The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
COINS new WORDS
COMMANDER BooTH-TUCKER ADDS
TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TWO MORE TERMS
DOMICIDE AND DoM1cULTURE
What the Salvation Army Is Doing
to Provide Tenement Dyvellers
With Homes of Their
Own.

coined these words and made present
Of them to the English language, and the
Salvation Army is engaged IN demon
strating their meaning" Commander
Booth Tucker the head of the Salvation
Army in America, sat in his headquar-
tiers at 122 West Fourteenth street, and
talked with enthusiasm to a reporter for
the New York Times of his recent tour
of inspection among the colonies of the
army in the West.
our Colorado colony, Fort Amity," he
continued. lis now just entering its third
season. 1t was in April, 1899, that the
first party of colonists reached Amity.
1t contained fourteen familieS-seVenty
persons. 1 wish you could see these first
colonists now: what good, comfortable
homes they are in; how contented and
happy and full of hope they are.
Up to Jan. last our outlay on the
Amity colony had been $4,000. The colo
nists have supported themselves and
their families and have repaid $4,000 of
this sum. When you take into considera-
ton that this has been the achievement
of men who had not a dollar to start
with, many of whom were out of work
and dead broke you can. understand
what the system has done for them. We
bought 100 good cows for them for $1,000,
and they borrowed the money of a local
bank, for which we stcsA Security. They
have paid back s., SEQ of that money in
two years."
we gave each colonist to start with a
plot of land containing from five to
twenty acres and the implements to work
it; one horse sometimes more; one or
two cows, a pig and some poultry. Then
we have paid their travelling expenses to
the colony from whatever city they are
taken, and we have put up the cottages
for them They usually have their own
furniture, and that has to be transported
1t costs US about $500 to establish each
family, aside from the land. We have to
make laterals for irrigattng, level the land
for the bitches, construct roads and
fences and erect buildings. We employ
the colonistS at the regular price for such
labor, g or $3.50 per day. We pay each
81 a day to live on, and put the other
dollar down to his credit, to assist in re-
ducing his debt to us. The expense of
getting the place in shape we add to the
price of the land, for the new colonist to
defray when he is able
I wish you could see the new orphan
asylum we have at Amity," continued
the commander enthusiastically. 1T is
q nice stone building, capable of accom-
modating 100 children. 1t will open in the
fall We shall send to it orphans Who
have come to us in the cities; boys and
girls in about equal numbers. They will
grow up there. an integral part of the
community. When they are old enough
to work a. piece of land we will start the
boys in life, and they will marry and set
tie down. We are going to have SAN
uarlum there; a workingmens SANTA
rlum, where workingmen may go to re-
cuperate and have medical attendance at
rates within their means, doing some
work when they are able That is our
next enterprise. Gradually we are going
TO group all sorts of institutions at Am
lty. We have now a fine school house
there, In which we hold church services
also"
What has contributed to your financial
success at Amity, commander"
We'll, we have two good cash crops at
Amity. We raise the famous Rocky Ford
antaloupe, and dealers say ours is the
finest in the valley of the Arkansas: bet
ter than the one raised at Rocky Ford
itself Then we have the sugar beet
Beet sugar manufacture is the coming
industry in Colorado, as the imatic con-
dltlons there are favorable to it. Fac
tories will go up all over Colorado in the
next few years.
THE great trouble is to get the farm
ers to pledge the beets to run the fac
tories and to keep their word The big
ranchmen, or even the man with 100
acres, will not do it. We will put in our
little five and ten-acre plots to beets
gladly, and make a good thing of It. A
pig sugar beet factory IS now in process
Of erection at Holly. quite near u.s. that
VIII take every beet we can raise and
more, too. Besides these two rops, which
are clear cash, our colonists raise splen-
dld alfalfa and all the ordinary crops for
their own use.''
Have you had no failures no cases of
coIonists who refuse to work and let their
places run DOWN."
Not one. There is nothing of that kind
10 contend with. You see. we took
superior class of men in the beginn 'ng.
Some We're skilled carpenters and build
ers. They were particularly desirable
as we do so much building"
no oh,
help?" " 'oui
Because they wanted a chance to see
a home ahead of them" said the com
mIander' eenergetically. They were bring
they could see no chance for anything
better as long as they lived One motor
man. for instance. was earning 81 a day
me e ne constant constant strain of looking out to
upon his nerves until he asked the com
pahY TO transfer him to another Job In
mat ne got $l5O day, and the family
was pinched all the time
Why we've got on one of our colonies
FAMILY of the descendants of Robert
Eulton, the inventor of the steamboat
Ihey We're working in a factory in a
New England city and wrote to get them
OUT of 1t If possible And we have an
other man who is a descendant of John
Alden. the lgrim father He had been
d sOoo man and got good wages for wears
In a certain line of business In Boston
Inc combination of four firms in this, Ifna
threw out Is per cent of the emnIoves of
Whom TINS Son of the Revolution happen
ed 10 De one. All those men were look
ing for work at the same time Hae yot
no work all winter, and IN the spring
When we took them, the family was en-,
ol[eiy out OF money. And vet he was a
competent man, with no bad habits.
we have a DOCTOR too a graduate of
the medlcal department of the University
or New York. He was med cal mission
airy for time in Siam, Contracted discs
IOIce0 6.,,
SICK long time, and when he recovered
mad no means to live upon while building
UP a practice
Most of our men are such cases. men
VINO have lost their grip and dropped out
OF the ranks through misfortune or who
want to better conditions for their chill
uLtn' but even when man is clear down
Wl!nout ambition or energy, apparently
shTtlesS and ne'er-dn-weel YOU would he
astonlshed to see what a difference orr
system viii make in him. The hope Of
becoming home owner of getting and
having something in return for his labor
Transforms him into a different creature
II IS hard for the average man to get
OUT OF the rut. But put him on our col
ony, ana snow him how, within a term
or years he can repay us and then own
MS nome. and You would be astonished to
see the difference 1t will make in him. y
Ali TINS. continued the commander.
using ana walking nervouSly up and
ooWn' as is his wont when deeply inter-
ested. All this is 'domiculture.' Civiljza-
tlon IS killing the home. The whole ten
dency for the prudent man TODAY. the
man who wants to get ahead and save
something. is to avoid marriage. It Is
preached to him. even from the pulpit.
to avoid marriage till he can take care
of family. Public sentiment increases
against those who have large family
1ol which they cannot provide. Children
are not wanted in the city There is M
room for them: there is no accommoda-
ton for them; it is hard to find a board
ing house or an apartment that will take