The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-05-07
SAUNDERS RAPS
HELL0L0CISTS
LNTWOSPEECHES
Movement Against Freedom of
Education The Real Menace
of America He Declares

In two high school COM
mencemcnt addresses in two
klan ridden Fundamentals
communities in Eastern North
Carolina this week. W. O.
Saunders branded the move
mcnt against the teaching OF
evolution in the public schools
OF this state as the most vici-
UuS and sinister movement OF
ctr times.
At Merry Hill, in Bertir County
ana ST WalStOnburg in Green Co,ln-
ty Mr.. Saunders faced large audi.
Cnrps of plain North Carolinians
and in his plniuest language told
them that those who were led into
this campaign Of ignorance against
higher educatiOm We're threatening
the vcry foundations Of this demo-
Crurv which We have SO lHhriuuSly
built and that if ku kluckrry ana
FEndHmrntaliSm were permitted to
ga their blind and furious way the
public schools of our glorious demo-
cracy would he reduced tD the alb
irrt state of the lMrOchial schools
Of the r. MN Catholic Church.
"Ku kIucEary and Protestant
F,ludameutalism should he damned
for lhe very fact of their SlnrinS
Inconsistency" declared Mr.. Sa,lud-
rrs. Here we behold the PhariSers
o. onr age. organized in protest
ncainS, the "mrnAre' 0f Roman
Catholicism and the "mcnarr' OF
Jewry. They hesnr1 18th Jews
md Catholics Ms the enrmies Of our
Protestant Gentle country.
And vet they would go Ia "iIr
LEGISLATURE and club that body into
p"Saing Il law Ia make lis swallow
iEr Genesis account Of creation
which WAS passed down to them hy
thr Roman Catholic Church and
VI kich is not regarded aS the word
o. God hy the Jews of modern
fines or 50 taught by Jewish Rab-
hi~ .r a"
Just Like Ro,nahistS
They protest much against the
ur,lrmocratic spirit nf Roman
Ca,hnliCiSm and its sinister hier-
archy. They condemn tho Catholics
lrrarlsp they are opposed to nllr pub
lie schools and damn the fact that
Catholics insist upon sending their
children to their own church con-
t-olIrd schools where they are
taught only those things that the
piicS' would have them tnught.
And yet they would reduce our
own democratic public schools to
the level Of the Roman parochial
schools by debating what our
schools shall and shall not teach.
II they succeed in writing one edn-
cational prohibition into our laws
they will not rest until they have
written others and the cause o1
ponular education in America VIII
have been set back n hundred years.
Catching Up With Jesus
.Thcy toll MS that our modern
schools and universities are under
mining the faith Of orr children
in the Old Testament as the word
Of God. II is fact; our schools
arr doing inst that thing; because
after nineteen hundred years of
ignorance. superstition and deuoml-
national hcllology the best minds
in the world have come at last to
the truth that the jealous. wrath
FIJI. vicious. nurdcrOuS God of
Moses is not the God Of Jesus. The
moral codes Gf those old leaders ot
Israel can never he made to square
with the gospel Of The Christ VINO
set his face forever against the an
ricmt myths and gave lis now re-
lieion based upon universal broth
crhood of man under the rather
hood Of q kind and loving Cod.
For nineteen hundred years
nricstcraft, taking advantage Of the
ignorance of uncducated men. has
us,Irpcd much authority and pro
tended that IFS authority WAS based
upnu tho divine origin OF certain
hooks. If the Old Testament were
eyer thp actual word of God. we
have no assurance that it; letter
and spirit have not been altered
century after century hy the priest
hood. 1t is little wonder that
rriestcraft. having fastened itself
Iiv lies and fGrgeries upon poor
ignorant. poverty stricken humanity
for many centuries, finds itself ter
ror stricken before an age that Is
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