General Booth.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7022, 28 November 1890, Page 2

General Booth.

The plot thickens. The General hBB .£38,000 in money, and an offer of one million acres, it is said in the new Colony o£ Western Australia. That is tho best part of the world thafc could have been chosen. There are there vast tracts unpeopled, and very fit to carry people j there is not any population that can be injured by the failure of a great Bocial experiment j there is room for the success of such an experiment to be followed up with the greatest vigour, and on the largest poasiblo scale. If General Booth, and liis Salvationists contrive to plant one great labour Colony in the broad fields of Western Australia, that Colony will be surely followed by others, numbering millions of souls. Of such a Colony, it may with great justice and truth he said that its seed shall possess the earth in numbers like the sands of the sea; as was said in the promise to the old patriarch. There is nothing like human labour in conjunction with the earth. That combination wants but the magic touch of a briefly enduring sustenance guarantee, to bring capital out of the soil. Tho capital once brought out, the earth at once begins to be overspread by millions of workers. The success of one Colony in Western Australia will clear the whole of the congestion of population out of the United Kingdom in a quarter of a century. Think of it ! In our own time, that macy of us may live to see. The main thing for the General to see to is that his million acres are not in a waterless desert.