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Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. 11 PART ONE ACT ONE Scene 1 May 1, Patriotic music. A meeting of the Rotary Club in Fort Beulah, Vermont. A small platform with a podium with chairs on either side. Seated nearby is Frank Tasbrough, president of the Rotary Club. Free PDF Download Books by Sinclair Lewis. The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is an alarming, eerily timeles. It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, free ebook. CHAPTER III. DOREMUS JESSUP, editor and proprietor of the Daily Informer, the Bible of the conservative Vermont farmers up and down the Beulah Valley, was born in Fort Beulah in , only son of an impecunious Universalist pastor, the Reverend Loren blogger.com mother was no less than a Bass, of Massachusetts.
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Here in Vermont the affair was not so picturesque as it might have been on the Western prairies. But the occasion was essentially serious. All of America was serious now, after the seven years of depression since It was just long enough after the Great War of for the young people who had been born in to be ready to go to college The features of this night among the Rotarians were nothing funny, at least not obviously funny, for they were the patriotic addresses of Brigadier General Herbert Y.
Edgeways, U. Nor could any social-minded patriot sneeze at her recent somewhat unappreciated effort to maintain the purity of the American Home by barring from the motion-picture industry all persons, actors or directors or cameramen, who had: a ever been divorced; b been born in any foreign country—except Great Britain, since Mrs.
Gimmitch thought very highly of Queen Mary, or c declined to take an oath to revere the Flag, it cant happen here pdf free download, the Constitution, the Bible, and all other peculiarly American institutions. Most of the ladies and more than half of the gentlemen wore evening clothes, and it was rumored that before the feast the inner circle had had cocktails, privily served in Room of the hotel.
The tables, it cant happen here pdf free download, arranged it cant happen here pdf free download three sides of a hollow square, were bright with candles, cut-glass dishes of candy and slightly tough almonds, figurines of Mickey Mouse, brass Rotary wheels, and small silk American flags stuck in gilded hard-boiled eggs.
On the wall was a banner lettered "Service Before Self," and the menu—the celery, cream of tomato soup, broiled haddock, chicken croquettes, peas, and tutti-frutti ice-cream—was up to the highest standards of the Hotel Wessex. They were all listening, agape. General Edgeways was completing his manly yet mystical rhapsody on nationalism:. Our highest ambition is to be darned well let alone! Our only gen-uine relationship to Europe is in our arduous task of having to try and educate the crass and ignorant masses that Europe has wished onto us up to something like a semblance of American culture and good manners.
But, as It cant happen here pdf free download explained to you, we must be prepared to defend our shores against all the alien gangs of international racketeers that call themselves 'governments,' and that with such feverish envy are always eyeing our inexhaustible mines, our towering forests, our titanic and luxurious cities, our fair and far-flung fields. Pray God it may never be necessary, but if foreign nations don't sharply heed our warning, there will, as when the proverbial dragon's teeth were sowed, spring up an armed and fearless warrior upon every square foot of these United States, so arduously cultivated and defended by our pioneer fathers, whose sword-girded images we must be The applause was cyclonic.
All the audience made their faces to shine upon the General and Mr. Staubmeyer—all save a couple of crank pacifist women, and one Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah Daily Informerlocally considered "a pretty smart fella but kind of a cynic," who whispered to his friend the Reverend Mr. Falck, "Our pioneer fathers did rather of a skimpy job in arduously cultivating some of the square feet in Arizona! The culminating glory of the dinner was the address of Mrs.
Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch, known throughout the country as "the Unkies' Girl," because during the Great War she had advocated calling our boys in the A.
She wanted to send to every soldier at the Front a canary in a cage. Think what it would have meant to them in the way of companionship and inducing memories of home and mother! A dear little canary! And who knows—maybe you could train 'em to hunt cooties! Seething with the notion, she got herself clear into the office of the Quartermaster General, but that stuffy machine-minded official refused her or, really, refused the poor lads, so lonely there in the mudmuttering in a cowardly way some foolishness about lack of transport for canaries.
It is said that her eyes flashed real fire, and that she faced the Jack-in-office like Joan of Arc with eyeglasses while she "gave him a piece of her mind that he never forgot! In those good days women really had a chance. They were encouraged to send their menfolks, or anybody else's menfolks, off to war. Gimmitch addressed every soldier she met—and she saw to it that she met any of them who ventured within two it cant happen here pdf free download of her—as "My own dear boy, it cant happen here pdf free download.
Personally, I'd rather have a few more mistresses. But her social services were not all confined to prehistoric eras. It was as recently as that she had taken up purifying the films, and before that she had first advocated and then fought Prohibition.
She had also since the vote had been forced on her been a Republican Committee-woman inand sent to President Hoover daily a lengthy telegram of advice. And, though herself it cant happen here pdf free download childless, she was esteemed as a lecturer and writer about Child Culture, and she was the author of a volume of nursery lyrics, including the immortal couplet:. All of the Roundies are resting in rows, With roundy-roundies around their toes.
But always, orshe was a raging member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The D. It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists ofand the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors struggled.
And there is this to be said: it has provided hearty and innocent laughter for the judicious, since it has contrived to be just as ridiculous as the unhappily defunct Kuklux Klan, without it cant happen here pdf free download need of wearing, like the K. So, whether Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch was called in to inspire military morale, it cant happen here pdf free download, or to persuade Lithuanian choral societies to begin their program with "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," always she was a D.
She was short, plump, and pert of nose. Her luxuriant gray hair she was sixty now, just the age of the sarcastic editor, Doremus Jessup could be seen below her youthful, floppy Leghorn hat; she wore a silk print dress with an enormous string of crystal beads, and pinned above her ripe bosom was an orchid among lilies of the valley.
She was full of friendliness toward all the men present: she wriggled at them, she cuddled at them, as in a voice full of flute sounds and chocolate sauce she poured out her oration on "How You Boys Can Help Us Girls.
Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in she could have saved them all this trouble. Certainly not. No votes. In fact, Woman must resume her place in the Home and: "As that great author and scientist, Mr. Arthur Brisbane, has pointed out, what every woman ought to do is to have six children. One Lorinda Pike, widow of a notorious Unitarian preacher, was the manager of a country super-boarding-house that called itself "The Beulah Valley Tavern.
But on a public platform her voice became brassy, her eyes filled with embarrassing fury. It cant happen here pdf free download was the village scold, the village crank.
She was constantly poking into things that were none of her business, and at town meetings she criticized every substantial interest in the whole county: the electric company's rates, the salaries of the schoolteachers, the Ministerial Association's high-minded censorship of books for the public library.
Now, at this moment when everything should have been all Service and Sunshine, Mrs. Lorinda Pike cracked the spell by jeering:. But what if a poor gal can't hook a man?
Have it cant happen here pdf free download six kids out of wedlock? Then the good old war horse, Gimmitch, veteran of a hundred campaigns against subversive Reds, trained to ridicule out of existence the cant of Socialist hecklers and turn the laugh against them, swung into gallant action:. The lady hoodlum had merely stirred Mrs. Gimmitch into noble passion.
She did not cuddle at them now. She tore into it:. Here's a hundred and twenty million people, with ninety-five per cent of 'em only thinking of SELF, instead of turning to and helping the responsible business men to bring back prosperity!
All these corrupt and self-seeking labor unions! Money grubbers! Thinking only of how much wages they can extort out of their unfortunate employer, with all the responsibilities he has to bear! Peace is a great dream, but maybe sometimes it's only a pipe dream!
I'm not so sure—now this will shock you, but I want you to listen to one woman who will tell you the unadulterated hard truth instead of a lot of sentimental taffy, and I'm not sure but that we need to be in a it cant happen here pdf free download war again, in order to learn Discipline!
We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?
No, what we all of us must have, if this great land is going to go on maintaining its high position among the Congress of Nations, is Discipline—Will Power—Character! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps—just maybe—when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing?
Come on, now, it cant happen here pdf free download your real middle name, it cant happen here pdf free download, Mong General! Dramatically she sat down, and the sound of clapping filled the room like a cloud of downy feathers. The crowd bellowed, "Come on, General! Stand up! The General was short and globular, it cant happen here pdf free download, and his red face was smooth as a baby's bottom and adorned with white-gold-framed spectacles.
But he had the military snort and a virile chuckle. Gimmitch, "since you folks are bound and determined to drag the secrets out of a poor soldier, I better confess that while I do abhor war, yet there are worse things. Ah, my friends, far worse! A state of so-called peace, in which labor organizations are riddled, as by plague germs, with insane notions out of anarchistic Red Russia! A state in which college professors, newspapermen, and notorious authors are secretly promulgating these same seditious attacks on the grand old Constitution!
A state in which, as a result of being fed with these mental drugs, the People are flabby, cowardly, grasping, and lacking in the fierce pride of the warrior! No, such a state is far worse than war at its most monstrous! About the United States only wanting peace, and freedom from all foreign entanglements. What I'd really like us to do would be to come out and tell the whole world: 'Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this.
We have power, and power is its own excuse! We've got strength and will, and for whomever has those divine qualities it's not only a right, it's a DUTY, to use 'em! This gospel of clean and aggressive strength is spreading everywhere in this country among the finest type of youth.
Why today, it cant happen here pdf free download, inthere's less than 7 per cent of collegiate institutions that do not have military-training units under discipline as rigorous as the Nazis, and where once it was forced upon them by the authorities, now it is the strong young men and women who themselves demand the RIGHT to be trained in warlike virtues and skill—for, mark you, the girls, with their instruction in nursing and the manufacture of gas masks and the like, are becoming every whit as zealous as their brothers.
But now, when the shameless fools and the advocates of Communism try to hold pacifist meetings— why, my friends, in the past five months, since January first, no less than seventy-six such exhibitionistic orgies have been raided by it cant happen here pdf free download fellow students, and no less than fifty-nine disloyal Red students have received their just deserts by being beaten up so severely that never again will they raise in this free country the bloodstained banner of anarchism!
That, my friends, it cant happen here pdf free download, is news! As the General sat down, amid ecstasies of applause, the village trouble maker, Mrs. Lorinda Pike, leaped up and again interrupted the love feast:. Edgeways, if you think you can get away with this sadistic nonsense without—".
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