Reading Copy, Speech of President Harry S. Truman, Mankato, Minnesota
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MANKATO, MINNESOTA
BARRY U.S. a ARCHIVES RECORDS NATIONAL 11111 AND
SERVICE"
GOVERNMENT
I am glad to be here in Mankato this morning and see this great
turnout of you poople of Mankato. It proves to me that you people here
in Southern Minnesota are really concerned about the problems that the
just as much
country faces today as the people are everyplace ilse that I have visited.
Manhato Thi of town is a good example of the close dependence of the farms
this country.
on the cities and the cities on the farms of America. Farm prosperity
makes for more business across (store counters in cities like Mankato and
more jobs in the great factories of your town. By the same token, when
are receiving good pay,
production and employment are high and workers incomes adequate, the farmer
is able to find a ready market for his produce.
Whatever helps the worker helps the farmer, and whatever helps the
farmer helps the worker.
Look at the farm prosperity out here in Minnesota today.
Back in the last Republican depression year of 1932, the farmers'
Two hundred of Fifty Million
income in Minnesota was less than a quarter of a billion dollars. Last
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