The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-19
Pours Hot shot Into Those Who Are Holding Back on the Traces
 Against War.
RAPS THE KAISER HARD
Says America Is a Whale of a Country and Will Lick the StuffingS.
 Out of Bill.

l ngton today was like a patriots | bombshell
 Mir. Sundays topic for the morn ing service, Have Ye Received thu | Holy Ghost?" Billy is notorious fo | wandering from his text, and ht wandered far enough to ring in al the righteous indignation he fel against the Prussian regime every .wo or three minutes.
 We were a peaceful people" h' beloved, with his hands to his lips md one leg lifted almost. to his chin All our paths were peace unth tha Godforsaken, wenerwursting, sauer Arautng, miserable gang of"
 But the rest of his words were lost in the roar of laughter, cheers and cries of approval that broke likt storm over the tabernacle.
 Screams Invectives
 "The measel-eyed. hog-jowled, bot -le-browed liberty hating crew vii go down in inglorious defeat, befor, our arms" he screamed a little later Just as this government, in thu declared war on that most vile damnable, rapaciOus carcass of blood thirsty imperialism over there in tht Capitol, so l today, here in Washing ton, in the shadow of that Capitol declare war against he'll and all it. emissaries and all it's cohorts"
 Taking a moments breath, ht clapped his hands together and theI shook his fist at an imaginary enc my.
 "We didn't go to war for profit, he blazed We didn't go to wal for conquest. We don't want foo of your dirty soil We don't wan dollar of your rotten money. We've got enough. But you cant shoo your cursed Kultur and your damna ble Hohenzollernism down our owI throats. You cant spit on the Stars and Stripes; you cant erase stal from that pure field We're not { quarrelsome bunch. Oh h., no but woe betide anybody who gets Us started"
 Patriotism Sweeps Throng
 Then he turned his attention tt consecration to religion. He drew as parallel the consecration O. the nations resources to the cause of war.
 Ia to move the freight" he said. "wt cut out the passenger traffic. Wher our factories are needed we take con .rol of their output. When Hoover 'chaw' one loaf of bread instead ot two. How about God, then? We've got to consecrate ourselves to him just that way"
 In the afternoon he warmed III against the Kaiser even more en Enthusiastically than at the opening ser vice. He started out by having the soldiers in the khaki reservation stand up. And the big audience gave them an ovation that lasted nearly five minutes. Then, wher Rodeheaver asked these men in the service what hymn they would like to have sung there was unanimous call for Brighten the Corner,' one of Sundays hymns.
 Good" said the handsome choris ter, Sing that tune when you march down Main Street in Berlin
 This brought another storm Ol approval of the crowd Right after that everybody rose and sang My Country, 'Tis of Three" which, witf the assistance of the enormous choil in back of the pulpit further charg ed the atmosphere with patriotic fer vor.
 Before he started to preach Billy introduced the members of his party his unfailing practice wherever hs goes The only member of the party who was absent was the evangelist. son, George Sunday. He is mem Der of the army aviation corps. IT his honor there was a service flag with single star. draped over thu desk on the pulpit.
 Stop Knocking, He YelIs
 Stop your darn knocking" wa, the way Billy started off his after noon sermon. "I have been to tn, contonments and I have seen ma chine gun crews who have neve seen machine guns; I have seen ar tillerymen who have never laid thei hands on a cannon. I have seer aviators who have never seen al aeroplane. I have seen infantrymei who didn't know how to load or t, carry rifle. We cant do every thing at once. Give them time. WI will have machine guns. and cannon and aeroplanes, and rifles for ever. last man of them. but you cant d' everything on the instant.
 "Stop your darn knocking. I say It makes me sick. This is whal of a iOh we've tackled hut we're