Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — BIBLE IN THE SUPREME COURT. [ARTICLE]

BIBLE IN THE SUPREME COURT.

Case to Prevent Its Reading in School Reaches Nebraska Bench. The mandamus suit to prevent the reading of the Bible, reading hymns, or offering prayer in the public schools of Nebraska, has reached the Supreme Court on appeal and is expected to be argued at an early day. The plaintiff is Daniel Freeman of Gage County, and the defendants the directors of school district No. 2. For three years Mr. Ffeeman has made an energetic but unsuccessful fight against the use of the Bible iu this school. One of the significant statements In the answer on behalf of the school district is that Leon Czolgosz repudiated the Bible and blasphemed the hymns sung in the school, and which were among the favorites of William McKinley.