The Washington times., 1915-02-01
100000 ON WAGON"
SUNDAY IS HAPPY
Drawing Big Crowds in Phila.
deIphia, Evangelist Makes
vitrio!ic Attack on Rum.


day spent this morning In a visit to his
dentist. aud this afternoon will be de-
voted to a trip Of inspection to a hos
rital and attending to corresbondence.
Forty thousand Philadelphia voters
spplauded and cheered in BILLY" Sun
days tabernacle yesterday.
That was the climax Of Sundays
famous sermon, Booze. or Get on the
Water Wagon" gwen twice yesterday.
To hear that sermon men stood for
hours in snow and sleet at the taber-
nacle doors.
Sunday was up in a chair. one foot
planted upon his pulpit The Stars and
Stripes were above his head, and he
was waving the flag defiantly. and he
was shouting above the cheers for that
flag. He was shouting:
II. serve notice upon the politicians,
the whisky ring. the gang that makes
and the gang that sells the stuff. and
upon every man who votes for whisky
and hell! serve notice that I stand be-
tween these boys and them: And I
stand with this glorious old rag tight
clutched in nv hands!''
Jumps TO Pulpit's Top.
He jumped to the top of the pulpit
and shook the flag in the faces of the
thousands.
you've got to 60 over my dead body
to eet to them!" he cried. "Over my
dead body and trample this flag into
the mud and filth to drag them to
drunkards' graves!
Say. you men Of Philadelphia, give
me your vows that. if you ever get the
chance to vote her dry. you'll do 1t!
Come on. all you who'll promise! Get
UP and let's have a look at you.'
The words of Lincoln. Mckinley. and
Roosevelt against liquor were quoted
by the evangelist and they were cheered
to the echo. Sunday grabbed his Am
erican flag. crying:
Every plot raised to over throw
the United States Government and
trample under foot this glorious old
flag. wriggled and crawled out of the
pit Of hell!" That hell was Il "liquoI
Statistics On Liquor.
The farmer got SO cents for a bushe
of corn. The brewer made SO pints
from it. With three of those pints
Sunday wrecked eight lives and sem
three persons to the gallows. He tOlt
said beer should be made of. what 1
really was made Of. and he hit at th'
Administration that kicked out ole
Doc Wileyfi the best friend of tn,
American people," He showed tina
only 10 to Is per cent Of the whisk
on the market was pure. actuall,
bottled in bond"
He said that it was just as easy It
regulate a powder mill in heir as t
regulate the whisky traffic by hig
license Ererything good was oppose
to It and everything bad vas for II
Fraternal organizations. ffty-six of tn
sixty-four leading ones in America
would not admit as members person
connected with the rum business. Hi
statistics made men gasp. He place
the saloons Of the country side by side
Their fronts made a solid wall fror
Philadelphia to Denver. He sounded
funeral dirge and a funeral processio
OF 100000 hearses yearly cross the cont
nent from New York to Seattle. The
were carrying bodies Of those VIII
died directly or indirectly as the re
suit Of drink
saloons doom written large across tn
land! They see they cannot stave O
national prohibition more than te
Years! The railroads are against liquo
If he he Republican. Democrat. or Frt
greesve. and he's in favor OF the sa
loon. to hell with him. To hell wit
him..
Right in the middle OF the stor; h
paused. oh don't you think tn
saloons 'of Chicago aren't open on Su,
day morning. he snsered let m
tell you, every saloon in Chicago
open on Sunday. Every saloon in Oh
caGo Is openly violating the law"
1.-The mayor Of Chicago Ia a liar" h
shouted. He swore he would enforc
the laws. and he doesn't do it,"
All known crimes he traced to the sa
loon-"the murderer Of your mother, tn
thief of the coffin under your dead bab,
But it is worse than q murderer" Il
shouted. The saloon damns your so,
to hell"
Again toward the close Of his sermo
he moved them with stories OF the IL
sane crimes of drunkards. ITS picture
Hke these" he would cry. bending ia
out over the edge Of the platform an
slashing the air with his arm. 'tht
have made me f1ght booze with all III
strength Of my body