THE SALVATION ARMY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4688, 7 June 1890, Page 4

THE SALVATION ARMY.

! Mr Stead, in a letter to the British Weekly, Eays: —I hear that there 1b likely to be a new development in connection with the Salvation Army which will probably have very far-reaching effecte. It Is not generally known that the Booths, and particularly Mr 3 Booth, are intensely Interested In the social question. When Henry George visited London a year or two ago ho is aaid to have remarked, after attending a meeting of the Armv, " Here is the true social revolution ! " and a good deal of the spirit of Benry George has unquestionably entered the Army. Not, of course, that General Booth is going in for the nationalisation of the land or any debated policy of that sort. He is an intensely practical man, with a Bpecial eye to immediate utility ; and the new departure which he is engaged in elaborating has to do with the employment of the unemployed and the reclamation of lapsed I am not at liberty to say more at present about this matter. But I have discussed the subject at length with the General, and I am satisfied that the scheme now in preparation, embracing as it does the whole range of the social question In ita relation t.i unemployed labor and waste land, when It is folly worked out, will command the support, even of those who have hitherto looked askance at the enthusiastic irregulars who march beneath the banner of Blood and Fire."