The Washington times., 1919-02-11
IS GODS
CHOSEN, SAYS BILLY

Six thousand persons crowded into
Liberty Hut on Union Station Plaza
last night to hear Billy Sunday, on a
flying trip" to Washington from his
Richmond campaign, flay BoIsheviSnl,
Germany. Whiskey and the devil IN
his own Characteristic way
six thousand persons stood up and
cheered for I'VE minutes when Billy
declared that God always waits for
his instruments-that he had, waited
for "WoodEow Wilson to sit at the
peace table in these dark days, just
as he waited for Joan Of Arc to free
the French people and for George
Washington TO drive the minionsa of
George III, from our sllores."'
And Fm not a Democrat either"
said Billy
Billy declared that while the war
is apparently over there is just as
grave a mepace hanging over the
heads OF our people now as were the
German, hordes IN 1914. = -.
! '.BoIsheyism," unless. it is stamped
ont" he said, ais destined to develop
from a fostering sore TO a national
cancer and unless an operation is per
formed now it may be too late"
ship every propagandist OF Boil
shevism back to Russia and then
kiss the old girl for joy" he said.
.Rhodyp DenOunees Brest Camp.
Billy's preliminary trio, Rhodeheav-
er, Brewster and Matthews, entertain
ed the crowd for fully an hour before
the big show began. "Rhody" sang
and entertained the audience with
anecdotes of Yanks in France.
He declared that every man who
had lived through a period at Brest
was deserving of a Croix-de-Guerre.
''Matty" and Brewster ragged" sew
eral of, BiIly's famous hymns on the
pianos.
BflIy and his party left after the
! performance for Richmond, where he
will continue his campaign there for
two more weeks. ..
Here are. some "Billyisms":
when came in this tabernacle to-
night every bench, post, rafter, board,
/ knot, and knothole seemed to say,
I Hello, Bill. glad to see you back
| Major Pullman and the Washing
! ton police are the finest bunch OF
cops that ever frisked a crook, pinch
ed a safe-cracker. or buzzed a porch
climber: .,..
RapS Old John BarIeyeOFn.
! Before long it will be SO. dry in
| America that you will have to prime
/ a man to make him spit
Anybody who says, No beer, no
work can go to the devil. And any
/ organization that. fosters such people
I as this can so to hell. They are an
archists.
; ..Trotsl1y and his bewhiske-ed.
/ lousy, sin-intested, garlic-bresthed,
J putrid. souled bunch OF .utthroats
, end murdsrers in Russia are. tie out
I growth OF soapbox oratory in Nav
! Ofk.
'Why when that damnable lizard
goes out for a little outing before
! breakfast he takes a special train
/ OF fifteen cars armed with machine
guns to shoot down defenseless peo-
| pie just for sport.
! "If God would send the who!o Bol-
! shevik tribe in this couptry back TO
! Russia, and then let me be Goc for
/ about fifteen minutes there wouldn't
! be many Of them left.
THE Bolshevist yell is down with
: capital" Why they claim that ev-
I cry man who owns a LIBERTY bond,
tin lizzie, a life insurance policy
or his own home is a capitalist.
-s"Our libraries are nothing but
cemeteries for a lot OF dead books,
but there iJ one book which will
never die-the Bible.
green peas at Gibraltar 18th pop
gun or to dam Niagara wish a tooth
| pick as 10 bury the Bible.
- few months ago millions would
cheer at the kaiser's name. Now this
same bunch needs a soda mint to
settle their Stomachs every time you
mention his name.
Il never mention the Kaiser and
| lis bunch of international porch
| climbers without using a disinfectant
/ TO wash out my mouth.
! "The Kaiser is the ambassador
! from Hell.
"The Kaiser said he and God were
| partners. He's a liar. He and the
| devil arc partners, and he has made
! He'll q side show.
| Germany lost when she turned
/ from the church to krupp. The Prus-
/ sian eagle became a turkey buzzard.
| This talk Of not fighting the Ger
/ man people is all bunk. The German
| people backed the Kaiser when his
! hordes rs ped Belgium. when they de-
stroyed Russia, when they choked
| Roumania, when they jimmied their
| way into Serbia, and when they
! burglarized France. This same bunch
would have shrieked with joy il KAT
ser Bill could have done the same
/ thing to the United States.
Culture without morals is DOOM
ed. Germany has gone and Russia
is on the toboggan so fast you can't
see her for dust"
NAT GOODWIN LEAVES $4,000.
! NEW YORK, Feb. II.-Nst C.
4 Goodwin, who died January 81, left
an estate of only $4,000 all in per-
= sonalty,- il was. disclosed when his
parents, Nathaniel {. and Caroline
Goodwin, aged eighty-five. and eighty
years, respectively. and whose bone
is in RoXbury. Mass, made apbliCa.