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I'll tell you why. It is a result of a basic difference
in attitude between the Democratic and the Republican parties.
The Democratic party represents the people. It is pledged
to work for agriculture. It is pledged to work for labor. It is
pledged to work for the small business man and the white-collar worker.
The Democratic attitude puts human rights and human welfare
first.
But the attitude of the Republican gluttons of privilege is
very different. The big-money Republican looks on agriculture and labor
merely as expense items in a business venture. He tries to push their
share of the national income down as low as possible and increase
his own profits. And he looks upon the Government as a tool to accom-
plish that purpose.
These Republican gluttons of privilege are cold men. They
are cunning men. And it is their constant aim to put the Government
of the United States under the control of men like themselves. They
want a return of the Wall Street economic dictatorship.
You have already had a sample of what a Republican
administration would mean to you. Two years ago, in the Congressional
elections, many Americans decided that they would not bother to vote.
Others thought they would like to have a change. And they brought
into power a Republican Congress -- the notorious "do nothing"
Republican 80th Congress.
Let us look at the results of that change. This Republican
Congress has already stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back.
They have already done their best to keep price supports
from working. Many growers have sold wheat this summer
at less than the support price, because they could not find proper
storage.
When the Democratic Administration had to face this problem
in the past, the Government set up grain bins all over the wheat and
corn belts to provide storage.
Now the farmers need such bins again. But when the Republican
Congress rewrote the charter of the Commodity Credit Corporation this
year, there were certain lobbyists in Washington representing the
speculative grain trade.
These big-business lobbyists and speculators persuaded
the Congress not to provide storage bins for the farmers. They tied
the hands of the Administration. They are preventing us from setting
up the storage bins that you will need in order to get the support
price for your grain.
When farmers have to sell their wheat below the support
price because they have no place to store it, they can thank this
same Republican Congress -- the Congress that gave the speculative
grain trade a rake-off at your expense.
But the Republican reactionaries are not satisfied with
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