The Arizona sentinel., 1897-07-24
YUMA, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JULY 24 1897
BOOTH.TUCKER'S LATEST PLAN.

8OOTh.TUCKER'S LATEST PLAN.
 Proposes tO Make Farmers of the Unemployed Of Big Cities.
 Commander Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army and party. in the
 private car of Yice-President Paul
 Norton of the Santa Fe are on their way west in the interest of MT. Fuckers big plan of colonization for the unemployed.
 The Booth-Tucker plan has no- thing to do with the Dehs plan or the Debs army. tjs more sub- startiai and of greater magnitude in reality. Millions Of dollars are really to be put into it to aid men now unable to get work, 10 care for themselves and families. It is a plan to-people the West with an earnest and industrious population and furnish fur men of family now struggling Tn the congested centers of the East free firms, fully equlp- ped, that they may af'erward buy, that they may make living from.
 It is not money making scheme It grows out of pure charity, and best kind of charity. for 1t is the kind that enables men to help heMselves. [
 It didn't take Booth Tucker long after he came here from India to see the congested COL dition of the American cities. Ills business Is to relieve suffering and lift up beo- pie, and he believes in doing it physically and financially, as well as spiritually. He began studying the condition and it's probable remedy and the colonization plan struck him as good one.
 Booth-Tucker is not the kind of man who sits idly by and folds his hands. He knew the plan he had in mind would take .and and money and he went to work to pave the way.
 He has been so successful that he now has the money, plenty of it. and this trip is to select the loca- ti0n and the land.
 One of. the first he intereste,t was John D. Rockefeller, J Pierpont M ;rgan Was another, and W. K. Vanderbilt anLt:,er. They are heartily interested, and that means that money for the furtherance of the plan will be l.lentiful.
 This is the plan:
 Once the lands are selected they " II 6e offered in tracts of buut ten acres each to ali f the unemployed N ho desire them. on such terms that any can iuy These tract> will bv, bv,tiornug4ly irrigated by the company, which is ieaily the Sal vation Army with mnney behind it. The company wIit also furnish all things necessary to successful farm, garden. etc. Implements will be furnished, what little live stock and poultry needed to a.start will be supplied, buildings furnish sd and transportation given to the families free of cost.
 In short, if q man in New York, Chicago or anywhere can show that le is unable to make a living fur himself and ia mily where he l., the will pick him up at his very door, and set him down again, amiiy and all, on a completely ! furnished and equipped irrigated . arm ill the Southwest flee of ,hsrge. |
 Then as he r,a';'a thn ...nr.'y :lie nan may ba, 'hrfi
 It has lor, :ee:, -1id that con., ,ested po?L. st.on Is tie cause of much of our sorrow. This plan will relieve it and spread the pop out again And besides his. it will settle up and make tliat needs it
 There i< plenty of room for all .he people in the United States, argues the commander, if the peo- pie will just get out where the :uQm ! Is.
 Tn addition to the millionaires mentioned as interested in the plan, ! the railroads see the benefits to all [ concerned, including themselves. The Santa Re in larticular iS auy-