The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-08
FOES LOOK ON
HUEY'S SPEECH
AS BOOMERANG
Kingfich'S Share : Wealth
Plan Is Vulnerable,
w-0ealerS Say.
so MILLIONS HEAR TALK
Long Suggests 165 Billions
Capital Levy in Bid
for Presidency.
~ LYLE {. WILSON
United Press stan Correspondent

N hE1AFI 4 IN MARTIN o W.
Deal confidence IN 1886 election
prospects was undiminished today
by the share -our-wealth program OF
Senator Huey p. Long. who pro-
POSED 70 a national audience $685.
O00O00O00 capital levy and end the
Roosevelt depression
Democrats responsible for fighting
the Administration battles in The
senate expressed the wish Long
would confne his line Of attack in
that BODY 10 MS Notwithstanding
plan. They consider that program
vulnerable and indefenSible in de-
bate.
The capital Vas aware, however,
that The first shout NJ the 1896
presidential campaign was echolng
over the nation from the lips Of
Candidate Lon-.
Share-our-wcalth is compare
t.yeIv old story IN the Senate. heard
first when Long appeared three
wears ago on the floor
Capital Levy Is Basis
But more recently Long has de-
tailed his plan more often IN his
news papcr and in speeches away
from Washington than Al the cap
ral Longs program IS conceded
m be a challenge to the Admins
fration Whether he or another leads
the lelt wing diSsenters III 1886.
But the New Deal is counting on
cain. Political StrategistS believe
that as the radicals depart from the
Administration by one door the
comparatively conservative. many Of
them hitherto unsympathetic, will
come IN al another.
Long proposed a capital levy
everything over S4.OOO.O0O. He FREQ
~ the Administration and at Frank
hn DclanO Roosevelt name ut
tered with scOrnful emphasis on
every Svllah'C-t1e current statistics
or The nations Voc.
Persons on relief. 22.375.000.
Relief Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins says 2O.5Oo,OO0 as the cor
rect figure.
Persons unemployed. 1O.s37.0OO.
The Roosevelt Depression"
One per cent Of the people own
- per cent of the wealth. the King
FISH shouted. Four per cent-600
famillcs-Own IS 10 90 per cent of
the wealth. The middle class has
disappeared. Seventy-five per cent
Of the people own nOthlng-not
enough TO pay their debts, > Long
said
That was his story OF what ne
termed "the Roosevelt depression.
a phrase he intends to make famous
during the months before the cleo
ton in November. 1896. He said
President Roosevelt had promised
during his campaign and after II %
redistribute wealth IN the United
States but had not made good. He
quoted a similar thought from the
lips 81 former President Herbert
Hoover.
Long blasted the plOw-under. kill
the-pigs and kill-the-cows cam
paigls. All this. ne Saio, while hun
CIV souls were starving.
What Is it, demanded the King
fish. Is it a government Maybe
81. II looks more ike 81. Vitus
dance ~ me"
Anti-New Deal Platform Barred
Long said l25.OOOOOO persons had
seated themselves at the barbecue.
There Is provided by the Al
mighty what D. takes for them 10
cat. yea more But the financial
masters Of America have taken of
the barbecue table 90 per cent of
the food placed there by God. What
has become Of the balance Of those
things placed on the table by the
L0rd7
They are in the hands Of the
NOrCanS. ROCkefellerS. MELONS.
Bsruchs. Bakers. Astors and the
Vsnderbilts- 800 families Al the
most. They can not eat the food
They Oan not wear the clothes. So
they destroy IT,.
There in substance Is the anti
New Deal argument Of the left wing
coalition. II may bulk large in the
1886 campaign.
Write to Me- He Pleads
Write 10 me. Write 10 me. ~
pleaded Ions into a microphone
linked with 50 stations through
which he estimated he addressed
5OOo0OO0 persons.
VIII YOU organize share our
wealth society IN YOUR community?
I'll send YOU the credentials. IL
send YOU the materials.
Let's make the politicians keep
their promises or elect someone who
will
We are going on and on in the
s. Vitus dance Of the Roosevelt
depression
Long spoke last night and into
the first minutes Of today in reply
10 Gen. Hugh s. Johnson. who this
week challenged the left wing. anti
New Deal coalition formed by Long
End Father Charles E Coughlin.
IN reply Long offered share our
wealth
1t viii serve no purpose 70 our
distressed people" he said, for me
10 call my opponents more bitter
names than they call me. Even were
able. have not the time TO pre-
sent my side OF the argument and
Turn IN Pare Threel