New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-14
ENGLAND CALLS
SUNDAY TO AID
FIGHT ON RUM
Sir Henry E. Randall Plans
to Summon Evangelist to
Rescue Workingmen.
BILLY, ELATED, RUNS
TO TALK WITH INA"
Tabernacle Again Crowded at
Night-NeW |. w. w. Threat
Fails to Brighten.

Billy Sunday is about to be called
to England to fight for prohibition.
Sir Henry Edward Randall, director
of the Business Mems Campaign for
Prohibition in England, asked the Lon
don correspondent of The Tribune yes
terday TO get for him Sundays address,
that cable message might be sent to
the evangelist to engage him for a. re
vival tour of England for the purpose
of battling against alcohol.
Sundays success in this country. and
the failure Of King George. Lord Kitch-
ener and David Lloyd George to stop
drinking among the workingmen, whose
habits are a serious menace, in the slug
gardly manufacture Of munitions Of
war. to the cause Of the Allies, have
convinced the leaders of the movement
in Great Britain that only through
Sunday can the result they seek be
achieved
When the reporter for The Tribune
in Paterson told the evangelist yestcr-
day of England's anxiety TO engage
him, Sunday. highly elated, discussed
it with Mrs. Sunday. But when the
reporter sought to learn whether sun
dav would accept an offer to go abroad,
the evangelist merely smiled. Later
he explained that he could say nothing
until he had received word directly
from the persons who want him to
conduct the Great Britain revival.
Sir Henry, who is managing director
Of II. f. Randall, Limited, shoe manu-
facturers, with extensive plants IN
Northampton. London and Paris, be
lievcs that Sundays methods are what
will drive into the prohibitionist fold
The workingmen who cannot be reached
forcefully by the class distant appeals
of Great Britains big men.
ave want Sunday over here just as
quickly as we can get him" Sir Henry
said. "but we do not want 20 disturb
the great work he IS doing in your
country. We hope that re can make
arrangements to wind up his campaign
in New Jersey at reasonably early
date. Not until we learn whether he IS
so situated that he can accept will We be
willing to 90 into the de-ails Of terms
and the length Of stay nero necessary
Sir Henry's cable viii probably reach
Sunday to-day.
A few minutes after Sunday had been
informed Of The Tribune cable, his
talk and actions expressed the highest
satisfaction over = tribute that had
been entirely unexpected.
Sunday Elated Over Tribute.
"The whiskey business is doomed in
ENGLAND lust as surely as IT Ia in this
country" he said. land that is as surely
as there is a God i'm Heaven. ] feel
honored to know that even across the
water my name is associated with un-
dying enmity against the liquor trathc
II there is a heaven for fools, the tcl-
10, who thinks the saloon is a good
thing will be found there occupying
front seat
owe fought booze for years" he
said, "wth all my strength, and 1t
makes me feel good to find out that
people know what I'm trying 50 hard
TO do We've got booze on the run
those of us who are battling with II.
And believe they are going to put the
old boy under in England, too. Halle
lujah to God.'
He was lying in bed in the third
story of the house in East Twenty
eighth Street, tired out after the night
sermon. MA" was sitting beside him.
Sunday was munching big rcd apple
from his Hood River ranch.
Booze can't last in England any
more than it can in this country he
said. "Boozc never did any one any
good. Nobody can talk to me about
serving groG to sailors or beer TO sol
diers. Booze never made a man hght
anv better. II ruins men. it takes the
best out of them.
"When | think Of the rum-soaked,
weasel-eyed boose holsters that used to
be real men, and would be yet If 1t
wasn't for that stuff, it makes me
shiver. Kitchener and Lloyd George
and the King himself are showing the
best kind of brains in taking stand
ia stop the sale of liquor during the
war. II can't quit with a temporary
prohibition, though. II must be per
manent one. eventually. And eventual
w. is not very far away, IN my opin-
ion"
The most sensational incident Of the
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