The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-25

acknowledge that the mere existence
OF the army today in greater strength
than ever is q striking proof that they
were necessary TO the recognition of
its divine commission to go into all
the world and disciple all nations.
BUT WHY?
Z but why, such conditions? Not only
for the sake of the direct advantages
the positive good-which in the United
States and in other countries that we
have already gained, but in order to
secure the utmost devotion to the
principles which the army has been
raised up to enforce, and to avoid any
such influence or attachment to in
dfviduals as your memorial conveys.
1t is, I believe I am safe in saying,
much the same consideration as has
led an overwhelming majority OF your
statesmen to object to third terms
and to do so even when the alternative
was admittedly selection largely de-
prived Of the distinguished gifts be-
longing to the president for whom
third term had been proposed.
And the general feels himself all
the more bound to this principle and
to its equal application in a case
where members of his own family are
involved. It would be gravely and i'm
mediately destructive to confidence in
the whole administration of the army
If it could appear as though to his son
privileged any man. on that account,
to obtain for himself a more agreeable
position, or greater popularity than
others no less devoted and experienced
could attain. Expediency as well as
UNIVERSAL JUSTICE,
demands that it should be made i'm
possible to doubt the i1npartiality of
the general in these great appoint
ments.
But there is one respect especially
in which I venture to think your me-
MORALS reveal danger, which General
Booth cannot but regard with sincere
regret. He would naturally be the
last to deprecate the services Of any of
his children to the army and to the
kingdom of Christ, and he has always
rejoiced in every evidence Commander
and Mrs. Darlington Booth have shown
of their appreciation Of America and
Americans.
"'But, after all, they are only Ameri-
cans by adoption, and the general,
during his recent months of travel in
your country, had abundant oppor-
tuntty of seeing what has been accom-
phshed among your people by
THE SELF-sACRIFICE
and toll of officers of the army, many
Of them American born, and others of
them laboring In the country for years
before the present leaders were ap-
pointed. 1t would, am confident, be
exceedingly diStasteful to him TO find
am effort for the exaltation for his son
and daughter based on any want of
appreciation and esteem of devoted
and unselfish men and women who
have served under them, and whose
toll they should be first to admit has so
largely ministered to their success.
TRUST that 1T is not necessary to assure
you that we are ell intensely awake
to the Importance to the whole world
of the
SUCCESS OF THE ARMY
in America. We always look forward
great country. fully informed of and
impressed with our worldwide mis-
sion. shall furnish no small quota of
both men and women for the vaster
that still await our Lord |
and Master in the eastern world.
ITO you as we'll as to the others who !
value the work Of the army, would |
say that the success of the work in |
the past both in the United States and |
other lands, is in itself your highest |
ground for confidence that General !
Booth with receive the divine blessing |
Of his leadership in the future.
ITO you, sir, therefore, and to the |
gentlemen whose names follow yours !
In the letter before me, influential in |
and social as we'll as in |
religious society, I know that the gen |
eral win look to act in accordance with |
those very kind expressions Of conf !
dence in and sympathy with him, |
which were so frequent during his |
last visit to the states and which |
again find expression in the letter re-
ferred to.
Il am. sir. yours faithfully.
''w. BRANrWELL BOOTH,
"Chief of the Staff.
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, LII. D.,
New York City,