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Louisiana Neros Fiddle While Nation's Business Halts two milleniums, has fiddled Rome burned. But the great historian, Tacitus, us that Nero has been defamed. Instead of fiddling, thousands citizens were being burned out house and home, the Emperor Nero threw open the common people the imperial Campus that the might protected and ordered rushed to them they might be fed. By his energetic conduct, Tacitus tells that Nero proved himself not only the friend the lover of his people. That happened Rome nineteen hundred years ago under the reign of an ambitious, revelling, pagan emperor. But what would the Tacitus, say today if he could take look at the wild of High Hat Oscar Allen and his and banking associates in the state of Louisiana. Like every good citizen, he would puppet Huey Long, looked down upon figurehead Louisiana's mansion, staging most tragic onslaught upon the common people that has ever been perpetrated in the history of the state. And that tragedy enacted under mask of gaiety that turns the lurid light of Nero's reign into an incandescent glow that would make the brilliant Mazda blush for shame High Hat Oscar Allen, jokingly called "Governor" of great democratic state the greatest republic that has ever been conceived in the mind of raises the upon the most scandalous official revelry and of the good. Kingfish Huey Long, known home as votestealing, politician, and throughout the clown, buffoon, and sensational blatonist, joins hands with his hat dummy governor to the utter amazement of starving and distressed Louisianians home These and other Louisiana officials who participated in the mad melee of selfish against the many, their true colors. Already had they lost confidence, and now they fail to command the decent respect of the people the state Louisiana. They are little fish in the great sea of democracy. Were only for their actions, they could be and ignored. But, while the good men do often interred with their bones, the evil that they do them. The that Huey Long, through his High Hat Governor, and his banking associates, has done to the people of the state and the nation that must not only the instant but the incessant of lover of the people and the people's rights. Think High Hat Allen holiday the banks of Louisiana the first March, and immediately boarding train for Washington quest the glee an inaugural ball. Think the satin, silk, and velvet dressed ladies of Louisiana's political life mad whirl of intoxicating dance music, bedecked in costly diamonds showered with pricely orchids while those home groaned beneath load of an unexpected bank Think the officialdom of the state of Louisiana bowed down before the of hilarity when Louisiana leading the sad spectacle national crisis. Think of Attorney General Porterie far away from home Louisiana mesh business legal confusion. Think Treasurer engaging Washington celebrations when his duty to look after the state funds at home with banking suspended the people's money tied up. Think of Alice Lee Grosjean, supervisor public accounts, far away from the state with banks closed and public paralyzed. Think of the uniformed staff of "Governor" Hat Allen waltzing the strains of carefree music while children weeped in hunger wailed despair. Think the veterans of the World War depositing from the United on the first March in Louisiana banks to be told on the second of High Hat had issued his banking holiday, that they could nickel against each dollar on the third of the month. And while boys at home were eating doughnuts and coffee because their legitimate money had been tied up by the banks, Louisiana's political ladies, in crying, me around again, Willie," to the uniformed staff of High Hat brigade. Think the school teachers of Louisiana who went without pay because the fraternity shut down on city and state official checks while highest officials thrilled in the vain glory of Washington Think the clamping down of the scanty pittance that is being dispensed by the Welfare enough to feed able bodied man, nothing of his wife and children. Think of that pittance being by the bankers, under the proclamation of dancing High Hat while infants sucked their thumbs older children cried to sleep. New Orleans and Louisiana hungry, but the on. With banking, business, manufacturing, shipping, and commerce in general halted, woe, want, tribulation, anguish yes, nation-wide hell followed the wake of the mad doings of Louisiana bankers and Louisiana Shameful as is, Louisiana must assume the blame for having led the motley parade the crisis. the sad Indemnity failure and Bank by as it tottered to fall-a three-day banking holiday declared by the dancing opening of the New Orleans bank second day of the three-day holiday with bait to the public to start new accounts that would be payable by check in reclosing the banks the third day the three-day holiday because of the national crisis demanding quick action by President Roosevelt and Congress to avert complete collapse of the financial structure of the United States. Remember, had there been no Huey Long, the Wrecker, there would have been Louisiana Highway had there been wrecked Highway Commission, there would have been no Union Indemrity failure fraud; had there been no Union Indemnity failure and Representative Fish of New York could not have hurt the Hibernia Bank accusing Rudolph Hecht of being party this collosal there been the Bank, Uncle could diverted millions the hungry and the footsore; had the not been called in desperation to save the Hibernia Bank, upon there would have been no nation-wide loss of confidence in New Orleans and Louisiana banks caused and prompted the three-day farcical state holiday; had there been no three-day holiday farce, Louisiana have helped stem the tide banking stabilization instead of leading the way for bank closings that led to the national crisis. Radolph Hecht been called the Bad Boy of Bankdom. Together the Wrecker, through their dummy High Hat Oscar, with Huey Long, they forced the nation the brink of mad maelstrom of banking colscript and limited lapse, money, Tacitus, great historian, could today, believing in justice he did, would wish Franklin Roosevelt unlimited power in straightening out the mad muddle. Then he would truthfully proclaim, with his dummy High Hat went dancing while their people "Kingfish suffered the agony of the damned.' the unkindest cut of all is the sad spectacle of Louisiana yet, the deal as was done the early part the week opposing when Huey Long and two his cohorts voted against the measure President Roosevelt full power nation and stem the giving onrushing tide distress suffering. Louisianians should forever cherish in their hearts this of Huey Long. If he has any defenders they should hang their heads in shame.
