Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman, Muskogee, Oklahoma

IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT SPAULDING PARK TRUMAN "NATIONAL MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA ARCHIVES AND SEPTEMBER 29, 1948, 1.00 PM CST RECORDS SERVICE" Thank you very much. I certainly am most happy to be in this wonderful town of Muskokee this morning. I don't know where all the people come from. There must be everybody in Uklahoma here this morning. It makes me feel very happy when you people turn out to listen to your President and to get acquainted with him and to find cut where he stands on the issues that are before the country. You have a right to know just what my plans and programs are. You have 8 right to examine my record as President of the United States, and then it is un to you ti make up your minds 8S tc what you went to do for the country. The issues are clearly drawn. There is just one issue in this campaign, and that is the special privilege interest against the people. The Republicans have always stood for special interests, and they haven't changed one little bit. All day cur train has been riding through the rich farm- in country of this great State. I could tell by locking at your rich farms on our way into Muskegee that you people -- like everybody else in the country -- are having good times. Back in the Republican depression days, the total cash returns from Muskogee County farmers were less than 2 million dollars. In this year of 1948, you will-have almost 10 million dellars, an increase of 500%. NOW that is true all over the United States. The farm income in 1932 for the whole United States was about 412 billion dollars. Last year it was 18 billions. The farmers have more assets then they ever had before in their history. In 1932, 123 thousand farmers were displaced from their farms -- that many were displaced in 1932. Last year there were less than 800. The farmers only owed about fifty percent of what they owed in 1932. They are prosperous. They are happy. If they look after their own interests, they are going to continue to be prosperous and happy. If you are going to continue to be prosperous end happy, you had better send Rob Kerr back to the Senate, and Bill Stigler to the House. In county after county throughout the United States, those stories of prosperity have been repeated. And it was not an accident. It was due to E policy -- the policy of the Democratic administre tion which took office in 1933 when WC elected franklin D. noosevelt. Now I wonder if you went to exchange this streamlined 1949 model of Democratic form prosperity for S 1929 model T under the Renublicans? That is what they are asking you to do. One of the big reasons for the prosperity in your county and your farms is the f rd. price support program. You know that much better than I.do. That is why Iw.s so deeply con- cerned E couple of weeks 880 when, after a conference with the Republican candidate Governer Stassen came cut with en attack on the form price program. And here is what the "ALL STREET JOURNAL says. The WALL STREET JOURNAL doesn't represent the farmer. The WALL STREET JOURNAL speeks for the Republican (OVER)