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    "ocrText": "-2--\naffecting that industry. Any weakness in any of the mensures is the\nresult of bad thinking by farm leaders. President Roosevelt hos\ndeclared that both of these bodies and the powers with which they were\nclothed were frankly experimental and subject to amendment on tricl.\nThere is no doubt that the next Congress will amend both acts so as\nto provide a stable base of betterment to industry and the form.\"\nUnder Democratic rule, Truman declared, the imperative need of the\nfarmer to produce at a profit as a means of national salvation\nreceived its first recognition. The farm had twice been denied the\nequalization fee in the Coolidge regime, he declared, while in the\nHoover administration a debenture plan had been removed when Hoover\nasserted he would veto the NcNary-Haugen farm relief bill with a\ndebenture included. It was removed.\nThe Democrats, under President Roosevelt, Trumnn asserted,\nrecognized the plight of the farm in giving agriculture the processing\ntax, which aimed to ma.ke farming pay, as did the equalization fee and\ndebenture.\n*My opponent in the senatorial campaign, Roscoe C, Patterson, voted\nagainst the debenture feature and against the HoNary-Haugen farm\nrelief bill, Truman said. \"Since Roosevelt has been President, he\nvoted uniformly against every measure designed to aid agriculture.\n\"In doing this, he was merely following the Republican political\nbelief and practice. That party is interested only in industry and\nthrough its entire history has been ageinst the farm. It displayed\nits enmity strikingly at the Kanses City national convention which\nnominated Hoover. Representatives of farm organizations were hustled\nout of the convention, when they attempted to plend the cause of the\nfarmers, by the Republican police as disturbers of the peace.\"\nThe licNary-Haugen farm, relief bill in the Hoover administration was\ndesigned to benefit only the farm by a rise in farm schedules, Truman\nsaid. But he declared that Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania and\nlobbyists for industry, forced a rise in industrial schedules above\nthe new farm schedules.\nIndustrial tariff rates were so high other countries adopted\nretaliatory tariffs, interdominion trade frvoritism, cartels and other\nmethods which largely shut our farm and industrial products out of\nforeign markets, Truman said. The world trade disruption that Preservation\nfollowed, Truman asserted, precipitated the Wall Street crash and\ndecreased Amerionn exports to a figure less than that spent abroad\nyearly by our tourists.\n(\n11"
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