SCOP’S TRIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1925, Page 2

SCOP’S TRIAL

MANY HEATED SCENES (By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright.) (Australi-n & N.Z. Cable association.) NEW YORK. July I<J The Scopes trial is producing heated scenes between opposing to impel. M Brvau, one counsel for the prosecul-irw declared that more than hall’ the scu-r tti s t s throughout the country do. not be Hove in a.' personal God or in unmor tali tv. 'llie Leopold Loch case- was r sample of what that doctrine was doim through tho Universities. It. made mur derers. These people had no right tc teach children to scoff at- religion atu their ancestors. After reading front Dai win’s decent of man. he. said it traced man’s ascent through old world monkeys, not even from American monkeys. Here we. have on rglourions pedigree and every child is supposed to substitute it for the Bible. General McKenzie .another prosecuting counsel, declared they .wanted to place words in God’s mouth, that he made stjime kind of protoplasm, threw it into the ocean and said “if you wait, six thousand years I will make something out. of you.” The Court is daily crowded to excess.