The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-10
Evolution. Capitalism and the Workers

place that opening at Dayton, tennessee
Scopes in public school, be brought
to trial for teaching evolution nature
by legislature evidence of the retarded development
of a who of the United States.
The yet industrad 1t is dominated Intellectually
by conceptions which found in the Industrial
centers where regous ukewarm towards
orthodox religion. .sssss e.o.se~oe
1t noticeable that the great metropolitan the
Scopes has given them splendid
scientific ruthtruth divorced from
the class conflict
rising capitalism that brought about the Reformation
the restrictions placed independent inquiry by feuda religion
progress difficult and the merchant class broke the
power of the Roman church
religion been capitalism has
the ethics of christianity al
interfere with bunesshe bourgeose have codes
Lafargue explained long ago:
One for business and one for their private lives
the struggle takes place with the result
that the best christian businessmen the biggest hypocte
But get back to Dayton.
There is to working in taking
place little where eudal reaction the
saddle The defenders of Scopes and his Of the
middle class 1t is therefore evident that within that class deep
division.
barrow typical middle class liberal professional in
believer in personal liberty, EDUCATED
and cultured
Bryan represents the agarian element in the middle class
the welodo farmers of the middle and Of the
opposed those big capital
POpuists and Free Sveres rang always around some
himmerica reform which their
antagonm the of industry finance by the
big capitalists .-ef
The city and opposition
another Dayton and it noticeable that Bryan calling
heaped upon the
metropolitan press of his campaign defense of the dogma
special creation and the first chapter of Genesis
In Great Britain this struggle fought out during the SOS
and COS complete victory capitalism feudaism
symbozed the huge industry and the of
dustrial capitalism with the proletaranaton of the
majority Masses accompanied spread
raonaim the printing and distributing of millions of pamphlets
on the Darwinan theory; pamphlets by Lyel Huxe McCabe
Haecke, Lubbock
But not until the dominant capitalist class had found in
the Darwnan theory of the survival of the fttes" justification
of evolution became negligible England The jungle law of ooh
be emnently period
Nature itself had placed the seal Of approval British capital
all its they claimed this distorted Darwnism
became petted darling of the lords of coal and steel
may well say here that capitalism seldom if
with truth Scientific in
physics chemistry biology anthropolog astronomy geology and
other 1t is the sociological sciences where
the class character of society is shown by truthful investigator
that owned by the ruling class Academic freedom
cuad only when the results scientific research tend to
the hypocy and cruelty Of the ruling class and weaken it or
strengthen the working class
handmaden capitalist production
this valuable servant it is going to destroy.
that it is abstract freedom
metropolitan
have the and the kind publicity
given by it to another recent case-the Giow
Here The question involved the constu
tonal right to advocate the overthrow of American capitalist
and the replacement of it by workers and farmers
o pen States supreme court
wiped the constitutional free speech legad
criminal syndicam in S5 placed
the whole working class in jeopardy.
capitalist press denounces rdcules
the prosecution of Scopes chorus approval
in the Glow
There thing with
the aneouon law under which he tried that grave
the working class We be certain that spite
the devotion abstract truth manifested by the capitalist press
that the Tennessee law upheld other adopt
they will be freely capitalist suppress
all educational work having social significance
Just the criminal syndicaism laws adopted
for the curbng of aliens then against
working class win of
jaing the most intelligent and militant workers.
Invoked for this purpose they will objects instead
of denunciation in the capitalistpress eRs4