BILLY SUNDAY

Levin Daily Chronicle, 18 May 1918, Page 4

BILLY SUNDAY

. MAKES A BED CROSS APPEAR. IN RED HOT LANGUAGE. With the Stars and Stripes waving (says a rccently-arriveii Tri'ounc), Billy Sunday made his Chicago debut. After receiving the welcome of a chccring, shouting, singing crowd in the afternoon, he went to Kvanston, and there, to the tunes of 'Yankee Doodle' and 'Dixie' began his big drive. The big Patten gymnasium was jammed. In ordinary circumstances it seats 5000, but with tho rostrum placed midway down one of the long sides so that all might hear the speaker, more than that number were waiting for Billy at 7 o'clock —15 minutes after the doors were open. In another 15 minutes the rear aisles were crowded with standing people. It was 8.5 before Sunday arrived, and when tbe bubbub diud down Thomas -b'Holgate, acting-president of Northwestern, announced a programme of patriotic music, and "Insipiration" Rodeheaver took command. "Yankee Eoodle" blared forth from the sonorous, resonant trombone of its evangelistic master, and was followed by "Dixie." The great crowd cheered and cheered. Then, with every one with him, at the height of enthusiasm, Billy Sunday took hold of his first audience. He had it in the palm of his hand from the first word, and held it, enthralled. NOT A RELIGIOUS ADDRESS. It was not a religious address on its face. Under the auspices of the Northwestern Unverstiy Young Women's Christian Association, ho was speaking for the benefit of the Rod Cross. He wore his overcoat until he started speaking, and then threw it aside as though it had hampered him and is if he welcomed free limbs. ( _ "Every man's value," he said, "is judged, not whether he rides in a tin Lizzie, or a big limousine, but by his ability to serve his God. "Religion and patriotism are twins. They go hand in hand. "If Germany puts 10,000,000 men on her Western front, we'll put 15,000,000 there, and if she puts 15,000,000 there wo'll have 20,000,000 on the job. ' "We'll lick her to a frazzle. "When our crowd breaks loose on tho Western front Hindenburg and the hot dog crowd will think Sherman was right. "Anybody that opposes conscription is a black-hearted traitor. Those wh« oppose it would face a firing squad if I had my way. "Don't in these days be a croaker and a knocker —be a booster rooster and get to work." The crowd went wild with every hit he scored. Here is a sample of the 42-centimetre ammuntion he exploded against the Germans, their ruler, and America's enemies abroad and at home: HIS HOTTEST SHOT. "The Kaiser, that dirty dog, has kept bragging that he was going to eat Ms next Christmas dinner in Paris. That hot doj. bollv gnzsoled ,treacherous murderer will be damned lucky if he eats his next Christmas dinner in Berlin after Uncle Sam gets through with him.' "Ths liell the Kaiser has created on earth makes the real hell look like a side-show, and he is such a liar that Ananias is a Sunday school teacher beside him.'' • "Do you know what a pacifist is? He is on e too damned cowardly to fight ana too damned cowardly to run. He ought to be stood up against a wall with a firing squad." "Those I.W.W. fiends ought to be stood up against a wall, too. facing a firing .squad. I'd only be too glad to lead s\ich a firing squad." "Anvbody in this country who don't do what he "can to help win this war is worse than an alien." "If it hadn't, been for what the French and British did to hold them back, the German murderers would be at our doors now." "All great times bring great leaders," said Mr Sunday. "Woodrow Wilson is the great leader here. We •.ven't-sing 'We're Coining, Father Abraham. One Hundred Thousand Strong,' as we did in the civil war, but wc will iing 'We are coming, Father Woodrow, -en million strong." "This is a war between Woodrow aid Bill, between Hohenzollernism and Unci a Sam, between heaven and hell, and there is no doubt about the side rhut we lU'C 011. "We will beat the Kaiser, no matter low many it takes. Wc will meet his ante and'raise it every time. GERMANY CAN'T WIN. "Von Hertling is trying to camouflage the German people into believing that they can win this war. But wc know better. The Kaiser never knew what real fighters were until he ran up the Americans. They are men — they are. You don't get anything but men to go over there ar.d stand up to shells and bayonets and poisonous gas for 32 bones a month. They can stand it too, all that they, will have to stand— the life in the trenches, the mud, going hungry and thirsty. "They are a bunch oi dirty liars, the Germans, and wc arc going to prove it to them. "You've got to do your pari, though; you can't expect those fellows to go ivi'r th.'ve ami light while ,V° U do nothing. Uncle oam needs your money, and he's the boy that will get it. He could you get out of your tiu Lizzie and hoof it down thp street. "But. he don't want to do it that ■way. He prefers to sell you Liberty bonds and thrift stamps at good rates of interest. But he's going to get the money all right. WARMS TO PERORATION. "The J£y.iser claims he has u partnership witlj God. I'll venture to say he has a partnership with tjie Devil, but he has the devil backed off the boards fanning for air, , , "Germany lost out when gh 0 turned from Christ to Krupp, when she turned from the cross of Christ to the cross of iron. Germany has been indicted by the international grand jury, I say lot's call it a trial and to hell with her. "Germany prepared for this war for fifty years and then seized upon the assassination of an Austrian prince as a pretext for starting it. Why, from what 5- car. jlwarn, that dirty dog of a prince should hay.e Jjccn killed long before he was. "We in this country have got to stop our extravagance. We have got to keep our war factot'ie£ going at full tilt, haven't bought a suit of clothes since this war began. I don't expect to buy one until it is over. I know doggoned well I won't buy any until the war is ovev unless the ones that I have so fall to that I get arrested for nakedness or 'unless I don't have any more than uno.ugti left to flag a train with. , "Anybody in tins country that don t do what he can to help the conduct of this war is worse than an <'U<Miiy a if.en. The men that sell liquor to soldiers and the women that sell them disease ought so "be taken out and stood up against a watt and Jwt.''