ABSTRACT
In 1925, while the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti were being appealed, another trial captured the nation's attention. In Tennessee, a high school teacher named John T. Scopes was charged with violating a Tennessee statute prohibiting the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. The Parrishes rested their case on the provisions of a statute that had been enacted by the state of Washington a quarter of a century before when, catching the contagion of reform from neighboring Oregon, it had taken steps to wipe out sweatshops. Though Sutherland had been directing most of his barbs at Stone, these last words may well have had a different target. His remarks, one writer conjectured, must have been intended as a rebuke to Roberts. Perhaps so, for the minority opinion did appear to be irritating Roberts, who, after looking toward Sutherland several times, raised a handkerchief to his mouth.
