New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-04
Anti. Conscriptionists in II.
Class of Traitors, He
Declares
Anarchists Attacked
Tabernacle Crowds Arou..a
by Appeal for All to Do
Duty Tuesday

Billy Sunday, his tired eyes aba.
and his voice strident with passo.
tore into the "anti-conscription asi,,
tors, pacifsts and the treaeherop,
wavers of the red flag Of ANARCHY !,
this country" before 10000 person. /,
tho Tabernacle yesterday aftern..
The audience, which included lom
blucjsckets and marines from n,
Brooklyn Navy Yard. shrieked /, t,
patriotic frenzy when he Yelled
Mothers. see 10 u that your hov,
register on June >. They are felo'.
who fail in their patriotic duty q
Registration Day. Those who are a.
posing the CONSUMPTION act border !,
traitors. I've no sympathy with "A,
pacifsts either. We're in the war nov
and are past all that beliey, /,
peace-we all do but we've got "a
scrap for it now.
Scores Anarchists Here
"We've got a class OF people in Nj,
country who are dangerous continued
Sunday, leaning over the edge OF nj,
pulpit and shaking his fist at the IN.
offending REGULARS in the front row,
"They bring their damnable Continental
customs here. They haven't an Amer.
can hair in their heads. They settle IN
our cities and undermine our law,
They wave the bloody banner Of an.
archy under our noses.
From their ranks were recruted,h.
men who participated in the haymsrss,
riots in Chicago. They shot McKin!ey.
Rip off the tags that brought then
here, say, and send the wre,ctd
scoundrels back. They are making M,
Republic their hunting grounds andsur
sacred laws their game.
Billy's sermon was safety FRS, 70,
America" He had an oratorical grer.
ade for food spectators, too.
The man who pokes a gun under nv
nose up a dark alley and asks for M
money or my life is no more robbsr
and a crook and a poltroon than h,
men, combinations OF men and clique,
who hoard up the nations food sup
plies and give you the alternative Of
starving or paying their price" he as.
serted.
The evanCelists eight weeks here are
telling on him, and he is infinitely
quieter than when he started his can.
paign. The chronic coughers troubled
him, and he remarked several times
with just shade of irritation in his
voice:
"Now. please don't cough. Help ne,
won't you? am all in and am driving
myself every time / address you here
And later he said with plaintlw sor,
of a smile: 81 don't expect to live
long. | work too hard"
He told the bluejackets: "You fel
lows have got yourselves entanglet
with my heartstrings. am for yo'
strong"
About 500 OF the sailors and marine
were among the l,l46 who hit the ira
in the afternoon. The navy men wet
the guests at luncheon of the cafeteri
committee of the Young Women
Christian Association.
Cheers for Mrs. Shepard
At the afternoon service Billy ta
TO divide honors with Mr. and Mrs. tn
lev J. Shepard Mrs. Shepard had =
come forward and acknowledge the sp
plause which followed Sundays az
nouncement: perhaps you lads OF III
navy would like to give three cheer
for the woman who gave you the Nav
Y. VI. c. A. building in Brooklyn"
Five thousand people heard Biz
speak at the morning service. lie an
nounced that he was going 70 ask n'
churches of the city 10 close thel
doors the two remaining Saboaii
mornings on which he will speak here
"Of course, some Of them VIII 90 I
and some won't" he coniided TO hl.
audience. you know how ~ IS, do1
you? But I simply must make hgih'
10 Get bigger Sunday morning tuei
cnces. This is awful n.
At the evening service, al when l,. ~
Sunday preached on the text: ~ " "a "a
shall we do with Jesus :" l,55e .
the 10000 present shook mis- nshc
Among those who came forward Ws1
Thomas Dixon, the author, and 20
Uornung. an oldtime ballplsye
friend OF the evangelist, who used
be an outielder for the Ne" JOE
Giants.
Pleads for Liberty Loan
AT the close of his evening sermo
Mr.. Sunday made an eloquent appes
for subscriptions to the Liberty Loa'
The Kaiser is pretty sure that "
n this country won't subscribe 10 "
loan he said. Now Is the time
show the Kaiser up
Nr. sunday praised the newspaper
Of to-day. ;,
"If there had been As good suiH
Of newspapers as there arc to-us
when Christ was crucifed.' ne SS ~
that would never have happened. ~
little group Of bigots who killed o.
Saviour would never have dared 20 90 y
what they did had there been real ~ ~
rcwsnancrs on the lob 70 show WV