The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-11-15
GEN. BRAMWELL BOOTH.
New Leader Of salvation ARMY Re-
ccived Long Training.

Gen. Bramwell Booth, commander
| in-chief of the Salvation Army, ar
rived in New York last week on board
the Cunarder Lusitania, and after a
tour in Canada will return to address
his first audience in New York at Car
negie Hall on November 23, says the
New York Evening Post. He will
spend two weeks in the United States,
speaking in many cities, where his
father, the founder of the movement,
was we'll known.
When Gen. Bramwell Booth is in
trOduced for the first time to "A New
York audience, he will speak as the
head of an organization with which
he has been identified since his early
school days. He will speak with the
the important events in the history OF
the movement since he became his
fathers chief supporter and first
aide.
He is in command of an Organiza
ton which tells it's message 20 the
world in "a languages. Gen. Booth is
in command of is, 900 officers and ca
dets, and 5000 employees who have
no official rank accept him as their
commander. He also commands,
through the delegated agencies, more
than $4,000 bandsmen, 10000 song
sters and $4,000 local non-colnmis.
stoned officers.
More than 5000 corps and outposts
are commanded by Gen. Booth and by
his authority, sustained by the Saliva
ton Army International Cabinet. Un
der his jurisdiction, 80 periodicals are
issued, while scores Of industrial
homes, shelters for women, homes for
children, hotels for men, industrial
schools, slum posts, prison gates
farms and other establishments exist
in every land.
For the post he now occupies Gen.
Booth has had 40 years of careful
training. His mother, who was also
the mother of the Salvation Army,
watched over him at home, kept in
constant correspondence with him
while at school, and used all the agen-
cies at her command to mould his
} character SO as to fit him for the COM
mand Of the army when the baton
should fall from the hands of his
father. When boy of IL he wrote
letters to his mother that are still
preserved in the archieves Of the or
ganization. They were in diction
which the average boy of Is seldom
masters.
In his earliest youth, the new gen.
eral evinced lively interest in the
wrongs of women. Chivalrous and
deferential by nature, he imbibed his
fathers teachings, and accepted with
out protest the conclusion that she "is
the equal Of man in everything but
physical power" Animated by this
conviction, and indignant because of
the apparent unwillingess of Euro
peans, and especially the people of his
own country, to recognize the truths
enunciated by his father and accepted
and promulgated by himself, Booth
began a crusade that resulted ulti-
mately in a change of the organic law
: OF the land. Today the child in years,
who u little more than a quarter of a
century ago was regarded as legiti
mate prey, is protected by the laws
Of Great Britain. 1t is not too much
to say that this crusade was the be-
ginning Of an organized worldwide
protest against white slavery.
7 In this campaign, the then chief of
, staff found himself opposed by inter-
ests both stubborn and powerful-in~
terests that were intrenched political
ly, socially and financially. But after
IL prolonged fight, in which the very
existence of the Salvation Army was
at stake, Bramwell Booth emerged a
victor. Tht Salvation Army was in
its infancy in those days, and the ten
dency among SO many millions of per-
sons TO regard it as a Joke" did not
add to its strength. But he had put
his hand to the plough, and resolute.
ly declined to withdraw.
He was born at Halifax, England, in
1856. At that time the Salvation army
had not even taken haZy form in his
fathers mind. The Rev. William
Booth was then q minister of the
Methodist New Connection. Nine
years later the founder of the Army
began his evangelistc work at Mile
End. This was the forerunner of the