The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-15
'BOOTH-TUCKER
WILL Be LEADER,
Big Salvation Army Mass
Meeting to Be Held
Here.
NOTABLES ARE INVITED.
In Aid of the Land Scheme the
Organization Has Been
Working On.
MAYOR sUTRo MAY PRESIDE.
Colonel Taylor Rogers and Others
Will Address the Assembled
Salvationists.
MAYOR sUTRo MAY PRESIDE.

On the evening of the 9th inst. at
Metropolitan Temple will be held grand
Salvation Army mass-meeting under the
leadership of Booth Tucker, the COM
mander of the Salvation Army forces in
America, for the purpose of laying before
the people of the Pacific Coast the land
scheme on which the army leaders have
been figuring for years past.
Booth-Tucker, who is now in New York,
will start for California within few days,
and may bring some of the officers who
are associated with him there to take part
in the meeting. Here the details will be
arranged with Captain Melee, the local
leader, who has been working quietly on
the scheme for some time past.
The plans as at present outlined call for
delegates from all parts of the State, with
full representation from all points with
in easy reaching distance of San Francisco.
A special plea will be made to the mer-
camille institutions of San Francisco, and
it is probable that President Dphrmann of
the Merchants Association will be asked
to preside. though Mayor Sutro has been
invited to attend and may be placed in the
CHI air.
The main speech will be made by Booth
Tucker, who is credited with being q
op1CnulQ OIdtOIt anu VINO InTll16Q Lno
thousands who attended the Christian
Endeavor meeting on the steps of the
Capitol at Washington on Saturday last.
he will explain the scheme of the army
and appeal to the assem- bIage and the
com unity at large for assistance in car
ryIng it to a successful conclusion.
Another of the speakers will be Colonel
Taylor Rogers, Mayor Sutro's secretary,
who has made a special study of sociology
and appreciates fully the plan which the
army Is trying to consummate. He will
speak on the Mutual Relationship Be-
tween the State and the Individual"
Other prominent citizens will be asked to
address the audience.
The land scheme of the Salvation Army
is similar IN some ways to many eo-opera-
tive colony plans that have been tried in
this country with varying success, but it
is not likely that any of those that have
gone before have had behind them the
life and energy instilled by the leaders OF
the army.
1t is the intention to provide a home.
food and employment for the deserving
Door, who, through misfortune or lack of
opportunity, have been prevented from
making a living and to make their en-
ployment pay for the food, clothing and
shelter and more if it will. Not only will
those who have always led respecta BILE
lives be taken in, but even the tramps,
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casts from society, if they show sufficient
inclination to change their lives and be-
come useful citizens. No mans past will
be allowed to initiate against him in the
colony nor will any mans past be Haunted
in his face unless he desires himself to
make it public.
1t is theory of the Salvation Army
that the easiest way to reach a mans
heart and draw him away from sin and
evil environments is to work through his
stomach-give him good food and warm
raimenI, and on this plan ali the caIcula-
tons of the colony will be based.
A tract of land will be procured ready
for cultivation if possible, or land that
can be cleared for cultivation, and as many
men as can be relied upon to work and
earn their living will be put to work on it.
The product over and above what is used
on the place will be sold to buy clothes
and other necessities for the farmers, and
to procure more land and tools to work it.
Captain McFee has recently been look
ing at one large body of land In Santa
Clara County, near the bay, and another
near Petaluma Creek, IN Sonoma County,
and both have struck him as being re-
markedly favorable for the project. If
either should be selected the army would
purchase steam launches or small steam
freighters 10 carry merchandise and pas
sengers to and from the farms and bring
the produce to the City for sale.
1t is only aimed to make the ranches
and the occupants self-supporting, but
profits will not be despised should they
come.
Booth-Tucker, who is to lead the move
ment that is expected to prove to the peo-
pie OF San Francisco that the scheme is
worth their moral and financial support,
| is one of the most striking figures in the
Salvation Army to-day. Not great many
| years ago, then plain Tucker, he was a
| judge in India with fat salary, much in
huence and brilliant judicial career be-
tore him. During a visit to London he
heard OF the Salvation Army work, investi-
gated it, became satisfied that it was
worthy and ended by resigning his iudg-
ship 10 accept commission in the army.
Later he married one of General Booths
| daughters, annexing his name to hers,
and when the split in the army occurred
and Ballington Booth separated from the
old body he was sent to America as COM
mander-in-chief This will be his second
visit to the Pacific Coast his last being al
the time OF his wife's illness in this city,
when he came here t0 taEo ber Eazt