by
whicti old umbrellas can be rescued from
the dust hap. Side by side with our boot
factory we shall have great umbrella
works. Tue ironwork OF ono umbrella will
be fitted to the stick Of another and even
from those that are too hopelessly gone for
any further use rs umbrellas we shall find
plenty OF use for their steels and whalebone.
THE CITY COLONY.
Bottles are a fertile source Of minor
domestic worry. When you buy a bottle
you have to pay penny for it, but when
you have empticd it you cannot get a
penny back; no, nor even farthing. You
throw your empty bottle either into the
dust heap or let it lie about. But it we
could collect all the waste bottles Of Lon
don every day it would 20 hardly with US
ii We could not turn very pretty penny
by washing them. sorting them and send
ing them out on new lease of life. The
washing of old bottles alone will keep a
considerable number of people going.
The refuge, the shelter, the labor fac
tory, the household salvage brigade aud
the sk:bor bureau constitute what Gen.
Booth calls the city colony. Even when
they are all set a-going, however useful
they may be, they are only palliatiyes. It
is necessary to provide /; way out, aud that
way out is only possible in one direction
namely, by printing the people upon the
land. Waste labor to waste land" is Gen,
Booths wntchword.
IL The case Of London he would take an
estate of some thousand acres in Kent or
Essex, If possible in close contiguity to the
estuary Of the Thames. and within easy &C.
cess Is raj! to the heart of the city. Here
he would establish his second stage Of
remedial operations. which he calls the
farm colony He would treat the estate
as Il training ground for migrants, rs we'll
as IL grea, market garden for the supply Of
the r.tions with which he undertakes to
provide the out Of works Of the city.
After period of probation in the Saliva.
ton factory or labor yard q limited mum.
Der Of picked workers would I've sent down
to the estate to settle on it rs men settle on
newly allotted farm in the far west. They
would he under complete direction. but
they would DC expected to do almost every
thing for themselves. They would have to
put up their own shanties, and afterward
make their own bricks to make their own
houses. They would be supplied with
spades and seeds and roots with which to
grow their own vegetables. No public
house would be allowed upon the estate,
and no work would be allowed on Sun
days.
THE FARM COLONY.
But the training of colonisrs in agricult-
ure, the raising of vegetables, fruit and
other cereals, to supply the demands OF
the food depots, these explain only ono
hall of the necessity of the Farm colony.
The operations Of the Household Salvage
brigade will necessitate the acquisition Of
land on which the mountainous and null.
-titndinous stores Of city refuse may be
sorted and utilized.
The salvage of the households Of London
will be conveyed in barges drifting down.
ward with the tide to the wharves OF the
Farm colony, there to be utilized in a
thousand ways Gen. Booths imagination
luxuriatcs at the endless openings for en-
ployment which will be created by the dis.
posal of the cream of the refuse Of London.
TO begin with, there ars the broken Wet
uals, the endless store Of old crusts, which
| will DC capable of being served up when
steamed and dressed Us human food.
| Other crusts will serve to diet the horses,
of which he will have sufficient for a cav
airy regiment when the brigade is in full
working order. What the horses will not
| eat will be passed on 70 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 tho
largest in the land. Round the piggery
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