The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-02
Sham War in Tennessee
Over Evolution" Holds
No Promise for Workers
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.
TO-DAY, let workers and poor farmers keep uppermost
in their minds, In reading about the so-caed Scopes
monkey trial. Dayton, Tenn that the result Of the legal
icas educational system 1.-THE GooseSep" will be in force
then we'll in the schools where Americas youth
headed by that most arch-reactionary, William Howard
Taft with easy conscience permit the teacher John
Thomas Scopes and other instructors to go ahead teach
ing evolution they fit No will shake the cap
talist structure build the rights Of private property
Yet the legal proceedings will serve some purpose.
They will show the stone age conservatism in which the
democratic South begged atho Dayton, Tenn Is claimed
republican territory The mould of reaction fits alike
upon both the old political parties In Tennessee, else
where
Take Clarence barrow for instance. He is willing to
line up with the defense lawyers barrow accredited
delegate the last democratic convention in New York City,
His politics ought to help him big south OF the Mason and
Dixon line But word got around that barrow ndeI
The clever Chicago lawyer announced that he neither in
de atheist but agnostc which left the Southerners
bewidered than They not accustomed to
such hasplttng distinctions What Is more, however,
they not going to allow any battle they make for the
right teach evolution in the schools of the state destroy
anyones belief in the teachings Of the bible looks If
Darrow who has struggled hard within recent years to
become respectable in capitalist surroundings will find him.
self backbaled by the Tennessee defenders OF evolution
Dudley Field Malone may have better luck He has been
able live down the fact that he wandered far aed from
the donkey democratic fold to for Of New
York, in 1920 the armer-Iabor ticket Within
years Malone has specialized in Paris divorces for of
Americas best in the of aristocratc families, which
has developed into recognized industry
counsel for j. Pepont Morgan legal aid of the West Vr
gna mine barons the phone trust and other oPen shop"
interests who also trotted defender of the right
to teach the doctrines Of evolution"
Charles Darwin surely shudder in his grave
think that lawyers such these mentioned to defend the
principles he espoused.
Private ownership of the nations wealth and natural
will not be touched by this discussion of the
luton of the human Species Dr. Harry Fosdck
considered bera in the church because, among other
tenets, he opposed complete baptsng
victims included in his flock. But John D. Rockefeller Jr
thinks him safe enough to be head of church cost mil
lions of dollars, that the heir of Standard Oil will that
he gets Fosdicks friends contributing ''moraIIy and
financially to the defense of evolution in Tennessee But
religion does not in the least therefore, function
the opium OF the people,
But let Instructor arise demanding his right to
teach social evolution driving toward the final emancipation
of the worlds last oppressed cass-that Communism
on the heels of capitalism with giant strides. II Of
captasms greatest fears that the smallest faint of
Communism should raise its head In the nations school
system Freedom OF teaching that does not permit the
sage of Communism to be heard is liberty gagged and
shackIed 1t is fraud par exceance like all berasms
The American Federation of Teachers affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor has pledged itself stand by
Scopes. 1t is in the Teachers Union, New York City,
allied with this organization, that the so-caed liberals
have started the Communist teachers fearing their
influence in developing in the minds of the workers and their
children desire for real enlightenment Again the terror
OF the Russian example" is invoked nightmare In
defense of capitalism The teacherheresy
York City are neck and neck with the wtchburnes of the
ucationa system gradually developing broadening with
its loyal staff of nstructors-oya to the Workers Repub-
hcs-s already an inspiration TO workers In many lands
But it only thru tremendous upheavaI, that de-
throned capitalism that gave the Russian workers
peasants the right to think for themselves interests
of their class So in the United States this RICH will
to life only in the thunder march of the millions
social revolution erecting the banners of Proetaran
Dictatorship in the struggle for the conquest Of all power
No peaceful combat here within the dull confines Of dusty
court but the open clash the farung fronts
of the class where the tong march victory
against capitalist oppression.
The sham battle evolution" at Dayton, Tenn
holds no promise for the working class The must
still fight the real class battle for their own liberation