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