Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-21

England and the Way Out" have been
devoted TO promoting the great work.
A year later the Salvation Army be-
came international In character when
work was commenced In America and
Australia. In 1881 General Booths eld-
est daughter, Catherine. initiated the
work In France, which was the real
beginning Of the vast foreign mission
AIRY operations Of the army now carried
on IN many lands. The headquarters
were then in London. Us they still con-
tinue to be- But. while money flows
Londonward from all parts Of the
world It Is quickly disbursed again to
the four quarters Of the globe. In the
sense that It had its origin in England
the Salvation Army Is an English instl-
tuition. but one Of the generals aims In
latter years has been to make II inter-
national as well as undenomlnatlonal.
In 1885 the army started the purity
agitation" and presented to the house
OF commons a monster petition with
$4,000 signatures coiled up in a roll
containing two miles OF paper and
bound together with the army colors.
The army's interest in the "submerg-
ed starving, vicious and criminal
classes, had been apparent from the
first, but found It's emphatic expression
In General Booths really wonderful
book. In Darkest England and the
Way out" first published In 1890, ana
which attracted so much attention that
edition after edition was taken as i
came from the press. II was in this
book that the vast colonization schemes
for the relief Of the starving poor OF
Englands citles were outlined and
shown TO be practicable by unstinted
use OF money and energies devoted to |
that end. The general declared that II
his city colony, farm colony and over
sea colony were established In twenty |
years no man, woman or child In Eng |
land willing to work would be unem-
ployed. The colonization scheme was
originally planned for the benefit OF the
British poor and for populating unset
tied tracts within English dominion
only, but an American colonization
plan has been successfully initiated
and placed on the road TO prosperity
BY these means II Ii possible 10 re-
leve congested districts Of large cities
OF their very poor and place them on
farms wrested from sterllity, where
they can have chance 10 become self
producers Instead of help
less, hopeless dead weights In the body
polite The most notable of these colo
MES. perhaps, Is the Fort Amity set
Element in Colorado which. though es-
tablshed only three years ago. Is rap
Idly becoming self supporting and Is
credit to its founders.
In the year Of HIS great triumph Cen
eral Booth lost by death his devoted
wife and helpmeet, TO whom he had
been united thirty-fve years. Mrs
Booth as all who knew her testified
and as her work In the army has
shown, was in every way worthy to be
he mate Of one whose whole life was
dedicated to the uplifting OF strug-
Cling humanity. She was eloquent on
he platform and helpful In the families
Of the poor rejoicing in the title be
slowed upon her of the army mother"
md. in common with her husband. glad
10 conseorate her best talent. her life
md their children to the work in which
both were engaged. All their sons and
daughters were brought up to feel that
their place was in the army and
doubtless much of the success Of the
has resulted from this fact,
for the Booths are found in control OF