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TRIEDIATE RELEASE
ILLEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORD REBARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT
NATIONAL
MONETT, MISSOURI
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
September 29, 1948
9:00 P.M. CST
Hr. Chairnan, and citizens of Monett: This certainly is a very
great honor to me. I am highly pleased to see SO many Lissourians out
here on the platform at this time of night. I want to say to you that I
had hoped to be able to get off the train and dedicate this Legion Hall here
tonight, but I want to explain to you that it is like moving the Ringling
Brothers circus to get the President around, and it would take at least
forty minutes or an hour to get the President off the train and then back
on again. Then there is also my ontourage that has to 30 with ne, so I
thought it would be much better if I could present this wonderful gavel here
to the Post Commander, Art Jackman, and say to you that I am now taking part
in the dedication of that Legion Hall.
You have got a record here in men who served, and I want to
congratulate you on the contribution you made, not only to the Second World
War but to the first one. Some of my old cronies came from this part of
the State, and I am very proud indeed to present to you, Art, this gavel.
I hope you will use it with circunspection and that you will never be
arbitrary in the use of it. I appreciate the privilege of being able to
do this.
Now I just want to call your attention to a fact or two. This
campaign of nine is a crusade. It is a crusade in the interest of the
people. There is just one issue in this caupaign, and that is whether
special privilege shall run the country, or whether the people shall run
the country.
You know, we have the greatest Government in the world in this
country. It is a government for the people, as long as the people attend
to their business and make that government work.
Well now, back in 1946 two-thirds of the people stayed at home,
and one-third of the people of this country elected, I would say, the next
to the worst Congress this country ever had. And the other two-thirds didn't
have anything to cry about, because they stayed at home and let it happen.
Now, if you do that this time, you won't have anybody to blame
but yourselves, because the welfare of this Nation and the welfare of this
world depends on what you do on November the second in this campaign.
I want you here in Missouri to roll up a majority that will give
you a full Democratic Congressional delegation in the Congress, and show
the world that you are behind your President in his efforts for peace, and
in his efforts for the welfare of the people of this country.
For the last 16 years, policies have been inaugurated by the
Democratic administrations during that period for the welfare of the every-
day man, the welfare of the farmer, the welfare of the laboring man and
the welfare of the small business man and white-collar worker.
If you want to overturn that and give the country back to the
special privilege boys, that is your affair, because you are the Government;
but if you are going to do that, go out and vote for it, don't stay at
home and then blane the other follow because you get bad government.
Let me urge you with everything I have got, to go to the polls
November the second, just as early as you can get up and get there, and
vote the straight Democratic ticket from President down to Constable, and
the country will then be safe.
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