on Army, in
carrying out its scheme. The matter was referred by the Government to
the Departmental Committee, who, after reviewing it and looking into the
question in 1906, issued a long report in which they discountenanced Mr.
Haggard's scheme on the ground that:

1. It was better for settlers from England to be scattered about
with experienced farmers as neighbors than to be placed in a number
together.

2. The Salvation Army or any similar organization was not a
desirable management for a colony dependent on money advanced by the
Imperial Government.

3. That Ft. Romie and Ft. Amity, the American farm colonies of the
Salvation Army, were not precedents upon which a large scheme of
colonization could be based.[58]

The Committee gave reasons for arriving at the above conclusions, into
which, for the present, we need not enter, but their conclusions are
suggestive, and may be borne in mind while we make our study of the
subject.

Gen. Booth, in his plans as outlined in "Darkest England," provided for
three main divisions of the work for the unemployed poor, viz., the City
Colony, the Country Colony and the Over-sea Colony, signifying by these
terms the City Industrial Work, the Country Industrial Colony, and the
Farm Colony.[59] The last named was to be on a larger scale on some
Colonial territory of England. This division has tended to persist in
the United States, and this country has been the field for special
experiments along this line. There are three Colonies in the United
States: Fort Herrick, situated near Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Amity,
situated in Southeast Colorado, and Ft. Romie, which is located at
Soledad in the Salinas Valley, California. At first there was no
differentiation between these Colonies, but latterly, the Colony at Ft.
Herrick, the smallest of the three, has been managed as an Industrial
Colony, and the other two have continued as regular Farm Colonies. The
plan of "Commander" Booth-Tucker, in charge of the Salvation Army in the
United States from 1896 until 1904, and the originator of these
Colonies, was, in brief, as he states it, to take the waste labor in
families, and place it upon the waste land by means of waste capital,
and thereby to convert this trinity of waste into a unity of
production.[60] His waste labor was the family struggling in the crowded
city; his waste land, the large tracts of public land about to be opened
up by irrigation; and