| Show SHARE THE WEALTH conservatives who think the share the wealth movement Is merely a temporary example ot of economic and social insanity which will soon pass away are apt to be sadly rill mistaken staken father ot of the movement is huey long who has dramatized an issue which is almost as old as time itself his theary is i that the iho trouble with the country is that a small group of people have too much money and that they are gradually starving out the rest of us in opposition to senator long economists of all schools bring for ward graphs statistics charts which dispute his figures and prove him to be entirely wrong however not one american in a thousand ever sees I 1 the hie dork of the economists economist Ft and the shara the wealth advocates are masters at reaching the multitude in addition they have this great ad vantage some people are and 20 odd million millier are on relief many of these people p desperate worried disgusted with matters as they now exist they are likely to turn to anyone who can promise them a better day this is not to say that share the wealth is going to take the country by storm and effect a revolution in our social and economic order but it seems certain that it is going to be a powerful political and financial force for some time to come if the third party movement actually comes to fruition there will really be fireworks in 1936 and share the wealth is nearly sure are to be the third party slogan |
