Show I WRITER QUOTES HUEY LONG LONGON LONGON LONGON ON FINANCIAL SITUATION Dear Edl Editor tor A pair of f overalls weighing 2 pounds will cost if I pay in wheat pounds with potatoes pounds with eggs 17 dozen with pork 30 pounds a fat steer that weighed 1000 pounds brought 2500 a suit of clothes weighing 4 2 1 2 1 pounds costs 2500 In other words it takes a 1000 pound steer to pay for 4 2 1 pounds of clothes A sulky plow costs If I pay for the plow with wheat it will take about bushels with cows 12 head with sheep 40 head I In a letter to C. C N. N Lund editor I of The Progressive Independent Huey P. P Long United States Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator says The blind financial powers and their powerful influence influence influence ence do not ot seem willing to let loose one inch I think they would let the country country country coun coun- try and andali all of its people go slap I I dam to hell before they would surrender their money control in America j j I The high price the money capitalists capitalists capi cap 1 have put on their money I has made the high taxes Everything Everything Everything Every- Every thing man buys conceals a n tax Cotton Cotton is selling ing at six cents a a pound A pair of cotton sox weigh weighing ing ng two ounces costs 30 Ibs lbs of wheat Wool sells at twelve cents I a pound and a suit of clothes that I weighs 4 1 2 2 1 pounds costs 25 We WeI I I have mountains of iron ore and andI I Iare need the implements the farmers are so dear it is no use thinking about getting them A I I We hav have too much of everything and are being held down in the worst conditions of poverty the world has ever known Now dear editor what is causing it Is it iti I I capitalism or Either one or both has become so rotten that It stinks to high heaven R R. M. M BRANDON I Boneta Utah I |