New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-17
THE SALVATION ARMY REVOLT.
AN ENGLISH OPINION THAT THE SEPARA-
TON WAS INEVITABLE OWING TO
SOCIAL CONDITIONS
From The Saturday Review.

From The saturday review
The inevitable has happened to the salvation
Army experiment in America 1t IS possible LOT
this curious organization to maintain much OF ne
successes without much variation in British colo
MES. like those OF Australasia and Canada, where
the population and customs almost wholly Brit
lsh But in the United States only one Of two con.
dOns was p1ssbs for It, II sed lead Ore
novelty. running the martyrs gantet Of roale
on this e a or It might establish Itself and get
into the life Of the people by assimatng ame r
can prejudces. Balllngton Booth and his wife
chose the latter course, and having embarked upon
may have Imagined for themselves. They have
paed HR now With b rbv ur sc ann tne he
AM seams branch Hss Of the he Army'
in ss United ysaf an I'd
try but they are prOstara5 With ots sSnt:
Of 'ff ITSELF much ss permits s sess be
as a lower class The pauperized peasaantry OF tns
nous force-pump Of Immigration. does not necss-
sarly become educated. or polite or prosperous IN
set logged resentment for the idea that It is still
a peasantry. Perhaps there is no place, on the
poor man can be more cruelty marked or more i'm
pacably maintained than in the Republic, and this
tse no~ When men ike John Buns ana
Keir Hariie tell great audiences Of American
lows in Great Britain. their hearers do not dissent
from the prSpos9n But this IA Is al
his DS S N on os +. Of the
is considered natural and proper that he should
protest. The legend of democratic equality, in
Custom pays to Il the deference OF still pretending
a us % aS not ns ds oMs
class" are unknown in American newspapers. nn.
ss SS 4 % 70 would
dare TO suggest that any section OF its readers y
arm THIS w To its cost The Whole is
atom Of
istence of submerged tenth" and in America the
tlcketsd in this category The professions. the fan
tastic banners the antics OF tambourines and knee
a"s ts but to cn
PEELED the corresponding classes in America To
portion OF Roman Catholics Is vastly larger among
these classes in America than here: But Il was
ness of the poorer workngmen and laborers there
TO admit that they were separate part OF the COM
ton these special tricks were necessary II was
s s S5 5 d aaapt ss m ss 81 ss n and
its environment. that success became possible
and msd it's sfms Se
came sort Of denomination instead of detached
ward its more cultured and attractive orators and
s,oughed off one by one those eccentricities which
more conventional American congregations Thus
modified and shSrn of their wilder extravasances.
American taste It became the fashion to attend
must be exerng upon IN" the community 'e at LARGE
Finally. the Ballington Booths found themselves In
vited to dine at big houses and heard themselves
praised by Chaurcey NJ. Depew (who seems to
duct the universal business of preliminary Judg-
ment Seat TO the acceptance of the entire American
public great moral agencies. whose work was
altering the destnies of Christendom. After this
nothing was to be looked for but collision with tho
rest of the Booth dynasty. and that has come.
The present state of the quarrel In New-York 70
very confused Balngton Booth appears 70 DC
wavering between resolves to secede and found an
American army" OF his own. and weakened Inn
pulses to make unconditional surrender; while MS
sister. the understood but doughty ConmissionSe.r
Eva is conducting personal campaign agans5 nun
In the interests of the family organization. but "
does not matter much what arrangements tho
Booths may make undo what has been done InS
American branch of the army Will infalfply dr1ft
downward, to be the prosecuted sport Or streeS
"hoodlums" or swell upward TO SNUG mia9e-cMssSy
responsibility and decorum, whether the 'Generag
ilxasi II not