The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-30
Charitably Mentions Critics
a. Yellow Dogs That
Bark at Him.


kane. Last night every seat in the
immense tabernacle was taken
soon after Z o'clock and during the
evening 1t is estimated that 1000
people were turned away.
Billy Sunday has not got fairly
started yet When he does get a
full head of steam on, and Spokane
continues to be stirred about his
work in proportion to the present
amount of interest, something is
bound to happen in the old town.
There is some difference of
opinion as to Sundays methods,
but the number of critics COM
pose a rather small minority. Sun
day pleases the masses; he cares
nothing for the rest.
Sunday last night answered his
critics, directing his remarks in
particular to Reverend Bull, who
attacked him yesterday in a speech
before the chamber Of commerce.
Give yourself no concern about
me-" said Sunday. Il can't stop
to throw stones at every yellow dog
that barks at me as l go along.
Whenever these geezers can show
a bigger string of fish than / do
they will have to go some. They
remind me of man who went to
visit his friend and found his IS
months old baby squalling and
raising Cain in general. Spank
him. said the visitor. No. said
the father, he's too little to
spank And that's the way with
some of the Holsters that attack
me-"
Last night Sunday talked on the
sermon on the mount, contrasting
present day conditions. The fact
that Spokane has a reform city adj
ministration seemed to be over
looked by Sunday, who said Spo-
kane was morally bad and needed
a little application of the doctrines
of Christ. Jumping upon a chair,
he waved his arms aloft and said:
What Spokane needs is a moral
regeneration; thorough cleaning
out"
He described the men who con-
duct the affairs of the nation at
the present day as being lot of
cheap skate politicians with love
for neither God nor man.
Sunday fired his opening gun at
Spokane society last night. Il un-
derstand that the rich ducks in
Spokane are getting up blue
book" began Sunday. you make
me tired. Most of you came here
25 years ago carrying pick and
shovel, with your grub in a tin
bucket and you went and scraped
and scratched and drilled in the
fiinty rocks OF the Occur d'Alenes
and slept in a blanket on top of a
hill until you struck pay dirt and
got rich. Now don't you swell up
and get chesty because you've got
money; don't throw on dog be-
cause you can hit a cup of coffee
with whipped cream on top and
get ON the outside of a porterhouse
steak when you used to get slab
of bacon and coffee without any
sugar in it,
Sunday painted a picture of lot
of red-nosed, bleary-eyed buns
gathered around card table in the
back room of saloon, playing a
jackpot in which the stake was a
few stray pennies and nickels. Co
ing to the other side of the plat
form he depicted a fashionable
card party in which the stylishly
dressed ladies were competing for
piece of fancy china or cut glass.
Rushing from one side of the plat
form to the other he contrasted the
card games in most forcible
language and declared that of the
two evils the game by the buns,
''at the first station this side of
hell" was the less harmful.
Sunday denounced the divorce
evil in most scathing terms and
said that one family in every seven
was wrecked by it. He said the di-
vorce laws of the country are a
rotten. sinking abomination,
gotten up In the interest of lot
OF shyster lawyers and cheap skate
hotel keepers. When it comes to
the divorce question | am a
Catholic, as the Catholics believe
in divorce for only one ground,
the biblical one of adultery. A
Catholic priest will not marry a
divorced man or woman while the
other party to the separation is yet
alive. This is likewise my doc
trine, and while | am a minister of
the gospel will never be a party
to the marriage of divorced per-
son while the other party to the
transaction is living"
Sunday said he was a labor
union man and always had been.
He said the only solution of the
differences between capital and la
Dor, the masses and the classes,
and man and man is the apDlication