June 5, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORY

While in Nashville, William Jennings Bryan tells the Chattanooga Daily Times that “Professor Scopes can think anything he pleases and say what he likes, so long as he speaks as an individual to those who want to hear him. But he cannot extend his meaning of free speech to demand pay for saying what the taxpayers do not want him to say, and he cannot compel the state to furnish him an audience of school children.”