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1512 coming on down. In 1812, there was a great wave of unemployment through the country. Couldn't blame that on the republican party anyhow. And that was in 1812. And they financed. They financed the money for public works by lottery. Not by lottery. Got public works in 1812 by lottery. Now they do it by magic lottery in our history. Come clear on down to the Louisiana all. Remember when Louisiana, the Louisiana lottery, it was doing great till they drew huey long and then they stopped it. Every time a church wants to raise any money, they put on a raffle. You know, that and raffle, that's just a kind of the hoard of lottery. And what you budge. I thought that was a pretty good little gag too. There you are. Millions. Millions of dollars is bet. Yes, city on the Kentucky derby. And there's just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions goes out of this country every year to foreign lotteries. Now, here's my plan. Now, mind you, this is not the real Rogers plan that I've been talking about. This is the Rogers. It's a temporary plan till I can get my mind on a better one and which may be next Sunday or which may possibly be later. I propose. I'm proposing a giant lottery. That is, the more giant, the better. Let the government, you know, still, you know, a big one. It's the biggest put on by the government. Well, still, there's a lot of kick about the government going into business. So we may have to let the United States chamber of commerce put it on and. Or maybe the American federation of labor or the elks or the Legion. My plan is to let each organization sell all the tickets they can, you know, for the lottery. The government sells, the US Chamber sells, the federation, the Elks, the Legion, every organization, women's clubs, everything. Then the one selling the most is automatically the best organization, the business organization. And we don't have this argument over who's the best. If the U. S. Chamber wins, they will have proved it instead of just admitting it like they are now. In most lotteries, I imagine they take out about 20 or 25% for the charity that they're doing, doing it for, you know. But in my plan, in my plan, the rlc, uic, T O, A B L plan, that's the Rogers Rogers lottery. Temporary until I can think of a better plan. Remember the initials now? R L, T, U, I, C, I, O, A B plan. Rogers lottery temporary emergency plan until I can think of a better one. I take 50% of the whole fund. It goes to relief and 10% goes to expenses. See what I mean? And commissions to the people that sell the ticket. Now the 40% goes to the winners, you say. Yeah, but will, will they invest this money when they only want to get 40% of it back? Certainly further, they don't know, you know, the winners or the losers wasn't going to anything. And the winners ought to be tickled to get that much back. And they don't know whether they're going to win or not anyhow. And all this money is to go to pay for all relief. Now mine, it does away with all this relief money they spend. And this replaces all of all relief and all things of a charitable nature. Anything that we got, you know, that's by charity. But this is a big thing in my plan. How are you going to make the rich fella, the old conservative rich fella, buy any tickets? Well, make every man who's got to buy and spend 5% of his salary or his earning has got. For he's got to get his gross income, he's got to spend 5%. See, if he makes $100,000 a year, he's got to buy $5,000 worth of tickets. If he makes a million, he's got to buy $50,000 worth of tickets. Now he's got to give half of those tickets to a fund. And this fund is to provide tickets for all people that can't afford to buy any. See, that's for the poor people. For the poor people, women, children and all charity patients in the hospital. Every man, woman and child in this country must have a ticket. We keep it a democratic country. You see, according to my plan, you make, you make the moneyed entrance pay for the less fortunate. It's the only plan that a rich man won't pick on. For he still is holding thousands of tickets of his own. You see what I mean? After you give up half of them, you can always get money out of a rich guy. If you can show him where there's a chance that he's liable to bring something home with him with it, you know. Then too, he feels like he's provided thousands of tickets for the one, you know, that maybe couldn't bought the tickets, you know, whole thing is a kind of a glorified Wall street. Only you don't need as much money and you have more chance to win. That was the idea. Now here's another du angles of a plan. Don't make the lottery on horse race. I propose that the real big lottery, that the real big lottery be made on Our national election, see, on the presidential election, which is about, you know, it's about to die out on account of interest anyway, you know, I don't know, we just lose interest from. You see, our two national parties have got to a where there's no difference in them anyhow. You can't tell a Democrat whatever one will promise, the other will see them and then raise them. And then if there's a third party, it adds up what the other two have promised. And it'll promise as much as both of them combined. And the general public, I don't know, they just lost all the taste. They don't care nothing about it. Everybody that now in my plan, everybody that has hope for running for president on any and all tickets, his name is in there, see? It's all in there like it is these horses in the grand national, in the Kentucky Derby or any these sweepstakes. The names are all in there. Then a couple of weeks before election or a month, you draw out these names and there'll be hundreds of tickets on each candidate, see? Only just be one winner. There'll be lots of winners and lots of tickets on each candidate, see, and thousands of cash prizes, some tremendous prizes, you know. So in the draw you may get Mr. Hoover, Mr. Vandenberg, Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Teddy Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt or Buzzy Roosevelt or Misty Roosevelt or Father Coughlin, Upton St. Clair, Townsend Dewey, Governor, Kansas, Ogden Hill, maybe Clark Gable. Now, when the drawing is over, then those that have drawn tickets on these various candidates, see, now get this. Well, then they get out and start working for them, don't you see? They start working for them. So that's where you get the interest in the election which you haven't got now, not because they want him for president, but they want to collect all this ticket, don't you see? In that way we can make our elections a big event. We can make the American election as big a thing as the grand national in England, you know, just as important to the world as that is. Or maybe we can make it as big as a Kentucky Derby or Santa Anita Handicap. We would make everybody election conscious. You know, we'd even sell tickets all over the world and you know, ours would be so big, we could sell tickets all over the world and get some of this money back over there instead of us sending it over there, you know, because those people are great gamblers, any or Europeans bigger gamblers as us. And they like, they'll go where the biggest lottery is. Now, we can't have the biggest army and the biggest navy and all that, see. But we can have the biggest lottery and I believe if you take. Take this plan, you adopt the Rogers R, L, C, U, I, C, Q, O, A, B and put that in. And put that in and put on the biggest lottery has ever been. I believe we're going to get our debts back. That's what I. Because if they send a dollar over and we make 60 cents out of it, we're going to make some money out of it even. Well, that's what. Well, that's what I got now. I looked over, I got. I got a minute here for. This guy's got to blow this hard over this thing. I've looked the whole plan over and I can't find a flaw in it myself because I haven't showed it to anybody else, told anybody else about it. The poor would be for it and the rich would be for it and the candidates be fought and it would give. Well, here's the main thing it would do. It would give a national election the thing they like now, which is, you know, which is dignity and prestige. You know, that's what it would give. Thank you very much. Since.