Show I 1 prof scopes was not arrested f for or doing anything as an individual by WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN anti evolutionist As an individual prof john T scopes is perfectly free to think and an d speak as lie he likes and the christians of tennessee will protect him in tho the enjoyment of these inalienable rights but that is not the tennessee ca case and has nothing to do with it professor scopes was not arrested for doing anything as an individual lie he is arrested for violating a law as a a representative of the state and as an employee in a school As a representative lie he lias has no right to misrepresent as an employee he is is compelled to act under the direction of his employers and has no right to defy instructions and still claim his salary tile the right of free speech cannot be stretched as far as professor scopes is trying to stretch it A man cannot demand a salary for saying what his employers do not want said and he fie cannot require his employers to furnish an audience to talk to especially an audience of children or young people when lie he wants avants to say what the parents do not want said the duty of a parent to protect his children is more sacred than the right of a teacher to speak especially to teach what parents do not want taught when the speaker demands pay for his tea teaching ebing and insists on being furnished an audience to talk to and I 1 way may add that professor scopes is doing more harm to teachers than to anyone else if lie establishes tho the doctrine that a teacher can say anything lie he likes to the students regard lessof the wishes of his employers who are the parents and taxpayers it will become cepe necessary mry to inquire what teachers think before they are employed |