The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31
And Esau Said Nt A Study of Billy Sunday at Big Revival


 asked him if he would go into a saloon to reclaim her wayward son.
 Would l go into saloon to save a soul?' thundered Sunday. Sure l would I'm working for God and I'll go anywhere he sends me I'm like Gen. Wayne in the Revolution ary war Gen Washington asked him if he would storm one of the enemy's forts. Wayne replied: Gen. Washington, if you make the plans. I'll storm hell So went to that saloon and weazeleyed, rum soaked rummy in a white apron was behind the counter.
 Here Sunday contorted his face and leaned over his reading desk in a cleyerly acted imitation of tough bartender
 He asked me what wanted and l asked him what he had, and he said he had whiskieS and gin-fizzes and Anheuser-Busch and Pabst and Schlitz. l told him he didn't have anything wanted. l went outside and met a cop, and that cops breath smelt like it would kill a fly at 90 yards. I asked him if he knew where I could find the boy and he said: 70, l guess he's hitting up the booze joints And that's just what he was doing, but found him and convinced him it was better to be a man than to be a mutt, and took him back to that poor dis traCted mother and she was the hap JIest woman in the world. Nc. long after that l had him hitting the trail at one of my meetings. H." had been convinced that Christianity and whiskey won't fit under the same skin.'
 Grafters in the Church.
 Returning to the subject of crime and graft, Sunday paced back ard forth across the platform as he hurled statistics at his hearers.
 There's murder every hour in the United States. There have been 10000 murders year for 15 years. Eighty-siX out of every S7 mur- derers escape Only so out of every 1000 ever go to trial, and even af- ter a murderer is convicted it's an so to l shot that he won't get the electric juice or that he woa't stretch hemp.
 And there's grating everywhere. Contractors are grating on their jobs, chauffeurS are grating on their bosses. Why. only the other day a pastor told me an undertaken had offered to give him commits sion if he would throw funerals his way Labor leaders and sena- tors are grating and dirty grating church members are renting their property for saloons and low-down dives. Crafts got a strangle hold on the United States-and on Kan sas City, too
 Then there is the filthiest graft of all-the liquor graft. You just wait. We'll pass a national law that will squeeze the gizzard out Of it.
 "I want to serve notice on con gross right now that before long there will be a constitutional con vention on national prohibition and it will take a vote of only twO-thirdS of the States to make this whole country dry and free it forever from the rum rummies.
 Pure Food and Rum.
 "AnCther great work is being done by Dr. H. H. Busby, the govern ment pure food expert. This work was started by Dr. Harvey w. Wiley. The only reason I ever had it in for the Taft administration was that it gave Dr. Wiley the hook. Every year 200 900 infants are killed by impure food. Thousands are kill ed by rotten, poisonous drugs Re fuse mash from breweries is sold as breakfast food That's all got to stop.
 Now, the Socialists will tell us and right here let me say to you that w. A. Sunday is not a Socialist
 he will tell you that poverty causes two-thirds of the crime. I say he's wrong Crime causes two-thirds of the poverty, and the rottenest, dirt fest. stinkingest crime of all is the liquor business. I'm going to put the saloon in hell, and do away with most of that poverty and crime.
 And the political economist. Let's hear what he has to say. Come on,