Every Man a King -- Huey Pierce Long

Every Man a King -- Radio Speech to the Nation

每个人都是国王——向全国广播讲话

Is that a right of life, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men that is by 120 million people?

当这个国家的孩子们被养育到一个由 12 个人（即 1.2 亿人）拥有的领域时，这难道是一种生命权吗？

Ladies and gentlemen, I have only 30 minutes in which to speak to you this evening, and I, therefore, will not be able to discuss in detail so much as I can write when I have all of the time and space that is allowed me for the subjects, but I will undertake to sketch them very briefly without manuscript or preparation, so that you can understand them so well as I can tell them to you tonight.

女士们、先生们，今晚我只有 30 分钟的时间与你们交谈，因此，当我有足够的时间和空间来讨论这些主题时，我将无法像我能写的那样详细讨论，但我将在没有手稿或准备的情况下非常简短地勾画它们，以便你们能够像我今晚告诉你们一样清楚地理解它们。

I contend, my friends, that we have no difficult problem to solve in America, and that is the view of nearly everyone with whom I have discussed the matter here in Washington and elsewhere throughout the United States -- that we have no very difficult problem to solve.

我的朋友们，我认为，我们在美国没有什么困难的问题需要解决，这也是我在华盛顿和美国其他地方与我讨论过这个问题的几乎每个人的观点——我们没有什么非常困难的问题需要解决。

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.

我们所面临的问题并不是困难，而是困难。事实上，这个国家的富人——我所说的富人是指超级富人——不允许我们解决困扰这个国家的问题，或者更确切地说，解决困扰这个国家的一个小问题，因为为了治愈我们所有的灾难，就必须缩小巨额财富的规模，这样我们就可以将财富分散给所有人分享。

We have a marvelous love for this Government of ours; in fact, it is almost a religion, and it is well that it should be, because we have a splendid form of government and we have a splendid set of laws.

我们非常热爱我们这个政府；事实上，它几乎是一种宗教，而且它应该是一种宗教，这很好，因为我们有一个出色的政府形式，我们有一套出色的法律。

We have everything here that we need, except that we have neglected the fundamentals upon which the American Government was principally predicated.

我们这里拥有我们需要的一切，只是我们忽略了美国政府主要赖以生存的基本原则。

How may of you remember the first thing that the Declaration of Independence said?

你们还记得《独立宣言》所说的第一句话吗？

It said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that there are certain inalienable rights of the people, and among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"; and it said, further, "We hold the view that all men are created equal."

它说：“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的，即人民享有某些不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利”；它还说：“我们认为人人生而平等。”

Now, what did they mean by that?

现在，他们这是什么意思？

Did they mean, my friends, to say that all me were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10,000,000,000 and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing?

我的朋友们，他们的意思是说，我生而平等，这意味着任何一个人出生时都会继承 10,000,000,000 美元，而另一个孩子出生时则不会继承任何东西？

Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could ever dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

我的朋友们，这是否意味着，有人来到这个世界上，当然没有机会完成一份工作，生来就应该拥有比它及其所有孩子和孩子的孩子所能处置的更多的东西，但另一个人必须出生在饥饿的生活中？

That was not the meaning of the Declaration of Independence when it said that all men are created equal of "That we hold that all men are created equal."

这并不是《独立宣言》所说的“人人生而平等”的意思，而是“我们认为人人生而平等”。

Now was it the meaning of the Declaration of Independence when it said that they held that there were certain rights that were inalienable -- the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

这就是《独立宣言》的含义，它说他们认为某些权利是不可剥夺的——生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。

Is that right of life, my friends, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120,000,000 people?

我的朋友们，当这个国家的孩子们被养育到一个由 12 个人拥有的领域比由 1.2 亿人拥有的领域还要多的时候，这就是生命的权利吗？

Is that, my friends, giving them a fair shake of the dice or anything like the inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or anything resembling the fact that all people are created equal; when we have today in America thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of children on the verge of starvation in a land that is overflowing with too much to eat and too much to wear?

我的朋友们，是给他们公平的摇骰子，还是诸如不可剥夺的生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利，或者诸如人人生而平等的事实之类的东西？今天，在美国，我们的土地上吃得太多，穿得太多，有成千上万的儿童处于饥饿的边缘吗？

I do not think you will contend that, and I do not think for a moment that they will contend it.

我不认为你会争辩这一点，我也不认为他们会争辩这一点。

Now let us see if we cannot return this Government to the Declaration of Independence and see if we are going to do anything regarding it.

现在让我们看看我们是否不能让这个政府回归《独立宣言》，看看我们是否要对此采取任何行动。

Why should we hesitate or why should we quibble or why should we quarrel with one another to find out what the difficulty is, when we know what the Lord told us what the difficulty is, and Moses wrote it out so a blind man could see it, then Jesus told us all about it, and it was later written in the Book of James, where everyone could read it?

当我们知道主告诉我们困难是什么，摩西把它写下来让盲人也能看到，然后耶稣告诉我们这一切，后来写在《雅各书》里，每个人都可以读到的时候，我们为什么要犹豫，为什么要狡辩，为什么要互相争吵来找出困难是什么？

I refer to the Scriptures, now, my friends, and give you what it says not for the purpose of convincing you of the wisdom of myself, not for the purpose ladies and gentlemen, of convincing you of the fact that I am quoting the Scripture means that I am to be more believed than someone else; but I quote you the Scripture, rather refer you to the Scripture, because whatever you see there you may rely upon will never be disproved so long as you or your children or anyone may live; and you may further depend upon the fact that not one historical fact that the Bible has ever contained has ever yet been disproved by any scientific discovery or by reason of anything that has been disclosed to man through his own individual mind or through the wisdom of the Lord which the Lord has allowed him to have.

现在，我的朋友们，我引用《圣经》并告诉你们它所说的，不是为了让你们相信我自己的智慧，也不是为了让你们相信我引用《圣经》的事实，意味着我比其他人更值得相信；女士们先生们，我也不是为了让你们相信我引用《圣经》的事实。但我引用你的圣经，而是让你参考圣经，因为只要你或你的孩子或任何人还活着，无论你在圣经中看到什么，你可以依赖的都永远不会被证明是错误的。你还可以进一步相信这样一个事实：《圣经》中所包含的历史事实还没有被任何科学发现或通过人自己的个人思想或通过主允许他拥有的主的智慧向人揭示的任何事情所反驳。

But the Scripture says, ladies and gentlemen, that no country can survive, or for a country to survive it is necessary that we keep the wealth scattered among the people, that nothing should be held permanently by any one person, and that 50 years seems to be the year of jubilee in which all property would be scattered about and returned to the sources from which it originally came, and every seventh year debt should be remitted.

但是，女士们，先生们，圣经说，没有一个国家能够生存，或者一个国家要生存，我们就必须将财富分散在人民中，任何东西都不应由任何人永久持有，五十年似乎是禧年，在这一年中，所有财产将分散并返回其最初的来源，并且每第七年的债务都应该被免除。

Those two things the Almighty said to be necessary -- I should say He knew to be necessary, or else He would not have so prescribed that the property would be kept among the general run of the people and that everyone would continue to share in it; so that no one man would get half of it and hand it down to a son, who takes half of what was left, and that son hand it down to another one, who would take half of what was left, until, like a snowball going downhill, all of the snow was off of the ground except what the snowball had.

全能者所说的这两件事是必要的——我应该说他知道这是必要的，否则他就不会规定财产将保留在广大人民手中，并且每个人都将继续分享；这样，就没有人会得到一半，然后把它传给一个儿子，儿子拿走剩下的一半，而那个儿子又把它传给另一个人，他再拿走剩下的一半，直到，就像一个雪球滚下山，除了雪球本身以外，所有的雪都离开了地面。

I believe that was the judgment and the view and the law of the Lord, that we would have to distribute wealth every so often, in order that there could not be people starving to death in a land of plenty, as there is in America today.

我相信这就是主的判断、观点和律法，我们必须经常分配财富，以便在富裕的土地上不会有人饿死，就像今天的美国一样。

We have in American today more wealth, more goods, more food, more clothing, more houses than we have ever had.

今天的美国比以往任何时候都拥有更多的财富、更多的商品、更多的食物、更多的衣服、更多的房子。

We have everything in abundance here.

我们这里的一切都很丰富。

We have the farm problem, my friends, because we have too much cotton, because we have too much wheat, and have too much corn, and too much potatoes.

我的朋友们，我们有农场问题，因为我们有太多的棉花，因为我们有太多的小麦，还有太多的玉米和太多的土豆。

We have a home-loan problem because we have too many houses, and yet nobody can buy them and live in them.

我们有住房贷款问题，因为我们有太多房子，但没有人能买和住。

We have trouble, my friends, in the country, because we have too much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has ever been given to civilization, where it has been shown that we are incapable of distributing to the actual things that are here, because the people have not money enough to supply themselves with them, and because the greed of a few men is such that they think it is necessary that they own everything, and their pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses, and in their possessing things they cannot use, and their children cannot use, but who bask in the splendor of sunlight and wealth, casting darkness and despair and impressing it on everyone else.

我的朋友们，我们在这个国家遇到了麻烦，因为我们欠了太多的钱，这是文明所欠下的最大的债务，事实证明，我们没有能力分配给这里的实际物品，因为人民没有足够的钱来供应自己，因为少数人的贪婪使得他们认为有必要拥有一切，他们的快乐在于群众的饥饿，以及他们拥有他们无法使用的东西，他们的孩子也无法使用这些东西。他们沐浴在阳光和财富的光辉中，投下黑暗和绝望，并给其他人留下深刻的印象。

"So, therefore," said the Lord, in effect, "if you see these things that now have occurred and exist in this and other countries, there must be a constant scattering of wealth in any country if this country is to survive."

“所以，因此，”主说，实际上，“如果你看到现在在这个国家和其他国家已经发生和存在的这些事情，那么如果这个国家要生存的话，任何国家都必须不断地分散财富。”

"Then," said the Lord, in effect, "every seventh year there shall be a remission of debts; there will be no debts after 7 years." That was the law.

主说：“那么，每第七年债务就会减免一次；七年后就没有债务了。”这就是法律。

Now, let us take America today.

现在，让我们以今天的美国为例。

We have in American today, ladies and gentlemen, $272,000,000,000 of debt.

女士们先生们，今天的美国有 272,0 亿美元的债务。

Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today.

今天这个国家的人民欠下了二十七万二千百万美元的债务。

Why, my friends, that cannot be paid.

为什么，我的朋友们，这是无法支付的。

It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid.

这种债务是不可能还清的。

The entire currency of the United States is only $6,000,000,000.

美国的全部货币只有60亿美元。

That is all of the money that we have got in America today.

这就是我们今天在美国得到的所有钱。

All the actual money you have got in all of your banks, all that you have got in the Government Treasury, is $6,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid it out today you would still owe $266,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid again you would still owe $260,000,000,000; and if you took it, my friends, 20 times and paid it you would still owe $150,000,000,000.

你们在所有银行、政府财政部中拥有的所有实际资金是 6,000,000,000 美元；如果你今天拿走所有的钱并支付，你仍然欠 266,000,000,000 美元；如果您拿走所有这些钱并再次付款，您仍欠 260,000,000,000 美元；我的朋友们，如果你拿了 20 次并付款，你仍然欠 150,000,000,000 美元。

You would have to have 45 times the entire money supply of the United States today to pay the debts of the people of America, and then they would just have to start out from scratch, without a dime to go on with.

你必须有美国今天全部货币供应量的45倍才能偿还美国人民的债务，然后他们就只能从头开始，一毛钱都没有了。

So, my friends, it is impossible to pay all of these debts, and you might as well find out that it cannot be done.

所以，我的朋友们，偿还所有这些债务是不可能的，而且你可能会发现这是不可能的。

The United States Supreme Court has definitely found out that it could not be done, because, in a Minnesota case, it held that when a State has postponed the evil day of collecting a debt it was a valid and constitutional exercise of legislative power.

美国最高法院肯定发现这是不可能的，因为在明尼苏达州的一个案例中，它认为，当一个州推迟收债的邪恶日子时，这是合法且符合宪法的合法行使立法权。

Now, ladies and gentlemen, if I may proceed to give you some other words that I think you can understand -- I am not going to belabor you by quoting tonight -- I am going to tell you what the wise men of all ages and all times, down even to the present day, have all said: That you must keep the wealth of the country scattered, and you must limit the amount that any one man can own.

现在，女士们、先生们，如果我可以继续给你们讲一些我认为你们能理解的其他的话——我今晚不会引用这些话来折磨你们——我要告诉你们，古往今来、甚至直到今天的智者都说过的话：你必须保持国家的财富分散，你必须限制任何一个人可以拥有的数量。

You cannot let any man own $300,000,000,000 or $400,000,000,000.

你不能让任何人拥有 300,000,000,000 美元或 400,000,000,000 美元。

If you do, one man can own all of the wealth that they United States has in it.

如果你这样做，一个人就可以拥有美国拥有的所有财富。

Now, my friends, if you were off on an island where there were 100 lunches, you could not let one man eat up the hundred lunches, or take the hundred lunches and not let anybody else eat any of them.

现在，我的朋友们，如果你在一个有 100 份午餐的岛上，你不能让一个人吃掉这 100 份午餐，或者拿走这 100 份午餐而不让其他人吃其中任何一份。

If you did, there would not be anything else for the balance of the people to consume.

如果你这样做了，那么人们就没有其他东西可以消费了。

So, we have in America today, my friends, a condition by which about 10 men dominate the means of activity in at least 85 percent of the activities that you own.

所以，我的朋友们，今天在美国，有这样一种情况：大约 10 个男人在你们所​​拥有的至少 85% 的活动中主宰着活动手段。

They either own directly everything or they have got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be excepted.

他们要么直接拥有一切，要么获得某种抵押贷款，只有极少数除外。

They own the banks, they own the steel mills, they own the railroads, they own the bonds, they own the mortgages, they own the stores, and they have chained the country from one end to the other, until there is not any kind of business that a small, independent man could go into today and make a living, and there is not any kind of business that an independent man can go into and make any money to buy an automobile with; and they have finally and gradually and steadily eliminated everybody from the fields in which there is a living to be made, and still they have got little enough sense to think they ought to be able to get more business out of it anyway.

他们拥有银行，他们拥有钢铁厂，他们拥有铁路，他们拥有债券，他们拥有抵押贷款，他们拥有商店，他们把国家从一端锁到另一端，直到今天没有任何一种生意可以让一个独立的小人从事并谋生，也没有任何一种生意可以让一个独立的人可以从事并赚到钱来买一辆汽车；他们最终逐渐地、稳步地把每个人都从那些可以谋生的领域中淘汰了，但他们仍然没有足够的理智认为他们应该能够从中获得更多的生意。

If you reduce a man to the point where he is starving to death and bleeding and dying, how do you expect that man to get hold of any money to spend with you?

如果你把一个人弄得饿死、流血而死，你怎么指望他能有钱跟你花呢？

It is not possible.

这是不可能的。

Then, ladies and gentlemen, how do you expect people to live, when the wherewith cannot be had by the people?

那么，女士们、先生们，当人们得不到所需的东西时，你们还指望人们如何生活呢？

In the beginning I quoted from the Scriptures.

一开始我引用了圣经。

I hope you will understand that I am not quoting Scripture to convince you of my goodness personally, because that is a thing between me and my Maker, that is something as to how I stand with my Maker and as to how you stand with your Maker.

我希望你能明白，我引用圣经不是为了让你相信我个人的善良，因为这是我和我的创造者之间的事情，这关系到我如何与我的创造者站在一起，以及你如何与你的创造者站在一起。

That is not concerned with this issue, except and unless there are those of you who would be so good as to pray for the souls of some of us.

这与这个问题无关，除非你们中有人愿意为我们中的一些人的灵魂祈祷。

But the Lord gave his law, and in the Book of James they said so, that the rich should weep and howl for the miseries that had come upon them; and, therefore, it was written that when the rich hold goods they could not use and could not consume, you will inflict punishment on them, and nothing but days of woe ahead of them.

但主颁布了他的律法，在《雅各书》中他们这样说，富人应该为降临在他们身上的苦难哭泣和哀号；因此，有记载说，当富人拥有他们无法使用和消费的物品时，你将对他们施加惩罚，而他们面前的只有悲惨的日子。

Then we have heard of the great Greek philosopher, Socrates, and the greater Greek philosopher, Plato, and we have read the dialog between Plato and Socrates, in which one said that great riches brought on great poverty, and would be destructive of a country.

然后我们听说了希腊伟大的哲学家苏格拉底，还有希腊伟大的哲学家柏拉图，我们读了柏拉图和苏格拉底的对话，其中有人说，巨大的财富带来巨大的贫困，会毁掉一个国家。

Read what they said.

阅读他们所说的。

Read what Plato said; that you must not let any one man be too poor, and you must not let any one man be too rich; that the same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the mill that will grind out the extra poor, because, in order that the extra rich can become so affluent, they must necessarily take more of what ordinarily would belong to the average man.

读一下柏拉图的话；不可以让任何一个人太穷，也不可以让任何一个人太富；碾压额外富人的磨坊也会碾压额外穷人，因为为了让额外富人变得如此富裕，他们必须夺取更多通常属于普通人的东西。

It is a very simple process of mathematics that you do not have to study, and that no one is going to discuss with you.

这是一个非常简单的数学过程，你不需要学习，也没有人会与你讨论。

So that was the view of Socrates and Plato.

这就是苏格拉底和柏拉图的观点。

That was the view of the English statesmen.

这是英国政治家的观点。

That was the view of American statesmen.

这是美国政治家的观点。

That was the view of American statesmen like Daniel Webster, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, and Theodore Roosevelt, and even as late as Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.

这是丹尼尔·韦伯斯特、托马斯·杰斐逊、亚伯拉罕·林肯、威廉·詹宁斯·布莱恩和西奥多·罗斯福等美国政治家的观点，甚至是赫伯特·胡佛和富兰克林·D·布什的观点。

Roosevelt.

罗斯福。

Both of these men, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt, came out and said there had to be a decentralization of wealth, but neither one of them did anything about it.

胡佛先生和罗斯福先生都站出来表示必须进行财富的分散，但他们都没有采取任何行动。

But, nevertheless, they recognized the principle.

但尽管如此，他们还是承认了这个原则。

The fact that neither one of them ever did anything about it is their own problem that I am not undertaking to criticize; but had Mr. Hoover carried out what he says ought to be done, he would be retiring from the President's office, very probably, 3 years from now, instead of 1 year ago; and had Mr. Roosevelt proceeded along the lines that he stated were necessary for the decentralization of wealth, he would have gone, my friends, a long way already, and within a few months he would have probably reached a solution of all of the problems that afflict this country.

事实上，他们谁都没有采取任何行动，这是他们自己的问题，我不打算批评；但如果胡佛先生执行了他所说的应该做的事情，他很可能会在三年后而不是一年前从总统职位上退休；我的朋友们，如果罗斯福先生沿着他所说的财富分散所必需的路线前进，他就会走了很长的路，在几个月内，他可能会解决困扰这个国家的所有问题。

But I wish to warn you now that nothing that has been done up to this date has taken one dime away from these big-fortune holders; they own just as much as they did, and probably a little bit more; they hold just as many of the debts of the common people as they ever held, and probably a little bit more; and unless we, my friends, are going to give the people of this country a fair shake of the dice, by which they will all get something out of the funds of this land, there is not a chance on the topside of this God's eternal earth by which we can rescue this country and rescue the people of this country.

但我现在想警告你们，迄今为止所做的一切都没有从这些巨额财富持有者身上夺走一毛钱；他们拥有的和他们拥有的一样多，甚至可能更多一些；他们所持有的普通民众的债务与以往一样多，甚至可能更多一些；我的朋友们，除非我们给这个国家的人民公平地摇骰子，让他们都能从这片土地的资金中得到一些东西，否则在这个上帝永恒的地球上，我们没有机会拯救这个国家，拯救这个国家的人民。

It is necessary to save the Government of the country, but is much more necessary to save the people of America.

有必要拯救国家政府，但更有必要拯救美国人民。

We love this country.

我们热爱这个国家。

We love this Government.

我们热爱这个政府。

It is a religion, I say.

我说，这是一种宗教。

It is a kind of religion people have read of when women, in the name of religion, would take their infant babes and throw them into the burning flame, where they would be instantly devoured by the all-consuming fire, in days gone by; and there probably are some people of the world even today, who, in the name of religion, throw their tear-dimmed eyes into the sad faces of their fathers and mothers, who cannot given them food and clothing they both needed, and which is necessary to sustain them, and that goes on day after day, and night after night, when day gets into darkness and blackness, knowing those children would arise in the morning without being fed, and probably to bed at night without being fed.

这是人们读过的一种宗教，在过去的日子里，妇女以宗教的名义，把自己的婴儿扔进燃烧的火焰中，立即被吞噬一切的火焰吞噬；甚至在今天，世界上可能还有一些人，以宗教的名义，把泪水模糊的眼睛投向父母悲伤的面孔，他们无法给他们所需的食物和衣服，而这是维持他们所必需的，这种情况日复一日、夜复一夜地持续着，当白天陷入黑暗和黑暗时，他们知道这些孩子会在早上不吃饭而起床，很可能在晚上不吃饭就上床睡觉。

Yet in the name of our Government, and all alone, those people undertake and strive as hard as they can to keep a good government alive, and how long they can stand that no one knows.

然而，以我们政府的名义，这些人独自一人承担并竭尽全力维持一个好政府的存在，而他们能坚持多久，没有人知道。

If I were in their place tonight, the place where millions are, I hope that I would have what I might say -- I cannot give you the word to express the kind of fortitude they have; that is the word -- I hope that I might have the fortitude to praise and honor my Government that had allowed me here in this land, where there is too much to eat and too much to wear, to starve in order that a handful of men can have so much more than they can ever eat or they can ever wear.

如果今晚我处在他们的位置，即数百万人所在的地方，我希望我能说出我想说的话——我无法用言语来表达他们所拥有的那种毅力；就是这个词 -- -- 我希望我能有勇气赞扬和尊敬我的政府，它允许我在这片土地上吃得太多，穿得太多，挨饿，以便少数人能够拥有比他们吃的和穿的多得多的东西。

Now, we have organized a society, and we call it "Share Our Wealth Society," a society with the motto "every man a king."

现在，我们组织了一个社团，我们称之为“共享财富社团”，这个社团的座右铭是“人人都是国王”。

Every man a king, so there would be no such thing as a man or woman who did not have the necessities of life, who would not be dependent upon the whims and caprices and ipsi dixit of the financial martyrs for a living.

每个人都是国王，所以没有一个男人或女人没有生活必需品，不会依赖金融烈士的突发奇想、反复无常和伊普西迪克西特来谋生。

What do we propose by this society?

我们对这个社会有何建议？

We propose to limit the wealth of big men in the country.

我们建议限制该国大人物的财富。

There is an average of $15,000 in wealth to every family in America.

美国每个家庭平均拥有 15,000 美元的财富。

That is right here today.

今天就在这里。

We do not propose to divide it up equally.

我们不建议平均分配。

We do not propose a division of wealth, but we propose to limit poverty that we will allow to be inflicted upon any man's family.

我们不建议分割财富，但我们建议限制贫困，我们将允许任何人的家庭遭受贫困。

We will not say we are going to try to guarantee any equality, or $15,000 to families.

我们不会说我们会尽力保证任何平等，或者向家庭提供 15,000 美元。

No; but we do say that one third of the average is low enough for any one family to hold, that there should be a guaranty of a family wealth of around $5,000; enough for a home, and automobile, a radio, and the ordinary conveniences, and the opportunity to educate their children; a fair share of the income of this land thereafter to that family so there will be no such thing as merely the select to have those things, and so there will be no such thing as a family living in poverty and distress.

不;但我们确实说，平均水平的三分之一对于任何一个家庭来说都足够低，应该保证家庭财富在 5,000 美元左右；足够买房、汽车、收音机、普通便利设施以及教育孩子的机会；此后，这块土地的收入的公平份额将分配给该家庭，因此不会有仅仅选择拥有这些东西的情况，因此不会有一个家庭生活在贫困和苦难中。

We have to limit fortunes.

我们必须限制财富。

Our present plan is that we will allow no one man to own more than $50,000,000.

我们目前的计划是不允许任何人拥有超过 50,000,000 美元。

We think that with that limit we will be able to carry out the balance of the program.

我们认为，有了这个限制，我们将能够实现该计划的平衡。

It may be necessary that we limit it to less than $50,000,000.

我们可能有必要将其限制在 50,000,000 美元以下。

It may be necessary, in working out of the plans, that no man's fortune would be more than $10,000,000 or $15,000,000.

在制定计划时，可能有必要确保任何人的财富都不会超过 10,000,000 美元或 15,000,000 美元。

But be that as it may, it will still be more than any one man, or any one man and his children and their children, will be able to spend in their lifetimes; and it is not necessary or reasonable to have wealth piled up beyond that point where we cannot prevent poverty among the masses.

但即便如此，它仍然比任何一个人，或者任何一个人和他的孩子以及他们的孩子一生中能够花费的金额还要多。如果财富积累超过了我们无法防止群众贫困的程度，那就没有必要也不合理了。

Another thing we propose is old-age pension of $30 a month for everyone that is 60 years old.

我们建议的另一件事是每个60岁的人每月30美元的养老金。

Now, we do not give this pension to a man making $1,000 a year, and we do not give it to him if he has $10,000 in property, but outside of that we do.

现在，我们不会向年收入 1,000 美元的人提供这笔养老金，如果他拥有 10,000 美元的财产，我们也不会向他提供这笔养老金，但除此之外，我们会提供。

We will limit hours of work.

我们将限制工作时间。

There is not any necessity of having over-production.

没有必要过度生产。

I think all you have got to do, ladies and gentlemen, is just limit the hours of work to such an extent as people will work only so long as is necessary to produce enough for all of the people to have what they need.

女士们、先生们，我认为你们所要做的就是将工作时间限制在一定程度，让人们只在生产足够所有人满足其需要的产品所需的时间内工作。

Why, ladies and gentleman, let us say that all of these labor-saving devices reduce hours down to where you do not have to work but 4 hours a day; that is enough for these people, and then praise be the name of the Lord, if it gets that good.

女士们，先生们，我们可以说，所有这些节省劳力的设备都可以将工作时间缩短到您每天只需工作 4 小时即可；这对这些人来说就足够了，如果事情有那么好的话，赞美主的名吧。

Let it be good and not a curse, and then we will have 5 hours a day and 5 days a week, or even less that that, and we might give a man a whole month off during a year, or give him 2 months; and we might do what other countries have seen fit to do, and what I did in Louisiana, by having schools by which adults could go back and learn the things that have been discovered since they went to school.

让它成为好事而不是诅咒，然后我们将每天有5个小时，每周有5天，甚至更少，我们可能会给一个人一年中整整一个月的假期，或者给他两个月；我们可以做其他国家认为合适的事情，以及我在路易斯安那州所做的事情，即建立学校，让成年人可以回去学习自从他们上学以来发现的东西。

We will not have any trouble taking care of the agricultural situation.

解决农业问题我们不会有任何困难。

All you have to do is balance your production with your consumption.

您所要做的就是平衡您的生产和消费。

You simply have to abandon a particular crop that you have too much of, and all you have to do is store the surplus for the next year, and the Government will take it over.

你只需要放弃某种你有太多的作物，你所要做的就是把多余的储存起来以备下一年使用，然后政府就会接管它。

When you have good crops in the area in which the crops that have been planted are sufficient for another year, put in your public works in the particular year when you do not need to raise any more, and by that means you get everybody employed.

当你所在的地区收成好，所种的农作物足够再用一年时，你就在不需要再种植的那一年，投入你的公共工程，这样你就让每个人都就业了。

When the Government has enough of any particular crop to take care of all of the people, that will be all that is necessary; and in order to do all of this, our taxation is going to be to take the billion-dollar fortunes and strip them down to frying size, not to exceed $50,000,000, and it is necessary to come to $10,000,000, we will come to $10,000,000.

当政府有足够的某种特定作物来照顾所有人时，那就足够了；为了做到这一切，我们的税收将把数十亿美元的财富削减到油炸规模，不超过50,000,000美元，并且有必要达到10,000,000美元，我们将达到10,000,000美元。

We have worked the proposition out to guarantee a limit upon property (and no man will own less than one third the average), and guarantee a reduction of fortunes and a reduction of hours to spread wealth throughout this country.

我们已经制定了提案，以保证对财产的限制（任何人都不会拥有少于平均水平的三分之一），并保证减少财富和减少在全国范围内分配财富的时间。

We would care for the old people above 60 and take them away from this thriving industry and given them a chance to enjoy the necessities and live in ease, and thereby lift from the market the labor which would probably create a surplus of commodities.

我们要关心60岁以上的老人，让他们离开这个蓬勃发展的工业，让他们有机会享受生活必需品，过上安逸的生活，从而把可能产生商品过剩的劳动力从市场上抽出来。

Those are the things we propose to do.

这些就是我们建议要做的事情。

"Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear.

“每个人都是国王。”每个人都有吃饭的时候就有东西吃；有东西穿的时候大家都穿点东西。

That makes us all sovereign.

这使我们所有人都拥有主权。

You cannot solve these things through these various and sundry alphabetical codes.

你不能通过这些五花八门的字母代码来解决这些问题。

You can have the N.R.A.

您可以拥有 N.R.A.

and P.W.A.

和 P.W.A.

and C.W.A.

和 C.W.A.

and the U.U.G.

和 U.U.G.

and G.I.N.

和 G.I.N.

and any other kind of "dad-gummed" lettered code.

以及任何其他类型的“爸爸涂胶”字母代码。

You can wait until doomsday and see 25 more alphabets, but that is not going to solve this proposition.

你可以等到世界末日再看到 25 个字母，但这并不能解决这个命题。

Why hide?

为什么要隐藏？

Why quibble?

何必狡辩呢？

You know what the trouble is.

你知道问题是什么。

The man that says he does not know what the trouble is just hiding his face to keep from seeing the sunlight.

那个自称不知道出了什么问题的人只是遮住了脸，不让自己看到阳光。

God told you what the trouble was.

神已经告诉你问题出在哪里了。

The philosophers told you what the trouble was; and when you have a country where one man owns more than 100,000 people, or a million people, and when you have a country where there are four men, as in America, that have got more control over things than all the 120,000,000 people together, you know what the trouble is.

哲学家们告诉你问题出在哪里；当你有一个国家，一个人拥有超过 100,000 人，或者 100 万人口，并且当你有一个国家，有四个人，比如美国，他们对事物的控制权比所有 120,000,000 人加起来还要多，你就知道问题是什么。

We had these great incomes in this country; but the farmer, who plowed from sunup to sundown, who labored here from sunup to sundown for 6 days a week, wound up at the end of the with practically nothing.

我们在这个国家拥有如此丰厚的收入；但是，这位从日出到日落耕作的农民，每周在这里从日出到日落工作六天，到最后却几乎一无所有。

And we ought to take care of the veterans of the wars in this program.

我们应该在这个计划中照顾战争退伍军人。

That is a small matter.

那是一件小事。

Suppose it does cost a billion dollars a year -- that means that the money will be scattered throughout this country.

假设每年确实花费十亿美元——这意味着这笔钱将分散在这个国家各地。

We ought to pay them a bonus.

我们应该给他们奖金。

We can do it.

我们能做到。

We ought to take care of every single one of the sick and disabled veterans.

我们应该照顾每一位生病和残疾的退伍军人。

I do not care whether a man got sick on the battlefield or did not; every man that wore the uniform of this country is entitled to be taken care of, and there is money enough to do it; and we need to spread the wealth of the country, which you did not do in what you call the N.R.A.

我不在乎一个人在战场上是否生病；每个穿着这个国家制服的人都有权得到照顾，而且有足够的钱来做这件事；我们需要传播国家的财富，而你们在所谓的 N.R.A. 中却没有做到这一点。

If the N.R.A.

如果 N.R.A.

has done any good, I can put it all in my eye without having it hurt.

做过任何好事，我都可以把它全部放在我的眼睛里，而不会受到伤害。

All I can see that N.R.A.

我只能看到 N.R.A.

has done is to put the little man out of business -- the little merchant in his store, the little Dago that is running a fruit stand, or the Greek shoe-shining stand, who has to take hold of a code of 275 pages and study with a spirit level and compass and looking-glass; he has to hire a Philadelphia lawyer to tell him what is in the code; and by the time he learns what the code is, he is in jail or out of business; and they have got a chain code system that has already put him out of business.

所做的就是让小人物破产——店里的小商人，经营水果摊的小达戈，或者希腊擦鞋摊，他必须拿着275页的代码，用水平仪、指南针和镜子学习；他必须聘请一位费城律师来告诉他守则的内容；当他知道密码是什么时，他已经入狱或破产了；他们有一个链码系统，这已经让他破产了。

The N.R.A.

全国步枪协会

is not worth anything, and I said so when they put it through.

不值钱，当他们把它接通时我就这么说了。

Now, my friends, we have got to hit the root with the axe.

现在，我的朋友们，我们必须用斧头砍下根源。

Centralized power in the hands of a few, with centralized credit in the hands of a few, is the trouble.

权力集中在少数人手中，信贷集中在少数人手中，这就是麻烦所在。

Get together in your community tonight or tomorrow and organize one of our Share Our Wealth societies.

今晚或明天在您的社区聚会，组织我们的“分享我们的财富”社团之一。

If you do not understand it, write me and let me send you the platform; let me give you the proof of it.

如果您不明白，请写信给我，让我把平台发给您；让我给你证明。

This is Huey P.

这是休伊·P。

Long talking, United States Senator, Washington, D.C. Write me and let me send you the data on this proposition.

长话短说，美国参议员，华盛顿特区。请写信给我，让我向您发送有关此提案的数据。

Enroll with us.

向我们报名。

Let us make known to the people what we are going to do.

让我们让人们知道我们要做什么。

I will send you a button, if I have got enough of them left.

如果我还剩下足够的按钮，我会给你发一个按钮。

We have got a little button that some of our friends designed, with our message around the rim of the button, and in the center "Every man a king." Many thousands of them are meeting through the United States, and every day we are getting hundreds and hundreds of letters.

我们有一些朋友设计的一个小按钮，按钮的边缘有我们的信息，中间是“每个人都是国王”。成千上万的人通过美国聚集，每天我们都会收到成百上千封来信。

Share Our Wealth societies are now being organized, and people have it within their power to relieve themselves from this terrible situation.

我们的财富社会现在正在组织起来，人们有能力摆脱这种可怕的局面。

Look at what the Mayo brothers announced this week, these greatest scientists of all the world today, who are entitled to have more money than all the Morgans and the Rockefellers, or anyone else, and yet the Mayos turn back their big fortunes to be used for treating the sick, and said they did not want to lay up fortunes in this earth, but wanted to turn them back where they would do some good; but the other big capitalists are not willing to do that, are not willing to do what these men, 10 times more worthy, have already done, and it is going to take a law to require them to do it.

看看梅奥兄弟本周宣布的消息，这些当今世界上最伟大的科学家，他们有权比所有摩根家族和洛克菲勒家族或其他任何人拥有更多的钱，但梅奥兄弟却将他们的巨额财富用于治疗病人，并表示他们不想在这个地球上积攒财富，而是想将它们返回到他们可以做一些好事的地方；但其他大资本家不愿意这样做，不愿意做这些比他们有价值十倍的人已经做过的事情，并且需要制定法律来要求他们这样做。

Organize your Share Our Wealth Society and get your people to meet with you, and make known your wishes to your Senators and Representatives in Congress.

组织您的“分享我们的财富协会”，让您的人民与您会面，并向国会的参议员和众议员表达您的愿望。

Now, my friends, I am going to stop.

现在，我的朋友们，我要停下来了。

I thank you for this opportunity to talk to you.

我感谢您给我这个机会与您交谈。

I am having to talk under the auspices and by the grace and permission of the National Broadcasting System tonight, and they are letting me talk free.

今晚我必须在国家广播系统的主持和允许下讲话，他们让我自由讲话。

If I had the money, and I wish I had the money, I would like to talk to you more often on this line, but I have not got it, and I cannot expect these people to give it to me free except on some rare instance.

如果我有钱，而且我希望我有钱，我想更频繁地在这条线上与您交谈，但我没有钱，我不能指望这些人免费给我，除非在某些罕见的情况下。

But, my friends, I hope to have the opportunity to talk with you, and I am writing to you, and I hope that you will get up and help in the work, because the resolution and bills are before Congress, and we hope to have your help in getting together and organizing your Share Our Wealth society.

但是，我的朋友们，我希望有机会与你们交谈，我写信给你们，我希望你们能起来帮助工作，因为决议和法案已提交国会，我们希望得到你们的帮助，聚集在一起并组织你们的“分享我们的财富”协会。

Now, that I have but a minute left, I want to say that I suppose my family is listening in on the radio in New Orleans, and I will say to my wife and three children that I am entirely well and hope to be home before many more days, and I hope they have listened to my speech tonight, and I wish them and all their neighbors and friends everything good that may be had.

现在，我只剩下一分钟了，我想说，我想我的家人正在新奥尔良收听广播，我会对我的妻子和三个孩子说，我完全康复了，希望在很多天之前就能回家，我希望他们今晚听到了我的演讲，我祝他们以及他们所有的邻居和朋友一切顺利。

I thank you, my friends, for your kind attention, and I hope you will enroll with us, take care of your own work in the work of this Government, and share or help in our Share Our Wealth society.

感谢朋友们的关心，希望你们报名参加，在本届政府的工作中做好自己的本职工作，为我们的共享财富社会做出贡献或提供帮助。

Book/CDs by Michael E.

Michael E. 的书籍/CD

Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008) Text: Source : Speeches and introductions reprinted from Robert C.

Eidenmuller，McGraw-Hill 出版 (2008) 文本： 资料来源： 演讲和介绍转载自 Robert C.

Byrd, The Senate, 1789-1989: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 .

伯德，参议院，1789-1989 年：经典演讲，1830-1993 年。

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994.

华盛顿特区：政府印刷局，1994 年。

Image Source : NARS, FDR Library NPX-83-73.

图片来源：NARS、FDR 库 NPX-83-73。

Research Note : Credit is due Raymond Napolitan III for bringing several transcription errors to my attention.

研究笔记：雷蒙德·那不勒斯三世（Raymond Napolitan III）让我注意到几个转录错误。

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页面更新日期：2026 年 2 月 23 日美国版权状态：文本和图像 = 公共领域。

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American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。

HTML transcription by Michael E.

HTML 转录由 Michael E.

Eidenmuller.

艾登米勒。