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OCR Page 1 of 5SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY s. TRUMAN OF MISSOURI, TO THE
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSERE COPY , MISSOURI,
YOUNG ILLINOIS,
OCTOBER 23, 1937.
It is a very great pleasure and a high honor to be
one of your speakers today. Missouri and Cape Girardeau welcome
the Young Democrats of neighboring States and the officials of
those States. We are also glad to have the son of our great
President here as a guest.
As Young Democrats, you ere the standard bearers of
the future; to you will be entrusted the ideals and the welfare
of the Republic of the United States for the next generation.
Those of us who are at the helm of public offices must shortly
relinquish that helm to you, who are the "hope of the world".
To you whose ideals are those of Washington, Madison, Jefferson,
Jackson, Lincoln, Woodrow wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, it will
be a pleasure to leave the affairs of this great Republic.
It has been my privilege and my duty to serve the
country publicly for some twenty-odd years, in one capacity and
another, the last three of which have been as United States
Senator from Missouri. We have been through some very trying
times in that twenty years. I was a soldier--8 field artillerymen
under Wilson, one of the ablest and greatest of Presidents,
when we made a trip abroad to establish the ideals of Democracy,
only to see then crumble under the rule of men who had no ideals,
but whose sole thought was completely selfish. We went through
twolve years of the debauchery of public ideals. Then came
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another idealist who really believes in Democracy of the
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