Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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when World War I broke and he helped to get all the Ameri-
cans, different people from that side over and organize the
food stock. Right after he was elected all them countries
over there owed this government money for the war. And the
government had guaranteed the money to the manufacturers . . .
you let them have credit, we guarantee it. And them people
de~lared a moratorium and refused to pay it back; that's why
you had the Depression.
But then Roosevelt runs - the gamblers and one thing and
another put Roosevelt up to run . . . and Roosevelt run, which
he had a right to do. That's his business, When a guy
tried to shoot him down in Florida, butthey killed the
Chicago mayor. Roosevelt come back and none of the guys
over attempt to do; they just made you turn all
the gold money you had, unless it was heirlooms and made it
illegal up to just two years ago. Under Republicans they
brought back - you couldn't even buy, you
might want ta call it a souvenir - called proof money. In
other words, when you buy proof money made by England or
anywheres else you pay an awEul premium on it. I don't
mean . . . and it's the sane way in this country. We could
buy their silver coins, but we couldn't buy their gold
coins, and you couldn't go out of the country where they
used gold money, like Mexico and those places, and get gold
money and bring it back to this cauntry. In fact, it was
illegal for you to have it. And those kinds of things -
you always got issues. I mean,my argument, tlr. Roosevelt.