GENERAL BOOTH AND HIS CRITICS.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 5

GENERAL BOOTH AND HIS CRITICS.

A reporter aaw General Booth recently, and drew his attention to the pubho criticism of the "exhibition of the dead" at Olympla and the attempt to make money out ot Mrs Booth's obsequies. A little Impatience of their Ignorance of the Army—that was all the feeling he displayed. " You see, they dou't understand us, he said. "They dou't realise that everything the Army does must bemadto pay its own expenses. We have, ha endowment, no reserve fund; so wo are compelled to go on the principle of making everything we do pay its own expenses a* far as possible. So it waa with the Olympla service. Why, if a person gave us £5 to try and do good to the poor, we should not feel justified in spending It upon Olympla. As for'exhibiting the dead,' as they call It, that is our look-out. I talked the matter over beforehand with Mrs Booth. I should be quite willing for the same thing to be done in my case that vess done in hers. As a matter of fact, tbe collection taken at Olympla did not nearly cover the expenses. People who talk nonsense about our making money out of tbe services wouldn't be willing to give anything towards coming in themselves. What, therefore, are we to dol They say, ' Stop in the barracks T *tc which 1 reply, ' The people are not In tpe barracks, and it Is the people that we art after, hot the barracks.' 1 ' It is Btatfeo" that the Salvation Army paid £500 for tji« use of Olympla on the occasion of ' fflp Booth's funeral.