The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-05-23
BILLY SUNDAY ON BOOZE;
BARTENDER ON SUNDAY
Evangelist Led March of Hang
overs in His New York
Tabernacle.

Four hundred Boweryltes barely
recovered from the regular Satur
day and Sunday jags, among others
heard Billy Sunday deliver knock
out sermons against John Barley
corn. watched him lead dry
march with the American flag
perched on his shoulders, and took
a ride on the water wagon with him
for an afternoon. Sunday announc'
ed his ambition to be the preaching
of the funeral Grafton on booze
in this country just as he has done
in five States of the Union, where
he helped in liquor fights.
"When I'm dying l sometimes
think I'll turn to my wife and say,
'Nell, get the butcher and have him
skin my old hide and make it into
drumheads, and hire a bunch OF
men to go up and down the country
beating the drums and saying, old
Bill Sunday still'lives and still fights
boOze!"
That is the way he began it. He
went or:
"Tn live. | hope, to preach the
funeral Grafton over booze in the
United States. But if | die before
that time | guess the brewers and
dstillers will run special excursion
trains to my funeral-theyll be so
glad I'm out of their way"
Archbishop Ireland said, 4 find
social crime and ask what caused 1t.
They say, Drink" | find poverty.
What caused it? Drink" | find
families broken Up and ask what
caused it, they tell me Drink" |
find men behind prison bars and
ask, What put you here?" They
say, Drink" stand by the scat
fold and ask, What made you
murderer" They cry, Drink"
"Drink!"'"
A Bartender's Comment.
An interesting commentary on
Sundays booze sermon is given be-
low by a bartender who went to the
tabernacle for the sole purpose of
hearing the Temperance lecture. He
has been a bartender for fifteen
years and, as he p still in the bust
ness, his name is withheld. His OBJ
on booze were:
81 oughtn't to knock my own
game. maybe, or try to give black
eye to the business that keeps me in
food and clothes and a roof over my
head, but, take it from me, there's
an awful lot in what this fellow Bill /
says, | know! I've been
back of the bar for a whole lot of
years, and I've seen drinking men
come and go, but never saw one
Of them go away from the saloon a
better man than he was when he
rame in it.
"Bill's argument-'It don't get
You anything'-is about the best I
know. ] wish | had a dollar for ev-
Try young fellow I've seen starting
,ut TO drink and winding up in
rouble. They may have a good
ime with couple of cocktails be-
ore dinner and half a dozen high
'alls before turning in for the
light, but they're not having any
un when they sneak up to the bar
n the morning and get an absnthe
rape to straighten them out, and
ay to the bartender: How do | 7.
Dok, Charley? All right? Do you
hink | can face the boss in the Of /,
ce?
And they're not very gay when
hey ask the bartender-as they Of ,.
an do to slip them a dollar to :
Pc them through the day. And !
lany a one does that-young fell
'ws with good jobs and fine :,
hances in life.
"A mans boob. a sucker to get :
tarted in the drinking game. =
ont know whether Billy SUNDAYS
are right or not about the
lcreased prosperity of town and
II that when it is dry. But | do f,
now from what I've seen with my .
~n eyes that for the individual
AN the booze game is still :
rong. II takes his money away q
ON him; il takes his job away
ON him; II takes his health away q
ON him. Many and many time a
the last few years I've put on a .,
lack hat and black tie and fol- n
wed some good fellows coffin to ~
Ie graveyard. Maybe he wasn't
use OF very hard drinker. but 4,
Ie old stuff got him through some y
mr.