WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.001 America is many things to many people. 00:00:28.001 --> 00:00:32.001 To a 17 year old kid it's the malt shop on the corner. 00:00:38.001 --> 00:00:42.000 To grandpa it's the front porch in the cool of the evening. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.001 To mother and her family it's church on Sunday morning. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.001 And to dad it's his favorite relaxation. 00:00:58.001 --> 00:01:01.001 It's the cracker barrel of philosophers in crab tree corners. 00:01:02.001 --> 00:01:04.001 And it's the cocoons in Wall Street. 00:01:05.001 --> 00:01:08.000 It's all races, creeds and religions. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.000 It's freedom to work at the job you like. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.000 Freedom of speech and to peaceably assemble. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.000 Freedom to own property. 00:01:21.001 --> 00:01:24.001 Security from unlawful search or seizure. 00:01:25.001 --> 00:01:27.000 Where's your warrant, flatfoot? 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.000 The right to a speedy and public trial. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.001 Protection against cruel punishments and excessive fines. 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.000 The right to vote. 00:01:40.001 --> 00:01:42.001 And to worship God in your own way. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.001 It is these freedoms that have made America strong. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.001 Okay, okay, so we got our freedom. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:52.001 But management's lousing up everything. 00:01:53.001 --> 00:01:56.000 Labor is at fault. It's ruining the country. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:02.001 My constituents, as your elected representative, I can assure you labor's right. 00:02:03.001 --> 00:02:06.001 Management's right. I'm strictly neutral. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.001 Labor, management, politicians, who are they? They can't tell corn from oats. 00:02:11.001 --> 00:02:14.001 [...] take the money out of my pocket. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.000 Every, every, every step right up, folks. 00:02:17.001 --> 00:02:19.000 Here's the answer to your problems. 00:02:19.001 --> 00:02:23.000 Dr. Utopia's sensational new discovery, ISM. 00:02:23.001 --> 00:02:26.001 ISM will cure any ailment of the body politic. 00:02:26.001 --> 00:02:28.001 It's terrific. It's tremendous. 00:02:29.001 --> 00:02:34.000 Once you swallow the contents of this bottle, you'll have the bountiful benefit 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.000 of higher wages, shorter hours, and security. 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.000 Enormous profits, no strikes. 00:02:40.001 --> 00:02:42.001 Remember, you're the big boss. 00:02:43.001 --> 00:02:45.001 Government control, no worry about votes. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.000 Name your own salary. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.001 Bigger crops, lower cost. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.000 Why ISM even makes the weather perfect every day. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.001 And now then, because we are introducing this amazing item, for the first time in 00:02:58.001 --> 00:03:02.000 this country, it isn't going to cost you one cent. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.000 All you have to do is sign this little scrap of paper, and you get your bottle 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.001 absolutely free. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:15.001 I hereby turn over to ISM Incorporated everything I have, including my freedom 00:03:15.001 --> 00:03:21.001 and the freedom of my children and my children's children, in return for which 00:03:21.001 --> 00:03:24.001 said ISM promises to take care of me forever. 00:03:26.001 --> 00:03:27.001 [...] 00:03:28.001 --> 00:03:29.001 I'm a coward! 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.000 Get out of the way! 00:03:32.001 --> 00:03:34.001 Pardon me. Pardon me. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.001 And who are you, my good man? 00:03:36.001 --> 00:03:38.001 I'm John Q. Public. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.000 Oh, my fine friend, you're just in time to share this 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.001 generous and gigantic offer. 00:03:44.001 --> 00:03:45.001 Sign right here. 00:03:46.001 --> 00:03:48.000 Mind if I read it first? 00:03:48.001 --> 00:03:49.001 Hurry up, John! 00:03:49.001 --> 00:03:51.001 [...] me see! 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.000 Keep your shirts on, boys. 00:03:56.001 --> 00:03:59.000 You know, including my freedom. 00:04:00.001 --> 00:04:00.001 Freedom? 00:04:01.001 --> 00:04:03.001 Sign away my freedom. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.001 Why, this is ridiculous. 00:04:05.001 --> 00:04:07.000 Don't be corny, brother. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:13.000 Sure, our system of free enterprise isn't perfect. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.001 But before we throw it away for some imported double talk, let's turn the clock 00:04:19.001 --> 00:04:22.001 back a few years to see what it's done for us. 00:04:23.001 --> 00:04:29.000 For example, back in the 1890s, Joe Dokes was just a guy who liked 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.000 to tinker around his barn. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.000 Some people thought Joe was lazy. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.000 Some even thought he was nuts. 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.000 But one day, he had an idea. 00:04:40.001 --> 00:04:46.000 And because he was free to dream, scream, and tinker, Joe had a chance to make 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.000 something of himself in his idea. 00:04:49.001 --> 00:04:53.001 So... 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:03.001 Of course, some people didn't think so much of Joe's idea. 00:05:06.001 --> 00:05:07.001 But that didn't stomper. 00:05:10.001 --> 00:05:17.000 So Joe got some money from young Aunt Minnie, and Uncle 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:23.001 Angus, and Grand Pappy, and Mr. Titus. 00:05:25.001 --> 00:05:30.001 When Joe's friends and relatives used their savings to help him buy tools and 00:05:30.001 --> 00:05:32.001 property, they were capitalists. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.000 Don't blush, folks. It's nothing to be ashamed of. 00:05:37.001 --> 00:05:40.001 Now, naturally, Joe needed some help. 00:05:41.001 --> 00:05:46.001 So he hired Willie Lumpkin, who was out of work anyway, and before long, Willie 00:05:46.001 --> 00:05:50.000 had the know-how and became skilled labor. 00:05:51.001 --> 00:05:57.000 Because capital, management, and labor worked together, Joe's idea grew. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.001 It grew and did things even he never dreamed of. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.000 Today, the automobile industry provides millions of jobs 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.001 that never existed before. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.000 And remember, this is a story of only one industry. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.001 There are thousands more scattered all over the United States, whose history of 00:06:17.001 --> 00:06:20.000 development is pretty much the same. 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:25.000 We've built a country under the American system that sends more young people to 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.001 high school and college than all the rest of the world combined. 00:06:29.001 --> 00:06:35.000 Why, even in the Depression, our wages bought more food, clothing, travel, and 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.000 entertainment than the wages of any other people in the world. 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:44.001 Our country has a national income equal to the total national incomes of any 00:06:44.001 --> 00:06:46.001 other six nations of the world. 00:06:47.001 --> 00:06:52.001 With only 7% of the earth's power, we drive 70% of the world's automobiles. 00:06:53.001 --> 00:06:58.000 That's just a sample of the things the capitalistic system has given us in only 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.001 160 years. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:07.001 Before signing up, you boys ought to try a little taste of Dr. Izzam's formula to 00:07:07.001 --> 00:07:10.001 see what you'd get in exchange for your freedom. 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.001 Go ahead, try it. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.000 You can't do this to me! I'll strike! 00:07:23.001 --> 00:07:25.001 The state forbids strikes. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.001 Wait till the Union hears about this! 00:07:30.001 --> 00:07:32.000 Ah, yes, the Union. 00:07:33.001 --> 00:07:37.001 Welcome to our ranks, number 1313. 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:43.000 I'll take this case to the Supreme Court. 00:07:43.001 --> 00:07:45.000 The state is the Supreme Court. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:47.001 Our decision is as follows. 00:07:50.001 --> 00:07:54.000 No more private property, no more youth. 00:07:57.001 --> 00:08:00.000 And the farm voted for to stop to this. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.001 Farmers don't vote anymore. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.000 What'll they do for seed next year? 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.001 You won't have to worry about next year. The state will do your 00:08:11.001 --> 00:08:13.000 planning from now on. 00:08:15.001 --> 00:08:21.000 We must fight to regain our freedom, for everything is lost. 00:08:21.001 --> 00:08:24.000 Everything... 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:29.001 Everything is fine. Everything is fine. Everything is fine. Everything is fine. 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:37.000 When anybody preaches disunity, tries to pit one of us against the other through 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:43.001 class warfare, race hatred, or religious intolerance, you know that person seeks 00:08:43.001 --> 00:08:48.000 to rob us of our freedom and destroy our very lives. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.001 And we know what to do about it. 00:08:51.001 --> 00:08:53.001 Now gentlemen, no violence, please. 00:08:54.001 --> 00:08:57.000 Don't throw those bottles! Don't throw those bottles! 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.000 Oh, no, no! 00:09:00.001 --> 00:09:03.001 Working 00:09:03.001 --> 00:09:10.001 together to produce an ever greater abundance of 00:09:10.001 --> 00:09:13.000 material and spiritual values for all. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.001 That is the secret of American prosperity.