Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-29
SUNDAY SAYS
RIOTS INCITED
TO SAVE BOOZE
Tells 1000 Men That German Brew
ers JeOpardize America Try
ing to Bring Back Beer.
BY N. C. FISHER


should not be lost to the German
brewers Of America, Rev. Billy
Sunday told 1000 men of the tri.
cities yesterday afternoon that it is
these brewers who are melting riot
with their mo beer-no work
propaganda.
Germany tried to terrorize the
world" he said, but we don't in
tend to lose this war to the Ger
man brewers of America. The Ger
man-American alliance put a tax
of 8 cents on every gallon of beer
to fight me. They are melting riot
and rebellion. They are trying to
jeopardize America to save beer.
But we're going to throw the
liquor traffic in the hell that
spawned it. And if necessary we
are going to send those German
brewers back to Germany, and
that's as near hell as 1 can put
them short of manslaughter.
THANK God for our national pro-
hibition. Thank God that this
beer guzzling bunch is in the mi
nority. If they want to start any
thing let them come on. We're
ready for them. And when we are
done with them it will be finished,
if every river in America runs
blood"
The evangelist's subject at the
meeting which was for men only,
WAS '-The Devils Boomerang or
Hot Cakes Right on the Griddle, ="
and he did not mince words for
the moment.
He took few shots locally at
his enemies. He challenged them,
said he would pay the carfare of
any man, woman or the devil, if he
could go to any city he has been i'll
in the last 80 years and prove that
he did not live as he preached.
''If you can prove that 1 don't
live what 1 preach, I'll go to the
pen if you'll go if you can't prove
it, you dirty dogs.
Il don't wonder that this bunch
viIlify me. There are the most God
forsaken, low down pups this side
of hell in Rock Island. Oh, you
wait till 1 get them. If they think
they can lie about me, my wife and
the kid, I'll show them. I'll finish
them. If you COW me, you dirty
pups, I'll show you.
''And don't you know l take more
vile remarks, more damnaOIe sIuTs,
more infamous, rotten, stinking lies
sent around by a lot of lying Imps
and pimps Of hell who are subsi-
died by that dirty, rotten, sinking
gang of moral assassins that will do
anything to ruin the character of a
man that they can't damn and that
they can't debauch and that they
can't drag down? And Lien, will
reach down lower, l will reach up
higher, 1 will reach out farther, 1
will preach harder, 1 will preach
longer, 1 will work MORE to save
one poor staggering. hopeless, help
less drunkard from a drunkard' 8
grave and a drunkard's hell than all
of that damnable, infamous, vile,
rotten, black-hearted, white-liv
cred, beetle-browed, hog-jawed,
weazeI eyed, good = for nothing,
dirty imps of hell and damnation,
and 1 will fight them to hell and
back again"
Reap As Ye Sow.
The evangelist's sermon was on
the text:
Rejoice, oh, young man, in thy
youth; and let thy heart cheer thee
in the days Of thy youth, and walk
in the ways of thine heart, and in
the sight of thine eyes; but know
thou, that for all these things God
will bring thee into Judgment"
BE not deceived; God is not
Knocked; for whatever a man SOW
eth that shall he also reap"
Rev. Sunday said in part:
In other words, do just as you /,
please. If you want to lie, lie. II
you want to swear, swear. II you !
want to sneer, sneer. If you want |
to drink, go ahead. If you want to |
live in sin, go ahead God won't
stop you, but He will bring you into |
Judgment and make you pay for 1t |
when you are through.
God has decreed the freedom of |
the human will and He stops at
that decree. He will not coerce /
you. He will not grab you by the |
throat and choke you to make you
be decent. MOI And If you are not
man enough to be decent, and God
wants you 70 be decent. you can
1--we Just as you please, but know
that when you get through God will
step in.
"a man may start out to live a
life of pleasure, gratifying his de-
sires, recognizing no law but his
pwn ambitions. When he does that
he faces two considerations at the
lxick-off. First, a life of pleasure
will Sc re to end. The wicked
shall out half their days,
and { day of judgment
coming mat will correspond with
the kind of a life that a man lives.
It is appointed unto man once to
lie, but after death, the Judgment
"Wen, the old devil has been a
good many places, I guess, where
1e never took his wife. You always
Keep shy of those bucks! /.
eff sin wasn't so deceitful 1t
would not be so attractive. The
levin does not allow a man to stop
md think that every time he in
iulxes his desires that desire IS
stronger and through &C.
force OF habit he is
growing weaker IN his power to
.esist 1t,
Every time a man drinks mat I
iabit grows stronger and he grows
weaker in his power OF resistance.
nv friends, until the time comes
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