New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-03
HOists Them from Chairs
by Magnetism of Appeal
to Fight Booze.
USES OLD FLAG IN
GEO. M. COHAN STYLE
Brings 1854 to Trail After Swat
ting Saloons and Winning
Audience for Prohibition.

''Trw Sfa~ Correspondent ot Ibe Iribune
Paterson. y. J.. May ?. Billy Sun
day is the David Btsasco Of the evan
celistic platform. Using a dramatic
effect that would have done credit TO
a first class stage manager n New
York. he induced practically every one
Of 5000 men to stand up this sfter-
noon and say they would vote for pro
hibition at the next election. y little
later Sl2 OF these men cana forward
| 10 shake hands with him.
"For Christ, for your wifo and chill
dren, for your home, for country
was his call.
At the night meeting Sunday re
peated his victory OF the afternoon.
and succeeded in getting almost all OIL
his audience of 1000 men to promise
to vote against the liquor interests at
their first opportunity. The trail mt
ters at night were 327, a record total
of 364 for the day.
There seemed little question that
SUNDAYS now celebrated sermon on
booze" produced a deep impression.
But it was really his carefully ar
ranged We. big. strong finish that
brought the men in the Tabernacle to
their feet. They were carried away
swept up from the benches.
Like Cohan with Flag.
He turned to some small boys IN
knickerbockers, planted inconSplcuous-
ly behind the press seats. -.
"Come up here, kids" he said. with
his characteristic grin. They sled up
on the red carpet and stood behind
Sunday. fifteen nice-looking, upstand-
ino, bovs. The revivalst caught up
biz American flag. He jammed his
chair behind his pulpit. kept one 1907
i'm the chair seat and stamped the
other one In the pulpit.
81 stand between these boys and the
hreweres. stand between tIcm ana
drunkards' graves he yelled, ana
wildly waved the flag, whose appeal ne
recognizes as well as George NJ. 90
han ever did. -
tho distilleries and saloons this side
Of hell These boys are the raw ma
terial of your country he shouted.
He had his audience lust right:
One man in the front row mopped MS
cves. Two in the second row were
Teeuing. Sundays finger is always on
tbe puIse. He felt the hear.-beating
was high. -, r
"How many of you men will say.
will vote for prohibition If | get
chance at the next election = he called
GLOW many Of you? Stand up. men:
Tie lifted his hands and seemed TO
mil the whole audience out of the
seats.
Everybody Was Enthused.
Rodov. with the trombone, and Ack-
/ ley, on the piano, began to crash out
/ "Niv Country, 'Tis of Thee" and the
| historic song burst from hundreds of
/ tbroats. One man, six rows from the
pulpit. put his felt hat on his walking
, stick and waved it. Sunday stepped to
the top of his pulpit and stood upright,
fuU eleven feet above the sawdust
= The electric light cast glow over ms
lin. graceful figure as he stood there.
sweeping the flag in a wide arc, its red
stripes flaming through the air Shrlii
/ ccboolboy vhstles ripped OUT ana
/ added to the din Of cheers and calls
and handclaps and stamping.
Sunday let the flag hang limp. lie
[ looked out over the hundreds of heads
81 thought ! wouldn't make an invi-
/ tation to-day, I'm so tired. But now
many of you men are willing to come
| Gown here and give me your hand ne
/ gaid. and the trail-hitting began.
Thanks to the eccentric weather, II
was much cooler in the Tabernacle this
afternoon than at other of the men
only" meetings Sunday alone was
coatless and collarless.
Dcgpitc this. though, before he I'M
+ ;shed his sermon he was reeking with
sweat from his attack on the liquor
evil. ., LII
/ freezes over. and then I'll buy par
/ of skates and tackle you on the ice!
/ he howled, and his hearers laughed
madly.
Hits Saloon Hard.
He hit the saloon traffic like half
hack smashing the line. He bounded
into it and lambasted it with all the
Ere he could command. Saloonkeepers,
he nredicted. would soon be hanging
from the gibbet of public shame
Vhiskcv. h. said. was "the worlds an
arcbi=t. its old red flag dyed with The
blood Of Non. women and chlt-en.
"There's only one thing to do. SMUT
OF the source. Close the saloons, ne
said. "High license You might as
we'll try 20 regulate powder mill n
hell. In my opinion, in ten years there
d viii ne no licensed saloons in Amer. ca.
( The saloon is a murder mill and
noison plant. There's only one differ
ence between a low-down bar and
high-toned saloon. One stinks and the
other smells bad .,,-
In the middle of his sermon BUY
"lined IN all the drunkards." mag,
ircd them men regenerated' crie1
"Rcatyi Forward March," and with
tho naC OYER his right shoulder lea the
invisible line across the platform ana
out over the press desk.
The whole damn bunch IS on the
water wagon" he said as he turned and
laughed with the 5000 men.
"Oh. they've got good homes again,
the drunkards who've come back ne
said. and sang a bar of BE 1t ever SO
humble, there's no place like home, IN
grating voice, finishing by twisting his
mouth into an Eddie Foy grimace.
The collection was S62l.35. At the
morning service 1900 men and women
heard Sunday preach on "lf You Love
Me, Keep My Commandments Inc
morning collection was s633.oO. In me
afternoon Ma Sunday spoke TO 2'2oO
women az the Regent Theatre, VINO
contributed collection OF Soo.'S'
Billy said tonight that he and Ma
would take luncheon tomorrow as the
gutsts Of Mr. and Mrs. Ebert II. Gary
at their home, $50 Fifth Avenue, New
York. He said he had no other plans
for spending his rest day.
The total collections for to-day were
s2.OOOl7. This makes a grand total
of S24,6sS.94, leaving only eompara-
lively small amount to raise for cur