The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-17
MONEY COMING
IN TOO SLOWLY
TO SUIT BILLY
Although Total Is Now
S11.159. He "Bawls Out"
Crowd for Stinginess.
EMMA GOLDMAN TO
HOLD RIVAL MEETING

PATTERSON, April 16.-'Emma Gold
man is coming to town Monday night
to shoot It into you. Billy" the Rev.
Mr. Sunday was told 10y reporter at
the end Of to nights sermon.
what do ! care for Emma Goldman
or for all the rest of the Emmas on
Gods Dirt cried Billy as he started
in TO replace beneath the pulpit desk
the half gallon bottle OF spring water
from which he had been drinking. The
wet bottle slipped and broke and the
high cost water sneared itself over the
red carpet on the stage.
Then Billy. who had brought 1919 per-
sons, fifty-thrce of whom were men, up
the sawdust trail by his eloauence, hur-
ried down across the sawdust to talk
TO a group of tabernacle ushers, cler-
gymen and other workers. And Billy
bawled them 'all out.
THE collections are not coming In
fast enough 90 cried Billy. although to-
nights dishpan crusade brought the
total up to sii.l59.I3. The crowds
aren't big enough he yelled. ''If you
think I'm going 20 wear out my life
here over lot of dubs. you are maxi
Ing Il mistake
"You brought me to Paterson I
got 10 do something yourselves. under
stand you ministers and ushers and
the rest of YOU There should have been
500 converts tonight. Understand? The
expenses here for the campaign are
outlandishly big. I'll put II In figures
this way. far rs the campaign ex-
penses are concerned. Philadelphia is
figure one. Pittsburg was twice as big
as that, and Paterson is bigger than
all of them In expenses Why, last
Sunday the churches here should have
slapped down enough money to pay all
the expenses. But understand con-
cIuded Billy with his winning smile.
I'm not crltcising anybody"
Visited ny Anarchist.
Instead OF wearing a correct morning
coat, Old Doc Ben Anarchist Reitman
had the atrocious taste to come 20
Paterson to-day to hear Billy all UNI
dolled In an oily sack suit. Doc needed
d. shave also.
"The l. W. VS. have cold feet" said
Doc from beneath the caves of his black
fedora We're sick of waiting for them
to do something. 40 next Monday night
Emma Goldman is"
''Who may sh. be-" Doc WAS asked.
''Blooey. blooey. as Billy says, listen.
listen.
go on. Doc"
$50 next Monday night Emma Gold
man is coming to Paterson to make
speech
Yes. yes. Yes. yes, yes. YES. yes. yes,
Dor"
I'VE don't need any permit to hold "a
meeting At Turn Hall, 40 we're not going
To ask for one. Get that
o Yes, YES, Doc
II was here that the Rev. Mr.. Emett-
. good scout. by the way--foated out
into the sunlight before the tabernacle,
where Ben had foregathered. They were
introduced. one thing led to another.
Anarchists within a radius OF fifty
miles from Paterson will Ice on hand
when Miss Goldman speaks here at Turn
Hall Monday night said Doc Reitman.
NO matter how much Chr( tianity Billy
Sunday or anybody else breaches. Mr..
Emett. We still have wars in Europe
and We have famine and bloodshed and
worse. Don't these things prove that
Christianity is a failure?'
Followed by Policemen.
Sure. go TO IT, Doc" the anarchist
was treasured from the side lines.
IT, cried Doc. treasured. was
Baptist for ten years. ! was "A rottensr
Christian when | was a Raptist-and
dldnt smoke or curse IN those days
than ! am now as an anarchist. Mr..
Emett, did you ever know one of Billy's
trail hitters 10 betier himself after
coming up through the sawdust?
Certainly said Mr.. Bmctt, Work
men, for instance, became better work
men because they hit the trail"
II just hoped you'd say that" cried
Doc. ''rhey made themselves better
producers FOR their bosses. That's what
you mean"
Billy said to-day he's not 40 sure
that he will go to New York next Mon
day IN response to the Rev. DIR. Mac
ArthurS invitation. Billy hasn't been
assured as vet that he will be greeted
AT DIR. MacArthurs church by body
Of clergymen who represent all the
Protestant churches Of Manhattan out
side Of the liturgical faiths Until as
surances come TO him that there will be
union meeting TO greet him Billy
Will not promise to be present.
The collection this afternoon, when
the Tabernacle was only half filled. was
$244.09 Tonight the collection
amounted to s725.67, which was the big
gest dishpan offering of any '>off'' meet
ing of the campaign.