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...methods of the Salvation Army are most efficient.- (a) Their "soldiers" are the best possible for such work.- (1) They best know the conditions of life among which they work.- (x) They are themselves redeemed souls.- (2) They best can sympathize with the sufferers.- (3) Their entire lives are devoted to their task.- (4) Their enthusiasm is genuine and voluntary.- (x) No one is compelled to join the army.- (y) Any soldier can withdraw at any time.- (5) Obedience is absolute and willing: Booth, pp. 242, 243.- (b) Methods are most direct.- (1) Soldiers come into closest and most intimate...
...methods of the Salvation Army are the only ones that reach the classes of people among whom they chiefly work.- (a) Other methods, as of charitable societies public and private fail to reach this lowest stratum.- (1) They are regulative rather than preventive.- (x) They relieve suffering rather than remove the causes.- (b) The soldier alone is willing to tackle the evil in the places of its origin.- (c) The Army methods alone seem able to stir up the most hardened to better lives.- (1) Such people can be roused only by strong appeals to their emotions, such as (x...
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...great parties.- (1) It breaks up old political rings and corrupt administration.- (2) Makes a cleansing of the old parties absolutely necessary: Pub. Opin. Vol. XVI, p. 42.- (b) It has great educational value.- (1) It breaks down old party lines: Amer. Mag. Civics, Vol. 7, p. 199.- (x) Sets people thinking for themselves.- (2) Raises new issues which demand investigation.- (x) Populism has raised questions,- (m) of the Govt. ownership of monopolies which affect the public interest,- (n) of the currency,- (o) of inequalities in the distribution of wealth,- (p) the oppression of the working classes: Pub. Opin...
...spontaneous outburst of popular feeling.- (1) It appeared simultaneously over a large part of the country: Amer Mag. of Civics, vol. 7, p. 196.- (c) All great movements must be given organized expression.- (1) They all represent some truth.- (2) If suppressed they must result in,- (x) Continual local outbreaks,- or (y) general revolution.- (3) disorganized expression is ineffectual...