This election was lost four and five and six years ago, not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands. They saved the big banks but the little ones went up the flu.


Nationally syndicated column number 518, And Here's How It All Happened (1932), as published in the Tulsa Daily World, 5 December 1932.

Will Rogers Quotes

This election was lost four and five and six years ago, not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started...

This election was lost four and five and six years ago, not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started...

This election was lost four and five and six years ago, not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started...

This election was lost four and five and six years ago, not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started...