Free textbooks , charity hospitals , old-age pensions, free night schools for adults , sales taxes and higher gasoline, corporate, franchise, and severance taxes were approved by the legislature.
Political oppostion grew amid charges of demagoguery and dictatorship, misconduct, blackmail, and usurpation of authority. Impeachment efforts failed, Won election to U. Senate , , but remained governor of Louisiana until January 25, , when he took his Senate seat, after securing victory for the "Long" candidates to state office, headed by Gov. Oscar K. Became a major factor in national elections of as a supporter of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, but thereafter became a vigorous opponent of the New Deal. This program caused friction with New Deal. Long actively opposed New Deal candidates for public office, and Roosevelt supporters actively opposed Long candidates in Louisiana.
Internal Revenue Service investigations attempted to undermine and discredit Long and his partisans. Explored candidacy for presidential election. Career came to an end on September 8, , when shot by Dr. Senator Huey Long died two days later on September 10, , eleven days after his 42 nd birthday. I have so much to do. 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. Roosevelt , but felt threatened by him.
In , Long wrote a speculative book called My First Days In The White House , which gave a fictional account of how Long expected his first days as president to unfold. Governor Oscar K. Allen declared martial law and called in the militia. The skirmish moved to the airport where there was a brief armed altercation. That summer, Long claimed to have uncovered a plot to assassinate him involving four congressmen, the mayor of New Orleans and two former Louisiana governors.
On September 8, , Long arrived in Baton Rouge to take part in a special legislative session when he was approached by Dr. Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Judge Benjamin Pavy.
Pavy stood to lose his position during the session after Long revived a rumor about black children in the Pavy family to discredit him professionally. Weiss shot Long at close range. Many observers of Long and his political machinations have described him as a demagogue with an insatiable lust for power and control. Long also a U. Kingfish and His Realm. William Ivy Hair. Huey Long. Harry Williams. Life and Times. The Long Legacy Project. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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Known as the Long March, the trek lasted a year and covered some 4, miles or more, by some The battlewas part of aBritish campaign to seize control of New York and thereby isolate New England from the rest of the colonies. On July 20, , during World War II , a plot by senior-level German military officials to murder Adolf Hitler and then take control of his government failed when a bomb planted in a briefcase went off but did not kill the Nazi leader.
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