Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-03

Men, | stand before these boys and
the Whiskey gang, and ] serve notice
here today in Paterson that if any
grog shop owner harms a hair in the
head of any one of these boys he will
have to do it over the dead carcass
Of Billy Sunday"
This challenge was greeted with the
stamping Of feet and applause, which
lasted several minutes.
Wont it be great when this coun-
try goes 'dry?' called the evangelist
Gee I sure would like to see the
devils in hell. | bet they would run
TO satan and cry, The whole damn
bunch is on the water wagon.
Secretary of State Bryan hit it
right last Friday when he spoke in
Carnegie Lyceum, New York and
said that the bombs from the aeros
and torpedoes Of the submarines are
as nothing compared to the dangers
in the schooner that crosses the
bar" cried Mr.. Sunday.
This great country of ours will
have a wave of prosperity that will
delight every body When it goes dry
This cry of the liquor interests that
il the saloons are closed up it Will be
! followed by a business panic is all
tommyrot. They don't do anything
for us now but ruin our young men
and fill the jails and insane asylums
and give Wo1n to the hangman and
electric chair" said the evangelist.
The man who goes to church and
/ processes to be a Christian, but votes
/ for the liquor interests came under
] the hammer of Mr.. Sunday when he
said that this man was as sure Of
i hell as the man that became a
drunkard through aiding the "whis-
| key gang by patronizing the grog
shops.
Saloons Recruiting Ofices for He'll.
THE saloons are nothing but a re-
cruiting office for hell was the state
ment of the evangelist
You know it worries the bunch
where | get all of my information
from, and the best of 1t is that they
dare not contradict it," said BILLY"
We'll, I'll let them in on the secret.
| have a very good friend in the reve-
nue. department, and he furnishes me
with all of the data that | need, and |
will give me more II | want it. These |
are government figures and are pretty |
nearly bound to be accurate.
Ma" Sunday came to the plat !
form Just as Billy was speaking to |
the trail hitter, and after being in
troduced told the men that she had !
Just spoken to their wives in the !
Regent Theatre and she had told them |
to ask hubby" what Mr.. Sunday |
said about booze"
so be prepared to repeat the ser
mon to your wives" said "Me" as she
took chair just below the platform.
As the evangelist ended his prayer |
for the trail hitters'' he got down
on the red carpet and knocking on
the trap-door shouted:
"Good-by, devil Ha-ha"
Then going to his pulpit Billy
reached under it and, yanlIing out a
big water bottle, put it to his lips. As
the water gurgled out the entire au-
dienoe got on its feet and cheered.
At the meeting Saturday night |
City Auditor James A. Rowe, of New
ark, hit the saWdust trail"
His sermon yesterday afternoon and |
night was
will take my text from the eighth |
chapter of Matthew the twenty eighth |
to the thirty-second verse, describing |
the casting out of the devils, which
entered into the swine.
Here we have one of the strangest
scenes in all the gospels. Two men,
possessed of devils, confront Jesus,
and while the devils are crying out
for Jesus to leave them, He commands
the devils to come out, and the devils
obey the command OF Jesus. The
devils ask permission to enter into
herd of swine feeding on the hillside.
This is the only record we have of
Jesus ever granting the petition OF
devils, and He did it for the salvation
of men.
Then the fellows that kept the hogs
went back to town and told the pea
nut Drained, weasel-eyed, hog-jowled,
beetle -browed, bull-necked Holsters
that owned the hogs that "a long
haired fanatic from Nazareth, named |
Jesus, has driven the devils out of
some men and the devils have gone |
/ into the hogs and the hogs into the
sea, and and the sea into the hogs |
! and the whole bunch is dead"
And then the fat pussy old fellows
came out to see Jesus and said that
he was hurting their business. A fol- |
/ low says to me, II don't think Jesus
| Christ did nice thing"
You don't know what you are talk
ing about
Down in Nashville, Tenn, 1 saw
! four wagons going down the street, !
and they were loaded with stills, and
kettles and pipes.
whats this?" l said.
! United States revenue officers, and
/ they have been in the moonshine dis
( trict and confiscated the Illicit stills,
and they are taking them down to
| the government scrap heap
Idiots Due to Booze.
Listen! Seventy-flve per cent. of our
! idiots come from Incorporate par
! ents: so per cent. of the paupers; 81
! per cent of the crime Is committed by
men under the influence of liquor; 30
! per cent. of the adult criminals are
whskey made. The Chicago Tribune
| kept track for ten years and found
! that 3d. 500 murders were committed
by men under the influence of liquor.
Archbishop Ireland, the famous Ro-
| man Catholic of st. Paul, said of So
cial crime today, that 75 per cent. Is
caused by drink, and so per cent. OF
the poverty. | go to a family and 1t
is broken up and | say, What caused
this?' Drink | step up to young
man on the scaffold and say, What
brought you here?' Drink! Whence
| all the misery, poverty, and sorrow,
and corruption? Invariably it Is
! drink
Five Points, in New York, was a
| spot as near like hell as any spot on
earth. There are five streets that run
| to this point, and right in the middle
! was on old brewery. and the streets
on either side were lined with grog-
! shops. The newspapers turned a
searchlight on this district and
| before they could stop it. the first
thing they had to do was to buy the
old brewery and turn 1t into n mis-
sion and today it Is a decent respect
! able place.
Sum of All YiIlainies.
The saloon is the sum of all villain
| les. 1t is worse than war or pestilence.
| 1t is the crime of crimes. 1t is the
parent of crimes and the mother OF
sins. 1t is the appalling source of
| misery and crime in the land, and the