Butler for Bonus Out of Wall Street

Advises Ex-Soldiers to ‘Shake It by Throat’ — Counsels Long to Let Foes Go to Hell

NEW ORLEANS, Dec 9

Gen. Smedley D Butler of the Marines, retired, directed sharp criticisms at the American Legion leadership and called for payment of the soldiers’ bonus in a speech before a meeting of the New Orleans Veterans of Foreign Wars here last night.

He flung his challenge to the American Legion which, he said was calling an indignation meeting “to court-martial me and put me out,” because he criticized the legion leadership last week in Cincinnati.

“I said that I had never known one leader of the American Legion who had never sold them out — and I mean it,” he declared.

“We are here to get everybody who has ever been to war to take an interest in the place of the nation…

“I believe in making Wall Street pay for it — taking Wall Street by the throat and shaking it up. By remaining quiet there are thousands of ex-soldiers in the streets, wounded and sick and hungry. What has been taken from you has been given to a lot of other fellows to rake leaves.”

During his remarks he turned aside to greet senator Huey P long, who entered the hall to speak on the redistribution of wealth.

“You stick by the people that fight for you,” said the General to the Senator. “Don’t pay it any attention to anything but your business. What the hell do you know about the gold standard? You stand by your friends and to hell with the rest of them!”

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