1920's Science and Technology | "Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub"

Newspaper article

By: H.L. Mencken

Date: July 11, 1925

Source: Mencken, H.L. "Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub." Baltimore Evening Sun, July 11, 1925. Available online at http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/docs/menckenorgy.htm; website homepage: http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/hist.htm (accessed May 7, 2003).

About the Author: Henry Louis Mencken (1888–1956) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and joined the Baltimore Herald as a reporter in 1899. Seven years later he moved to the Baltimore Sun, where he wrote until 1948. Throughout his career Mencken was a polarizing figure. Supporters admired his wit and literary taste. Critics disliked his pro-German bias, his contempt for the poor, and his hatred of...