For More Information : Huey Long has been the subject of more than 70 books, countless articles, and a documentary film. A list of the most credible and accurate resources is available on the Huey Long Project Web Site: www. Huey P. Long : Governor, U. People of America: In every community get together at once and organize a share-our-wealth society—Motto: Every man a king. To limit fortunes to such a few million dollars as will allow the balance of the American people to share in the wealth and profits of the land.
To limit the hours of work to such an extent as to prevent overproduction and to give the workers of America some share in the recreations, conveniences, and luxuries of life.
To balance agricultural production with what can be sold and consumed according to the laws of God, which have never failed. Taxation to run the Government to be supported, first, by reducing big fortunes from the top, thereby to improve the country and provide employment in public works whenever agricultural surplus is such as to render unnecessary, in whole or in part, any particular crop.
They have the right to a living, with the conveniences and some of the luxuries of this life, so long as there are too many or enough for all. They have a right to raise their children in a healthy, wholesome atmosphere and to educate them, rather than to face the dread of their under-nourishment and sadness by being denied a real life. We propose that a deserving family shall share in our wealth of America at least for one third the average.
An average family is slightly less than five persons. The number has become less during depression. We say that we will limit poverty of the deserving people. None too poor, none too rich. The wealth of this land is tied up in a few hands. It makes no difference how many years the laborer has worked, nor does it make any difference how many dreary rows the farmer has plowed, the wealth he has created is in the hands of manipulators.
They have not worked any more than many other people who have nothing. Now we do not propose to hurt these very rich persons. We simply say that when they reach the place of millionaires they have everything they can use and they ought to let somebody else have something. As it is, 0. Then two thirds of the people do not even have a bank account. The lowest estimate is that 4 percent of the people own 85 percent of our wealth.
The people cannot ever come to light unless we share our wealth, hence the society to do it. Everyone has begun to realize something must be done for our old people who work out their lives, feed and clothe children and are left penniless in their declining years. They should be made to look forward to their mature years for comfort rather than fear.
Such a pension would retire from labor those persons who keep the rising generations from finding employment. This applies to all industry. The longer hours the human family can rest from work, the more it can consume. It makes no difference how many labor-saving devices we may invent, just as long as we keep cutting down the hours and sharing what those machines produce, the better we become. Machines can never produce too much if everybody is allowed his share, and if it ever got to the point that the human family could work only 15 hours per week and still produce enough for everybody, then praised be the name of the Lord.
Heaven would be coming nearer to earth. All of us could return to school a few months every year to learn some things they have found out since we were there: All could be gentlemen: Every man a king. About the easiest of all things to do when financial masters and market manipulators step aside and let work the law of the Lord.
When we have a supply of anything that is more than we can use for a year or two, just stop planting that particular crop for a year either in all the country or in a part of it.
Let the Government take over and store the surplus for the next year. If there is not something else for the farmers to plant or some other work for them to do to live on for the year when the crop is banned, then let that be the year for the public works to be done in the section where the farmers need work.
There is plenty of it to do and taxes of the big fortunes at the top will supply plenty of money without hurting anybody. In time we would have the people not struggling to raise so much when all were well fed and clothed. Huey Long. Library of Congress photo. Every Man a King. Huey Long was Governor of Louisiana from to and was elected to the U.
Senate in A nominal Democrat, Huey Long was a radical populist, of a sort we are unfamiliar with in our day. As Governor, he sponsored many reforms that endeared him to the rural poor. An ardent enemy of corporate interests, he championed the "little man" against the rich and privileged. Huey Long was elected to the U. Senate in , in a race cast as a referendum on his policies as governor. By , rumors of plots to assassinate Huey Long swirled around Louisiana. Carl Weiss, the relative of a political enemy.
He died two days later at age September 10, , was the 80th anniversary of Huey Long's death. Read more recently discovered condolence letters received by Huey Long's widow. M y voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it.
Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable.
No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done.
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