SENATOR LONG

Evening Star, Issue 21974, 9 March 1935, Page 13

SENATOR LONG

ROOSEVELT GOVERNMENT CASTIGATED PICTURESQUE PHRASES Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, March 8. In answer, to charges made against him recently by General Johnson, the former N.R.A. chief, Senator Long made a blistering forty-five-minute radio address over a nation-wide network to-night, viciously attacking General Johnson, the Roosevelt Administration, and his critics generally. In recent months Senator Long’s multifarious political activities have brought him into prominence as a potential Presidential candidate in 1936 on an ultra-Radical platform. General Johnson had charged Senator Long, and likewise Father Charles Coughlin, tho Detroit “radio” priest, with being dangerous demagogues trying to stir the “lunatic fringe” into revolution, and to-night Senator Long answered in kind and called General Johnson " the erstwhile prince of a deranged alphabet,” referring to the New Deal agencies as N.R.A., A. A. A., R.W.A., etc. He grouped General Johnson with President Roosevelt, Mr Farley, and “all their spoilers and spellbinders ” as influenced by Wall street, operating against the interests of the po’or. Tn unusually strong lam guage he criticised the Roosevelt Administration. “ The trouble is their schemes and" isms have failed.” He said that under the New Deal the rich become richer and the poor poorer. He astimated that 4 per cent, of the people owned 85 per cent, to 90 per cent, of the wealth, while about 75 per cent. “ don’t own anything.” The middle class had been all but liquidated. His solution was a share wealth plan, whereby all citizens would be guaranteed a decent existence through progressive taxation of large fortunes.