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Partial Texts of Truman Speeches
Pdrtial text of President Tru
man's speech at Casper, Wyo..
follows:
It's good to be back in Wyoming
again.
Seeing this Western country and
talking to the people out here al
ways reaffirm my faith in the vigor
of this Nation and the glowing
promise of its future.
In this country, there have al
ways been two philosophies about
the use of natural resources. One
philosophy is that our resources
should be exploited by a privileged
•few for their own benefit. This
first philosophy holds that if we
preserve or develop natural re
sources for the benefit of all the
people. That is “socialism,” or
some other form of “ism.”
The second philosophy holds
that our national resources are the
cornerstone of a strong, free de
mocracy. As such, they must be
used to advance the well-being
and the prosperity of all the
people. , . .
You know which of these philos
ophies I believe in. It is the same
one that the great majority of the
American people believe in.
Seas Progress Since 1948.
I am happy to be able to say
that since I was out here in 1948,
we have been making progress in
strengthening the policy of using
our resources for the benefit of all
the people. This Congress has
been moving forward-^not back
ward. . . .
Not so long ago, this part of
the country was considered “way
out west.” That phase meant
something more than physical
distance. . . . Too many people,
both in and out of Government,
just didn’t care about the future
of this part of the country.
You know where that spend
thrift, careless philosophy led us.
Much of the best range land was
badly damaged—some almost be
yond recovery. . . .
For 17 years, with one brief set
back, you have had a Government
that recognizes its responsibility
for helping to preserve and de
velop natural resources. This is
a Government that works with
you, not against you.
The contrast between the en
lightened, democratic approach
to the use of our natural resources,
and the selfish, anti-democratic
approach, is plain here in Wyom
ing. About 50 miles north of Cas
per lies Teapot Dome. About 50
miles southwest is the New Kortes
Dam.
Teapot Dome Cited.
The name Teapot Dome stands
as an everlasting symbol of the
greed and privilege that underlay
one philosophy about the West.
It is not only a reminder that
there were selfish or misguided
individuals seeking special privi
leges. There are always such indi
viduals. It is almost a reminder
of what can happen in your own
front yard when you have the
wrong kind of Government in
Washington.
Kortes Dam is a product of a
different philosophy about re
sources and a different kind of
Government. High up in a moun
tain canyon on the North Platte
River, this dam is a new source
of wealth and strength for the
people of the West. This is an
example of the right way to use
natural resources—for the benefit
of all the people.
* * * *
Furthermore, Kortes Dam is a
part of the reclamation work ofi
the Federal Government. The dam
is built as part of a project which
will bring more water to irrigated
lands. The income from the power
produced at Kortes will help repay
the investment in irrigation work.
The completion of Kortes Dam
is thus a step toward developing
natural resources for the welfare
of the people. But this dam has
another significance. It is based
upon a recognition of the fact that
water and land and forests must
be treated together. We can make
proper use of our resources only if
we base our plans on that fact. ...
It has taken years for us to
organize our efforts in line with
this concept of the interrelation
ship of all resources. We have met
great opposition from selfish or
shortsighted people although I am
glad to say that many have grad
ually been converted to the right
viewpoint as the soundness of
what we are trying to do has been
demonstrated. We still have far
to go. But the progress we have
made in the last 17 years is tre
mendous.
Irrigation Farming Expanding.
You can see the results all about
you. The city of Casper lies in
the midst of an area .containing
about half a million acres of irri
gated land. Private enterprise and
local, State and Federal govern
ments are all playing a part in
making irrigation farming more
secure and more productive. Not
the least part of the success of
irrigation farming is due to the
national investment in irrigation
and power facilities by the Federal
Government.
Here in the western part of
the Missouri Valley, we have also
been working to conserve and im
prove rangelands. For the long
run success of livestock ranchers,
a well-grassed area and well
watered range is essential.
Before 1934, almost nothing had
been done to create that kind of
range. Since then, much has been
done on both private and public
lands. We have found better
grasses to provide improved cover
and more profitable grazing. We
have learned to build small ponds
and reservoirs, as a defense against
drought. . . .
We should be proud of the work
we have been doing on the range
lands, in irrigation, in power de
velopment, and all the other parts
of our resource work. Green fields,
blue reservoirs, clear streams and
shining new transmission lines tell
of the advances we have made in
the development and use of our
resources. However, some of the
most changing tasks still lie ahead.
Another field in which greater
effort is needed is the control of
Insect pests. Here in Wyoming
there is a serious plague of grass
hoppers. The Federal Government
should bear its full share of the
cost of overcoming this plague
through the excellent Federal
State co-operative program that
has been worked out.
More Forest Roads Needed.
In the forest, we need to build
more roads, so that we can reach
the timber and use it.
Along the rivers, we need more
sound irrigation projects . . .
Minerals must be conserved, too
in the sense that we must tak«
out of the ground all that car
economically be extracted, anc
must increase our exploration foi
new sources.
Furthermore we need to gc
ahead rapidly to conserve oui
limited water supplies. . . .
This w'ater problem is not onlj
serious for farmers and for citie:
and towns. In many parts ol
the country it is also a serious
problem for industries. For ex
ample, down south of here in
Colorado there are huge reserves
of oil shale. In the years to come
we may well need to obtain oil
from that, shale. It will take a lot
of water to do so, however, and
there is a real question whether
there is enough w-ater for that
purpose.
As we move forward in our use
of resources, we must improve
the organization of the Federal
Government so that its part of
the development can be done bet
ter and with more effective par
ticipation by State and local
governments.
The American people will con
tinue to go right ahead, taking
the practical, sensible steps that
are needed to build a better fu
ture. We are a strong, free peo
ple. We know'that to continue
free and strong, we must wisely
develop and use the resources with
which nature has endowed us.
Engaged m World Struggle.
Today, more than ever before,
we can see how important it is
that we take these steps to develop
our resources. We are engaged in
a world-wide-struggle to bring
lasting peace to the world. In
that struggle, we are being op
posed by a cynical imperialism
which asserts that freedom and
democracy are soft and incapable
of strong action.
We can prove how false, how
hollow, are the claims of com
munism. But we can prove that
only by deeds. We must demon
strate that our free country, along
with other free countries, can
achieve strength, prosperity and
growing welfare for our people. •
To do so, we must continue to
move forward in our use of natural
resources. . . .
In the tremendous conflict that
exists in the world today, our fun
damental strength is our belief in
the worth of the individual, under
God. Our whole democratic
tradition rests on our faith that
free men, working together in co
operation, can achieve justice and
well being for themselves and for
one another.
In that faith, we shall move
forward on the path, of freedom
and peace.
A partial text of President
Truman’s speech in Lincoln,
Nebr., yesterday follows:
Here in the center of the Nation,
where the com belt merges with the
Great Plains, we can see clearly
the greatness and the importance
of American agriculture. . . .
Effort To Bring Peace.
This country today, along with
other countries, is engaged in a
tremendous effort to bring about
peace based on freedom and justice.
Make no mistake about it, the strug
gle we are in now is just as im
portant to our future as was our
victory in the last war. . . .
American agriculture is directly
concerned with the success of our
program for peace. You here in
Lincoln are directly affected by what
happens these days in Berlin, in
Paris, in Singapore.
No one should know that better
than the American farmer, because
farmers remember what happened
to them after the last war.
In the early 1920's the bottom fell
out of agriculture in this country.
Export markets disappeared. Prices
plummeted down. The price of corn
dropped in 18 months from $2- to
42 cents a bushel. The price of cot
ton fell from 40 cents to 10 cents a
pound. Land values collapsed. The
resulting agricultural depression in
the 1920’s was the forerunner of the
national depression of the early ’30’s.
Trade Barriers Built Up.
Those were the days when inter
national trade barriers were built
up and up, in a foolish and futile
effort to gain advantage at the ex
pense of somebody else. Those were
the days when the farmers were
left alone to struggle with their
problems while the rest of the
country went up and up on the
bubble of the boom.
When the bubble burst, the hollow
nature of that boom was revealed.
It is perfectly evident now how
the world-wide depression paved the
way for the Second World War.
That is why we are doing every
thing we can to see that the same
thing doesn't happen again. . . .
One of First Efforts.
In 1933, we started in to attack
the national depression at its roots.
One of our first efforts was to over
come the farm depression. We de
veloped special credit programs, to
rescue farm families. We stepped
up agricultural research, to develop
better crops and broader markets.
We started national soil conserva
tion programs, to restore the basis
for abundant production. We de
veloped a price-support program, to
assure farmers a fair income. . . .
Of course, these new farm pro
grams were opposed by selfish or
short-sighted people. It was the
san;e kind of mud-slinging, name
calling opposition that you hear
now every time we bring up a new
proposal for the benefit of the
people. . . .
These laws led to freedom and
prosperity. They were and are
strong bulwarks for our free and
democratic society. Remember that
fact when you hear people today
croaking the old charges of “social
ism” and “regimentation” about
every new proposal for progress.
Proved Worth Again.
Then, when the war came along,
our farm programs proved their
worth all over again. The soil con
servation, research, and education
programs made possible an enor
mous rise in farm output, even
though fewer people were available
for farm work. The atored-up aur
j pluses of cotton and wheat and
| other crops, which had been bitterly
criticized before the war. turned out
to be extremely valuable.
The price-support system was
adapted to wartime need*. It was
used to encourage farmers to in
crease total production and to turn
out the right amounts of each es
sential product. . . .
The tremendous expansion of
production during the war was
equally valuable when the shooting
stopped. In the years since the
war, literally millions of people
have been saved from a starvation
diet by the products of our fields.
Today, our farm programs are
! undergoing new tests. They have
proved their worth in bringing
about economic recovery and meet
ling the demands of war. During
the last few years, we have been
faced with the problems involved in
readjusting to peacetime needs.
Two Things Made Clear.
Two things have been made
abundantly clear. First, that our
, programs have served us well—
have indeed been our salvation—in
preventing the kind of disaster that
followed the first World War. Sec
ond, that there are defects in the
present system which require cor
| rection
One of the main reasons we have
had no serious economic downturn
since the war is the farm price
! support system. . . .
However, our present farm price
support program is not fully sat
isfactory. . . .
In the last two years, farm in
come has dropped more than 20
per cent. That is nothing like what
happened after the First World
War. Nevertheless it Is serious....
Furthermore, the present law pro
vides no satisfactory basis for deal
ing with perishable crops. . . .
Defects Led to Clamor.
It Is foolish to have the Gov
ernment buy and store food that
people want to eat now. It is even
worse to have the Government buy
food and destroy it, but that some
times happens under the present
program.
Everyone knows about the shame
j iul potato situation. This can lead
| to public resentment strong enough
| ;o discredit the whole farm pro
gram. The taxpayers should not be
expected to foot the bill for buying
food which has to be wasted. . . .
We must preserve the good fea
tures of the present program. They
are built on a solid foundation.
They are necessary for our own
S welfare and that of the free world.
But we clearly need to improve
and strengthen existing legislation.
This administration has made a
very careful study of the changes
that are necessary to adjust our
farm support program to present
conditions. A series of recommenda
tions were worked out within the
administration and were presented
to the Congress last year by the
Secretary of Agriculture. . . .
Effective Proposal.
No one claims that these rec
ommendations are perfect in every
detail. We are constantly looking
for ways to improve them. . . .
The essential purposes of these
proposals can be very simply stated.
First, they are designed to obtain
the amounts and kinds of farm
products that are needed in an ex
panding economy, and- to assure
farmers the opportunity to earn a
fair income for producing those
products. . . .
■ Under the proposals we have
made, farmers would be given in
centives to make the needed shifts
!in production. Farmers would be
assured of support for all the crops
which yield a major share of farm
income. At present, some of the
most important ones are left out.
• • •
It would continue to be necessary,
in some cases, to limit production
to genuine consumer demand, in
order to avoid surpluses greater
than amounts which are needed for
storage. . . .
The second purpose of the ad
ministration’s proposals for changes
in our support program is to pro
vide a method for using our entire
supply of perishable products, in
stead of taking part of it off the
market and putting it on the shelf.
Under our method, all direct pro
duction payments to farmers would
make up any difference between the
average market price and a fair
return. . . .
I have heard this system attacked
on the ground that it would cost
too much. Most of the fantastic
estimates of cost you hear are made
by those who don’t understand how
it would actually work. When you
study the facts, you will see that
this plan should cost no more, and
may well cost less, than the present
system. And it would have the
tremendous advantage of using
instead of wasting, perishable
products. . . .
Our third purpose is to encourage
the conservation and wise use of
our land and water resources.
A price-support program can do
this in two ways. The first is by
encouraging livestock production. If
we produce the livestock products
that our people want, we shall need
more land in grass and hay. And
that is one of the major things we
need to do in order to conserve our
soil.
The second way is to make soil
conservation practices a require
ment for anyone who wants the
benefit of price support. The whole
Nation has an interest 1n soil con
servation and benefits by it, just
l as the whole Nation has an interest
, In and benefits by a sound price
support for the individual who is
deliberately ruining his soil as we
provide for the good fanner who is
keeping his land productive for
future generations. . . .
Family-Size Farm
The fourth purpose of our recom
mendations is to give the most sup
port where it is most needed—that
is, to the family-size farm. The
present program channels too much
of its benefits to the largest farms.
These are the four major pur
poses of the recommendations this
administration has made for im
proving the farm-support program.
They are designed to contribute to
a stable and prosperous agriculture
as part of a strong Nation. They
will encourage a sustained, realistic
abundance of farm production as
the basis of rising living standards
for our people.
They are an expression of our
faith that we can all go forward
together toward well-being and
abundance—farmers together with
city folk—the people of the United
States together with free people
everywhere.
That is the only way to assure
peace and prosperity for ourselves,
and for the world.
TRUMAN UNDAUNTED BY RAIN—Lincoln, Nebr.—President Truman walks under umbrellas as
he leaves the rostrum to return to his train after delivering a major speech on farm policy to
an estimated crowd of 10,000 persons who turned out in the rain. The speech was Mr. Tru
man's first major address on a cross-country tour. —AP Wire photo.
Truman Trip Has Appearance
Of Quiet Seminar on Fair Deal
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Correspondent
ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU
MAN’S SPECIAL TRAIN IN WY
OMING. May 9.—President Tru
man's Western trip is taking on
the appearance of a Fair Deal
seminar.
It seems designed to prime the
voters for a "give-'em-hell” cam
paign a little later in the year,
when the chips are really down in
the battle for control of Congress.
Up to now, and within limits,
the 16-State tour which will carry
the President to Grand Coulee
Dam, in Southeast Washington,
is living up to its advance billing
as a non-political undertaking.
That is, there is no free-swing
ing name-calling such as that
which characterized the June
"non-political” swing of 1948,
when the President could blame
the Republican-ruled Congress for
all the ills to which the country
was heir.
Now', when insurgent Democrats
are giving the administration as
much trouble, mainly on key do
mestic issues, as the Republicans
ever did, Mr. Truman for the mo
ment is using what might be called
diversionary tactics. He is drag
ging out old Republican skeletons
while he treads lightly around the
edges of intra-party shortcoming,
as he makes what he calls simply
a report to the people. For in
stance, as he came into Wyoming
this morning, and opened a 15
hour speaking day in Casper by
discussing development of natural
resources, President Truman res
urrected the Teapot Dome oil
scandal of the Harding adminis
tration, but refrained from going
into any background.
me Casper speech, delivered in
Matrona High School, was sort of
a dedication in absentia for
Kortes Dam, on the North Platte
River, some 50 miles to the south
west. The President originally in
tended to leave his train and go
to Kortes. but it was decided that
the weather offered too much of a
risk at this time of year when
snow always is a possibility.
The President was on the plat
form for 13 hours yesterday and
made nine talks in Illinois, Iowa
and Nebraska before calling it a
day.
In a six-hour stint in Iowa,
where he made four trainside
talks over a route where sleek
cattle, fat hogs and rich farm
land stood as visible evidences of
prosperity, the President kept
hammering away on the twin
themes of peace and prosperity
—and the Fair Deal program that
he emphasized is the guarantee of
these goals.
“We must make sure that Iowa
farmers never again have to burn
their corn for fuel like they did
20 years ago,” he said in Ottumwa.
And again, in plugging for the
Brannan farm plan which he has
been trying for months to put
across:
“You hear today a lot of wild
charges that anything new which
we proposed for the farmer is
‘socialism’ and ‘regimentation.’
That’s an Old cry that has been
going on for a long time, in fact,
ever since 1887.” Benjamin Har
rison, Republican, took over as
President that year.
Will Come Back Later.
The President, however, in
veiled fashion, did give passing
note to the stumbling blocks the
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throwing in the way of his pro
gram.
Reciting in Burlington, Iowa,
the “progressive, forward" issues
he is seeking to advance, the
President said challengingly that
a lot of people are expecting him
to “talk about what the 81st
Congress has done on the matters,
just as I told the country two
years ago the truth about the
80th Congress. . . .
“I will say one thing, and say it
emphatically, the 81st Congress
has done a lot better than the
80th ever did, and it is going to
do a lot more than it has done
up to date.
“The record of the 81st Con
gress is not complete yet, but
when it finally finishes its work
and goes home, then I w'ill be
ready to come back and gi"e you
the full details, and let the chips
fall where they may.”
That was the first public indi
cation from the President that in
transigeant Democrats could ex
pect him to have something to
say about their record.
The President's first day out of
Washington — which found him
trailed by a Republican sc Out. was
marked by good crowds at every
stop. The turnout was particu
larly noticeable in Iowa, where
Mr, Truman scored a surprising
victory two years ago.
Labor Groups Back Demonstration.
At Ottumwa, w’here CIO and
AFL joined in fostering a demon
stration, a crowd estimated by
police at from 25,000 to 30,000
heard the President speak from a
decorated stand overlooking a
huge parking lot. At crossroads
where the 13-car special did not
stop there were also sizeable
turnouts on several occasions.
The route the President fol
lowed covered territory that he
by passed in 1948.
One interesting, development of
the day was the opinion expressed
by some Iowa newsmen who
traveled through the State on the
presidential train that the charges
of Communism in the State De
partment stirred by Senator Mc
Carthy, Republican, of Wisconsin,
are getting no reaction from Iowa
farmers.
Cort Klein, city editor of the
Hawkeye Gazette, independent
Republican paper of Burlington,
summed it up by saying that opin
ion generally follows party lines,
but that “not too much attention
is paid to it.”
At Pacific Junction, the last
stop in Iowa, where several times
the town population of 150 were
on hand, a uniformed Legionnaire,
middle-aged Ralph Purdy, of
nearby Glenwood, said he spoke
the sentiment of the community
when saying the Communist
charges were having no effect.
Brannan Plan to Get Test.
Iowans, incidentally, look for a
test on the Brannan plan for June!
5, when the senatorial primary
is held. A field of six Democrats
is contesting for the nomination
for an opponent for Senator Hick
enlooper. Republican, the field
having been reduced from seven.
Albert J. Loveland, former Un
dersecretary of Agriculture, who
left the Federal Government with
high praise from President Tru
man, to run for the Senate, is an
avowed Brannan plan man.
Nelson G. Kraschel, former
Democratic Governor, is an anti
and former Representative Wear
in, who rates as another top man
in the race, is moving down the
middle.
It is said that the ultimate win
ner may eventually depend on
party convention, as that is the
Iowa procedure when a candidate
fails to poll 35 per cent of the
total vote. t
The President also got a good
reception in Nebraska where he
started off in early evening with
a Brannan plan speech to a Lin
coln audience which stood in a
pelting rain to hear him talk from
a stand erected near the Burling
ton station.
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Republican Answer
To Truman Delivered
By Senator Wherry
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The Republican speech-for-a
speech counter-attack against
President Truman was off to a
rigorous start today.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska let
loose a 1.000 word blast last night
In reply to the first of a series
of nine major addresses by Mr.
Truman on his cross-country tour
Senator Wherry, the Senate
minority floor leader, accused the
President of "chasing rainbows
gaudily painted by alien-minded
radical advisers" who want
"spendthrift socialism" in the
United States.
He denounced as an "economic
monstrosity" the controversial
Brannan farm plan which Mr
Truman told a Lincoln, Nebr., au
dience yesterday would help world
peace and prosperity.
Urges Reversal of Policies.
Said Senator Wherry:
"Even leaders of the President's
own party in Congress have
spurned the Brannan plan. 1
challenged advocates of the plan
to present it in the Democrat
controlled Senate, and they re
fused to do so.
"They knew it would be kicked
out the window by a thumping
majority, but that does not seem
10 dissuade the President from
dangling it before the farmers."
Senator Wherry went on to pre
dict the election of a Republican
Congress in November—"a Con
gress that will cut taxes, cut the
national debt and restore consti
tutional procedures in domestic
and foreign affairs"—and he de
clared:
"Mr. President, there is still time
for you to reverse your ruinous
policies and to start winning the
cold war. But to do so you will
have to break your alien-minded
advisers, who are heading America
for a catastrophe with their lavish
give-away policies and coddling of
Soviet Russia on vital matters."
Tariff Stand Denounced.
Shenator Wherry charged that
Mr. Truman is "digging the grave
for American agriculture, labor
and industry" by his tariff and
other international policies.
"He is pursuing the unsound
theory that by abolishing tariff
protections for American industry,
labor and agriculture, the United
States will maintain prosperity,"
he declared.
“The truth is, his tariff policy is
leading the United States to the
world level of low prices, low wages
and low standards of living.”
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Spinets, Consoles, Grands and
Small Uprights—priced new
at $695 to $2,495
Reduced to
*275 to *1625
This is an unusual opportunity to buy a piano at
a tremendous savings. There are many, many
pianos included. Come in, select your piano now
and Savel
Convenient
Terms
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