Transcript:

We have endeavored to teach you time and again that there can be no coming out of this depression until what you earn goes to sustain your wife and children. But somehow or other you are satisfied to sustain the wives and children of those who do the coining and regulating of money, who live in their palaces, and travel in their yahcts...you want that, you voted for that, you have that, and it's time that you take that. Good evening, God bless you.

Background:
During the 1930s, Father Charles Coughlin's "Golden Hour of the Little Flower" was the country's most popular religious radio program, attracting as many as forty million listeners every Sunday. Coughlin, a Canadian-born Catholic of obvious Irish descent, broadcast his quasi-religious sermons from near his small parish in Royal Oak, Michigan. Railing against the political and economic sins of the nation, his fiery rhetoric was greeted heartily by Depression-era America. In the 1932 election year, he became a vocal supporter of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he hailed as the salvation of the nation. However, the politically ambitious Coughlin later grew critical of the president and his policies, and in 1936 he supported Union party presidential candidate William Lemke. Promising to go off the air if Lemke received less than nine million votes, he briefly ceased broadcasting when Lemke won less than a million. In 1937, he returned to the airwaves with a vengeance, attacking the New Deal as a Communist conspiracy and Roosevelt as a dictator. In the next year, he added anti-Semitic remarks to his diatribes and expressed sympathy for Germany and Italy's Fascist regimes. Most of his traditional supporters were alienated by this new extremism, and in 1940 his radio program was canceled. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Coughlin was ordered by his bishop to cease all political activity.