The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
SALVATION SCRAPPERS.
Begins to Look as Though Daylight
Would Never Come.


NEW YORK, April 12.-Commander
and Mrs. Darlington Booth gave out
the appended statement tonight:
"Since our statement, written in re-
Spouse to the urgings we received to
inaugurate a new movement, was is
sued we avoided making any reply to
the inaccurate statements which have
from time to time appeared in print
from the present leaders of the Sal
walton army. In this attitude of silence
we have been endorsed by our friends
and the public 1t was our inten-
ton to maintain this silence but dur
ing the last few days news has been
received that portions of our private
letters are being shown by London re-
presentat ives, who are putting their
own interpretations upon our reasons
for our present position Hearing OF
this, our friends and our officers who
wish their position at our side to be
understood, urge US to state some Of
our reasons for deciding not to take
another command under international
government.
1--WE have appealed to the American
people for help and support and we
cannot forget "a decent respect for the
opinion of mankind requires that we
declare the causes which impelled US
to this separation
ct must, however, be conceded that
our prosition has been and is very
delicate one from the fact that there
is a personal element which we can
not eliminate from the controversy be-
cause of our family relationship from
the founder and leaders of the Saliva
ton army 1t had been repeatedly
asked why we do not publish our let
ter of January /, which has been so
wrongly quoted as our resignation.
That letter being a private communi-
cation from son to father and brother,
we have not felt that we could honor
ably make it public. The receivers of
the letter are at perfect liberty to do
so, providing they print 1T intact. In
Justice to our present position, it must
be stated and with emphasis that no
one letter embraces all the reasons for
our inability to accept another COM
mand but that letters covering a period
of nearly two years past, and also
those of later date than the thirty first
of January are necessary to an under
standing of the situation, especially the
letter of April 8, 1896.
Upon receipt of orders to leave Amer
les. we wrote letter dated Jan. 10
asking if international headquarters
had taken into consideration all the
consequences of the change of COM
mand at that particular time. The
feeling towards England then existing
in this country, the heavy financial re-
sDonsibibity of our new building and
our own peculiar and unfortunate rela
tions with the general (from whom we
have received no communication of any
character for nearly six months) made
it appear to us an unfortunate and
i'll advised step. This letter was fol-
lowed by others from us stating that
we were preparing to fulf1fl their Or
ders and to reiinquish our command.
"On Jan. 81 we wrote London stating
some Of our reasons for being unable
conscientiously 10 accept another COM
mand, but making plain that we did
not wish to injure the army. To pre-
clude the possibility of the statement
being made that we were unwilling to
obey orders, or the prospects of leav-
ing This country was the cause of dis
satisfaction, we wrote the following
para graph in this same letter Gan.
81: 1T must not be said at any time
that we have left because we were I'M
willing to leave America. This would
be ursrue, for we have made no re
monstrances, nor have we refused
1T should be carefully remembered:
"Fir5t-That London'S representa-
tives. after they had precipitated the
whole transaction and forced us from
our position. so preventing our quiet
farewell and retirement, made the de-
finite statement THAT we said we had