The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-07-13
RAD|cAL|S|MREBUKED
BY BILLY SUNDAY
NEARLY 5000 PEOPLE HEAR
EyANGEILsT'S AUDITORIUM
ADDRESS.


ing his flow of words enunciated at
the rate of over two hundred words
per minute; with bent figure sway
ing to right and left in characteristic
baseball fielders attitud, e and with a.
solemn, Now, sir." tackled on as a
Billy Sunday and his significant
patriotic utterances, embellished here
and there with copious alliterative
slangy phrases, can scarcely be for
gotten in years by the great intelli-
gent audience of nearly 5000 people
that sat patiently for over two hours
at the Lake Madison auditorium yes
terday afternoon gripped in their
emotions by ready flights of elo-
quence,. bitterest satire, rounded de-
nunciation and clearly defined prin-
ciples of automatic truth.
Excepting voice rather weakened
by constant use, William A. Sunday
was at his best yesterday in a speech
that followed Introductory statements
both by Mrs Sunday and platform
leader, Rev. k. C. Ballard.
Great applause rang out as Mr..
Sunday took his seat on the crowded
platform. Later, with sea of faces
turned toward him. the magnetic
speaker mentally filmed pictures of
the bloody inquisitorial ages when
medieval dynasties>a and lustful. sord-
idly greedy and rapacious monarchs
hurled their kingdoms and empires
into perdition after series upor series
of most venal exploitation oil iect
colonies.
Briefly sketching the peculiar aa-
tional characteristics of insular and
continental European countries. the
speaker drew attention TO the pio-
neering Pilgrim forces, zealously bull
warked in piety and hungry for foun-
dations of constitutional and relig-
ious liberty, and their revolutionary
struggle that developed Paul Re-
we're and an Otis, an Adams, a James
Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Pat
rick Henry and George Washington
With colorful eloquence, the speaker
portrayed most graphically the his
torieal steps the republic has taken
in its meteoric progress through the
thralldom of slavery TO the towering
world prestige it now enjoys Still,
amidst the crowning glory of great
achievement, the speaker counseled
caution and a listening ear to the
| ground for the rumblings of foment
and disorders breaking forth from
the spawn and spew" of Europe
that now yibrate audibly as the in
sidious and implacable forces of an
archy, radicalism, soyietism, social.
ism, and communism toss their bulk
upon our rock ribbed shores" seek.
4 ing to undermine our civic founda.
tions, to nationalize our mothers and
sisters, to seize the machinery of in.
dustry and production, to destroy
| private property rights and to involve
the republics defenders in the mos
abject involuntary servitude. In his
most vehement manner Mr.. Sunday
branded the foes of democracy and
civil liberty as ''scoundrels, spew
roughnecks, towards" that would
glutton off from the prosperity of al
established order. He thanked Goo
that the great bulwark of protection
against the untutored rabble hordei
that foment Industrial strife and dis
content lies in the strength and pat
riotism of the American Legion. Mr.
Sundays proposed disposal of unde
sirables would meet with general ap
proval His quickest method, he ex
planned, would be deportation or lin
ing them up before the firing squad
Il No anathemas against foreigI
menace was intended by Mr.. Sunda.
for those sturdy, staunch, law abid
ing, industrious Europeans, whethe
Russ, Scot, Finn or Slovak. that be
: came assimilated in the great Amer
ican melting pot To these his ha
Is DOTTED with warm hearted wei
come.
In the course of his lengthy speecl
Mr.. Sunday took occasion to hui
jayelins of righteous wrath In tn
direction of those opposed to law an
order. detailing the train of juvenil
crime now existent and the lowere
age at which prostitution begins. H
spoke Of the prevalence of divorc
and the hideous immodesty of som
forms OF modern female dress an
sounded a warning to the fathers an
mothers of the great increase 1
moral turpitude.
Speaking of prohibition and its el
: fects on sobriety and industry tn
speaker inferred that he would hav
the eighteenth amendment and tn
Volstead act so rigidly enforced tina
"a man would have to be primed bt
fore he could spit. = Great applaus
followed.
An interesting description was Gil