| Show ASOCIAL REFOR1HER G General Booths Plan for the Salvation Sal-vation of the Vicious Class C AKD1NAL NEWMANS LETTERS A Collection of Them Soon lo be Published 1 iSAndrew Carnegies Diatribe at Dundee is Severely Condemned Special toTlP HERALD Examiner Dispatch LONDON Sept 14By cable to the N Y lcrlcJBooth of the Salvation army has undertaken to settle off hand in a book he is about to publish most of the great social questions that have perplexed phil isophers theologians and poliitical poltcal economists econo-mists for ages In a recent interview in the hroniele the general set forth at some length his ideas from which the following are selected Remarked General Booth The scheme is a big one and I hope also one likely to do some good I am glad and encouraged to find eminent men sympa hetic toward it I have had inquiries bout it from men like Cardinal Manning Ear lloseberry Lord Wolsely Henry George Michael Davitt Dr Clifford and others The functions of our social system as hey appear to me seem to work wrongly The idea of reformation does not seem to nter into most of our calculations when i dealing with the vicious population I a man falls and becomes a social wreck it is lither the result of his own fault or he is the victim of misfortune The purpose of m y scheme is to rescue that man whetter ho has fallen on account of one cause or the other I a mans poverty and destitution i are the result of vice on his part you must change that mans nature for if you do not he will most readily sink back into his old condition Likewise if a man is the victim of circumstances cir-cumstances you must lift him away from those circumstances and put him in the way beginning a new life I a man is starving if he sees his wife and children starving he flies to the gin cup to drown his care The result is increased degredation In the c iities we shall have industrial refuges and homes for the omes immeaiate reception of our peope From these refuges and homes i they will gradually be distributed to rural I settlements to agricultural villages and communities whichwe hope to settle in the country and from these again to settle again sette ments in the colonies settlements which may who knows be the foundation of another empire My latest work has been upon that part of the scheme in which perhaps special interest will be taken I mean the great matrimonial agency How many thousand men are in faraway parts of the earth who would be glad to get good wives and who cannot get them How many women are i there in the ranks of our home society who would make the best of wives but who remain re-main spinsters Would i not be touching our social conditions intimately if those two classes by proper method could bo brought in touch with each other i This may seem I a surprising notion to some people at first frst it sight but J believe there is n great deal in Speaking of the negro the general said The negro personally is as yet an un known quantity His moral character in tellectual ability and spiritual capacity as I yet are comparatively undiscovered Wo I see him only in a savage sato or almost just emerging from slavery but even now where in individual cases he has had an equal opportunity he will favorably compare com-pare with the white man It is quite possible pos-sible for us to argue therefore that after years of civilization education and Christian influence he will equal i he does not actually surpass the white man in those things that now mako the later so much his superior |
