Draft Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association at Baltimore, Maryland
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Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association; I suppose every one
here knows that this is the day of appeasement. Great nations, and
some not so great, ask to be appeased. Some States in our own country
want their share of appeasement. Many industries seem to be clamoring
for appeasement. Just now the ma jority of all Amarican industry is
ment.
anxiously looking for some form of tax appeax Appeasement seems to be
in the air.
It
therefore isvperfectly natural that our good friends, the railroad
managers and executives, should be asking for their share of appeasement,
too. They have written their ideas into a Bill which recently has been
introduced in the House, and is now before Comgress. Other transportation
Bills have been introduced, and still others probably will be. These
will come at an early date for consideration before the Senate Committee
of which I am a member.
I am not an appeaser. In considering transportation Legislation I want to
assure you gentlemen that I personally shall not attempt to appease
any form of transportation at the expense of any competitive form of
transportation. In other words I shall not attempt or even consider a
policy of appeasement for the railroads,
that policy works to the
disadvantage of the trucks and busces, the waterways and the airlines,
which are the railroad's competitors. Nor shall I attempt to appease
the trucks and although from what I hear, you gentlemen have not
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