Oliver and Company Page #5

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What fruit? It's winter.

Winter fruit.

You needed a rest, okay, you had a rest.

You feel bad about Inez, we all do.

It's awful, but it's not over.

Inez was tired. She asked me to replace her.

Nobody ever made Inez Milholland

do anything in her life.

She couldn't say no to me.

Don't you read the Ladies' Home Journal?

"Alice Paul's relentless.

'Do it for suffrage, do it for suffrage."'

That's what we need to hear.

- Get a parrot.

- Don't use her as an excuse.

She would hate that.

She said, "Men plan, God laughs."

You ever wonder what we're doing, Lucy?

'Cause it seems like he is laughing.

And it's so unfair...

that anyone should have to die in a fight...

that shouldn't even be a fight.

Especially her.

Isn't it ridiculous?

She's dead,

and we're right where we started...

which is nowhere at all.

I'm lost, Lucy.

We laughed, too.

Remember? In London?

That time that we hid in the coat closet

so that we could interrupt Parliament...

and you had to pee.

And I said to you, I said:

"Hey, here's some Lord's boot. Go ahead."

I thought to myself:

"If she's game for that, that's it.

We're gonna be friends for life."

We laughed.

You know, we can still laugh.

I don't see that there is any other way.

That is what we do.

We piss in the boot.

We come out guns blazing, yeah.

I wish Alice was here.

My friend Alice, you can't say no to her.

It's beautiful.

Heads, we'll milk cows.

Tails, we'll go and find Wilson's boots.

Has there been any reaction

from the President?

Who knew about this?

The National Woman's Party will station

sentinels at the White House gate...

from dawn until dusk every day...

until the Constitution of the United States

is amended...

to ensure that every citizen,

regardless of sex...

- is entitled to vote for the man...

- Or woman.

...or woman who occupies that House.

Give that good boy an extra cookie.

"Silent, silly, and offensive.

"A man's mind would

never dream of something...

"at once so petty and so monstrous."

Listen.

"The demonstration was denounced...

"by President of the National American

Woman Suffrage Association...

"Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,

who pointed out that the NWP..."

which is us, "represents only 10%

of the nation's suffragists."

Is that true? Did she make that up?

I think she might have.

What're you doing?

I'm heating bricks for the girls to stand on.

It's freezing out there.

Give them double coats.

Check to see who can donate coats, gloves,

sweaters, scarves. Try Mrs. Belmont.

"The President smiled and waved

to the ladies as his automobile swept in."

Phony baloney.

"Mr. And Mrs. Richard Lane announce

the marriage of their daughter Susan...

"to Roland Ashmore."

Just trying to mix it up.

"Captain of British steamer

made prisoner by German U-boat."

"German submarines sink five more ships."

They're within their legal rights.

They'll get tired of the cold. It won't last.

How about they're trespassing?

- On public property?

- Oh, yeah...

"The avenue is misty gray

"And here beside the guarded gate

"We hold our golden, blowing flags

"And wait."

Could you hold this, please? Thanks.

Senator Myers drafted a bill

that would outlaw treasonous banners.

Those banners quote the President.

You're a brave girl.

This continued picketing

by the National Woman's Party...

is the single greatest obstacle

to the suffrage amendment.

We do not support it...

and we have made that clear

to the President.

The Michigan suffrage committee is here

to pick up their bus.

- Can we put them...

- Ask Mrs. Lewis.

- Upstairs bathroom toilet's not working.

- Ask Mabel.

- Can I have dinner with Ben Weissman?

- Ask your mother.

Don't want to offend you.

You're not seeing him?

- No.

- That's what I told Lucy, but...

Heard you gave away your beau.

Beau?

Pardon my French.

If you mean Weissman, he's not,

and I didn't.

He only asked Doris out

because you never say yes.

Don't you want to get married, Alice?

Don't you want to get married, Alice?

I'm busy that day.

All the men I meet are idiots.

Or terrified of me.

But if I met someone like Weissman...

I would latch onto him like a mollusk.

It wouldn't be fair.

To him or Michael.

A little boy needs a mother.

My whole heart's in this fight.

There's nothing to spare,

not if I mean to win.

You underestimate your heart.

When you're alone...

you can make any choice you want.

But when someone loves you,

you lose that right.

I won't give anything away

until we have it all.

I can't.

Everything's a trade-off, isn't it?

Seems to be.

Tom, I need...

I need to tell you...

I want to tell you...

Tom, I have something to...

Looks like we've had enough

of Kaiser Wilhelm.

The United States is declaring war.

There are, and may be...

many months of fiery sacrifice

and trials ahead of us.

It is a fearful thing to lead

this great peaceful people into war...

"into the most terrible and disastrous

of all wars.

"We shall fight for the things which we have

always carried nearest our hearts."

"We shall fight for democracy...

"for the right of those

who submit to authority...

"to have a voice in their own governments."

- Wilson's going to fight for their rights?

- He's not gonna fight.

He's gonna send men

to fight the Kaiser for him.

He'll stay right here and tip his hat...

to all the American women

standing at his gate.

There won't be any women

standing at his gate.

- What?

- We can't picket a wartime president.

- Why the hell not?

- It's treason, that's why.

Treason is betraying your country.

Petitioning is not treason.

At worst, it's just rude.

Give it any name you want.

The war changes everything.

- This is not our war.

- Women have husbands, women have sons.

No one is gonna thank us

if we all slink off to roll bandages.

- It's not about being thanked.

- This is my country...

and if our soldiers need bandages,

I'm rolling bandages.

Roll them on the picket line.

We regretted it when

we dropped the cause during the Civil War.

And what happened?

Congress gave Negro men the vote

and told women to wait their turn, right?

And we're still waiting.

Tell me to be there, and I will.

Be there, right?

Right? Alice, tell her.

Inez said there was nothing more important

than ending a war.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

You wanna go put your ear to your desk?

If we push Wilson now,

there's gonna be consequences.

For everyone.

Land hard, roll left.

"We shall fight for democracy." He said it.

He should have to eat it and choke.

I'm not saying that we ignore the war.

I'm saying that we saddle up and fight it.

He can't fight for democracy abroad

and deny it here at home. He can't.

- No mothers on the picket line.

- And no Alice Paul on the picket line, either.

I can't ask women to risk it

unless I risk it with them.

- No one's on the line if I'm not.

- I'll be there, don't argue with me.

You're Mama duck. We follow you.

If you go down, they'll scatter.

Use your head.

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