| Show THE SALVATIONISTS 1 A Correspondent Speak a Word In I Their Defcntcv ALT Lm Ctn Fb 23th 1590 Correspondence of the DESEKEI EWSIn glancing over the police Items In your last nights Issue I saw an account of the arrest of two Eslvation army renders for blowing horns and beating drums on Sunday evening Now sir I do not know the person or perrons that entered lhl Complaint and caused the arrest neither do I wish to but with your permission I would like briefly t review this nOUir Salt Lake City has Just passed through a dreadful aflliction not la ffrifipe but worse viz the drum Corps fever which has struck every section or this city for the MH three or tour I months raging from Sunday morn ing till Saturday night without any i cessation Drums fife brass I bands tin oil C horns and tin pans have been brought into use accompanied occasionally by cloy rocketsjRonnii candles firecrackers bombs bonfires et In all this campaign where U I the first Instance of a complaint on either party Liberal or People5 And Jet two men with dramatic horn must b arrested because they I were creating a nuisance Perhaps the complainant is an Episcopalian I or Catholic or Luthtrian What about the noise of his church bells which can he heard all over the city Perhaps he fo I 1 mcmlwr ol some Iddge l Should any brother die and b buried on a Sunday In all probability a band of music would precede the procession What pnce citizen would complain cf thb bells or the tlsJiMl dirge played by the band Such music gives most people peo-ple the blues And yet a few Salvation Salva-tion paraders with nfe drum cornet cor-net and timbrel must be arrested because this is one of their modes of worship which is as old as Israel I may b possible that the parties who entered the complaint did it in soma very strong language such as Is Jot taught in n Sunday School yet tills would not b noticed although al-though there Is a city ordinance making the use of fuel language a Hinisbable offense lInt the poor earnest btnu who slugs praises talks about his Savior and plays his drum must be arrttttd Tile complainant may say I dont like them they are cranks Listen to their ltlk look at their dress They are a set of cranks All new religious denominations have been denounced by opponents do have been called 1 by the oldest chestnut cranks Their talk is plain and simple after the order ot the Saviors I TIE I came not to lithe li-the righteous but sinners to repentance repent-ance You never saw or heard of the Salvation man going into any church fishing In other peoples water to catch their fish What about the dress and garb of the cardinal the Bishop or priest eo he surplice of the Episcopalian or the frock coat and white tiu of the Weselyan Look at the women what about the Catholic the Quakeress the Primitive Methodist or Banter the Shaker lassie the Bunker or the Salvation Now the parties so annoyed by these people may accuse the writer of being a Salvation Army member He never could be more mistaken in his life I never was and never cx lectto be but I will fay this I hare keptan eye on General Booth and his wife since they first visited he slums of East London not quite wentyfivo years tine and toy hat organization ha eight thousand ofilcers In thirtysix countries of this glob They are a modern wonder I in common with others In this city and Territory have had topS pass through phases similar t these leople I have II the streets of cities towns and villages been mocked hissed and sfofled at anti pelted with ecgs rotten apples filth and stones 1 never enjoyed I but my religious zeal fired me on For poduecs fakeand for the sake of roll ious frecdem in the evening the nIneteenth century never let It b said that these people in any part of the United States of Aniericaare arrested ar-rested and imprisoned on such silly charges chane the world needs today Isle is-le ole religion anti more Jhrlstianity less I form anti pomp and more truth and simplicity pOp coercion and more charity lets jhylockism and more benevolence This i a good world but can b made a better Ole There is room enough for us nil Dont crowd each other Life is short Thanking you for this space I remain sincerely yours rn USCXE |
