They upset the business world by campaigning for safer working conditions for workers in the East End of London. They campaigned against the hidden sex and trafficking industry of the day. They took practical action against injustice.
In his final address in 1912 William Booth said
'While women weep as they do now I'll fight. While children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight, while men go to prison, in and out, in and out as they do now I'll fight, while there is a drunkard left,