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Blum Delivered by U, S. Senator Harry S. Truman at Springfield, Missouri, 1940, before the Roosevelt Women's Democratic Club. Juasnoya My good friends and members of the Roosevelt Women's Democratic Club of Springfield:- It is a very great pleasure for me to be with you today. It gives me an opportunity to talk a little politics - to discuss current issues. The campaign will soon be on in earnest. We already hear the Anti New Dealers rolling out their slightly moldy chestnuts. The attack for 1940 will be the same streamlined Anti Roosevelt hymn of hate. We already hear the slogan of a "return to free enterprise". The keynote has been sounded both by the so called Conservative, Democrats and the Republicans. They tell us that history shows that civilization and prosperity progress as government authority is restrained. That human liberty flourishes as the activities of the government are curtailed. We hear much of such talk as the time for S