Press Release, Rear Platform Remarks of President Harry S. Truman at Taylorville, Illinois

560 --- 8os's #/208 -- Taylorville, Iilinois Kadt ( DEPARTMENT REAR PLATFOFM REMARK< OF THE PRESIDENT AT TAYLORVILLE, ILLINOIS T IIB WOY xit setw at November 1,1952 I as of ,C.S.t. B isd II nit 6 sd of anaut I wod Liba doldw atdo 2.6W trigits 200 doos asw dockw yeb Jsdo no lise dotrww rimulos nesd Thank you gg thank you very very much ISEV You know, I ts and tast certainly appreciate that greeting. know you have been doing some thinking, I am sure that you have been realing my speeches, and believing them 02 and that is what I want you to do. THUY 3813 to You know this is the last day Of my campaign tour. I have been abcut 18 thousand , 500 miles, and I have 206 appearances and I believe we have done a little for the Democratic Party 3751 od 9W VAW 6 Jelnommo jentage ard nf I have been traveling up and down the country for the last six weeks , doing everythine in my power to make sure that the people understand the issues. 10 no at vsi Next Tuesday you will be making one of the most tow important decisions of your lives You will Be whether or not this country is to continue on the road tó Ids prosperity and lasting peace. The issues are just as clear and just as simple as that. el of of goy Nas I I.A For 20 years now the people of this country havedw a placed their faith in the Democratic Party, and we have not' let them down. We have developed programs which have led 10 NARA this Nation to the greatest prosperity in its history We is have joined with the free countries of the world in a stand 3 against communist aggression. Our leadership in this struggle is the last hope for world peace, Almost every single one of the gains we have made over the last 20 year's has come about only after we have defeated the determined opposition of the reactionary leaders in the Republican Farty -- the same reactionary wing of the Republican 010 Guard which is in control of the Republican Party today. If these Republicans gain control of our government, the programs which have meant so much to the working man, the farmer, and the small business man may be wrecked. Now I am particularly anxious that the farmers should consider their condition. You remember in 1948, I came up and down this part of the great State of Illinois and told the farmers just exactly what was happening to the country as a result of the actions of the 80th Congress. The 8lst Congress cured that action, but no longer ago than just recently, in this last Congress, the Republicans made a sincere effort to go back to what the 80th Congress had done to the people in the farm belt. Now, if they had succeeded in doing what they proposed to do, your support price for corn in this part of the world would have been $1.18 instead of $1.60. They say how much they love you -- how much they want to do for you -- but if you let them do it -- as I said before -- you cught to have your heads examined. Now, what we have tried to do, and what we have succeeded in doing, has been to balance the income of this country so the working man got a fair share of it. He has been bargaining collectively with the biggest of the employers and get fair wages. The farmers have received fair prices for their crops, and the business men have all been prosperous. Our national income is at 277 billion dollars -- the cutput of the manufactueers, and the farmers' output is at 340 billion dollars. Never was anything like it in the history of the world. (OVER)