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TH1 COURIER. WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS HAGGNOW STRING A recent letter from Commander Ballington Both accuse General Booth of the profanity of attempting to divide North America into three sections with the division' lines running north and south. IleHtbe General had it ar ranged so that part of the recieptB from ttie American army were paid to the Canucks. Sow while we feel that the Canadians and the Mcx:cans are our dear Christian brothers, we also are con vinced that it is better for them to sup port their own armies. General Booth has not read the latest books on the dingers of pauperising the poor or if he have they have affected him to go and do the other thing. The movements, policy and discipline of the army were planoed and dictated in London. Ballington Booth was not allowed to adapt the rules and policy to the situation and to emergencies in thie country. When General Booth visited bis son lie showed that he was much displeased; he criticised Amei'ca and Americans, especially the display of old glory at the head of the procession and on the walUof the barracks. Ballington Booth has been patient, humble, and obedient to commands is sued sole! with reference to British domination in Army matters in this country. In spite of which his devotion to the American Salvation army in creased to such an extent that his father decided to remove him from his com mand. He could do nothing but resign from the Army, lie and his father have entirely different ideas. Ballington is a great worker, and honestly and faith fully devoted to the work to which he has triven his life. General Booth wishes to cut the world up into camps, each commanded by a man or a man and woman by the name of Booth or Booth-Tucker, with head quarters in London and himself as the commander in chief of the world. To be the founder of such a military, theocratic dynpsty out-dreams Napo leon. Power, dominion, glory to the tnc of the world has dazzled the old man's eyes- .He does not see clearly that in order to makes his system of use the nations must ussimiiale it and too much Booth will not digest. The Gen enl wishes to give a British stamp to Christianity itself. 30 A. D. Christian ity was established. '1870 General Booth's dynasty. The national feeling in a republic is a trifling matter to a Londoner who is accustomed to regard himself as the source of authority and the founder of a theocracy. Ballington Booth forgot himself, his name, and England working for and with men. He was likely to interrupt the apotheosis of Booth and his father sought how he might destroy him. Commissioner Booth-Tucker and his wife are in Chicago to reconcile the fac tions. The commissioner's picture in the Tribune looks a little like a patent medicine vender of Hindu Cough-Cures. He wears his hair long and a turban above the drooping curls, but be is prob ably better than he looks. It will take a stronger attraction, a more startling costume, than Commis sioner Booth wears to hold the army in America for the London Booth. He created the magnificent organization and he did well. But America will not be bos6ed by King George, the pope or General Booth. Eighty thousand dollars is to be spent on that part of the Missouri river that flows between Omaha and Council Bluffs, "to improve navigations' Mr. Berlin will surely not be so wasteful as to put all that money into a river which could not be made navigable with sixty mil lion dollars. If the sixty thousand might be expended on road ways the River and Harbor Committee would have an ex cuse for being. When a republic once gets into the habit of throwing its money into the water it is hard to turn it around. The realities get mixed when appro priations are to be spent. The rule? that govern ordinary business inter course are considered quixotic when ap plied to national affairs. J. Sterling Morton has relinquished patronage and popularity for the abuse of all parties because he decided to carry out the letter cf the )uv. Mr. Morton's conscience is not BUpernaturally active. He in given to striking attitudes though not so frequently nor 60 absurdly as Senator Thurston. Democrats and re publicans have spent expensive time in abusing the secretary for refusing to continue a distribution that had become a national joke. The men who had bought and paid for their seats in Congress showed Mr Secretary they were not to be trifled with, and that t was no joke to try any honest tricks with them. Jt was an impertinence for him to 6et up to be honest when both houses of Congress were in session and had to set tle for their 6eats somehow or other. The next agriculturalist that thinks of try ing to be honeet in the face of congress will do well to remember J. Sterling Morton. The seed firm in Chicago wnich has supplied the Agricultural bureau under former administrations sent in the low est bid for this spring's distribution. It was rejected because it would not con sent to allow the firm's name to be printed on the packages. No better ad vertisement, supposing the seeds to be good ones, can be imagined, for the en velopes go all over the country and the highest agricultural authority is sup posed to know good garden seeds. If the seeds will grow there is no reason why the Arm should be ashamed to affix its names to the packages. If the goods are worthless it is a danger 6ign to the people to keep away from the merchants ho sent out such wares. Refusing so simple a condition the secretary's suspi cions were aroused and the bid was re jected, tie was practising no transcen dental virtue, no quixotic integrity, but only the everyday business methods that city ind country alikp use. 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