* * * “Dayton is the center and the seat of this trial largely by circumstance. We are told that more words have been sent across the ocean by cable to Europe and Australia about this trial than has ever been sent by cable in regard to anything else happening in the United States. That isn’t because the trial is held in Dayton. It isn’t because a school-teacher has been subjected to the danger of a fine from $100 to $500, but I think illustrates how people can be drawn into prominence by attaching themselves to a great cause. Causes stir the world, and this cause has stirred the world. It is because it goes deep. It is because it extends wide, and because it reaches into the future beyond the power of man to see. Here has been fought out a little case of little consequence as a case, but the world is interested because it raises an issue, and that issue will some day be settled right, whether it is settled on our side or the other side.”—W. J. Bryan, in his last court speech, see page 316.
