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Show SALVATION BOOTH'S BOOK. After all tho discussion over General Booth's scheme of social regeneration set forth in the book entitled ' In Darkest Dark-est England," it now appears that the credit of originating the plan and of writing the book was due to Commissioner Commis-sioner Smith, of the salvation army, who has resigned his position, Mr. Smith's idea was that the social work-scheme work-scheme should be kept distinct from the religious work of tho army showed much practical wisnom; but the recept-ance recept-ance of that proposition would have involved a division of the funds, and that is something which General Booth appears to object to. Philadelphia Record. Rec-ord. ' "General Booth's apparent willingness willing-ness to sail uuder false colors by attaching attach-ing bis name to a book he had not written writ-ten or even inspired is not the best recommendation for a man who asks to be made administrator of a fund of 15.000,000. . The volatile and hysterical character of the English, though they claim to bo solid, far-seeing and lacking lack-ing in emotional enthusiaam, was never better illustrated than in their sudden lionizing of ''General Booth" after long years of contemptuous neglect. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press. There is a good deal of sensation in the many circles which committed themselves them-selves to admiration of General Booth's book on "Darkest Englond" over the assertion, which appears to have been substantiated that General Booth did not write the book. The plan for transplanting trans-planting and reforming the poor of London, set forth in that work, Is a good one; but a part of reformation all around. General Booth's as well as the destitute cockneys, should be reformed of the dishonesty of passing off other people's writtings as their own. Pittsburg Pitts-burg Dispatch. ; The salvation army general is not a responsible man financially, and in that aspect he is an adventurer.' He is in a measure a humbug, as most people who voluncteer tremendous plans of reform are. He is only literary as far as contributing con-tributing a couplo of unimportant chapter to the book, Darkest England," He has his merit, however, that he has set the people of England thinking. If his plan does not meet with the favor of the practical British some other plan will. Minneapolis Times. General Booth's plan for the "exten sion of the kingdon of Jesus Christ" is the issuance of salvation army bonds, bearing 4i per cent interest. The general gen-eral has a great head. In some respects be has a great head than Paul, who never had the shrewdness to strike a financial snap with the Roman or Corinthians. Cor-inthians. Kansas City Star. The dispute between General Booth and Commissioners Smith touching tha authorship of "In Darkest England' involves questions of veracity and honesty which seem singularly out of place in the salvatiog army and likely to be "prejudicial , to good order and military discipline," as courts martial phrase it. New York World. It is now charged that General Booth, who claims the autborsb'm of "In Darkest Dark-est England," did not write it, and that the ideas were those of Commissioner Smith. It is now another case of a leader losing his faculty of discriminat-between discriminat-between right and wrong. Memphis Appeal-Avalanche. It has been discovered that "Geueral" Booth did not write "Darkest England," Eng-land," but it has not been learned that the book was not written to fit facts that exist by somebody, Minneapolis Tribune. |