The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-11-02
THE SALVATION Army

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er Of the Army.
Gerl. Booths Great So
cial Scheme.
The Work Done and His Afms-How
the Fallen Are Saved
Booths Plan.
Many men have rtads religious de-
partures and established churches,
but emily enc man when just at the
threshold Of his second half century
has branehed cut along entirely new
lines and has lived to see his organic
atien known in the uttermost parts
Of the earth. That one man is Gen
eral William Booth, eommander-in-
chief Of the Salvation Army, who
will tour the United States and Can
ada before returning to England.
This tour will include Western Ore
gon and according to the itinerary as
arranged the general will pass through
the valley abvut Christmas time. The
present visit of q tent brigade Of the
army to Salem makes anything con-
cerning the Salvationists peculiarly
Interesting at this time.
General Booth is probably the only
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general who. wears 4 silk hat when
of the very few Salvation Army sol
Stock exchange.
As General Booth sat az the table
in his room, surrounded by reporters
and correspondents, he looked the
MAD confident Of his powers. He felt
that he is great In the arduous great
ness Of things done. He is tall and
wiry. Perhaps he is trif1e bent at
the shoulders. Tall men often are,
years old. His hair was once black.
Now it is gray. and projects in a long
| foretop brushed to the right He
| runs his fingers through it nervously
as he talks. He takes or his gold
eyeglasses and puts them on before
breathing again. He Addles with the
chain from which his glasses dangle.
He shifts his chair. He is a man
| whose nervous energy must expend
itself in moro than one way at q
| time. For instance, visitor to the
| International headquarters in London
| found him sitting for portrait, die
| tating to two stenographers, and eat
| ing his luncheon. He breaks down
| stenographers with overwork, while
| he goes on as fresh as new. He has
q long, feshy. and prominent nose.
| 1t droops. With his long, gray, patri-
archal beard, it gives him the look of
some spirituelle patriarch-Moses, for
instance. He wears a military coat
| with gold epaulets. fringed and rich
ly braided with black silk. On the
collar are the gold "S'' and the device
Of the Salvation Army, "BIoed and
are," with the crown at the top.
| He has not SO clear a voice as Com.
| mander Ballington Booth, but there
Is that about it which tells of great
| power. The timbre is yelled as if he
| had everworked his veeal organs
There is just trace Of a north eoun-
try accent Some Of those who aeard
him say he dropped an ''h" now and
then. Others say he didn't Evident
ly he is q man to organize, because
he remembers figures ard tabulates
things by instinct. He has to visit
seventy cities in his tour through the
states and has . programme Of SIC
meetings before him.
81 was very we'll received in Can.
ada" he said. especially in Quebec
where I anticipated some dissent
But Mr.. Boulaneer, editor of the
leading Catholic newspaper there, ex
pressed great sympathy with my
social scheme, and was received by
about 5000 persons, Catholics and
| Protestants mixed"
"You have been in America before?'
| eyes, in 1887. Things have changed
for the better with the Salvation
Army since then."
| whats the differences between
| American and English?"
"Ah, you knew better than I can
tell. The Americans are the only
people who aan speak English cor
rectIy."
Then the conversation started on
the social scheme Of General Booth
ard he talked freely and with ami
nation.
'1t is not wicked to be reduced to
| rags" he said. 'Tt is not a sin to
starve, to pawn q few sticks Of fur
| nitIre to buy food and pay rent II
| is a misfortune that come to people
! in hard times or when work is hard
to get. 1t is such people that the
| social scheme means to help by get
| ting them out of the congested towns
back into the country where they can
become hardy, thrifty peasantry,
| the glory Of any nation"
But Baron Hirsch found it impos-
sible to get city people to werk in the
| country"
"Ah," replied the general, E'but /
have better plan than Baron Hirsch.
I don't dump down in wild country
/ a lot Of helpless people and let them
trust to fate. don't transfer loaf
ers. I am not such an ass. Is that
word all right here"' he asked of his
son, Ballington Booth.
Perfectly"
wen change that. I am not so
simple as to put men in a colony who
cannot be trusted. They are tested
In our homes In town. If they want
to work they are the kind of men
we want. There are twenty-five
young strapping fellows now in the
colony at Hadiefgh. near the mouth
Of the Thames. They work from 6
a. m. till p. m. for their board and
lodging and clothes, and if they are
not Salvationists they get small grants
for tobacco. Salvation soldiers don't
use tobacco.