Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic Candidate for Vice President, at Peoria, Illinois
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OCR Page 1 of 7SPEECH OF HONORABLE HARRY S. TRUMAN, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE-
PRESIDENT, TO BE DELIVERED AT PEORIA, ILLINOIS
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Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, farming is our greatest
industry. There can be no true prosperity for this country unless
our farmers are prosperous.
I think I know the farmer's problems and how he thinks about
them. I ought to. I not only was raised on a farm. I spent twelve
of the best years of my adult life actually working a big Missouri
farm, raising corn and wheat and caring for livestock. My brother and
many of my lifelong friends and neighbors around Independence, Missouri,
still work farms. They are constantly talking to me about problems
of the farm.
The farmers have some very real troubles. Life on the farm is
hard. The farm is no place for the lazy or the shiftless. Time and
weather wait for no man, and the farmer must work from early morning
until late at night. And then all too often he loses a crop through
no fault of his own.
But there are some real compensations in the life of a farmer,
A farmer is his own boss. He can come and go when and wheme he
pleases. He is respected by everyone in his community. He owns his
own land. What he builds and what he raises belongs to him. His
children eat good wholesome food and plenty of it, and they grow up
with fine sturdy bodies,
America is proud of its farmers. The rest of the world envies
them.
Our farmers have suffered many hardships during critical periods
of our history. The Republican party would have them forget, but
our farmers remember what happened to them under Harding and Coolidge
and Hoover. Harding was elected under a campaign slogan of "Back to
Normalcy".
I hope we never go back there again. The Republicans talked
about free initiative, but the farmers found out what that meant.
It meant that the farmers had to try to get along any way they could
and without any government help.
The government under the three Republican administrations was too RUMAN
busy helping big business to spare any time for the farmers.
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The Republicans boasted about the wonderful prosperity they
were creating for business in the twenties at the very same time that
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Presidential campaign, 1944
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