Draft of Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Delivered at Chicago, Illinois to the American Trucking Association
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SPEECH BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN AT
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, TO AMERICAN TRUCKING
ASSOCIATION/OCTOBER 23, 1939.
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
I
have been asked to talk to, you about transportation. It is a
very large subject. Hauling freight and passengers has been the most important
business since governments began. Rome's roads made her great. Britain's sea
control has made her great. Fast transportation and instant communication
across a whole continent made the United States of Ame rica a great nation.
In the year of 1607 a handful of English came to the mouth of the James River
in Virginia and founded a colony. It took them somo three months to make the
trip. A few days ago a passenger plane made that trip in twenty-seven hours.
From 1846 to 1854 my grandfather was in the freighting business from
Independence, Missouri, to Salt Lake City, Utah. It was customary for him to
it
start from Independence in March or April and arrive on his return from the
round trip in September or October -- from three to four months for the one
several
way trip. The transcontinental planes make that trip in/nine hours or a little
less.
When John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay went to Ghent to negotiate a
treaty with Great Britain after the War of 1812, it took them three months to
make the trip, and they were not able to communicate with James Madison, the
President of the United States, at all while the negotiations were in progress.
When Woodrow Wilson was in Paris negotiating the treaty of Versailles, everyone
in the United States was familiar with all that went on as soon as it happened.
It has been said that the inventor of the wheel was the creator of
the, greatest boon to mankind. No one knows who he was, but he certainly
contributed to the ease of getting from one blace to another. In 1854 the Pony
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