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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪I've been down to Madison\NTo see the folks and sights;♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪You'd laugh, I'm sure, to hear them talk\NAbout the women's rights.♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪Now it's just as plain as my old hat,\NThat's plain as plain can be♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪That if the women want the vote,\NThey'll get no help from me.♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪Not from Joe, not from Joe;\NIf he knows it...♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking back today,\Nit's somewhat difficult to understand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the violence of the opposition\Nto woman's suffrage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conservative opinion in the country was\Nof course almost universally opposed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the idea of women voting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Church was divided in its position.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While some denominations \Nand individual clergymen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were among the most zealous \Nadvocates of the movement,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others took the stance that women's\Npolitical emancipation would be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beginning of the end\Nof the social morality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which constituted\Nthe moral strength of the nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The enfranchisement of women, \Nit was feared
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would result in the dissolution\Nof the home and family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the destruction \Nof the institution of marriage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most pessimistic of the prophets\Npredicted that the very act of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women's going to the polls and mingling \Nwith the rough crowds on election day
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would plunge the country into moral chaos.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Professional politicians and certain\Npowerful big business interests
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were just as violently opposed \Nto vote for women,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if for very different reasons.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Political leaders felt that they knew\Nhow to manipulate men for party purposes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but manipulating women \Nwas an unknown quantity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which they wished to avoid \Nas long as possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The organized liquor industries,\Nwith their fear of women's influence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the prohibition issue, spent\Ncountless thousands of dollars
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lobbying against women's suffrage, which\Nthey felt threatened their very existence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Add to these elements the fact that \Nmost men of the country
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were understandably reluctant to forego
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their traditional position \Nof sex superiority,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was in a sense symbolized\Nby their power to vote
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fact that many women were quite\Nas unwilling to give up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the protected position in which men's\Nchivalry had placed them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps we can understand why \Nthe battle for woman's suffrage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was inevitably a long and stormy one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the disheartening failure to obtain \Nthe franchise by federal amendment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the close of the Civil War, when the \NNegro was admitted to the vote,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the suffragists changed their tactics and \Nbegan to concentrate their main strength
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a policy of winning the suffrage \Nstate by state.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the turn of the 20th century the \NNational Woman Suffrage Association
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a powerful organization with \Nheadquarters in New York
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an efficiently functioning machine in \Nalmost every state of the Union.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four states in the far West had already \Ngranted women full suffrage as a result of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Association's work and by 1914 almost \Nall the states west of the Mississippi had
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,joined the ranks of the suffrage states \Nand the Association was turning its forces
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the conquest of the traditionally more \Nconservative East.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sinclair Lewis in the novel 'Ann Vickers', \Npublished in 1932, has left an amusing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,account of one of these state suffrage \Ncampaigns during this period.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the following incident from this work \None Dr Melvina Wormser of New York,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,purportedly Chief Surgeon of the Manhattan \NHospital for Women,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President of the Better Obstetrical League,\Nauthor of 'Emancipation in Sex',
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doctor of Science of Yale and Vassar and\Nan officer in all known birth control \Norganizations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is interviewed by the press in advance of \Nher scheduled speech at a suffrage rally
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a city called Clateburn, Ohio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The professional suffragist, says Lewis, \Nhad been cautioned about talking to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,press since the reporters, or at least \Ntheir editors, were always on the alert
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for something scandalous from suffrage \Nheadquarters, some hint that it was a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free love colony or (what was nearly as \Ngood, says Lewis) a frenzied zoo of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,manhaters, anarchists, atheists, \Nspiritualists or anything else
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eccentric or discreditable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The workers for the cause might attack the \Nwater or gas departments,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the city orphanages, President Wilson or \Neven the Allies in the Great War,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they must do so only as Christian \Ngentlewomen and solid taxpayers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They must convince others that the vote \Nwill not lead to moral laxity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but would immediately end prostitution, \Ngambling and the drinking of beer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Dr Melvina Wormser of New York, \Nas guest speaker,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was outside headquarters discipline and a \Nlaw unto herself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here the young suffrage workers in \N'Ann Vickers' stand by in shocked silence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Dr Wormser delivers her opinions \Nto the delighted reporters:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr Wormser, do you believe in free love?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I believe in free love? What do you \Nmean by that, young lady?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can love be anything but free? If \Nyou mean, do I believe that any authentic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passion, not just a momentary itch in the \Nmoonlight, is superior to any ceremony
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,performed by some preacher, why of course,\Ndon't you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[What do you think about birth control?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Do you think women are brighter \Nthan men?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Do you think there's any field women \Nshould not enter?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, one at a time please! Let's see: do I \Nbelieve that women are brighter than men?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tut tut, what a question! Not brighter -- \Njust less mean. But don't try to get me to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,riding men. I'm a folorn old maid, but I \Nadore 'em, the darlings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you suppose men doctors would ever\Ndo without their women nurses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and secretaries? I know! I was a nurse \Nmyself, before I became a doc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now my chief satisfaction in life is \Nthat I don't have to stand up when a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surgeon enters the room!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silly customs like that -- just what a man \NWOULD institute -- poor lambs, we have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take care of 'em and their little egos!\NThat's why we need the vote, for THEIR \Nsake!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Do you think there will ever be a woman \NPresident?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I know, young man? But let me point\Nout that women rulers -- Queen Elizabeth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lovely rakehell Catherine of Russia, \Nthe last Chinese Empress,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen Anne, and \NVictoria -- were better rulers than any
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,equal number of kings OR Presidents!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[How soon do you predict women's suffrage \Nwill be the law of the land?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You boys and girls might as well know that\NI don't believe in hedging and pussyfooting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is going to be a long struggle. Not \Njust getting the vote.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a matter of a couple of years. \NThen we've got to go on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth control. Separate apartments for \Nmarried couples, if they happen to like them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What women need is not merely the vote but\Nsomething more up here, in the head.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't need just exterior opportunity but \Nsomething interior, with which to grab the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opportunity when we get it, and use it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom's no good to a pussycat, only to a\Ntigress!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And women have got to stick together. Men \Nalways have had the sense to -- drat 'em --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sex loyalty. We ought to lie for one \Nanother and sneak off and have a good drink
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together, like the men.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Do you want to rival men?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Do you think there's any field that should\Nbe closed to women?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that there is no field that men \Ncontrol now that women can't enter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely. Medicine, law, politics, \Nphysics, aviation, exploring, engineering,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soldiering, prize-fighting, writing sweet\Nlittle rondels -- only I hope women'll be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too sensible for either the prize-fighting\Nor the rondels, which are both forms of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,male escapism, and singularly alike if you\Nlook at 'em!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only I don't expect women to imitate or \Ntry to displace men in any of these fields.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not one of the gels who believes that \Nthe sole difference between males and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,females is in conception. Women have \Nspecial qualities which the human race has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,failed to use for civilization. \NI know a woman can be as good an architect
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as any man -- but she may be a different \Nsort of architect. I bring something to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine that no man can, no matter how \Ngood he is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Well, how about the army?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if you think women can't go to war, \Nremember what the Teuton tribes, marching
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their women along, did to the \Nbeautiful, virile, professional men
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soldiers of Rome! But the pig-headed \Nmasculine world forgot that lesson for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fifteen hundred years and never discovered\Nit till Florence Nightingale happened in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bullied the masculine British War \NOffice into some of the common sense that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any normal girl would have at seven!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Do you want to rival men?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I don't want to rival men. But I don't\Nwant to be kept by the tradition of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feminine subjection from the privilege of \Nworking eighteen hours a day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not much of a democrat. Believe \Ninferiors ought to be subjected,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they ARE inferiors! But if a girl \Nsecretary is smarter than her male boss,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let HIM be HER secretary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen! In 1945, maybe you'll have to go \Nto England -- that's where they invented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this Inferior Women myth, so men could \Nhave their clubs -- maybe you'll have to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to England to find anybody so benighted\Nthat he'll even know what you're talking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about when you speak of considering \Ncandidates for a job as male and female,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or on any other basis except \Ntheir ability!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Why 1945, Dr Wormser?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I speak of 1945 because I have a hunch \Nthat after we get the vote we'll be less
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ardent feminists. We'll find that work is \Nhard. That jobs are insecure. That we must
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go much deeper than woman suffrage -- \Nmaybe to Socialism; anyway, to something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fundamentally represents both men and\Nwomen, not just women alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a lot of suffragists that pretend to \Nhate men will find the dear brutes are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nice to have around the house. We'll slump.\NBut then we'll come back -- not as shadows
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of men, or as noisy professional females, \Nbut, for the first time since
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Queen Elizabeth, as human beings! There! \NYou ought to be able to get sufficient out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what I've said to make trouble enough \Nfor me to satisfy even a suffrage speaker!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good-day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Oh, thank you, Dr Wormser!]\N[Goodbye, Doctor, and thank you!]