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? 这是生存的权利吗？当这个国家的幼童被抚养到一个由12个人比12000万人拥有更多所有权的领域中？
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，我无法像有充足的时间和篇幅论述这些主题时那样详细地讨论，但我会尝试在没有讲稿和准备的情况下非常简略地勾勒要点，以便你们能像今晚我能告诉你们的那样很好地理解它们。
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. 朋友们，我主张，在美国我们没有难以解决的问题，这是我在华盛顿及全美各地与我讨论过此事的几乎所有人的看法——我们没有非常难以解决的问题。
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. 我们面临的不是问题的难度；而是这个国家的富人——我指的是超级富豪——不会让我们解决问题，或者说不会让我们解决折磨这个国家的那个小问题，因为为了治愈我们所有的痛苦，必须缩减大笔财富，以便我们将财富分散，让所有人共享。
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. We have everything here that we need, except that we have neglected the fundamentals upon which the American Government was principally predicated. 我们对我国的政府有着非凡的热爱；事实上，这几乎是一种宗教，理应如此，因为我们有卓越的政体和卓越的法律。我们这里有我们所需要的一切，除了我们忽视了美国政府最初所依据的根本原则。
How may of you remember the first thing that the Declaration of Independence said? 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." 你们当中有多少人记得《独立宣言》所说的第一件事？它说："我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的，人民拥有某些不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生命、自由和追求幸福的权利"；它还说："我们认为人人生而平等。"
Now, what did they mean by that? 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? 那么，他们这么说是什么意思？朋友们，他们的意思是说人人被创造得平等，而这意味着某一个人出生就要继承100亿美元，而另一个孩子出生却一无所有吗？
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? 朋友们，这是否意味着有人来到这个世界，当然没有机会做过一点工作，就应该出生时拥有比他和他的所有子孙后代所能处置的更多的财富，而另一个人却必须出生在饥饿之中？
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." 那不是《独立宣言》说"我们认为人人生而平等"时所说的"人人被创造得平等"的含义。
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. 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? 那也不是《独立宣言》说他们认为某些权利是不可剥夺的——生命、自由和追求幸福的权利——时的含义。朋友们，当这个国家的幼童被抚养到一个由12个人比1.2亿人拥有更多所有权的领域中时，那是生存的权利吗？
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? I do not think you will contend that, and I do not think for a moment that they will contend it. 朋友们，当今天的美国有数以千计、数以十万计、数以百万计的儿童在一个食物和衣物过剩得溢出的土地上濒临饥饿时，这是给他们公平的掷骰机会，或是任何类似不可剥夺的生命、自由和追求幸福的权利，或是任何类似于人人被创造得平等的事实吗？我不认为你们会如此主张，我也不认为他们片刻会如此主张。
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. 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? 现在让我们看看能否将这个政府回归到《独立宣言》，看看我们是否会对此采取任何行动。当主已经告诉我们困难是什么，摩西写得连盲人都能看见，然后耶稣告诉了我们一切，后来又写在《雅各书》中人人都能读到时，我们为什么要犹豫、为什么要支吾、为什么要彼此争吵以找出困难所在呢？
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. 朋友们，现在我引用《圣经》，告诉你们其中所说的话，不是为了使你们相信我的智慧，女士们、先生们，也不是为了使你们相信我引用《圣经》就意味着我应该比其他人更值得相信；而是我向你们引用《圣经》，不如说是让你们参考《圣经》，因为你们在其中看到的任何内容都可以信赖，只要你们、你们的子孙或任何人活着，就永远不会被推翻。
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. 你们还可以进一步依赖这一事实：《圣经》中所包含的任何一个历史事实，从未被任何科学发现所推翻，也从未因通过人类自身心智或主允许他拥有的智慧而向人类揭示的任何事物所推翻。
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《圣经》说，女士们、先生们，没有哪个国家能够存续，或者说一个国家要存续就必须让财富在人民中间分散，没有任何东西应该被任何一个人永久持有，第50年似乎是禧年，所有财产都会被分散并归还到它们最初来源之处，每第七年债务都应被免除。
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. 全能者说这两件事是必要的——我应该说祂知道是必要的，否则祂不会如此规定：财产应保持在普通大众之间，每个人都应继续分享其中；这样就不会有一个人拿走一半，把它传给儿子，儿子拿走剩余的一半，那个儿子又把它传给另一个人，那个人又拿走剩余的一半，直到像滚下山的雪球一样，地上所有的雪都被刮走，只剩下雪球上的那点。
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. We have in American today more wealth, more goods, more food, more clothing, more houses than we have ever had. We have everything in abundance here. 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. 我相信那是主的判断、观点和律法，即我们必须不时地分配财富，以便在一个富足的土地上不会有人饿死，就像今天的美国一样。今天在美国，我们拥有比以往任何时候都多的财富、商品、食物、衣物和房屋。我们这里一切都很充足。朋友们，我们有农业问题，因为我们的棉花太多，小麦太多，玉米太多，土豆太多。
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，因为我们有太多的房子，但没有人能买得起并住进去。
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, 朋友们，我们的国家有麻烦，因为我们欠下太多债务，这是文明史上最大的债务负担，这表明我们无法分配这里实际存在的东西，因为人民没有足够的金钱来供给自己所需，也因为少数人的贪婪使他们认为必须拥有一切，
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. 他们的快乐在于让大众挨饿，在于占有他们无法使用、他们的孩子也无法使用的东西，而他们却沐浴在阳光和财富的辉煌中，将黑暗和绝望投射并强加给其他所有人。
"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." 主实际上说："所以，如果你们看到这些如今已经发生并存在于这个和其他国家的事情，任何国家要存续，就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. 主又实际上说："每第七年应当免除债务；7年之后将没有债务。"这就是律法。
Now, let us take America today. We have in American today, ladies and gentlemen, $272,000,000,000 of debt. Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today. Why, my friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid. 现在让我们看看今天的美国。女士们、先生们，今天美国有2720亿美元的债务。这个国家的各类人民今天共欠下2720亿美元的债务。朋友们，那是无法偿还的。那种债务是不可能偿还的。
The entire currency of the United States is only $6,000,000,000. That is all of the money that we have got in America today. 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. 美国全部货币只有60亿美元。这就是我们今天在美国拥有的所有钱。你们所有银行里的所有实际货币、政府金库里的所有钱，总共是60亿美元；如果你们拿走所有这些钱今天还债，你们仍然欠2660亿美元；如果你们拿走所有这些钱再还一次，你们仍然欠2600亿美元；如果朋友们，你们拿这些钱偿还20次，你们仍然欠1500亿美元。
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. 你们必须有今天美国整个货币供应量的45倍才能偿还美国人民的债务，然后他们就不得不从零开始，连一分钱都没有。
So, my friends, it is impossible to pay all of these debts, and you might as well find out that it cannot be done. 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. 所以，朋友们，所有这些债务是不可能偿还的，你们不妨认识到这是无法做到的。美国最高法院已经明确发现这是无法做到的，因为在一个明尼苏达州的案件中，它裁定当一个州推迟了收债的恶日时，这是立法权的有效和合宪的行使。
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一些我认为你们能理解的话——我今晚不打算用引述来折磨你们——我要告诉你们历代智者乃至当今所说的话：你们必须让国家的财富分散开来，并且必须限制任何一个人所能拥有的数量。
You cannot let any man own $300,000,000,000 or $400,000,000,000. If you do, one man can own all of the wealth that they United States has in it. 你们不能让任何一个人拥有3000亿或4000亿美元。如果你们这样做了，一个人就能拥有美国全部的财富。
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. If you did, there would not be anything else for the balance of the people to consume. 朋友们，如果你们在一个岛上有100份午餐，你们不能让一个人吃掉这100份午餐，或者拿走这100份午餐不让其他人吃任何一份。如果你们这样做了，剩下的人就没有其他东西可吃了。
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. They either own directly everything or they have got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be excepted. 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, 所以，朋友们，今天在美国，我们处于一种状态：大约10个人主宰着你们所拥有的至少85%的活动领域。他们要么直接拥有一切，要么对它们有某种抵押权，只有极小的比例例外。他们拥有银行、拥有钢厂、拥有铁路、拥有债券、拥有抵押贷款、拥有商店，他们已经把整个国家从一端到另一端锁链起来，
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. 以至于今天没有任何一种行业能让一个小独立经营者进入并谋生，没有任何一种行业能让独立经营者进入并赚到足以买一辆汽车的钱；他们终于逐渐而稳定地把所有人从可以谋生的领域中排挤出去，然而他们仍然愚蠢到认为自己应该能够从中获得更多生意。
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? It is not possible. Then, ladies and gentlemen, how do you expect people to live, when the wherewith cannot be had by the people? 如果你把一个人减少到饿死、流血和垂死的地步，你期望那个人如何能拿到任何钱来花在你这里？这是不可能的。那么，女士们、先生们，当人民无法获得所需之物时，你期望人民如何生活？
In the beginning I quoted from the Scriptures. 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. 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. 一开始我引用了《圣经》。我希望你们理解，我引用《圣经》不是为了使你们相信我个人的人品，因为那是造物主与我之间的事，是关于我在造物主面前的立场以及你们在造物主面前的立场。这与本次议题无关，除非你们当中有人愿意为我们某些人的灵魂祈祷。
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. 但是主赐下了祂的律法，在《雅各书》中他们如此说，富人应为降临到他们身上的苦难哭泣嚎叫；因此，经上写着，当富人持有他们无法使用和无法消费的物品时，你们将惩罚他们，他们面前除了苦难之日什么都没有。
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. Read what they said. 然后我们听说过伟大的希腊哲学家苏格拉底，以及更伟大的希腊哲学家柏拉图，我们读过柏拉图和苏格拉底之间的对话，其中一人说巨大的财富会带来巨大的贫困，并将毁灭一个国家。读读他们所说的话。
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. 读读柏拉图所说的话：你们不能让任何一个人太穷，也不能让任何一个人太富；磨出额外富人的同一台磨坊也会磨出额外的穷人，因为，要使额外富人变得如此富裕，他们必然要夺取更多本应属于普通人的东西。
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. 这是一个你不必学习、也没有人会与你讨论的非常简单的数学过程。
So that was the view of Socrates and Plato. That was the view of the English statesmen. That was the view of American statesmen. 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. Roosevelt. 这就是苏格拉底和柏拉图的观点。这是英国政治家的观点。这是美国政治家的观点。这是像丹尼尔·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·罗斯福这样的美国政治家的观点，甚至晚至赫伯特·胡佛和富兰克林·D·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. But, nevertheless, they recognized the principle. 这两个人，胡佛先生和罗斯福先生，都曾出来说必须分散财富，但他们都没有对此采取任何行动。不过，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; 他们两人都没有对此采取任何行动这一事实是他们自己的问题，我不打算批评；但如果胡佛先生实施了他所说应该做的事情，他很可能是3年后才从总统职位上退休，而不是1年前；
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. 如果罗斯福先生按照他所说分散财富所必需的路线前进，朋友们，他现在已经走了很远了，再过几个月他很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; 但我现在要警告你们，到目前为止所做的一切都没有从这些大财富持有者手中拿走一分钱；他们拥有的和以前一样多，可能还更多一点；他们持有的普通人民的债务和以往一样多，可能还更多一点；
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. 朋友们，除非我们给这个国家的人民一个公平的掷骰机会，让他们都能从这个土地的财富中获得一些东西，否则在这上帝永恒的大地之上，我们没有任何机会可以拯救这个国家和这个国家的人民。
It is necessary to save the Government of the country, but is much more necessary to save the people of America. We love this country. We love this Government. It is a religion, I say. 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; 拯救国家的政府是必要的，但拯救美国人民更为必要。我们热爱这个国家。我们热爱这个政府。我说这是一种宗教。这是人们曾经读到过的那种宗教，那时妇女们以宗教的名义，会将她们的婴儿扔进熊熊烈火中，他们瞬间被烈火吞噬，这是过去的事情；
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. 即使在今天世界上可能仍有一些人，以宗教的名义，将他们泪眼模糊的目光投向父母悲伤的面容，而父母无法给他们食物和衣物，这些是他们都需要的，是维持生命所必需的，这种情况日复一日、夜复一夜地持续着，当白天进入黑暗和漆黑时，他们知道那些孩子早晨醒来时没有饭吃，可能晚上睡觉时也没有饭吃。
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. 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 -- 然而以我们政府的名义，独自一人，这些人尽其所能地努力让一个好政府存活下去，他们能坚持多久无人知晓。如果我今晚处于他们的位置，处于数百万人所处的位置，我希望我能拥有我可能称之为——我无法给你们一个词来表达他们所拥有的那种坚忍；这就是那个词——
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. 我希望我能拥有那种坚忍，去赞美和尊敬我的政府，这个政府允许我在这片食物过多、衣物过多的土地上挨饿，以便让少数人能拥有远超他们所能食用或穿戴的东西。
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，我们组织了一个协会，我们称之为"分享财富协会"，一个以"人人皆国王"为座右铭的协会。
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. What do we propose by this society? We propose to limit the wealth of big men in the country. There is an average of $15,000 in wealth to every family in America. That is right here today. 人人皆国王，这样就不会有男人或女人没有生活必需品，就不会依赖金融殉道者的随心所欲、反复无常和独断专行来谋生。我们通过这个协会提议什么？我们提议限制国内大人物的财富。今天在美国，平均每个家庭拥有15000美元的财富。这就是今天的现实。
We do not propose to divide it up equally. 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. We will not say we are going to try to guarantee any equality, or $15,000 to families. 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; 我们不主张平均分配。我们不主张财富的分割，但我们主张限制允许加诸任何家庭之上的贫困。我们不会说我们要试图保证任何平等，或保证每个家庭15000美元。不；但我们确实认为，平均数的三分之一对于任何一个家庭持有来说已经足够低了，每个家庭应该有大约5000美元的财富保障；
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. 足以购买一个家、一辆汽车、一台收音机和普通便利设施，并有机会教育他们的孩子；此后该家庭从这片土地的收入中获得公平份额，这样就不再有只有少数被选中的人才能拥有这些东西的情况，也不再会有家庭生活在贫困和困苦之中。
We have to limit fortunes. Our present plan is that we will allow no one man to own more than $50,000,000. We think that with that limit we will be able to carry out the balance of the program. It may be necessary that we limit it to less than $50,000,000. 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. 我们必须限制财富。我们目前的计划是，我们不允许任何一个人拥有超过5000万美元的财富。我们认为有了这个限制，我们将能够执行该计划的其余部分。可能有必要将限制定在5000万美元以下。在制定计划时，可能有必要规定任何人的财富不超过1000万或1500万美元。
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. 但无论如何，这仍然会比任何一个人，或任何一个人和他的孩子及他们的孩子一生所能花掉的更多；在我们无法防止大众贫困的程度上堆积财富是不必要也不合理的。
Another thing we propose is old-age pension of $30 a month for everyone that is 60 years old. 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. 我们提议的另一件事是给每个60岁以上的人每月30美元的养老金。现在，我们不会把这笔养老金给年收入1000美元的人，如果他拥有10000美元的财产我们也不给他，但除此之外我们会给。
We will limit hours of work. There is not any necessity of having over-production. 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. 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; 我们将限制工作时间。没有任何必要造成生产过剩。我认为，女士们、先生们，你们只需将工作时间限制到人民只工作足以生产所有人所需物品的程度。为什么呢，女士们、先生们，假设所有这些节省劳动力的设备把工作时间减少到你每天只需工作4小时；
that is enough for these people, and then praise be the name of the Lord, if it gets that good. 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. 这对这些人来说就足够了，那么赞美主的名，如果情况真的那么好的话。让它成为福而不是祸，然后我们每天工作5小时、每周5天，甚至更少，我们可能给一个人一年整月休假，或给他2个月；我们可能做其他国家认为适当的事情，以及我在路易斯安那州所做的，即设立学校让成年人可以回去学习自从他们上学以来所发现的事物。
We will not have any trouble taking care of the agricultural situation. All you have to do is balance your production with your consumption. 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. 我们处理农业状况不会有任何困难。你们要做的就是使生产与消费平衡。你们只需放弃产量过多的某种作物，你们只需将剩余的储存到下一年，政府会接管它。
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. 当种植的作物足够供应另一年时，在你们不需要再种植的特定年份投入公共工程，通过这种方式你们让每个人都就业。
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. 当政府拥有足够的任何特定作物来照顾所有人时，那就是全部所需；为了做到这一切，我们的税收将是拿走十亿美元级别的财富并将其削减到煎锅大小，不超过5000万美元，如果有必要降到1000万美元，我们就降到1000万美元。
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. 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. 我们已经设计出了方案，保证对财产设定上限（没有人拥有的财产少于平均数的三分之一），保证减少财富和缩短工时，以将财富分散到全国各地。我们将照顾60岁以上的老人，让他们离开这个繁忙的产业，给他们机会享受必需品并安度晚年，从而从市场上消除可能造成商品过剩的劳动力。
Those are the things we propose to do. "Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign. 这些就是我们要做的事情。"人人皆国王。"有吃的就让每个人都吃；有穿的就让所有人都穿。这使我们所有人都成为君主。
You cannot solve these things through these various and sundry alphabetical codes. You can have the N.R.A. and P.W.A. and C.W.A. and the U.U.G. and G.I.N. and any other kind of "dad-gummed" lettered code. You can wait until doomsday and see 25 more alphabets, but that is not going to solve this proposition. Why hide? Why quibble? You know what the trouble is. The man that says he does not know what the trouble is just hiding his face to keep from seeing the sunlight. 你们无法通过各种各样字母缩写的法规来解决这些问题。你们可以有N.R.A.、P.W.A.、C.W.A.、U.U.G.、G.I.N.以及任何其他"该死的"字母代码。你们可以等到世界末日再看25个字母表，但这不会解决这个问题。为什么要躲藏？为什么要支吾？你们知道麻烦是什么。说自己不知道麻烦所在的人只是在遮住脸以免看见阳光。
God told you what the trouble was. 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. 上帝已经告诉你们麻烦是什么。哲学家们已经告诉你们麻烦是什么；当你们有一个国家里一个人拥有的比10万人或100万人还多，当你们有一个国家像美国一样，四个人对事物的控制权超过所有1.2亿人加在一起，你们就知道麻烦是什么。
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. 我们在这个国家有这些巨额收入；但是农民，从日出到日落耕地，每周6天从日出到日落辛勤劳作，到头来实际上什么都没有。
And we ought to take care of the veterans of the wars in this program. That is a small matter. Suppose it does cost a billion dollars a year -- that means that the money will be scattered throughout this country. We ought to pay them a bonus. We can do it. 我们也应该在这个计划中照顾战争的退伍军人。这是小事一桩。假设一年确实要花费10亿美元——那意味着这些钱将散布到全国各地。我们应该给他们发奖金。我们能做到。
We ought to take care of every single one of the sick and disabled veterans. 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. 我们应该照顾每一个生病和残疾的退伍军人。我不在乎一个人是在战场上生病还是不是；每一个穿过这个国家军装的人都有权得到照顾，而且有足够的钱来做到这一点；我们需要分散国家的财富，而你们在所谓的N.R.A.中并没有这样做。
If the N.R.A. has done any good, I can put it all in my eye without having it hurt. All I can see that 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; 如果N.R.A.做了什么好事，我可以把它全部放进眼里都不会痛。我能看到N.R.A.所做的就是把小人物赶出生意——他店里的小商人、经营水果摊的小意大利人、或希腊擦鞋摊主，他们必须拿到一本275页的法规并用水平仪、罗盘和镜子来研究；
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. The N.R.A. is not worth anything, and I said so when they put it through. 他必须雇一个费城律师告诉他法规里有什么；等到他搞清楚法规是什么时，他已经在监狱里或已经破产了；他们已经有了一个连锁法规体系已经让他破产。N.R.A.一文不值，他们通过时我就这么说了。
Now, my friends, we have got to hit the root with the axe. Centralized power in the hands of a few, with centralized credit in the hands of a few, is the trouble. 现在，朋友们，我们必须用斧头砍到根源。集中在少数人手中的权力，加上集中在少数人手中的信贷，就是问题所在。
Get together in your community tonight or tomorrow and organize one of our Share Our Wealth societies. If you do not understand it, write me and let me send you the platform; let me give you the proof of it. 今晚或明天在你们的社区聚集起来，组织一个我们的分享财富协会。如果你不明白，写信给我，让我寄给你纲领；让我给你证明。
This is Huey P. Long talking, United States Senator, Washington, D.C. Write me and let me send you the data on this proposition. Enroll with us. Let us make known to the people what we are going to do. I will send you a button, if I have got enough of them left. 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." 我是休伊·P·朗，美国参议员，来自华盛顿特区，在向你们讲话。写信给我，让我寄给你关于这个主张的资料。加入我们吧。让我们向人民宣布我们要做什么。如果我还有足够的数量，我会寄给你一枚纽扣。我们有一枚小纽扣，是我们的一些朋友设计的，纽扣边缘有我们的信息，中间写着"人人皆国王"。
Many thousands of them are meeting through the United States, and every day we are getting hundreds and hundreds of letters. Share Our Wealth societies are now being organized, and people have it within their power to relieve themselves from this terrible situation. 数以千计的人正在美国各地聚会，每天我们都收到成百上千封信。分享财富协会正在组建中，人民有能力让自己从这种可怕的处境中解脱出来。
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, 看看梅奥兄弟本周宣布的事情，他们是当今世界上最伟大的科学家，比所有的摩根家族和洛克菲勒家族或任何其他人都有权拥有更多钱，然而梅奥兄弟却把他们的大笔财富捐出来用于治疗病人，
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. 他们说他们不想在这个世界上积聚财富，而是想把财富回用到能做善事的地方；但其他大资本家不愿意这样做，不愿意做这些比他们高尚10倍的人已经做过的事情，因此需要一部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. 组织你们的分享财富协会，让你周围的人与你聚会，并向你们在国会的参议员和众议员表达你们的意愿。
Now, my friends, I am going to stop. I thank you for this opportunity to talk to you. 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. 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. 现在，朋友们，我要结束了。我感谢你们给我这个机会与你们交谈。我今晚是在全国广播公司的主办下，承蒙他们的允许与他们交谈的，他们让我免费讲话。如果我有钱——我希望我有钱——我想更经常地以这种方式与你们交谈，但我没有钱，我不能指望这些人免费让我讲话，除非在罕见的场合。
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，朋友们，我希望有机会与你们交谈，我正在给你们写信，我希望你们能站出来帮助这项工作，因为决议和法案已经提交国会，我们希望你们能帮助我们聚集起来并组织你们的分享财富协会。
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，我想说我猜我的家人正在新奥尔良的收音机旁收听，我要对我的妻子和三个孩子说，我完全健康，希望不久就能回家，我希望他们今晚收听了我的演讲，我祝愿他们和所有的邻居朋友一切顺利。
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. 朋友们，感谢你们的好意关注，我希望你们会加入我们，处理你们自己在这个政府工作中的事务，并分享或帮助我们分享财富协会。
I thank you. 我感谢你们。
