The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-02
SHOWS HORRORS
Of LIQUOR EVIL
INSIDE OF MODERATE DRINKERS
STOMACH ALL THE LECTURE
NEEDED. I.
BILLY SUNDAY THRILLS
GAINS roo COLLEGE CONVERTS
WITH SINGLE sERMoN--sA-
LOON SPAWNING PLACE
of DEGENERACX.
PHILADELPHIA,

PHILADELPHIA, April IA
powerful ana starthngly effective ar
raignment OF liquor--one OF whose
Immediate results was the conversion
of more than 700 University OF Penn
sylvania students~--was the sermon of
Billy Sunday baseball evangelist
Sharply uttering every sentence. that
lts substance would cut through his
vast audience and that its truth might
evangelist 'tfs= Intensely
Interested ;hrong through to the time
that seven hundred Of the university
ytudents renowned sne way of evil
Much OF the sermon was devoted
to exposing the liquor evil, and the
subtle horrors endured by Its victims
were set forth IN manner frightfElly
plain
alcohol knocks the blood cor
pusries out OF business SO that IL takes
eight to ten to do what one ought 10
do said Sunday, in his sermon on
rum There's man who drinks.
Here's IL fellow who drives beer
wagon. He's full Of rotten tissue. lie
says he's healthy. Smell his breath.
You punch your finger in that healthy
flesh ne talks about and the dent viii
be there a half hour afterward.
You look like you don't believe
It." the evangelist said, as the audi
snce smiled. pneumonia has a first
mCrt&aEH on n nD6ISUE HAtf.
Take a fellow with good, healthy
muscles. and you punch them and
they bound out like rubber band
The first thing about a crushed
strawberry stomach is crushed
strawberry nose. Nature lets the
public on the outside know Just what
is going on In the inside. II you
could just take the stomach of u mod
crate drinker and turn 1t wrong side
out II would be all the temperance
lecture yep would need"
H0tbed OF Anarchy.
The evangelist here introduced an
argument against the licensing of the
laqGor traffic that took the crowd by
storm.
1.-THE open saloon is the hotbed of
anarchy" he said. ut Is the incu-
bator OF poverty and crime and vice.
1t is the spawning place Of degen-
eracy. When we get the preachers to
preach against this and quit talking
about the new Jerusalem. wen clean
I'D the saloon-filed, brewery controii-
ed community for Christ
.rYou say you can't prohibit men
from drinking" he continued. why.
II Jesus Christ was here today some
OF you would keep on in sin Just
the same But the law can be en-
forced against whiskey just the same
as 1t can no enforced against anything
else, If you have honest officials to
enforce it.
"Of course. II doesn't prohibit.
There Isn't a law on the books OF the
State that prohibits. We have laws
against murder. DO they prohibit Z
We have laws against burglary Do
they prohibit? We have laws against
arson. rape. but they do not prohibit:
Would you introduce bill 10 repeai
ali the laws that do not prohibit
ANY law will prohibit to certain
extent If honest officials enforce It.
But no law will absolutely prohibit.
We can make a law against liquor
prohibit as much as any law. pro-
hibits.
Cor would you Introduce bill say
ing If you pay 81 900 year YOU can
kill any orc YOU don't like or by pay
ing $500 d year you can attack any
girl you want to; or by paying Slo0
a year you can steal anything that
suits you that's what YOU do with
the dirtiest, rotten gang this side or
hell. You say for so much year
you can have a license TO make stag
gering, reeling. drunken sots. murd-
gering, reeling, drunked sots. muir
9eres and thrieves and vagabonds.