Chapter 31 Act 29 The Trial of Coolidge

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Li: (Stands up, knocks the gavel) Now announce the opening of the 29th Court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).Biography accused the 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge). (Coolidge stands up.) God Lee: You are Coolidge, born in 1872, the 30th President of the United States. Coolidge: Yes. God Lee: During the trial, I saw you sleeping many times, President Coolidge, it seems that you are too sleepy.Your great writer Menken said that as the president of the United States, your main achievement is that you sleep more than other presidents.Seems like you're going to sleep 11 hours a day, 9 hours at night, and 2 hours nap.right?

Coolidge: Yes. God Lee: You were woken up in your sleep by your dad telling you that President Harding was dead and you became president, right? Coolidge: My father woke me up, and my father took the oath as a justice of the peace and notary public, and that's how I became President of the United States. God Lee: It seems that sleep is very important to you. Coolidge: But in the election of 1924, I didn't succeed Harding in the presidency. I did it myself. God Lee: You won the Republican nomination in the first round of voting. If this is an effort, how do you explain your opponent John W. Davis of the Democratic Party?He was elected after 103 rounds of voting.

Coolidge: His Democratic Party is ineffective. God Lee: I think your American democracy is inefficient, right? Coolidge: We Americans pride ourselves on "American Democracy." God Lee: Does banning strikes count as "American-style democracy"?Who said that sentence: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time." Coolidge: I said it on September 14, 1919. God Lee: You said you were against it. (You said you were against it.) Coolidge: Looks like God Lee caught every word I said. God Lee: You were president for 5 years and 7 months, and the issue that stuck with me the most was the Immigration Act of 1924 that you approved during your presidency.The law reduced immigration quotas in two ways: by reducing the number of aliens living in the United States from 3 percent to 2 percent, and by changing the basis of that percentage from the 1910 census to the 1890 census.Because most immigrants in 1890 came from southern and eastern Europe, this law greatly reduced the quotas for Italians and Jews, and also stipulated that from 1927, the maximum limit of 150,000 people per year should not be exceeded, while completely excluding Japanese immigrants, and of course more exclusion Chinese immigrated.Your famous saying is The chief business of the American people is business. American things are serious things.You have really taken the matter of foreign immigration seriously. When the chief business comes to handle it, don't you think you Americans are shameful?When your ancestors came to America, who restricted you like this?You Americans, you keep saying that the New World is a new world, freedom, democracy, and human rights. You use up bright words, but you are stingy when you impose restrictions. During your term as President Coolidge, on the surface you "don't talk too much about politics" , but in fact, you are not soft at all.During your tenure, there was actually a federal court ruling to suppress freedom of speech, ruling that publishing communist publications in the United States is a crime. How incredible, you keep talking about freedom of speech in the United States!

Coolidge: My wife said: This was I and yet not I-this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me. rank above me.God Lee, please note my rank, the wife of the president is above me, and the justice of the Supreme Court is above me in the rank of judicial decision. God Li: But in terms of the ranks of the times, can you escape?Aren't everything that happened during your tenure recorded in the accounts of the "Coolidge era"?In fact, it seems that you are a "sexually silent American imperialist" through and through, aren't you?

Coolidge: Am I an imperialist?Which country am I imperialist against? God Lee: Give you two dates, go check yourself. On February 21, 1924, a man openly opposed the independence of the Philippines, his name was Coolidge; on December 13, 1927, a man appointed Henry L. Stimson as the new governor of the Philippines, his name was Coolidge, you Imperialists or not, let the poor Filipinos answer. Coolidge: (embarrassed) Oh. God Lee: All right, leave the court (with a hammer hit, stand up). (The curtain falls.)