The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-11
$4,000 PROMISE
TO HELP MAKE
BOSTON DRY
Evil Effects Of Liquor ViVidly Paint
ed By Billy sunday
WORSE THAN WAR IN EUROTE
Evangelist is For Woman Suffrage
Because the Women Are Fighting
the Saloon.


started his active campaign against
the liquor interests of Boston today
when at three big meetings more than
$4,000 persons, bya rising vote,
promised to do all in their power to
swing the city into the dry column at
the election, which is less than two
weeks away. Booze, or get on the
water wagon" was the subject of the
evangelist's sermon at bottle the after
noon and evening services. With all
the power at his command the athletic
painted the evil effects of liquor. All
arguments against no-license he dealt
with in a masterful way.
1t was a big day for "trail-hitters, :"
with 2S11 people registering their in
tention to follow the teachings of the
Bible. Long before the scheduled
hour for the evening service the i'm
mense tabernacle was thronged with
a mass of humanity Every seat in
the building was occupied at $50 fully
an hour before the evangelist arrived.
From then on until 7.30 more than
10000 were turned away.
The baseball preachers worked at
his best this evening, putting all the
action that has made him famous in
his talk At the end of the sermon,
with collar wilted, breathless and
exhausted, he tottered to the ante
room.
Mr.. Sunday in part said
| will take my text from the eighth
chapter OF Matthew, the 2Sth and 32d
verse, describing the casting out of
the devils which entered into the
swine
want to say right at the begin
ming that the saloon hasn't got a leg
to stand on. The time has long gone
by when anybody can offer the slight
est excuse or apology for the awful
effects of rum on men. women and
children. Not single argument can
be advanced in favor OF rum The
rum traffic is the DEVILS own, and the
sooner it is wiped out the better Off
the people of this nation will be.
Go from one end OF this land to the
other and you will find clean homes
and happy ones where the sale of
liquor is prohibited. Go into those
towns where boose is sold and you
will find pauperism and insanity and
rottenness of life and politics and filth
and everything that is dirty and
mean and vile.
Let me tell you that the horrors
that has piled up across the Atlantic
since the war started are nothing to
the horrors that have been piled up
by booze in this country.
Say, if you women want to do some
thing for the glory of God and of hu-
manity, fight the liquor traffic. Don't
let the Woman's Christian temperance
union do it all. That's one reason
that I'm for equal suffrage. Its op
ponents are all saloon men.
The man who fails to vote against
liquor is just as responsible for the
drunkard as is the saloonkeeper
There are a lot of church members
who didn't vote against liquor. Well,
hell will be so full of church members
that they'll be sticking their feet out
of the windows
That is the attitude of the liquor
traffic toward the church and state
and government and the preacher that
has the backbone to fight the most
damnable, corrupt institution that
ever wriggled out of hell and fastened
itself on the ppblic
There is just one prime reason why
the saloon has not been knocked into
he'll, and that is the false statement
"That the saloons are needed to help
tighten the taxes" The saloon busi-
ness has never paid. and it has cost
revenue derived from it.
/ challenge you to show me where
the saloon has ever helped business,
education. church, morals or anything
we hold dear.
Listen! Seventy-five per cent of
our idiots come from Incorporate par
ents; so per cent of the paupers; 80
per cent of the crime is committed by
men under the influence of liquor; 80
per cent of the adult criminals are
whisky made. The Chicago Tribune
kept track for 10 years and found that
1856 murders were committed by
men under the influence of liquor.
Archbishop Ireland, the famous Ro-
man Catholic Of st. Paul, said OF
social crime today; "The IS per cent
is caused by drink and 80 per cent OF
the poverty" ! go to a family and 1t
is broken UP, and l say, What caused
this?" Drink! ! step up to a young
man on the scaffold and say. what
brought you here?" Drink! Whence
all the misery, and sorrow, and cor
ruption? Invariably it is drink.