The Washington times., 1917-04-09
BILLY SUNDAY HITS
GERMANY'S RULERS
Pledges Offerings to Aid U. s.
in War-cIasses All As Pa
triots or Traitors"

NEW YORK, April 9.-The Rev.
Billy Sunday hitched a star to MS
wagon at the opening OF his three
months campaign in New York yes
terday. He identified himself with
the war sentiment. and called Tor 10y
ATTY to country as we'll as service 10
God. He took occasion at the aiter-
noon meeting, his first In New ioEh'
TO answer the people who charge MIN
with cornmerciaIism by declaring that
every cent of the farewell Offering
that he will receive at the end or this
camnaiRn. which IL is expected may
amount TO 100000, wouldi after the
deduction of $4,000 to pay his share
of the salaries of his helpers, pc ol-
yided equally between the Hso cross
and the army work of the \. Nd. y. a.
At the night meeting ne concludeo
his sermon with. an appear 10 ms
10000 hearers to Join the war LOT Ine
liberation of the world, and by the
time he had finished, he had leapeo
up on top of his pulpit and was wilo
ly waving q flag with both HANDS,
while every soul in the audience was
on his feet cheering. 1t was roar.
ing climax to a meeting that hHo
oseiIlated between patriotism and re-
lIgion- all evening.
An @Patriots or Traitors"
The sermon was on Gods Grena-
diers," and the audience had more
than one chance to cheer for its coun-
try earlier in the evening.
It was an audience that hlled al
the 1eOoO-odd seats in the taoernecle,
with the Iobbies, which Woulo hOlu
1000 or $4,000 more. packed 10 1ne
last limit of squeezing the poNoe
would allow.
J+ 1vss an audience that had seen
bsIF a dozen recruiting stations WIN
in- A block of the tabernacle, that NAG
IJstenAd TO the speeches OF women
hsrSnRuinr from half dozen auto
,nohIIes for srlistments, for whole
hearted support of the war aeaihs'
German militarism.
So n was an audience that was
looking for O. chance TO sho" NV
a. felf about the issues oelore the
country. The first opportunity came
when Sunday said:
saTbe soIdfer--who breaks ever req
,,lation- vet is found on the nrlhs e my
In the hour of battle, Is better unaii
the God-forsaken mutt who won en-
list and does all he can to keep oIheI o., ere
from enlIsting. In these days all are
patriots. or traitors, to your
and the couse of Jesus Christ.
Against German MIIItarism-
The climax began when Sunday, re-
SerrinR to recent interviews In whicn
h. had been quoted as wanting 10
wine out various foreign countries
said:
81 never said either in private or In
oublic that the Gereman nation should
be blotted on the map. What ola
sav and now repeat, is that German
imperialism should be blotted on the
mar. For the German people 1 have
nothing but love, nothing but sym
pathy, nothing but pity. In these days
of conflict 1 believe you'll find no more
Ioyal. brave or patriotic people be
meath the Stars and Stripes than those
with German blood in their veins.
"The German people have oeen
bIinTIy led. They have had the doc
trine that might makes right and that
the end justIfiss the means inoculated
into them for generations. 1t was the
salvation OF the German people that
led US to enter into this great conflict
What we want II to see them set free
from the militarism that has enslaved
them for generations
sGhastly htdeous, Internal Prussiau
rniIitarism. stand up and look at the
women and children you have mur'
dered as they climb up the coral reefs
from the haven Of lost ships. weeping
holding out their hands toward the
Stars and Stripes, crying Help, help
Help US"
Points To Bleeding Belgium.
Look at bleeding, starved, out
ragged Belgium as she turns her weep
ing eyes over 5000 miles Of ocean
her bleeding hands outstretched to
ward the Stars and Stripes, crying fol
help.
Look at the million of poor. tor
tured, outraged, murdered women and
children OF Armenia, with their hands
outstretched toward the Stars and
Stripes, crying for help.
ut it.were not for the brave mer
under the flag OF Italy, under the
tri-coIor of France, under the union
Jack of Great Britain, the Germans
would be pounding at our doors. il
st were not for the British fleet un'
der Admiral Jellicoe and Admiral
Beatty, New York would now be q
heap OF ruins and you'd be paying
the price. Now German militarism II
doomed, and the guns OF the United
States will help dig it's grave. We
will destroy 1t, or it will destroy the
world.
What grave lie deep enough to in
ter this thousand-fo thousand
headed, thousand-fanged demon
What epitsph shah be written on IL!
tomb? This IL the epitaph:
"'Here lies Prussian militarism, out
law and murderer. 1t died in 1917
under the Indignation of Almighty
God, aided by the guns of every lib
erty-IovinR country on God Al
mighty's earth"
Do Not Know Helmet.
Then he told a story, while the
crowd that had been bowling and
cheering found a chance TO get back
its breath, about a French drummer
boy whom Napoleon had told to beat
the retreat. but who answered that
Marshal Dessix had never taught him
how.
81 say to the forces OF evil and "a
the enemy" should the speaker. thai
IN our country we don't know how
a n.