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EVOLUTION 



August, 1929 



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 he did it it proved a transvaluation of all values and 

 the degradation of all moralities. 



As an American citizen born in this country, after 

 generations and generations of ancestral voters, I 

 stand for my land, and while my voice lasts, I expect 

 to lift it up in opposing a doctrine that hasn't a scin';ilia 

 of evidence in the heaven above, the earth beneath, or 

 the waters under the earth. (Applause.) 



I say as a father of six children, as a teacher of f"ur 

 hundred in my school, as a taxpayer, and consequeurly 

 a citizen, I shall do my utmost to put this thing out of 

 the public schools of America. I thank you. 



(Applause and hisses.) 



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THE CHAIRMAN: Professor McCabe will now 

 close with five minutes. 



PROFESSOR JOSEPH McCABE: I am afraid 

 this audience must be entirely fundamentalist and is 

 trying to prevent me from getting my precious five 

 minutes (referring to prolonged applause). (Laughter.) 



Dr. Riley, as I expected, in his first speech declined 

 to follow the lead that I gave him and waited until 

 his second speech, knowing that I have only five min- 

 utes to answer that Niagara of argument that he put 

 out. The order of this meeting has been altered at the 

 request of Dr. Riley. After the second speech we were 

 to have ten minutes each in which we might have deah 

 more or less satisfactorily with each other. As it is, 

 what do you expect me to do in five minutes? For- 

 tunately, the greater part of what Dr. Riley said was 

 entirely irrelevant to this debate tonight. 



f VOICES: Right! Hooray! Appbuse.) 



I am appealing only to such members of this audience 

 as are going to give us a sober, intellectual verdict on 

 the question. The best thing that I could do to give Dr. 

 Riley a chance was this : to inform him that all scien- 

 tific men are agreed. I do not count noses. I did not 

 ask you to believe evolution because all scientific men 

 are agreed. I said if they are all agreed, you will ex- 

 pect something very serious and very substantial from 

 Dr. Riley. Did you get it? (VOICES : No.) 



So far as my analysis goes, he has at last given me 

 one thing to reply to. I told him that all the facts of 

 the universe are in keeping with evolution. He asked 

 me to run over all the facts of the universe and show 

 it. (Laughter.) Surely, the best opportunity I could 

 give Dr. Riley was to tell me one that is inconsistent. 

 That is logic. Tell me one that is inconsistent and my 

 case falls. At last I got one supposed inconsistency, 

 the bees. (Laughter.) And once more Dr. Riley does 

 not know the elements of the subject. (Laughter.) 



Of fourteen families of bees twelve have no means 

 of making wax or using wax whatever, and the only 

 fossil bees we have belong to those families that never 

 make any wax whatever. Dr. Riley said the bees and 

 ants are the oldest forms of life. They are, on the con- 

 trary, amongst the youngest. 



I claim, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I claim 

 that I put before you this statement : The whole uni- 

 verse is the basis of evolution, and Dr. Rilev must 



show you facts which will bring that statement to the 

 ground and show things inconsistent with evolution. 

 He has not done so. I claim, therefore, in conclusion, 

 that this anti-evolution campaign is founded upon a 

 complete ignorance of scientific teaching. (Applause.) 



Dr. Riley has accused me of insulting America. I 

 have been for ten years the most friendly interpreter 

 of American life in the whole of Europe. Never for 

 a single moment have I said a word against America. 

 That is why I am here before you tonight. 



Well, I submit to you that the doctrine of evolution 

 is proved. This anti-evolution doctrine, which has 

 made America conspicuous before the educational 

 world, is not proved. It rests upon complete — not only 

 complete ignorance, but complete misrepresentation of 

 science from beginning to end. ( Applause. ) And 

 while I admit that parents can determine what shall 

 be taught to their children, I do not admit that any 

 expert people shall not freely tell parents what is true 

 and what is not true. Who is going to decide? Ladies 

 and gentlemen, I put it up to you. You have seen to- 

 night how the anti-evolution campaign in America is 

 engineered. (Applause.) 



I appeal to you. This is my last word, and believe 

 me as in other matters I have been explaining in Eng- 

 land for years what is the meaning of the funda- 

 mentalist campaign. I ask that New York shall at last 

 assert its rightful position as the cultural leader of one 

 of the greatest civilizations of modern times. I ask that 

 .\merica shall purge its intellectual prestige of this 

 stain that has been imposed upon it, and that you will 

 be prepared to lead, not only your States, but lead 

 the world in wisdom and in justice and in peace. 



(Prolonged applause.) 



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The Chairman took a rising vote of the audience, 



which expressed itself at least ten to one in favor of 



Evolution and Prof. McCabe. The vote recorded by 



the official judges was 12 for the Affirmative and 17 



for the Negative, but the poll of the High School Class 



seated on the stage as unofficial judges was 36 to 5 in 



favor of the Affirniative. 



HOW IT HAPPENED TO HAPPEN 



SOME of our friends can not understand how we could 

 select judges for the New York evolution debate who 

 could vote 17 to 12 in favor of the fundamentaHst. In fair- 

 ness to Prof. McCabe we should explain. The original 

 plan was to have 16 judges selected by EVOLUTION, 15 

 by friends of Dr. Riley, and 1 by mutual agreement. The 

 afternoon of the debate we had secured our 16 acceptances, 

 but only 5 of Dr. Riley's Committee had accepted. So, with 

 our consent, he invited a long list of friends, and since he 

 could not tell beforehand which ones would come we 

 agreed to pass them all through at the front door with the 

 understanding that the proper number would be selected to 

 sit as judges when they arrived backstage. 



Not all of the judges selected by EVOLUTION showed f 

 up, but enough of Dr. Riley's friends arrived to bring the 

 total list up to 29. The gentleman in charge of the stage 

 did not know one from the other and seated them all. There 

 was some discussion regarding the matter when the vote 

 was about to be taken, but it was then too late to do any- 

 thing about it, and Dr. Riley is entitled to all the consola- 

 tion that he can derive from the judges" decision under the 

 circumstances. 



