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ON VIEW
PEOPLE OF AMERICA:-
In every community get together at once and organize a:
SHARE OUR WEALTH SOCIETY
MOTTO:
EVERY MAN A KING
PRINCIPLES AND PLATFORM:
1.	To limit poverty by providing that every deserving family shall share in the wealth of America for not less than one-third of the average wealth, thereby to possess not less than |5,000. free of debt
2.	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.
3.	Old Age Pensions of §30. per month to persons over 60 years of age who do not earn as much as §1,000. per year or who possess less than $10,000. in cash or property, thereby to remove from the field of labor, in times of unemployment, those who have contributed their share to the public service.
4.	To limit the hours of work to such an extent as to prevent over-production and to give the workers of America some share in the recreations, conveniences and luxuries of life.
5.	To balance agricultural production with what can be sold and consumed according to the laws of God, which have never failed.
6.	To care for the Veterans of our wars.
7.	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.
SIMPLE AND CONCRETE—NOT AN EXPERIMENT
To share our wealth by providing for every deserving family to have one-third of the average wealth would mean that, at the worst, such a family could have a fairly comfortable home, an automobile and a radio, with other reasonable home conveniences, and a place to educate their children. Through sharing the work, that is, by limiting the hours of toil, so that all would share in what is made and produced in the land, every family would have enough coming in every year to feed, clothe and provide a fair share of the luxuries of life to its members. Such is the result to a family, at the worst.
From the worst to the best there would be no limit to opportunity. One might become a millionaire or more. There would be a chance for talent to make a man big because enough would be floating in the land to give brains its chance to be used. As it is, no matter how smart a man may be, everything is tied up in eo few hands that no amount of energy or talent has a chance to gain any of it.
Would it break up big concerns? No. It would simply mean that, instead of one man getting all the one concern made, that there might be 1,000 or 10,000 persons sharing in such excess fortune, any one of whom, or all of whom, might be millionaires and over.
I ask somebody in every city, town, village and farm community of America to take this as my personal request to call a meeting of as many neighbors and friends as will come to it, to start a Share Our Wealth Society. Elect a President and a Secretary and charge no dues. The meeting can be held at a Court House, in some Town Hall or public building, or in the home of someone.
It does not matter how many will come to the first meeting. Get a Society organized, if it has only 2 members. Then let us get to work quick—quick—quick to put an end by law to people starving and going naked in this land of too much to eat and too much to wear. The ca3e is all with us. It is the word and work of the Lord. The Gideons had but two men when they organized. Three Tailors of Tooley Street drew the Magna Chart* of England. The Lord oay»:
"For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I t» the midst of them,"
We propose to help our people into the place where the Lord said was their rightful own and no more.
We have waited long enough for these financial masters to do these things. They have promised and promised. Now we find our country Ten Billion Dollars further in debt on account of the depression and big leaders even propose to get 90% of that out of the hides of the common people in the form of a sales tax. -
There is nothing wrong with the United States. We have more food than we can eat. We have more clothes and things out of which to make clothes than we can wear. We have more houses and lands than the whole 120,000,-
000	can use if they all had good homes. So what is the trouble? Nothing except that a handful of men have everything and the balance of the people have nothing if their debts were paid. There should be “Every Man a King” in this land flowing with milk and honey, instead of the Lords of Finance at the top and slaves and peasants at the bottom.
Now be prepared for the slurs and snickers of some high ups when you start your local Spread Our Wealth Society. Also when you call your meeting be on your guard for some smart aleck tool of the interests to come in and ask questions. Refer such to me for an answer to any question and I will send you a copy. Spend your time getting the people to work to mf gfedr ehOdr«s tad to nava their hones, or
to get a home for those who have already lost their own.
To explain the title, motto and principles of such a society, I give the full information, viz:—
TITLE: “Share Our Wealth Society” is simply to mean that God’s creatures on this lovely American continent have a right to share in the wealth they have created in this country. 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 undernourishment and sadness by being denied a veal life.
MOTTO: "Every Man a King” conveys the great plan of God and of the Declaration of Independence which said: "All men are created equal.” It conveys that no one man is the Lord of another, but that from the head to the foot of every man is carried his sovereignty.
Now, to cover the principles of the Share Our Wealth Society, I give them in order:
1.	To Limit Poverty.
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 5 persons. The number has become less during depression. The United States total wealth in normal times is about Four Hundred Billion Dollars, or about §15,000. to the family. If there were a fair distribution of our things in America, our national wealth would be three or four or five times the Four Hundred Billions, because a free, circulating wealth is worth many times more than wealth congested and frozen into a few hands as is America’s wealth. But, figuring only on the basis of wealth as valued when frozen into a few hands, there is the average of §15,000. to the family. We say that we will limit poverty of the deserving people. One-third of the average wealth to the family, or §5,000. is a fair limit to the depths we will allow any one man’s family to fall. None too poor, none too rich.
2.	To Limit Fortunes.
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, l/10th of 1 per cent of the bank depositors own nearly half of the money in the banks, leaving 99 9/10 of bank depositors owning the balance. Then 2/3 of the people do not even have a bank account The lowest estimate is that 4% of the people own 85% of our wealth. The people cannot ever come to light unless we share our wealth, hence tho Society to do it.
3.	Old Age Pensions:
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. We propose that, at the age of 60, every person should begin to draw a pension from our government of §30. per month, unless the person of 60 or over has an income of over §1,000. per year or is worth §10,000, which is 2/3 of the average wealth in America, even figured on a basis of it being frozen into a few hands. Such a pension would retire from labor those persons who keep the rising generations from finding employment.
4.	To Limit the Hours of Work:
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
To: Huey P. Long,
U. S. Senator,
Washington, D. C.
This is to inform you that a Share Our Wealth Society has been organized here
with---------------members. Address and
officers are as follows:
Street Address: . President:_________
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.”
5.	To Balance Agricultural Production
with Consumption:
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. I/Ct the government take over and store the surpiu* for the next year. If there ia 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 in plenty of it to do and taxes off 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. Distribution of wealth almost solvea the whole problem without further trouble.
6.	To Care for the Veterans of OurWan:
A restoration of all rights taken from them
by recent laws and further, a complete care of any disabled veteran for any ailment, who bs* no means of support.
7.	Taxation:
Taxation is to be levied first at the top for the government’s support and expenses. Swollen fortunes should be reduced principally through taxation. The government should be run through revenues it derives after allowing persons to become well above millionaires and no more. In this manner, the fortunes will bs kept down to reasonable size and at the same time all the works of the government kept on a sound basis, without debts.
Things cannot continue a3 they now are. America must take one of three choices, viz:—
1.	A monarchy ruled by financial masters—a modern feudalism.
2.	Communism.
3.	Sharing of the wealth and income of tho land among all the people, by limiting tha hours of toil and limiting the size of fortunes.
The Lord prescribed the last form. It would preserve all our gains, share them among our population, guarantee a greater country and a happy people.
The need for such Share Our Wealth Society is to spread the truth among the people and to convey their sentiment to their membera of Congress.
Whenever such a local Society has been organized, please send me notice of the same so that I may send statistics and data which such local Society can give out in their community, either through word of mouth in meetings, by circulars or, when possible, in local newspapers.
Please understand that the Wall Street controlled public press will give you as little mention as possible and will condemn and ridicule your efforts. Such makes necessary the organizations to Share the Wealth of this land among the people, which the financial masters are determined they will not allow to be done. Where possible, I hope those organizing a society in one community, will get in touch with their friends in other communities and get them to organize societies in them. Anyone can have copies of this article reprinted in circular form to distribute wherever they may desire, or, if they want me to have them printed for them, I can do so and mail them to any address for 60c per hundred or §4. per thousand copies.
I	introduced in Congress and supported other measures to bring about the sharing of our wealth when I first reached the United States Senate in January, 1932. The main efforts to that effect polled about G votes in the Senate at first Last spring my plan polled the votes of nearly 20 U. S. Senators, becoming dangerous in proportions to the financial lords. Since then I have been abused in the newspapers and over the radio for everything under the sun. Now that I am pressing this program the lies and_ abuse in the big newspapers and over the radio are a matter of daily occurrence. It will all become greater with this effort. Expect that. Meantime, go ahead with the work to organize a Share Our Wealth Society.
Sincerely,
HUEY P. LONG,
U. S. Senator.
I	will go to people who know me and who personally know of the work I have done, for the money that it will take for the expenses I will have to bear in this work, because, if any such things as dues were collected from members for such expenses, the thieves of Wall Street and their newspapers and radio liars would immediately say that I had a scheme to get money.
HUEY P. LONG,
THE LONG TICKET
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