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Setting: Future Dayna Gambino – Andrew Carnegie Grace Banach – Teddy Roosevelt Erica Smith – Booker T. Washington Hannah Austin – Jane Addams Ally Longchamps – Jacob Riis Rachael Thatcher – Susan B. Anthony


 * Booker **- Hey guys!


 * Anthony **** - What do you mean hey GUYS? Women are just as important as men! Why do you think I went through so much trouble with Elizabeth Cady Stanton writing our book, The History of Woman Suffrage, and founding the National Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869? We also tried to spread the word by publishing ****// The Revolution //**** which was a weekly paper. I was president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association which was created to secure the right to vote for women, along with multiple other councils and groups. Considering that I gave around 90 speeches per year for 45 years across the ** ** United States ****, I would hope that at least SOMEBODY understood my message that " **** Independence **** is happiness." And anyway, who are you to talk Booker T? Educated white women would be better voters than ignorant black men or immigrant men ** ** any day. **


 * Booker- **** Who are you to talk about the ignorance of a whole race that you refuse to even consider being partially equal and knowledgeable. Being born into slavery, I am fully aware of the obstacles that blacks have to go through that no one would ever think to put a white man through. I have found that we, as African Americans, were by far more determined to educate ourselves well before teachers were accessible to black students. We were willing to do whatever it took to further our education, even if it meant that we had to pay for it in other ways. I've come from living with nothing to gaining this brilliant knowledge that I live and strive to share with other African Americans so that they can grow and gain more independence and freedom from this society that the white man has created. **


 * Anthony**-** " ** I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation."


 * Addams- **“ I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.”


 * Anthony- **** Excuse me Miss. Addams, I wasn’t done, but I appreciate your input. ** ** AND **** AS I WAS SAYING, you may say that it's unlikely for women to be educated in such a time, but I'll have you know that my father was a smart man who believed in equal rights for men and women and therefore enrolled ** ** me in a boarding school in ** ** Philadelphia **** . If women were given equal rights they too would have the privilege of becoming educated and understanding the truth that they do not deserve to be treated as we are. **


 * Carnegie **** - While you were blabbing about trying to get your education privileges, I went out and educated myself. **My education institutions and libraries benefited worldwide. Clearly you have not acknowledged Carnegie’s Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.


 * Roosevelt**- Shut up, Carnegie. All you do is live off your wealth that you've gained by using such ruthless business tactics. Do you understand how much I’ve been through trying to pass the Elkins Act and the Hepburn Act in order to regulate your railroads? It's not like anyone paid attention to the Interstate Commerce Act. It's time for a little regulation.


 * Addams**- I totally support Roosevelt on this one, you Carnegie did nothing to help education. As I once said “America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.” My work at Hull-House from the very beginning was focused around education; you have not done anything significant in that field. Your education systems may have benefited some people but the poor and immigrants need to have the same access to the setting that enriched the lives of the upper class.


 * Carnegie** – Excuse me Addams, what you have been through Roosevelt? I’ve had to deal with so many ruthless employees. And you mention my wealth? “What is the proper mode of administering wealth after the laws upon which civilization is founded have thrown it into the hands of the few.”


 * Roosevelt ** - Well while you're so busy building railroads all throughout the country, I'm trying to conserve the environment and save our natural resources. I designated 125 million acres of timberlands as national forests. I also created national parks such as Crater Lake in Oregon and Wind Cave in South Dakota. Furthermore, The National Reclamation Act of 1902 provided federal funds for dams, reservoirs, and canals.


 * Riis**- Roosevelt, you're so concerned with the environment, but what are you doing about the immigrants in New York? Being a Danish immigrant and working for the New York newspaper has made me discover devastating truths about this city. My strategy to let the world see how the MAJORITY lives, unlike you, was to work at the // New York Tribune // as a police reporter. Night after night, I used to see extreme overcrowding of the tenements and so I reported it to the Board of Health. But, as I said my book // The Making of an American, // “I did not make much of an impression, these things rarely do, put in mere words.” The only thing left to do was to show people, by the use of my camera, what it was like to live on Mulberry Road, in New York. My pictures revealed the oppression, poverty and congestion these immigrants had to deal with to survive. Plus, many lived packed like sardines for five cents as their rent and needed to work in the factory for that money and something to eat. In pictures such as this, (// take out picture of houses //) you cannot hide the TRUTH. You should try and help the immigrant people as the president instead of just the environment.


 * Roosevelt ** - Go ahead and take your pictures, Riis, but I'm the one who's actually getting laws passed. The Pure Food and Drug Act in restricted the sale of ineffective or dangerous medicine and The Meat Inspection Act established federal regulations for the meatpacking industry. It's all part of my Square Deal. I'm looking out for everyone, fair and square. Take the United Mine Workers strike for example. In 1902, over 140,000 coal miners of Pennsylvania demanded a 20% increase in their wages as well as a shorter work day. The owners of the mine refused to give in until I intervened and threatened to seize the mines. The workers then received a 10% pay increase and a nine-hour work day.


 * Carnegie **- All I ever did was have faith in the growth of our economy, did you see my Pennsylvania Railroad and my Steel Company. There are plenty of jobs that opened up because of it!


 * Roosevelt**- Why do you think I came up with the Department of Commerce and Labor and The Bureau of Corporations …I’ll tell you why, it was an attempt to end monopolies like yours and actually promote competition because you know, all you did was squash your opponents and go on with vertical integration. At least I was able to dissolve the railroad monopoly that your buddy JP Morgan and James J. Hill created. That's right, I'm referring to the Northern Securities Company - just // one // of my 43 trust-busting suits. Another one was Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company which // clearly // violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. You better watch out, Carnegie.


 * Carnegie**- BUT!


 * Riis- **Carnegie, that’s enough out of you, none of us want hear about your corrupt ways. We are trying to achieve reform here, and because of you, immigrants are crowded within their neighborhoods and they continue to suffer. But, SOME people here are // trying // to achieve reform, such as Jane Addams who created the Hull House for immigrants. I am delighted to see that the vivid pictures and my gruesome descriptions in my book __How the Other Half Lives__, has made a difference in some ways. Jane, please explain more about the Hull House to our good friend Carnegie.


 * Addams** – Excuse me Mr. Carnegie but all of my reforms are centered on the obligation of citizens to redefine government to be more responsive to the needs of the people! This is why I along with Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in an impoverish section in Chicago that was home to many immigrants. You can only deal with the problems of modern society if you live and work in a poor neighborhood, not being self-centered around your so called railroad business. All my work has led to Hull House being the first social settlement in the United States, an establishment of the first public playground in Chicago, the creation of the first college-extension courses in Chicago, the first Boy Scout troop in Chicago, and the initiation of investigations leading to the enactment of the first factory regulations in Illinois. In my book __Twenty Years at Hull House__, I’ve stated “That neglected and forlorn old age is daily brought to the attention of a Settlement which undertakes to bear its share of the neighborhood burden imposed by poverty, was pathetically clear to us during our first months of residence at Hull-House .” My reform movements are helping everyone, yours are..? not. Sir Muckraker, thank you for allowing me to talk about my hull house.

** Riis ** -Just like the immigrants that Ms. Jane Addams speaks of, I started out by asking the city's Registrar of Vital Statistics for Mulberry Bend population, which was the infamous slum I saw in New York, in 1888. There were, “5,650 people lived on Baxter and Mulberry Streets between Park and Bayard.” (How the Other Half Lives) This is the visual I wanted people to experience when my complaints didn't do anything. Being a Progressivist and wanting reform made me realize that no political theory could justify the crowding in my photographs because they were what was ACTUALLY happening. In fact, in my book I explain that “In a room not thirteen feet either way, slept twelve men and women, two or three in bunks set in a sort of alcove, the rest on the floor.” (How the Other Half Lives) In fact (// taking out the picture //) there's an example right here!


 * Roosevelt**- Riis, did you happen to hear my speech called "The Man With the Muck-Rake?" It went a little something like this : "There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil."


 * Riis**- It’s people like me who show the truth to the world. Another influential muckraker, Lincoln Steffens has exposed the “machine government,” and “boss rule,” that show MORE corruption that YOUR government has made. You think that these urban political machines are morally right? Steffens, along with others, including myself, are working for urban political reform by uncovering the corruption in this country. By investigating the government, labor unions, and corporations, muckrakers like me, want to present these social problems so that we can inspire Americans to take some action!


 * Booker**- Speaking of labor unions, I had to work to be seen as equal to get where I am. In order for me to attend the Hampton Institute, I had to be a work-study student to pay off my tuition unlike white’s and now women who can just walk into whatever they want. I went from being born into slavery and living on the streets to learning that hard manual work and earning an education will get me to be more accepted by a white man than accepting the standard that society sets for the "typical" black man. By doing so, i became a teacher at Hampton Institute and after that was when i was offered the position as President of Tuskegee Institute. I later was given the opportunity to represent Blacks in my Atlanta Compromise Speech. I always tell my students to strive for excellence: “ Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” That’s why I teach manual labor and service to the students that attend Tuskegee Institute. I stress to the students that they have to “embrace manual labor first then build to the next levels of human achievement over time.” My students helped me build the institute while learning the importance of hard work and commitment. I taught them that in order for African Americans to be accepted, we have to work towards that privilege unlike white’s who get the privilege by default.


 * Anthony **- See this is what I’m talking about, ** "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." I take pride in the fact that I led the only non-violent revolution in the history of the ** ** USA **** in the 72 years it took to win women the right to vote. Also, I wrote the Susan B ** ** Anthony Amendment in 1878 which ended up becoming the 19th amendment, finally giving women the right to vote and accomplishing what we worked so hard for so long **** . ** “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent." ** And don't even get me started about abolition or temperance because I played a role in those reforms as well. **


 * Carnegie **** - Is it my fault women have no rights?! **


 * Addams **** - Did we ever get a chance to speak up and have rights before now? **


 * Carnegie **** - Well you know, I kind of don’t care. **


 * Roosevelt **** - Stop, all of you, stop! **


 * Addams** - Well this has been a weird conversation


 * Booker** - bizarre quote

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