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    "ocrText": "TRUMAN\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nSERVICE*\nGOVER\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT\nCHELSEA, OKLAHOMA\nSEPTEMBER 29, 1948, 6:00 P.M.,c.s.t\nThank you very much, Governor. I appreciate that introduc-\ntion and I certainly appreciate this turnout in this great City\nof Chelsea. It certainly is a compliment to the President of the\nUnited States to have you come out this way to see and hear what\nhe has to say.\nI just had the privilege of stopping over at Claremore a\nwhile ago and presenting a wreath to Will Rogers -- to the\nmemorial over there. I understand that his sister, Mrs. McFadden\nlived in this town for a long time and he was a frequent visitor\nhere while he was alive. I also understand that the first oil\nwell in Indian territory was found here and that it was found at\na depth of 31 feet. Think how nice it would be now if we could\ndrill some of these big oil wells and strike at 31 feet! We'd\nhave plenty of oil in that case, because we could get the pipe\nand everything to make a well operate nowadays. I suppose that\nwell probably cost $50, and nowadays you can't even get the first\nsection drilled for less than a hundred thousand.\nBut this country now is vitally interested in the farm\nsituation; and it's to your interest to become vitally interested\nin the farm situation as it effects you right here.\nThis last Congress did everything it possibly could to w r e c k\nthe Democratic farm program which has been in effect since 1933.\nThat program was instituted for the benefit of the farmers, and it\nhas benefited the farmer because the farmer in 1932 had an income\nof 4 billion, 5 hundred million dollars, and the farmer last year\nhad an income of over 18 billion dollars in this country. There\nisn't a farmer in this country who is not better off now than he\nwas in 1932. That year 123,000 farmers were kicked off their\nfarms by foreclosure. Last year there were less than 800. The\nfarmer has reduced his debt by 50 per cent in this Democratic\nadministration of the last 16 years.\nIf the farmer is looking after his own interests, just as\nthe laboring man should look after his own interests, he can't do\nanything in the world but send Dixie Gilmer to the Congress and\nsend Bob Kerr to the Senate -- and then I'll have somebody I can\nwork with.\nI certainly appreciate your turnout, and I want to complimen+\nyou on this nice band; and I'm tickled to death to see the young\npeople come out and listen because the next generation is the one\non which this country is depending. And this election will affect\nthe next generation and the generation after that if it goes the\nwrong way because these Republicans want to turn the clock back.\nYou don't want to s ee that done, and if you don' get out\nthere on Election Day and vote and pile up the biggest majority\nOklahoma has ever given the Democrats -- and that will be a notice\nto the world that we believe in going forward and not backward."
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