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00:00The Makers of Campbell's Soup presents the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles producer.
00:27Good evening, this is Orson Welles. Because of the special nature of tonight's broadcast
00:42with its very special demands on an actress's versatility, and because too she is one of
00:46the finest performers in the American theatre, we are fortunate indeed in having with us
00:50in the Campbell Playhouse Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner.
00:55Tonight we bring you an original broadcast. Its subject, the great American dream of personal
01:00liberty and independence. We call it The Things We Have. But before we begin, a word from
01:06Ernest Chappell.
01:08Among our favorite Sunday dinner dishes, I don't think there's anything we prize quite
01:13so highly as chicken. Whether it's roasted and stuffed or fried in tender crisp brown
01:18pieces or fricasseed, the cherished flavor of chicken is something we always look forward
01:23to. Chicken has been the number one dish for special occasions for many, many years.
01:28And because we like chicken so well, we've become mighty critical judges of any chicken
01:33dish that appears on our tables. So I think the fact that Campbell's chicken soup has
01:38grown so steadily in popularity month after month and year after year speaks worlds for
01:43it. And I can safely promise any of you this, as sure as you like chicken, you like Campbell's
01:50chicken soup. Every spoonful, every drop of its golden broth is rich with chicken flavor.
01:55There are tender, nourishing pieces of chicken meat for you to enjoy. And the finest of fluffy
02:01snow white rice drifts all through it. Here's chicken soup to match the finest ever made
02:06at home. And I wouldn't dare to say that if I were not sure that you'll agree with me
02:11once you've tasted Campbell's chicken soup.
02:14And now our American cavalcade, The Things We Have, an original broadcast written and
02:19produced by Orson Welles and starring Cornelia Otis Skinner.
02:49And now our American cavalcade, The Things We Have, an original broadcast written and
03:19produced by Orson Welles and starring Cornelia Otis Skinner.
03:49We're meeting a party by the name of Lange? Yeah. You can go on board now.
03:55Mr. and Mrs. James Scott, citizens? Yes?
03:58You're here for Simon Lange? That's right.
04:01Call Simon Lange. Simon Lange! Simon Lange!
04:06Look, Jim. That's him.
04:09Gee, look at him.
04:12Are you Simon Lange? Yes, sir. Simon Lange.
04:15Mr. and Mrs. James Scott, you have declared your intention of legally adopting this child.
04:20You've certified that you will provide for him until he reaches the age of 21 and undertake
04:24that until then he shall at no time become a public charge in the government of the United States.
04:28Is that correct? It is.
04:30All right, young fellow. Let's see your card.
04:33Age? Nine years old.
04:35Eyes blue. Height? One meter twelve.
04:39Four feet six, I guess. Hair brown.
04:43How about your parents? Mother? My mother is dead two years.
04:46Father? Well, what's your father's name?
04:49Oscar Lange. Father alive?
04:51The boy's father was an associate of mine in business over there six months ago.
04:55Oh, yeah. Sure, I know.
04:57Nationality? Mm-hmm.
04:59All right, son. That's all.
05:01Here's your landing card.
05:03Well, what do you think? Are you going to become an American citizen?
05:06Citizen? What is that? Citizen?
05:09Well, I guess you'll find out after a while.
05:12All right. Good luck.
05:31Hello, Jim. Sorry, Mariette.
05:33Couldn't make the dinner. Work kind of piled up on me at the office.
05:35Is he all right? Fine.
05:37Where is he? He looked pretty tired.
05:39I put him to bed right after dinner.
05:41He said to say goodbye to you. Happy, darling.
05:43Oh, Jim. He's awfully cute. Is he?
05:46When we sat down to dinner tonight, he helped me into my chair.
05:49Every time I walk into the room, he stands up.
05:51What did you do with him all afternoon?
05:53Took him shopping.
05:54Did he say much about his home, about his father?
05:56No.
05:57I guess at that age, kids forget pretty quickly.
06:00Yes, sir.
06:01Did you think he seemed very strange to him?
06:03What are you laughing at?
06:04You can ask the dumbest questions.
06:06Yeah? What sort of questions?
06:08Oh, all about this country, how people live over here.
06:12He's awfully bright, Jim.
06:14Some of the things he asked, I simply couldn't answer.
06:16What'd you do?
06:18I told him to ask you.
06:19Oh, that's nice of you.
06:21You know, seriously, Mariette, there's a lot of things about this country that a kid's got a right to know.
06:25Things he'll have to know before he gets into school.
06:28It's up to you and me to tell him.
06:30Yes, I guess you're right.
06:31Say, Mariette, let's go up and take a look at him.
06:33No, Jim. You'll wake him up.
06:34I won't.
06:35Besides, doesn't a man got a right to have a look at his son?
06:39Say, listen.
06:40Jim, I believe he's crying.
06:42I guess he is.
06:43Oh, Jim.
06:44Poor little guy.
06:48Hello, son.
06:49What's the matter?
06:50What's wrong, dear?
06:51Oh, it's nothing.
06:52Come on, move over.
06:53That's it.
06:54Sit down.
06:57Quite a jump, isn't it?
06:58Yes, sir.
07:00Well, son, it's a jump folks have been taking for a long time now.
07:03Why, for more than 300 years people have been packing up
07:06and leaving everything they know about and coming to America.
07:08I guess the first day they landed, no matter how much they wanted to come,
07:11most of them felt about the same as you do.
07:13Yes, sir.
07:14You see, Simon, this country's made up of people like you.
07:17People who came over here on boats just the same as you.
07:20Why did they do that?
07:22Were they obliged to leave their homes?
07:24No.
07:25I guess they came because they wanted to.
07:27Well, anyway, I guess they all had reasons of their own.
07:30You know, son, you'd write down to it.
07:32We all came here for just about the same thing, freedom.
07:35Freedom?
07:36Yeah, that's the word we used.
07:38My folks did, I know.
07:39There are folks who brought them here, didn't they?
07:41Mrs. Scott's great-great-grandparents and every one of them,
07:44I guess that word freedom meant something different.
07:47For some it meant freedom to think and speak as they pleased.
07:51And others it just meant freedom to exist with a fair amount of happiness,
07:55to earn a decent living by the toil of their hands.
07:58The first people who came here meant freedom to live together
08:01and to worship their God together openly in their own way.
08:06That was over 300 years ago.
08:13A petition presented to His Majesty King James I
08:16in the 16th year of his reign of England, France, and Ireland,
08:20of Scotland the 150th by his humble subjects
08:23to meet for worship in the public places with peace and protection
08:27would be in this world the greatest blessing
08:29which our hearts desire or which would come to us.
08:33But we dare not expect, neither do we ask,
08:35so great a favor at Your Majesty's hand,
08:37only that in private we might serve God with clear and quiet consciences.
08:42We in all lowliness crave but Your toleration.
08:46The petition is refused.
08:48Our pleasure is that all the puritans and superstitions
08:51conform themselves or leave the country
08:53according to the laws of our kingdom
08:55and the canons of our church.
08:57And we do hereby command our judges and justices
08:59to put the law into execution against them.
09:02God and the King will reward their deeds.
09:08Gentlemen, we that are about to advance today for the new world
09:14are accompanied professing ourselves fellow members of Christ,
09:19for which reason, though we come from many regions and diverse classes,
09:24we are to account ourselves knit together by this bond of love.
09:30Our object to stay is to seek out a new home
09:33under a new form of government, both civil and ecclesiastical.
09:39Our end is to improve our lives, to do more service to the Lord.
09:45For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man.
09:52So shall we keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
09:57For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.
10:03The eyes of all people are upon us,
10:06so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken
10:12and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us,
10:16we shall be made of story and of byword through the world.
10:20Therefore, let us choose life,
10:24that we and our seed may live by obeying His voice and pleading to Him,
10:31for He is our life and our prosperity.
10:35He shall make us of praise and glory,
10:38that men shall say of succeeding plantations,
10:41the Lord make us like that of New England.
10:51They were the first to come, Simon.
10:54They came in little wooden ships with their wives and their children,
10:58and then afterwards others came.
11:00And always when men spoke of this country,
11:03that same word, that word freedom, was on their lips.
11:07To others in other countries,
11:10America meant freedom to think and speak as they pleased.
11:21Yes? What is it?
11:23Lives here Professor Heinrich Schwarz?
11:25Yes.
11:26Who are you?
11:27I am his wife.
11:29You will give him this paper immediately.
11:31Immediately!
11:34Heinrich! Heinrich!
11:41Heinrich!
11:42Well, my dear.
11:43Heinrich!
11:44I told you.
11:47I told you.
11:48It has been good for you.
11:50Let me see it for you.
11:51Heinrich, what is it? Read it, Heinrich.
11:53Nothing new, my friends.
11:55You have seen this before.
11:58Heinrich Schwarz,
12:00Senior Professor of Philosophy at the State University,
12:03is hereby summoned to appear before the High Chancellor
12:06to answer questions pertaining to a speech made by him
12:09before the students of this university
12:11on the seventh day of October.
12:13October.
12:14Signed this day, the seventh of October, 1848,
12:17for the High Chancellor, Karl Seiber,
12:20and the Secretary of Police.
12:22You know what this means?
12:23Of course.
12:24Imprisonment.
12:26They have no legal right.
12:27They wouldn't dare.
12:28They wouldn't dare.
12:30My good friends,
12:32you forget where you are.
12:34Remember Professor Wiener?
12:36Remember Karl Ludwig, my best student?
12:38Gentle and peaceful, both of them.
12:42Day to day, the young men short time to escape,
12:45the old men still in prison.
12:47Perhaps dead.
12:49And why?
12:50Because they love mankind.
12:52Because they ask for freedom of speech.
12:54What about you, doctor?
12:56Well, Heinrich,
12:58are you going to go to the Chancellery tomorrow?
13:00No, no, gentlemen.
13:02I'm not going. I'm no martyr.
13:04And I'm no revolutionist.
13:06I don't think I could change things or make them better
13:09even if I knew how.
13:10I'm just a teacher.
13:12They won't let me teach here. I must go elsewhere.
13:15There's work for men like you and me all over the world over.
13:18My friends, the time has come.
13:21Tomorrow perhaps it is already too late.
13:23Who knows how many of you have got similar orders
13:25waiting for you at your home.
13:27Heinrich, what do you mean?
13:29What are you going to do?
13:30We're going to leave our country, Frieda.
13:32You and I and the children.
13:34Heinrich, we must go at once.
13:36Arrangements are made.
13:37My friends will help us reach the border.
13:39And then?
13:40Then...
13:42Then there are ships ready to take us to a country
13:44where men may think and speak the truth
13:46as they see it.
13:49Their freedom is a virtue, not a crime.
13:52To America.
14:00There are a lot of people who came here
14:02to whom the name America was nothing but a word
14:04in a foreign tongue.
14:07And to them that word meant freedom from oppression,
14:10freedom from fear.
14:32They're marching.
14:33There are the soldiers.
14:35Keep down.
14:36Keep away from the window.
14:37They want to kill us all, these men out here.
14:39If they kill us, I'll cut them to pieces with an axe.
14:41Don't talk to the children like that.
14:43Don't frighten me.
14:44Alex, throw at me.
14:45It's what they did last year on the south coast.
14:47Do you remember?
14:49It's going to be over now.
14:51It's going to be a breeze again.
14:58Mama, they've stopped.
15:00Keep down.
15:01It looks like they've stopped at Ivan's house.
15:03They have no flag off.
15:05They have no money to buy a flag.
15:08Get away.
15:10Get out of the way.
15:31So it is every holiday.
15:33Before the end of the day,
15:35the streets are red as a flood.
15:37When will this be over?
15:38Well, not for long.
15:40A few more months, maybe a year,
15:42maybe two years.
15:44When we have saved enough, then we shall leave this place
15:47for a country where men can walk together
15:49side by side in broad daylight.
15:51Be afraid of no one.
15:53To a land that's rich and happy.
15:55To America.
16:05To America.
16:25And there were still others to whom the word America
16:27came to mean life itself.
16:30Just life and the chance to earn the things that maintain it.
16:34Life in a new country across the sea,
16:37without foreign rulers,
16:39and where there was always enough to eat.
16:48There you are, Emily.
16:49There's your tea.
16:50Oh, Dreyfus.
16:51Yes, your ladyship.
16:52Dreyfus is not so strong as he would take a glass of port.
16:54Yes, milady.
16:55You're extremely kind, Lady Townsend.
16:57I will that.
16:58You have some more of these at the gates, Emily.
17:00We have them sent from London, you know.
17:02They never can make them quite right over here.
17:04Thank you, Lady Townsend.
17:05And now, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, what are you saying?
17:07Well, milady, I've seen bad times in my day,
17:09but nothing like this.
17:10It's about three in every ten that's dead of the famine
17:12and two more of the fever.
17:13So you might say it's about half the people in the county
17:15that are dead now.
17:16And the same all over Ireland.
17:18In Skibbereen, if you'd believe it,
17:19there's not more than ten men left in the village.
17:21Oh, dear me.
17:22Emily, they're dreadful.
17:24What are they going to do about it?
17:26That's what I'd like to know.
17:27And they're burying them, Lady Townsend.
17:29Lady Townsend, that is to say,
17:31that there's any left alive to be doing the digging.
17:33I'm sure the graveyards are so filled
17:35that they do be laying them down in the gardens now
17:37or leaving them in the open fields
17:39where the dogs come as they do in the night.
17:41Oh, how shocking.
17:42It is that.
17:43Only last week, my sister was riding over
17:45to Bantry for the meeting,
17:46and there were two of them lying right in the road
17:48on their faces.
17:49It's likely to get worse before it gets better.
17:51It is indeed, Lady Townsend.
17:53Here it is August, and seeding time almost passed
17:55and not a tenth of the land seeded.
17:57You know what that means, I'm certain.
17:59No.
18:00It means no potatoes, Your Ladyship.
18:03No potatoes at all for another year, surely.
18:05Potatoes?
18:06Oh, that's hard for the Irish to go on eating potatoes.
18:09Well, Your Ladyship, potatoes is about all the land's fit for.
18:12To say what land in Ireland the country people are permitted.
18:15Oh, well, then I suppose they can't help it.
18:17And then there's the rinse, milady.
18:19Yes.
18:20Sure, I had a hard time at last year, Your Ladyship,
18:22and this year I don't know how I'm going to be going about it.
18:25What do you mean?
18:26They're hard to approach, Your Ladyship.
18:28They've gotten mean with the hunger.
18:31That's absurd.
18:32A rinse is a rinse, they must say.
18:34I'll do my best, Your Ladyship,
18:36but I can't go getting blood out of a stone or money out of a dead man.
18:39Well, they're not all dead, you just said.
18:41They're not all dead.
18:42That's entirely true, Your Ladyship,
18:44but of them that's alive yet there's a lot that will be leaving the country.
18:47Every day now you hear of them going off on their land,
18:49nobody left at home to work it.
18:50What do you mean going?
18:51Going where?
18:52America, Your Ladyship.
18:54America?
18:55Who are they?
18:56I'm sure there's no law against that, Your Ladyship.
18:58They do say there's food to be eaten there and work to earn it with.
19:01Pat O'Murnon's brother, you know Patrick, Your Ladyship,
19:03is one of your gardeners.
19:04His brother went away to America only two years ago
19:07and we hear now he's doing famous.
19:09He's digging the area of Canalias and making his fortune.
19:12Oh, there's opportunities in America, Your Ladyship.
19:15It's a fine free land it is.
19:17Well, at least I mean to say there's jobs there, Your Ladyship.
19:24At any rate, ways to keep alive, if you know what I mean, Your Ladyship.
19:29Well, anyway, it's a big country.
19:31Oh, well, O'Donoghue, I suppose it can't be stopped.
19:34I suppose not, Your Ladyship.
19:37I suppose it can't.
19:39And then sometimes they've come here simply for the right to keep alive.
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20:23So it's been, son, ever since the first ones landed more than 300 years ago, people coming from all over the world, some of them only dimly knowing why they came, and all of them have this thing in their heart, this dream of freedom.
20:40And when they have come here, what have they found?
20:42They found happiness, most of them.
20:44And money, some of them.
20:46And freedom?
20:47No.
20:48No, they didn't find freedom when they first came here.
20:52See, Simon, it turns out that freedom isn't something you find lying around, even in a new country.
20:58And it's not a thing other people can give you.
21:01It's something you have to want awfully bad before you get it.
21:05Freedom's a thing you make for yourself.
21:17You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of our American cavalcade, The Things We Have, an original radio drama starring Orson Welles and Cornelius Skinner.
21:32This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
21:47This is Ernest Chappell, ladies and gentlemen, welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.
21:58In a moment or two, we shall resume our presentation of the American cavalcade.
22:02A great deal of historical research went into the preparation of the story for tonight's broadcast.
22:07Right down from revolutionary times, the customs and manners of succeeding generations were closely studied.
22:13And to me, the most interesting sidelight of all this study was the evidence that appeared again and again to show that all of our ancestors were just as fond of eating chicken as we are today.
22:24As early as July 1746, the London Magazine published these observations of a traveler in Virginia.
22:30I quote, all over the colony, a universal hospitality reigns, full tables and open doors, unquote.
22:37And among the favorite dishes, he mentions fowls boiled or roasted.
22:42In 1756, the Miss Anna Maria Dandridge was celebrated for her recipe for chicken surprise.
22:48And Mrs. Mary Randolph's book, The Virginia Housewife of 1831, features a delectable fricassee of small chickens.
22:55Chicken wings a la pettigord were the entree of a great birthday dinner given for General Grant.
23:01And so we find that our present-day liking for chicken is a heritage, that we come by it naturally.
23:07Well, as sure as you like chicken, you like Campbell's Chicken Soup.
23:11Every ounce of the good meat of plump tender chickens goes into this good soup to fill it to the brim with chicken flavor.
23:18This is a chicken soup our forefathers would have enjoyed enthusiastically, and one that their good wives would have approved wholeheartedly.
23:26How about you? Have you tried Campbell's Chicken Soup?
23:30Now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation starring Orson Welles and Cornelius Skinner.
23:35Music
23:58Now watch him, son. Come over the ball there. See? Now then, watch him.
24:03Strike two!
24:06Hey, young, you want to play a game like this?
24:09What a break! He's blinded both eyes!
24:12Hey, what do you say? Sports play ball. Come on.
24:14Come on, Mel, a little thing to watch all kids play!
24:17Get back, Marty! Mel's up!
24:19Here comes the pitch.
24:20Butternut, Butternut's pitch against Providence.
24:27Well, Simon, there goes the ball game.
24:29Is it over now?
24:30Well, if that Homer Mel knocked out, it certainly is.
24:32Oh, no. There is no more now?
24:34No, not for today. Come on, son. Let's get out of here before you get caught in the crowd.
24:38Oh, father, those men, are they soldiers?
24:41Oh, what men, son? Why do you say soldiers?
24:43The ones in the coats with the big buttons.
24:45Oh, no, son. That's what it does to ushers. We don't have any soldiers here.
24:49Oh.
24:50Well, did you like the ball game?
24:51Oh, yes, it was fine. If we can come again sometime, maybe I understand better.
24:55You're talking as you like, son.
24:57Well, here we are.
24:59Here's your car.
25:01What's the hurry?
25:02Oh, this your car?
25:04Yes, officer.
25:05What gave you the idea you could leave your car in a no-parking zone?
25:08I didn't know you couldn't park here, officer.
25:10Oh, you didn't, huh?
25:11No, sir.
25:12Well, what do you think this yellow line is along the curb?
25:14I didn't know.
25:15What do you think those signs mean?
25:16Wait a minute, officer. When I pulled in here, there was half a dozen other cars.
25:19So you think that gives you a right to break the law, huh?
25:21Sorry, officer. I won't do it again.
25:23Well, that's mighty right of you, mister.
25:25And just to make sure that you know what I'm going to do,
25:27I'm going to give you a little ticket just to remind you the next time.
25:30Oh, now, wait a minute, officer. I...
25:31Now, here it is. Right by the door handle.
25:34You can pay the fine at headquarters any time before Friday.
25:36Yes, sir.
25:37Was that a soldier?
25:38No, Simon. That was a policeman.
25:40What does a policeman mean?
25:42It means we just got a ticket.
25:44A ticket?
25:45Yeah, we're just arrested.
25:47What's the matter, son?
25:48Well, I don't understand.
25:49You see, you say last night that this is a free country.
25:52A free country? Sure it is.
25:54But that doesn't mean you can break the law.
25:55What is the law? Who makes it?
25:57Well, the people.
25:58They make their own laws.
26:00That's what you mean when you say it's a free country.
26:02Well, then, why don't you make a law so that you can put your motor car
26:05wherever you want to on the street?
26:08Can't do that exactly, Simon.
26:09I can't make a law just for myself.
26:11Laws are made by everybody for everybody.
26:14How do you mean everybody?
26:16I mean the people of the United States.
26:18They're the government.
26:19Government of the people,
26:21for the people and by the people.
26:22Do you know who said that, son?
26:23No, sir, I don't.
26:25Lincoln said that.
26:26Did you ever hear of Abraham Lincoln?
26:27Did you ever hear of the traffic court?
26:29Oh, excuse me, officer.
26:30Just go away.
26:31Come on, come on.
26:32I've seen Lincoln's picture.
26:33He was a great man with a beard.
26:34Hey, do you mean to tell me you never heard of Abraham Lincoln,
26:36the father of our country?
26:38What's wrong with the kid?
26:39Hasn't he been to school?
26:40Not over here, officer.
26:41He's just been here two days.
26:43Yeah?
26:44Say, buddy, didn't they teach you nothing about Lincoln in Europe?
26:46No, sir.
26:47I only know he was born very poor and that he was always very honest.
26:50He was the president of this country.
26:52Are you going to be president when you grow up?
26:54I don't know, sir.
26:55How do you become a president?
26:56Well, if you mind your father and mother
26:58and wash your hands before every meal and be good at school,
27:01then when you grow up, maybe you'll be president.
27:03Who makes me a president?
27:05People.
27:06People.
27:07And after the people have made me president,
27:09can I be just as I please?
27:11I'll say you can.
27:12Officer, I don't know.
27:13You see, while the president is directly responsible to us
27:16during the four years of his office,
27:18he must consider our opinions as expressed by our representatives.
27:20Oh, sure.
27:22And if we don't like the way he's done his job,
27:24we elect another president.
27:25And if he's a really bad man,
27:26we have the right to fire him before his time's over.
27:28That's right.
27:29It's a free country.
27:30Well, does a free country mean that you don't have to pay for anything?
27:33I'm afraid you have to pay for everything everywhere, son.
27:36A free country is a country in which the government is chosen
27:39and run by the people.
27:40Yeah, like Lincoln said.
27:41What's a policeman?
27:43A policeman is a public servant.
27:45Servant?
27:46Yeah, but that don't mean
27:47I've got to wash your dishes.
27:48Come on now.
27:49Get moving.
27:50Yes, officer.
27:51Hey, look out.
27:52Yes, officer.
27:53Watch where you're going.
27:54Yes, officer.
27:55I know.
27:56I'll tell you more about this after dinner.
27:57Free country.
28:12Oh, at the last minute.
28:13Bedtime, Simon.
28:15I'm sorry, Mary.
28:16I made Simon a promise.
28:18I've got more explaining to do.
28:20Oh, Jim.
28:21You know he's had a full day with a ball game and everything,
28:23and tomorrow he's got to get up early and meet the teacher.
28:26Please, Mary, just this once.
28:28I've got to keep my word.
28:29All right, Simon.
28:30Just this once.
28:32Was America always a free country?
28:34No, dear.
28:35America used to belong to England.
28:37We had to fight for our freedom.
28:38We never stopped fighting.
28:40That's the story I want to tell Simon.
28:42Very well, dear.
28:43You and Simon go in and sit down.
28:44All right.
28:45Remember, you haven't much time.
28:47Well, father, tell me.
28:48When did America become a free country?
28:501776, dear.
28:52That's the day of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th.
28:54Aren't you smart.
28:56It started before that.
28:58Before the revolution.
29:08Hear ye!
29:10Hear ye!
29:12Free men!
29:13Free men!
29:14Patriots!
29:15Sons of liberty!
29:17Come this day and go to the liberty tree!
29:20Come one!
29:21Come all!
29:22To the liberty tree!
29:26Lies!
29:27The British are lying!
29:28Lies!
29:29Lies!
29:30Lies!
29:31Lies!
29:32Lies!
29:33Lies!
29:34Lies!
29:35Lies!
29:36Lies!
29:37Lies!
29:38Lies!
29:39Lies!
29:40Lies!
29:41Silence Mr. Hancock!
29:42Men, brethren, fathers and fellow countrymen.
29:45Some boast of being friends to government.
29:47What government?
29:48I am a friend to a righteous government.
29:50To a government founded on the principles of reason and justice.
29:53But I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
29:56Down with tyranny!
29:57Down with tyranny!
29:58The British have imposed a tax upon us without our consent.
30:00Unfair tax.
30:01The town of Boston has been invested by a British freak.
30:04Troops have crossed the wide Atlantic to assist a band of traitors.
30:06Silence Mr. Hancock in the name of the king!
30:08Traitors!
30:09This is insurrection!
30:10Traitors!
30:11Are trapping on the rights and liberties of his most loyal subjects in America.
30:14That's true.
30:15Now that worst of plagues, the detested tea,
30:18shipped for this port by East India Company,
30:20is now arrived in this harbour.
30:22Countrymen!
30:24Countrymen, let the matter be settled before twelve o'clock tonight.
30:27Let every patriot do what is right in his own eyes.
30:29Burn the tea.
30:31Boston Harbour, tonight.
30:33Boston Harbour, a tea party.
30:36Boston Harbour, tonight.
30:54And after that day when they were free?
30:56That was only the beginning.
30:58You see,
31:00there was only a few boxes of tea they threw into the water that day.
31:04It took them many years after that,
31:06and it took a lot of courage and a lot of fighting
31:08before they got their freedom.
31:10Before there was a chance to sit down and write the laws under which
31:13they were going to live, Simon.
31:15Here, where did you put those books you brought, sir?
31:17You mean Simon?
31:18They're on the table in the hall.
31:19Come on, let's go and get them.
31:20Come on, I'll show you.
31:22Now then, let's see.
31:24Geography...
31:25Here we are.
31:27Simon, you read English pretty well.
31:29I try.
31:30Of course he does.
31:31All right then, there's something I'd like you to read us.
31:33Oh, yes?
31:35After you've been in school for a few days,
31:37they're going to make you learn this stuff by heart,
31:39and you and the other kids are going to start it over and over again
31:42until you get awful sick of it.
31:44That's a shame, because it's good stuff.
31:46That's why I'd like you to read it to us now for the first time.
31:50Come on over here.
31:52Sit down by the light.
31:54Okay?
31:55Oh, yes.
31:57Now then, here it is.
31:58See?
31:59Yes, yes, I see.
32:01We hold these truths to be self-evident
32:06that all men are created equal,
32:09that they are endowed by their creator
32:13with certain unalienable rights
32:16that among these are life, liberty,
32:19and the pursuit of happiness.
32:23How'd that sound, Mary?
32:25It sounded good.
32:26But Jim...
32:27Yes, Mary?
32:28After all, Simon doesn't start school till tomorrow.
32:30Put that book away, Simon.
32:31It's too much like work.
32:33Come on, Jim.
32:34Tell us about the Indians.
32:35Oh, yes, really.
32:38The Indians.
32:39Well, there aren't so many of them left now.
32:41But they used to be, as the Bible says,
32:43like the sands of the desert.
32:46There were great men amongst them,
32:48chiefs like Pontiac of the Ottawa's,
32:52Canopy of the Seminole's,
32:54White Ghost and Little Crow of the Sioux,
32:57Logan of the Mingo's,
32:59Blackhawk of the Saks,
33:01leaders,
33:03most of whom led their people against us,
33:07warriors who earned their glory
33:11in another fight for independence.
33:18Chiefs.
33:21Chiefs of the Mingo's,
33:24the Shawnees,
33:26the Wyandottes,
33:28the Miamis.
33:31You have seen the fires burning on the hills.
33:35You have heard the call of Logan.
33:37You have answered.
33:40The time has come, my brothers,
33:42the time of blood.
33:45Many times we have said to the white men,
33:48there is a place for you,
33:51there is a place for us.
33:54Many times we have offered them the hand of friendship.
33:58What is their answer?
34:01They have stolen our land.
34:03They have set us one against the other.
34:06They have driven us before them,
34:09from the rising to the setting of the sun.
34:13I appeal to any white man to say
34:15if he ever came to Logan's cabin hungry
34:18and he gave him not meat,
34:21if he ever came cold and naked
34:24and he clothed him not.
34:28Such was my love for the whites
34:31that my countrymen pointed as I passed and said,
34:35Logan is the friend of the white man.
34:39Then,
34:41the last spring,
34:44in cold blood and unprovoked,
34:47they murdered all my people,
34:50people of Logan,
34:52not even sparing my women and children.
34:57There runs not a drop of my blood
34:59in the veins of any human creature.
35:04This calls on me for revenge.
35:07I have sought it.
35:09I have killed many.
35:11I will kill many more
35:13until I have fully glutted my vengeance.
35:17Who is there to mourn for Logan?
35:21Not one.
35:33And Simon, besides these first Americans
35:37who fought us for their freedom and lost,
35:43there were other Americans.
35:46Simon, do you remember all the different kinds of people
35:48I told you about who came to this country like yourself
35:51to find freedom?
35:52No.
35:54Well, son,
35:56if somebody says that the American colonists
35:58should have stayed in their own country
35:59and fought there for liberty,
36:01you tell them that what was done in that short time
36:03here in the New World
36:06made possible the whole progress of liberty everywhere else.
36:10But for many years,
36:12our American example was not entirely good.
36:16See, as we've seen, there were the Indians
36:18from whom we stole this country,
36:21and then there were those other people,
36:24people the rest of us still sometimes
36:26don't treat so very well,
36:28people we used to buy and sell
36:30as though they were our property.
36:33Well, if they were, they were stolen property
36:35because these Americans
36:37were brought to this country
36:39without wanting to come.
36:46Oh, there's the chief!
36:50Captain Douglas on board?
36:52He's right.
36:54Agent coming on board, sir.
36:56Very well.
36:57Come aboard, sir.
36:58You're very welcome.
36:59Yes.
37:00We had a good time, Captain Douglas.
37:02We did, sir.
37:0341 days since Sierra Leone.
37:04Good winds most always.
37:06Well, Captain Douglas, you got your manifest?
37:08Yes, sir.
37:09Shall we go below?
37:10I wouldn't go below if I were you, sir,
37:12not in this cargo.
37:13Here's the manifest, sir.
37:14Brought it up.
37:16Everything clear, then?
37:17How many aboard?
37:18326 blacks, sir.
37:2096, rather.
37:21Morning count, 161 males,
37:23192 females, less children.
37:25Manifest, please.
37:26405 blacks.
37:28I can account for everyone, sir.
37:30Overboard in a storm of behemoths,
37:314 males, 3 females, 2 children.
37:34Died of disease and exposure, 35.
37:36Total lost cargo on voyage, 44 blacks.
37:39That's an average, sir.
37:42Yes, so it is.
37:44The underwriters will thank you for that, Captain Douglas.
37:46Yes.
37:47Haven't been doing so well lately.
37:49Vessels came in 10 days ago, less than half a cargo.
37:52Mutiny and disease.
37:54Those foreigners never did know how to stow their blacks.
37:57Well, Captain, here's your orders of consignment.
37:59Thank you, sir.
38:00You've got three ports of call.
38:02At Charleston, you'll unload 100 males, the best you've got.
38:05At Norfolk, 30 males, 40 females.
38:09Take the cargo to Northern.
38:11Oh, and, uh, Mr. Douglas, sir.
38:13Yes?
38:14There are two new ones.
38:16Two born on the voyage.
38:17Shall we keep them with their mothers?
38:19The buyers want them, certainly.
38:21It's all their own way.
38:23I mean to say, sir, admitting they're savages.
38:27Pray don't misunderstand me.
38:30Do you follow?
38:31Yes, sir.
38:32They aren't humans.
38:39That's how the Negro people came to this country, Simon, like cattle.
38:49Stowed three deep in the cargos of slave ships.
38:52Chained together, each on their right side to keep their hearts beating.
38:58And for many years after America was founded and dedicated by the men who founded it
39:03to certain truths which they held to be self-evident,
39:08all men are created equal.
39:11We Americans kept the Negro people as our slaves.
39:14Of course, sometimes they were very well treated by great grandfathers.
39:18Yes, sometimes the Negro people were better than beasts of burden.
39:21They were our household pets.
39:23Yes.
39:24What old John Brown of Kansas was thinking of when he went down into the nicest farm country
39:28in Virginia, where slaves were happiest.
39:32Took on the whole United States Navy, Army.
39:35Oh, Jim.
39:36John Brown isn't worth talking about.
39:37Everybody knows he was crazy.
39:39Well, he wasn't crazy enough to think he could lick the world with 18 men.
39:42He tried it, didn't he?
39:43I don't know.
39:44Who was John Brown?
39:46He was another American who fought for liberty.
39:48Oh, absolutely.
39:49See, after folks had been talking for some time about fighting the slave states to free the slaves,
39:52old John Brown sold his business and took his sons with him
39:55and went out and fought America to show America what it ought to do.
39:59Was he a good man?
40:01He was a man of God.
40:03He was like Joshua in the Old Testament.
40:05He died according to the New.
40:08Maybe he was mad.
40:10Maybe he was a very great man.
40:19Your name, prisoner?
40:22My name is John Brown.
40:24I have been known as Old Brown of Kansas.
40:26Two of my sons were killed here today, and I'm dying too.
40:30We are abolitionists from the North, come to take and release your slaves.
40:33Do you consider yourself an instrument in the hands of Providence?
40:35I do.
40:36On what principle do you justify your actions?
40:38Upon the golden rule.
40:40I pity the poor in bondage that have none to help them,
40:43the oppressed and wronged that are as good as you and as precious in the sight of God.
40:48That is why I'm here.
40:50This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God.
40:55I see a book kissed here, which I suppose to be the Bible or at least the New Testament.
41:00That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me,
41:05I should do so even to them.
41:07I believe that to have interfered as I have done in behalf of the despised poor was not wrong, but right.
41:14Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great,
41:20or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children,
41:24or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference,
41:28every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than of punishment.
41:35Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for furtherance to the ends of justice,
41:41and mingle my blood with the blood of millions in this slave country
41:45whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,
41:51I submit, I shall let it be done.
42:02And it was done.
42:05They took John Brown up to a hill over Charlestown and hanged him.
42:12There were men who made a song about it, a marching song.
42:18And thousands of Americans went to their deaths singing it in the great Civil War.
42:25John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave.
42:30But his soul goes marching on.
42:38The Civil War was fought between the North and the South, Simon, to determine states' rights.
42:42What's that?
42:44The South believed that each state had a right to quit the whole union of states if it wanted to.
42:49And the North said, no, America must stick together.
42:51It's a wonderful story, this joint Civil War, filled with brave and gallant heroes.
42:55But it's a sad story, too, because both sides were fighting for freedom.
42:58And how did it turn out?
43:00Well, the North took a lot that was good from the South in that war.
43:04But in the end, there was still the United States of America, and there were no more slaves.
43:11The amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, passed by both houses of Congress,
43:16was signed this 20th day of March, 1870, by Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States.
43:23The right of the citizens of the United States to vote cannot be denied or abridged by the United States
43:29or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
43:42The United States of America
43:44The United States of America
43:50Step right up, gentleman. Get your ballots.
43:52Hey, where's Kendall?
43:53There, that's Michael T. Brody. He's sure fit for the job.
43:56Play it around, gentlemen, one more time.
43:57Hey, there, lady. Come on over here. You're not supposed to be there.
44:00Hey, get a credit check.
44:01What are you doing with that line? That's for voters.
44:04That's why I'm here. I want to vote. Will you give me a ballot, please?
44:06A ballot? Well, what would you be wanting with a ballot, ma'am? Ladies don't vote.
44:09I want to vote.
44:10Well, you can't vote. You're a woman. The law says...
44:12I know what the law says.
44:13It says that the right of the citizens of the United States to vote
44:17shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
44:19or by any state on account of race, color,
44:21or previous condition of servitude.
44:24I want a ballot, please.
44:25Say, wait a minute.
44:27Ain't you the lady that wore bloomers at Seneca Falls?
44:30My name is Susan B. Anthony,
44:32and I demand either that you allow me to vote
44:34or that you arrest me.
44:36Gee, lady, why don't you go home?
44:38I demand to be arrested or to be allowed to vote.
44:40Go on, go on. Handcuff me.
44:42Oh, lady, have a heart.
44:47Your Honor, gentlemen of the jury,
44:51the defendant is indicted under the 19th section of the Act of Congress,
44:56May 21st, 1870,
44:58for voting without having a lawful right to vote.
45:02The only alleged inequality of the defendant's vote
45:06is that she is a woman.
45:09If the same act had been done by her brother
45:12under the same circumstances,
45:14the act would have been not only innocent,
45:17but honorable and laudable.
45:20But having been done by a woman,
45:22it is said to be a crime.
45:25It is the belief of this court
45:27that the 14th Amendment,
45:29under which the defendant claims the right to vote,
45:31is a protection not to all our rights,
45:34Oh, I direct the jury to bring in the verdict of guilty.
45:38The jury is now dismissed.
45:39Your Honor, I wish to take an exception.
45:41The jury has not spoken.
45:42Exception denied.
45:44Has the prisoner anything to say
45:46why sentence should not be pronounced?
45:48Yes, Your Honor.
45:49I have many things to say.
45:51For in your ordered verdict of guilty,
45:54you have trampled underfoot every vital principle of our government.
45:57My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights,
46:00my judicial rights are all alike ignored.
46:03I am degraded from the status of a citizen
46:05to that of a subject.
46:07The prisoner will sit down.
46:09Your Honor, I demand to be heard.
46:11The prisoner will sit down!
46:16Sit, Madam, sit.
46:18Of all my prosecutors,
46:19from the corner grocery politician who entered the complaint,
46:22to the United States Marshal, Commissioner, District Attorney,
46:25District Judge, Your Honor on the bench,
46:26not one is my peer.
46:28But each and all are my political sovereigns.
46:31And had Your Honor submitted my case to the jury,
46:33as was clearly your duty,
46:34even then I should have had just cause of protest.
46:37But not one of these men was my peer.
46:39But native or foreign born,
46:41white or black, rich or poor,
46:42educated or ignorant,
46:44sober or drunk,
46:45each and every man of them was my political superior.
46:48Hence, in no sense my peer.
46:50The court must insist.
46:52The prisoner has been tried according to the established forms of law.
46:55Yes, Your Honor, but by forms of law.
46:57All made by men.
46:59Interpreted by men.
47:00In favor of men against women.
47:02The court orders the prisoner to sit down.
47:05It will not allow another word.
47:08The prisoner will now stand up.
47:11The sentence of the court
47:12is you pay a fine of $100
47:14and the cost of the prosecution.
47:16May it please Your Honor, I'll never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.
47:19And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge
47:22all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim,
47:26resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
47:29Hooray!
47:42But what did they do to the lady?
47:44Did they put her in prison?
47:45No.
47:46They made her pay a lot of money.
47:47Did the lady stop trying to vote?
47:49They did not.
47:50I'll say they didn't.
47:51Did they go to war too?
47:52Well, not exactly,
47:53but for 50 years they marched and talked and starved themselves in jails.
47:57And then in the end,
47:59they did take a war to make men see that women were people.
48:01Did you go to prison too?
48:03I was too young or I might have.
48:06Jim, what are you laughing at?
48:07Remember how your mother got that congressman from Maryland to vote for the amendment?
48:15Hello there.
48:16Yes?
48:17Are you Congressman Fransch?
48:18I am.
48:19What can I do for you?
48:20Mr. Fransch, I've come out here to ask you to vote for the women's suffrage amendment.
48:23Well, missus,
48:25certainly picked a hot day.
48:26I'd like to talk to you, but my neighbor here wants to get his wheat in before that thunderstorm breaks.
48:30Anyway, it wouldn't do any good.
48:32I can't see that suffrage is right, so I can't vote for it.
48:35Did you think the war was right?
48:36Well, of course.
48:37And why did we go to war?
48:39To get democracy.
48:40Exactly.
48:41And didn't President Wilson say that democracy was the right of all those who submit to authority to have a voice and own government?
48:46Now look here, missus.
48:47I believe women are superior beings to men,
48:50and if they were to vote, they'd have to be equal.
48:52Now look at this haystack.
48:54Why, you could no more pick hay...
48:55Will you lend me your pickpocket?
48:57Well, sure.
48:59Here you are.
49:00You want a hand up?
49:01No, thank you.
49:02Well, I'll be jigger.
49:04Labor's scarce.
49:06Now I know where to look for it when I need it.
49:09What'll it pay me for?
49:10For your help?
49:11Your vote?
49:12Will you give it to me?
49:13Well, I guess one good turn deserves another.
49:15I don't know why you can pick hay like that, ma'am, and you shouldn't vote.
49:20And so, everybody got the vote, Simon, even the ladies, which is all right with us, isn't it?
49:29And after that, of course, everybody lived happily ever after.
49:33Hi, Tim. What do you mean?
49:34Well, everybody, that is, except a few millions of American citizens who haven't worked for years.
49:39Of course, those several hundred thousands on the land who don't own the homes they live in,
49:46nor the fields they work in, nor the crops they grow,
49:51those several hundred thousands are almost too poor to live at all.
49:55Those folks have a vote, too.
49:58Maybe that isn't quite enough for them.
50:01Maybe they still want that freedom their folks came here for,
50:05that freedom everybody's been fighting for in this country all these years.
50:10Maybe some of them might settle for the wrong kind of freedom.
50:14Maybe some of them might trade their vote for a decent meal.
50:19That's bad, son.
50:20Whose fault is it?
50:22Now, I've just been looking at this book again.
50:24I'd like to read you a few more sentences.
50:26George Washington said this when the Revolution was won.
50:30The citizens of America, placed in the most enviable conditions,
50:34are the sole lords and proprietors of a vast tract of continent,
50:38comprehending all the various soils and climates of the world,
50:42and abounding with all the necessaries and conveniences of life,
50:45are now acknowledged to be possessed of absolute freedom and independency.
50:51The foundation of our empire was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition,
50:56but at an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood
51:00and more clearly defined than at any former period.
51:04At this auspicious period, the United States came into being as a nation,
51:10and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy,
51:14the fault would be entirely their own.
51:18What is there for us to do then?
51:20Can we change things?
51:21If we ought to.
51:23And our quotation that covers that goes like this.
51:28This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
51:34Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
51:38they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
51:43or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
51:47Oh, Jim, who said that?
51:50Abraham Lincoln.
51:52Well, if Simon's going to start changing things in America, he'd better get complete.
51:56Come on, son, we've got a full day tomorrow.
52:00♪♪
52:16This concludes the Campbell Playhouse presentation of our American cavalcade,
52:19The Things We Have, an original radio drama by Orson Welles,
52:23starring Cornelius Skinner and Mr. Welles.
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53:21Ladies and gentlemen, this, too, is a part of the things we have here in America.
53:24All winter long, disabled veterans have been making poppies,
53:27slowly and patiently, with their own hands.
53:30Tomorrow is Poppy Day, a day when grateful citizens will wear the little red symbol of Flanders Field.
53:35It is more than a tag to show that we've contributed to these disabled veterans,
53:38their families, and the families of the World War dead.
53:41It's a token of our continued devotion to those ideals for which they stood so nobly.
53:46Now, before I present our guest to you, Mr. Chappell,
53:48would you please announce the cast of tonight's broadcast?
53:50Yes, Mr. Welles.
53:50In tonight's Campbell Playhouse production, the things we have,
53:53Orson Welles played James Scott, Professor Shirt,
53:56General Shaughnessy, Chief Logan, and John Brown.
53:58Cornelia Otis Skinner played the parts of Mary Scott,
54:01Trout Shirt, the Polish woman, Lady Townsend, and Susan B. Anthony.
54:06Others who completed tonight's cast were Ray Collins, Frank Reddick,
54:09Everett Sloan, Agnes Moorhead, Howard Smith,
54:11Kenneth Delmar, Kingsley Colton, and William Halligan.
54:14The music for the Campbell Playhouse is arranged and conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
54:18And now I know you want to hear from our two stars.
54:20Orson Welles.
54:21Ladies and gentlemen, it was a great pleasure that I introduced to you a lady
54:23who's been variously described as a one-woman theater, a top-notch sorceress,
54:27and one of the greatest single attractions on the American stage,
54:30Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner.
54:31Thank you, Mr. Welles.
54:32I think I should explain for those few of you who don't already know it
54:34that Miss Skinner is that rare and remarkable artist in the theater,
54:37a solo actress.
54:38Quite alone and without scenery or properties of any kind,
54:41she's created the complete conviction of hundreds of thousands of people,
54:44such characters as, among others, the Empress Eugenie, Nell Gwynn,
54:47and I believe all six wives of Henry VIII.
54:49Not satisfied with this last season, Miss Skinner did an even more remarkable thing.
54:53She successfully toured the country in her own adaptation
54:56of Margaret Eyre Barnes' famous novel, Edna, His Wife.
54:59In this full-length play, Miss Skinner, I believe you played the part of Edna.
55:02Yes.
55:03Edna's sister.
55:04Yes.
55:04Edna's mother.
55:05Yes.
55:06Family friend.
55:07And five other women.
55:08Yes.
55:09In addition to this, according to a New York critic,
55:11you created in your audience's mind the pictures of a large number of men
55:14who never appeared.
55:15Must have been quite a frantic little evening, Miss Skinner.
55:17No more frantic, I assure you, than being here with you tonight at the Campbell Playhouse.
55:21Well, I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
55:23I assure you it's a compliment.
55:24I had a wonderful time playing those five different parts.
55:26Thank you, Miss Skinner. It's been a great pleasure to have you with us.
55:28Good night, Mr. Wells.
55:29Good night.
55:30And now, a few words about next week's announcement.
55:32Ladies and gentlemen, Friday night at this same time,
55:34we bring you the greatest event in this year of radio broadcasting.
55:36I say this unblushingly.
55:38Next week, the marquee on the front of the Campbell Playhouse
55:41blazes with the most magical words
55:43known to this decade of theatrical entertainment.
55:46Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina.
55:49Till that time, my sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups,
55:52and all of us on the Campbell Playhouse remain
55:55obediently yours.
55:56♪
56:06The makers of Campbell Soups join Orson Wells
56:09in inviting you to be with us at the Campbell Playhouse again next Friday evening
56:12when that star of stars, Miss Helen Hayes,
56:15pays us a second visit.
56:16Our play will be Miss Hayes' latest and greatest stage hit,
56:20the phenomenally successful Victoria Regina.
56:23This will be its first presentation on the air.
56:25Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed tonight's Campbell Playhouse presentation,
56:28won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow
56:30when you order Campbell's Chicken Soup?
56:33This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you and good night.
56:38This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
56:41♪