Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INrERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 18 LA: and another one by the name of let's see •••• well at the most I'd say there was about eight of us in all. VM: Eight. LA: You know, that kid, he's an old man now. I call him kid he was still younger than I was, Benjamin, Bertha's Compadre, he marry that girl, that Swedish girl who was named Emma, I think he, Bertha known well, he baptized some of the kids, that kid he just start right after the depression but he was in -the smelter when I worked, I left that and when, ah, Mr. Hoov~r throw in a speech that I never forget, no matter what they say, he might be a pretty good man, but to my estimation and to the poor peoples estimation, I'm not taking sides I want you to understand that, I'm not radical, I just think what, you know, whats the truth, Mr. Hoover come over here to the D & R G and stand up on the back of that great big special car that he has and he says, well, here I don't nobody, I don't know which is the poor people and which is the rich people he says there's gotta be anything and by golly he prove it. When he got in the chair it's ~he biggest depression I think we ever have up to date. If another one come like that I might as well not even take my social security because that wasn't gonna help me. Is gonna be so bad. But that man told the people and there was people so, that can't hurt