The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

Franklin Delano Roosevelt sta Hstics of the nations woe:
 S2,375,000 persons on relief [ 1O,837.000 persons unemployed. ~ one per cent of the people own 70 per cent of the wealth, the sem 3tor shouted. Four per cent-60O hmilies-own S5 to 90 per cent of *he wealth. The middle class has Disappeared. Seventy-give per cent Uf the people own nothing - not Thought to pay their debts, so Long
 hid.
 That was his story of what he farmed "the Roosevelt depression Tre said President Roosevelt had Promised during his campaign ana liter it to redistribute wealth in &he United States but had not made RDod. He quoted similar thought Hom the lips of former President Hoover.
 Blasted Waste of Goods z Long blasted the flow-under' -lIl-the-pigs and kill-the-cows Campaigns. All this, he said, while Mungry souls were starving.
 w '.What is it?" demanded the Hingfish. "Is it government. Maybe so. It looks more like St Vitus Dance to me-"
 Z Long said 125,00O,000 persons had seated themselves at the bar hecue.
 ".There is provided by the Almighty what 1t takes for them fo eat: yea more. But the finan- cal masters of America have taken 0ffF the barbecue table 90 per cent ~1Ia hU God What has become of the balance or those things placed on the table hy the Lord?
 They are in the hands of the Iorgans, Rockefellers. Melons, 1aruchs, Bakers. Astors and the Nanderbilts - 600 families at the most. They cannot eat the food. They cannot wear the clothes. So, Rey destroy it."
 Couldn't Use Billingsgate
 &Long spoke last night and into 6e first minutes of today in reply fD General Hugh s. Johnson who tAis week challenged the left wing anti-New Deal coalition formed by Bong and Father Charles E. Cpughlin.
 'It will serve no purpose to our distressed people," he said, "For ne to call my opponents more bit ter names than they call me. Even Were I able, I have not the time t0 present my side of the argu- faent and match them in Billings gate and profanity"
 ~Instead, Long presented his plan: Al $5,0e0 home, an automobile and aSradio. tax-free and guaranteed to 1Fery family, plus an income or i. 2,500 a year. Free school books far the children and college and Professional training for every Mentality capable of learning. For the war veterans, their bonus and ample care for former soldiers who are disabled or i'll. To the aged 60 years -- a pension for any in- adtvidual with less than $1,O00 a year or $10,000 in property. How much pension was not revealed, Hut the money would come from 'Hhe yearly tax that would be lev iEd on big fortunes"
 Talked in Big Figures,
 %Long talked in big figures. He &id he would limit fortunes to no 1r3ore than "a few million dollars" ~"Just between me n you" said the senator, 'I think that's too much" Each individual would list his property. Long explained How he would handle Henry Ford. %"Say Mir Henry Ford should show that he owned all the stock of the Hbrd Motor Company worth, say S2 900, 100000. He could claim, say. $4,OOO,0O0 of the Ford stock, IA N1 Oac nnO m xuot,Id o0 tn fhe United States.
 sNow, say the Rockefeller for tune was listed at $1,0OO,OOO,0OO In oil stocks, bank stocks---~ =, Esh.nd, Long explained he would d<ia1 with all possessing more than $zO00,000 or $4,000,000 just that way. Persons with from $5,0OO to $AO00,00 would not be affected: Those with less than $5,0OO would df4aw on the $165, 100000 pool he estimated his capital levy would cEeate to be brought up to the rllnimum standard of inalienabie pgssessions. He said the phase of In plan would require $1OO,00O,- OpO, 600.
 Irhe senator said with the $65,- O{eO, 900, 900 balance he would pro- yfde education - grade school, heh school and college.
 I've will cut the hours of toll 10 3R hours per week, maybe less, Iyeng promised. "We may cut the working year to II months work a9fd one month vacation, maybe leSs. If our great improvement p,ograms show we need more la. bar than we may have, we Wiu lengthen the hours as convenience rebuires. The hours for produc- tion will be gauged to meet the market for consumption.
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