That is all of the money that we have got in America today. But, nevertheless, they recognized the principle. When he died, his net worth was only a few thousand dollars greater than the day that he entered politics. That was the law.Now, let us take America today. This speech was truly moving especially since the era was during the Great Depression. Let us make known to the people what we are going to do. Huey Long was the first politician, other than President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to use national radio broadcasts to promote his ideas to a larger audience. Wealth inequality was at an unsurpassed high in America, and the majority of the people were in the position of struggle and famine. They can't wear the clothes. We've closed up the gambling dives. Let Mr. Irey consult his income tax records on that. Assuming that they are putting out inside information which they You may recall that a short time ago Mr. O. John Rogge, whom Sam Jones tried to nominate for the Presidency of the United States, went out West and started making speeches against people based on confidential information of the Federal Government, and that Tom Clark, the United States Attorney General, fired that man by wire. You cannot let any man own §300,000,000,000 or $400,000,000,000. As for the differences which arose between Earl Long and my father, we know that those differences lasted less than a year before Huey and Earl patched them up, and Earl went back to helping my father and continued to do so until after Huey Long's death several years later. It may be necessary, in working out of the plans that no man's fortune would be more than $10,000,000 or $15,000,000.

As for his children, he feared they would be lazy because they had not had to struggle to get by the way he had. But when they've got everything on the God-slaving earth that they can eat and they can wear and they can live in — and all that their children can live in and wear and eat and all their children's children can use — then we've got to call Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mellon and Mr. Rockefeller back and say, 'Come back here. How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10ths of the people to eat. One of those bottles of medicine was called High Popalorum and another one of those bottles of medicine was called Low Popahirum. What they will pay [and] what they can't keep from paying for the welfare of the people of Louisiana.
The full text of this speech, as printed in Long's official Share Our Wealth pamphlet (see right), appears below.I have only 30 minutes in which to speak to you this evening, and I, therefore, will not be able to discuss in detail so much as I can write when I have all of the time and space that is allowed me for the subjects, but I will undertake to sketch them very briefly without manuscript or preparation, so that you can understand them so well as I can tell them to you tonight.I contend, my friends, that we have no difficult problem to solve in America, and that is the view of nearly everyone with whom I have discussed the matter here in Washington and elsewhere throughout the United States—that we have no very difficult problem to solve.It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country—and by rich people I mean the super-rich—will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.We have a marvelous love for this Government of ours; in fact, it is almost a religion, and it is well that it should be, because we have a splendid form of government and we have a splendid set of laws. Put that stuff back on this table that you took away from here that you don't need.

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