The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-18

such school or college or institu-
ton of learning Any per-
son violating any of the provisions
of this section shall be fined not
less than $50 nor more than 81 900"
When first introduced, the New
York Call reports, the bill was
considered one of the annual
freaks introduced into every leg
stature" but it aroused much ser
ious discussion within and without
the state, and now, with the two
houses of the lawmaking body re-
lecting the division Of opinion
among kentuckians, feeling is
running almost as high as in a
presidential campaign" according
TO the Philadelphia Record.
The Savannah News, somewhat
aghast at the bigotry threatening
the Blue Grass country, wonders if
prohibition has anything to do with
it. for, it says:
There was q time when Ken
lucky was very broadminded A
man could believe what he believed.
He could even practice shooting
his neighbors in private wars. He
raced his horses and bet all he had
en- his favorite He drank his
whisky neat-or, when he had time,
which was often, he drank a julep.
What he thought was his own bust
ness. and he defended his ideas at
any personal cost. No lawmaker
could tell him what his religious
beliefs ought to be. He could be-
lieve a man assembled or descended
from a monkey if he wanted to-"
But whether or not the product
of the 18th amendment, the Spring
field Republican is certain that the
4 proposed law is Just moonshine. y
However, its author meant well,
no doubt" the Kansas City Times
feels. Probably "he heard about
a the theory of evolution, and al
though it is plain he did not under
n stand it-he was a legislator, You
III know-his mind received a great
NJ shock, probably its first. His first
N thought, when he recovered, was
n TO protect other minds that never
Fl have been shocked, and OF course
n he could think of no other way to
A do it than to decree a law for
bidding shocks"
II Bryan Takes Hand.
r AS in those other days when Ken
lucky was one of the outposts of a
mighty movement, carpetbaggers
are taking a hand, in defense and
opposition. The president OF the
state university has called upon
his Intercollegiate associates to en-
ter their protests" and according t.
the New Haven Journal Courier
the appeal has not fallen upon
deaf ears" for university preSl-
dents and college functionaries are
n sending in their protests in goodIy
number and in a serious frame OF
mind" New Ravens own instltu-
ton Of learning warns Kentucky
that such crusading lis certain tc
make her the laughing stock or the
world" while Butler OF Columbia
insists that il the job is to be done
at all it must be done thoroughly
and made ito include in it's pro
III hloition the use of any book IN
III which the word evolution is defined
used, or referred to in any way. II
might even be desirable to include
Id prohibition or books that use any
III OF the letters by which the WORD
evolution could be used" SO as tc
avoid the ingenious manipulaions
OF the INSCRIPTIONS.
III To their assistance the propon-
ents Of the bill have called thai
III perennial carpetbagger, William
Jennings Bryan He has visited
kentucky, land against his speeches
nothing that the greatest educators
and ministers of the land have had
70 say has been able to prevail,
me Charleston News and Courier
observes. The Commoner has
found new ISSUE" the Charleston
paper continues, lone which may
III vel last him from now on, as Ir-
vln Cobb you'd put it." and Gin the
nsnt of the enthusiasm with whicf
has been received in Kentucky
We may find him swept into the sen
ate on that issue by the votes OF the
sitzens of Florida. But the John
own Democrat thinks that "wher
William Jennings Bryan under
axes to sweep back the rising
udes of human knowledge he has
perhaps set himself as dubious
Hsk as that to which old KIM
Ssnute put his feeble hand"