Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman, Deshler, Ohio

IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMMEDI TE RELEASE REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE TREMAR PRESIDENT AT DESHLER, OHIO STREET "NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND OCTOBER 11, 1948 - 3:10 P.M., E.S.T. RECORDS SERVICE" Thank you very much for that welcome, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that introduction highly. I want to thank you good people of Deshler for the warm and cordial reception which I ve received. This is the sort of reception I have been receiving ell the way scross the great state of Ohio, and all over the United States for that matter. People are interested. You know, I have been going all over the country on a crusade to make people realize how much they hav ct stake in this election. The Republican leaders hope that the voters will not wake up until it is too lote. They are giving you soothing syrup, t lking about unity and ell that kind of business, which has nothing whatever to do with the issues in this compaign. I am waking them up, however, The Republican bosses hope that the voters will swallow the empty plstitudes of the Republican condidotes. I think that the Republican bosses are wrong. I don't think the people are going to anything of the kin. I den t believe the American want to turn their backs on the prosperity gained under a Democratic Administration. Over in Ottawa, I talked to the people about the progress Ohio farmers have made since the bad days of the Repub lic depression. I reminded them that the income of Ohiof armers has gone up to more than a billion dollors'a year. At the height of the so-called boom in 1929, when the Republicans were bragging about prosperity in the Nation, the income of Ohio farmers was around 377 million dollars -- just about a third of what it was here last year, a third of what it is going to be this year. In 1932 the income of Ohio farmers was only 180 million dollars. The formers here in Ohio have done v ery well because the Democrats had the foresigjt to establish a ferm price support program. The Republicans in the 80th Congress tried to pull .the props from under that program. The Ohio formers are doing well, because the Democrats found markets for their products through reciprocal trede trenties with other nations end through the school lunch program. And we are trying to see to it that form prosperity in Ohio, and all over the United States, will continue. We are helping Ohio farmers to take care of their soil and to make sure that it stays rich and productive. Under the Department of Agriculture's soil conservation program, in one year alone, conservation work was carried out on more than 137,000 farms in Ohio. That work covered over 9 superscript(s) million acres of lam more than 70% of Ohio's crop land. That is the kind of practical help Ohio is getting from a Democratic Administration headed by men who know the farmers' problems. Now, what would happen to these farm programs if the Republicans win the election? The record of the 80th Congress gives us the answer to that. The Republican Congress cut down funds for the soil conservation program, and the school lunch program, and they tied our Reciprocal Trade treaties with other countries up into knots -- tried their best to beat it. They refused to retify the International Wheat Agreements which would have guaranteed a steadymarket for wheat for American farms for at least 5 years to one. The farm price support program was ettacked on the steps of the State Capitol in Albony, New York by Governor Stassen just after he had had a conference with the Republican condidate for President. That candidate has expressed complete approval of what the 80th Congress did to the farmers of this country, OVER