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Source: The Real Billy Sunday Source type: book Document type: book chapter Document title: “A Hard Hitter of the Liquor Traffic” [chapter 19] Author(s): Brown, Elijah P. Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company Place of publication: New York, New York Year of publication: 1914 Pagination: 208-14 (excerpt below includes only pages 213-14) |
| Citation |
| Brown, Elijah P. “A Hard Hitter of the Liquor Traffic” [chapter 19]. The Real Billy Sunday. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914: pp. 208-14. |
| Transcription |
| excerpt of chapter |
| Keywords |
| Billy Sunday (public statements); presidential assassinations (comparison); McKinley assassination (religious response); McKinley assassination (personal response: prohibitionists, temperance advocates, etc.); anarchism (religious response). |
| Named persons |
| James A. Garfield; Abraham Lincoln; William McKinley. |
| Notes |
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The excerpt below is part of a sampling of Sunday’s “booze sermon”
(pp. 210-14).
From title page: The Real Billy Sunday: The Life and Work of Rev.
William Ashley Sunday, D.D., the Baseball Evangelist.
From title page: By Elijah P. Brown, D.D. (Ram’s Horn Brown).
From title page: Illustrated. |
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A Hard Hitter of the Liquor Traffic [excerpt]
“It is the saloon that cocks the
highwayman’s pistol. The saloon that puts the rope in the hands of the mob.
It is the anarchist of the world, and its dirty red flag is dyed with the blood
of women and children. It sent the bullet through the body of Lincoln. It nerved
the arm of the assassins who struck down Garfield and McKinley.
“Yes, it is a murderer. Every plot that was ever
hatched against our flag, and every anarchist plot against the government and
law, was born and bred, and crawled [213][214]
out of the grogshop to damn this country.