The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999) is a docu-drama celebrating the thirty year struggle by the w | dG1fSUhQYjNRWGF0Z2c
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00:00If I have learned anything in all my years as a columnist with the Daily News,
00:08it is how vital it is to know one's place in society.
00:13And surely, women's place is in the home, where she can reign like a queen.
00:22To give women the right to vote is to place something of great importance in the hands of illiterate people,
00:31and that would be foolhardy.
00:34In the name of Emmeline Pankhurst in Great Britain and Carrie Chapman Catt of the United States,
00:41I cannot stand idly by and listen to these petty arguments.
00:46I regret, sirs, that women are not permitted to debate publicly.
00:50But if we could, we should surely raise far more intelligent arguments as to why women should have the vote
00:57than those raised by men here tonight as to why women should not be granted this privilege.
01:03I regret, madam, that I will have to ask you to leave the premises.
01:07Women are taxed in a thousand ways, and yet you men do not see fit to let us have a say in the laws that govern taxation.
01:15And I beg you to do so without the fanfare of the Pankhursts.
01:23Well said, Mr. Dudley.
01:26Come and get read.
01:32Furthermore, women will be forever barred from this establishment.