The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-04-01
Billy Sunday at kankakee.
The Celebrated Pitcher Talks OF NeCks VS..
SirIoins. Cut Out the BOeze and
Boom the Dry Goods Market.

There is three times as much
money spent for liquor in one year
as t..e value of all the gold and silver
produced in the world. There is four
times as much money spent for liquor
as is embraced in all the national bank
stock in the world; and yet you vote
to license the damnable business we
spent ten times more money IN drink
than was paid in soldiers pensions.
"They tell you that there is over
production, but l tell you that there is
under-consumption, and because SO
much money is spent on drink
Then Mr.. Sunday went into an IL
lustration. 81 am old John, the
drunkard," he said. Il have been
spending most of my wages at the sa-
looms for whisky that cost the man
ufacturer 20 cents a gallon and me
s4.OO per gallon. But now l have cut
it out. All the drunkards and whisky
and beer suckers of the country have
quit. l head the procession for the
butcher shop on Saturday night. The
butcher says to me, What will you
have, old John, piece OF the neck as
usual?" "Not much" I say. You can't
give it to me in the neck any longer.
III take tenderloin steak for sup
per and a sirloin roast for our Sunday
dinner" And l take them, and so do
the other fellows. Then the butcher
says, II am out; haven't got any more
tenderloin and sirloins." He goes to
the telephone and calls up the pack
ing house and orders them to hurry
up a. lot of their best cuts. They say,
why, what's the matter down there?'
and the butcher says, oh, Bill Sun
days got all the fellows converted
and the whole push is on the water
wagon. Hurry up your roasts." But
the crowd keeps coming up, these fel-
lows who have been spending hun
dreds of millions for drink, and after
a while the wholesalers say, You'll
have to send to Chicago if you want
any more of the best cuts" Then the
butcher calls up Chicago. Hello, Ar
mour! hello, Swift! hello, Morris!-
send down a train load OF beef, and
send it quick. Put on four locomo-
tives, two before to pull and two be-
hind to push"
why, what's the matter down there
at Kankakee?
Matter? Matter? A fellow by the
name of Bill Sundays down here
from Chicago and he's got all the
whisky fellows on the water wagon
"Then 1 go home-and, mind you
I'm old John, the drunkard, but I've
cut out the booze. The children say
did you bring some meat?" Eyes,
have brought some tenderloins an6
sirloins," whats them, pa? We never
. heard of them before? Can you eat
} them?" Eat them? Well, I should
!, say" "Then why didn't you bring
them before?" Because I've beer
feeding them to that old pot-belliet
whisky seller down there and letting
you children eat neck But I've beer
! an old fool long enough. We're goint
to eat some roast at our home now.
Mind you, I'm old John, the drunk
, ard but I've quit, and so have all the
rest of the push" Then my wife says
Il wish you would go to the dry good:
, store and get some cloth, for l have
, patched Jimmy's pants until they lool
like map of the United States" Ant
I go and all the fellows who have beer
, spending hundreds of millions TO-
, drink go with me, and we order goods
, until they have to telegraph to Mar
shall Fields and Marshall Field ha
! to telegraph to Fall River for mor'
goods. And then the cotton manufac
turers to Arkansas and Texas to plan
more cotton, for all the old whisk,
e buns and the young whisky buns il
4 the country have cut out the booze an
y got on the water wagon, and there 1
d no supplying their demand for goods.
r my wife says, Cant you get us
little flour? I've fed the children o