GEN. BOOTH'S PLANS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8801, 1 May 1907, Page 3

GEN. BOOTH'S PLANS.

New York, March 5. General Williom Booth arrived hare this morning in splendid health, lie had worked for ten hours daily during his voyage. The chief of the Salvation Army cordially greetti] the newspaper interviewers, to whom he immediately gave an outline of his three great p'ans. The first r.l these i 3 to provido small land holdings for deserving British poor, ;:n experiment in which General Bou.h feels assured that he will receive the aid of Canada. The second refers to the establishment of an emigrant colony in Rhodesia.

The third aims at the foundation of an international university of humanity, to be devoted to the training of men and women to deal with the sins and miseries of mankind. One of these institutions is to be established in London, the other in New York.'

" I want £l t OOO,OOO for my plans," said General Booth, «but I do not intend to bag for it." " Would you accept Mr Rockefeller's so-called tainted money?" queried an interviewer. " I would take Mr Rockefeller's money or that of anyone else," replied the General. " I would wash it in the tears of widows and orphans. Then I would place it on the altar of benevolent effort. We have never seen Mr Carnegie," he continued. " We have never approached him on the subject of a gift. The work of the Salvation Army should have commended itself to Mr Carnegie, but when be says that ho cannot spend mosey on those that are down he is not on the correct charitable track."