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10.14.48 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