The Washington herald., 1919-01-11
Billy Sunday Comes Back;
Puts His "Okeh" on Capital
Everything Going Splendidly Except Boot
Logging, He Declares, and Predicts Speedy
Death of That-Here to See Son.

Gee, It feels good TO be back.
| Say hello to everybody for me,
won't you?"
Billy Sunday, the same devil-de-
flying. boOze-hating and sinner-sav-
ing Billy Sunday that Washington
met last January, landed at the
Union Station yesterday morning
and spent the day hurrying around
the city trying to call on everyone
of the thousands of friends he made
on his last trip.
Coming out of the station, Billy
spied the familiar walls of his own
taberns Gle. where he made his stand
against the devil last winter, and
greeted the building with a genuine
Sunday" salute.
Fine old building" he cried, Gee,
it's great to be back, The weather's
great. the people are great, and the
old town looks just fine. Wish
was coming back for another six
weeks instead of just twenty-four
hours"
Sees End of BootIeGgers.
Another six weeks would about
fix Washington. l hear that you have
been having trouble with bootleg
gers" It's just the same old con-
temptible liquor crowd that used to
sell whisky in the corner saloon, and
now that they can't do that. sell in
the "speakeasies." It's the same old
gang but l see their finish. It's not
going to take many more months for
their whole crew to be wiped off the
face of the United States, and l am
going to be the one to preach the
funeral sermon over old man Barley
corn's grave"
The Sundays. Ma" and Billy"
stopped in Washington on their way
to Richmond, where Mr.. Sunday opens
a campaign next week. to see their
son, Lieut.. George Sunday, just back
from six months overseas. Billy
had not seen Lieut.. Sunday since his
arrival on this side and was as pleased
and proud as though he had just
pulled a city through a particularly
strenuous campaign.
Proud of Son.
1T was boys like that" ne saIl,
waving his arms in Lieut. Georges
direction. that fnisheI up this war
for the worid-hulUrc,ls # thousands
of strai ght clean young American
men. with the fen" of God in their
souls and n na-rrl OF th2 devil and
the Kaiser it their bayonets OF
course, 'Ma'Iand l are proud, for We
have the identical reason for feeling
Chesty that about 100000 other par
ents in the United States have to-
day. The Englishmen were fine. the
Frenchmen were glorious and the
rest of the allies splendid. but it
took the Yankee boys, 100 per cent
pure grit, to complete the job in less
than two years.
Il hope they send the Kaiser TO
St. Helena. where they can keep
good stiff watch over him. His
sons are pretty safe. None of 'em
have the backbone to pull come
back but the Kaiser's a tough old
bird and it will take more than an
abdication or two to finish him.
Make Germany pay. The greatest
danger the world faces now is that
We may become too soft-hearted and
let the Germans off. They knew
what they were 'tarting way back
in 1914, only they had the finish doped
out wrong, and they should be made
to take their just punishment. Make
them pay for every cathedral they
shelled and every young life they
snuffed out at the beginning.
Glad Wilson Went Over.
Il am glad that President Wilson
went over there" ne said. They
will need a big boss at the peace
table and wilson's just the man. 1t
would have been impossible for him
to impress American ideals on them
from this side Of the Atlantic-it
would have been like trying to preach
a sermon by telegraph or wireless"
Mr.. Sunday said he approved of the
league of nations If it could be
trusted to "hobble the German" for
awhile, but that he did not believe
that the league would mean the end
of wars.
I'VE have another one to go through
with yet" he declared. THE Bible
prophesied this one and it also says
that there will be more trouble COM
ing from the power from the north. -
| don't know whether that means
Russia or not, but 1t looks that way
to me-"
Would Conquer Russia.
Our soldiers should be left in Rus
sia- Billy" declared, to settle the
Bolsheviki as they had the Germans.
over there right now" he said,
any long-haired scamp with no re-
spect for God or His church can call
himself "Bolsheviki" and the people
will fall down and obey him. It's
just another term for anarchy and
lawlessness."
The Sundays came straight from
strenuous campaign in Fort Worth
with Few hours delay in New Or
leans where Billy stopped to