Evening star., 1933-03-26
HUEY LONG NAMES
SIX i. S. RULERS
Defending Mitchell, He Says
Government Drags Out
Dead Lions.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 25-United
States Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
waved his arms today, pointed his
finger, banged the breakfast table. paced
the floor and named six men who con-
troll America from baby food up"
He also explained the details of "the
Lords system of government" and let
it be known that when the time comes
I'll knock the Eastern idea that Huey
Long is monster or clown into
cooked hat"
The Southern Senator was here to
discuss flood control with Frank r.
Reed, flood control commissioner of Il
Inois.
He made an appointment with news
paper men for 10 am, but oversight.
The reporters sat about his bed room
while he dressed and he warned them
that anything said in the sanctity of
the bedchamber was strictly off the
record.
Dressed, he proceeded to another room
for breakfast and said: This here
interview is now officially begun"
He jumped up and shouted about
what he called the great habit in
this country of jumping on the dead
lions when somebody mentioned the
indictment yesterday of Charles E.
Mitchell, former head of the National
City Bank. Later he said that the
whole country was a den of lions. land
the Government goes in and drags out
the dead ones"
Names First Three Men.
How about those six men who con-
troll America?"
u. Pierpont Morgan" said the Sena-
tor. John D. Rockefeller-both of EN-
Andrew w. Mellon and-oh, I'll give you
back the other three. Those three I
mentioned can control everything from
baby food up"
Wait" he continued, jumping
up and pacing the floor, put George F.
Baker in there. just to give him a lit
tie honorable mention. Yes. put the Du
Points in, too. Might as well give them
honorable mention"
Where's Ford?"
Henry Ford? Well, let's see. where
Is he? I'd give him a little mention
there, but wouldn't put him exactly
with the six. I'd put him in there in
this respect: Once I was umpiring a
base ball game and after the team from
my home town had safely won the
game with five runs ahead I began ia
voring the other team just to get the
game ever. Finally, when I called a
strike a ball, the pitcher turned to me
and he said. I thought at first you were
q crook, but I've decided now you're
just fool
Tells of Lords System"
"Y' understand, all these men go &C
cording to their conscience. They ac-
tually believe they benefit the world
Then he said something about capi-
taliSm being able to save itself, but
that it wouldn't co anything until the
bayonetS are at the chests, When it's
too late and told the assembled re-
porters that the Lord favored capitalism.
The Lords system" he said, was
for every man to own his own property
Every seven years all debts would be
wiped cut-and loans would be made
with that taken into consideration
ard every so years the bugle would
sound for every man to go back to his
original possessions or his family'S
original possessions
Senator Longs own system would be-
Forbid any man to have an income
of more than S1,C00,G00 a year, forbid
any child to inherit or receive as a
gilt more than S5,000,000 in a lifetime
Thcn take b. capital levy l per cent
of all over million collars. 2 per cent
OF all over two million dollars and 100
per cent Of all over one hundred
million"
about this clown business" he said
"just give me a week in each State.
III bring my sound trucks up and the
people'Il always come to hear Huey
Long