Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03
TEXT OF GOV. DEWEY'S
SPEECH AT SYRACUSE
ON U. 5. FARM PROBLEMS
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soil, forest, water and wild life
conservation and development and
sound irrigation projects, admins
tered as far as possible at state
and regional levels"
To these pledges we stand COM
nfitted and while this program is
comprehensive, we may be sure
that the farmers of our country
can be relied upon to propose
sound measures to meet any new
Kind of emergency which may
arise. AS the farmers of my own
state, here today, know so well,
your next administration may be
counted on to welcome such pro-
grams.
Here we have a broad, forward
looking policy for the specific well
fare of agriculture. But unless we
have a market which can pay a fair
price, the farmer will continue to
have inadequate income. He must
not again find it necessary to live
on his depreciation, on the paint he
cannot afford to put on his barn.
Problems InSeparable
The farm and food problems of
the United States are inseparable.
Neither will be solved until all our
people are we'll fed, and our agri-
culture is stabilized on a par with
industry and labor.
We can have fully employed agri-
culture with fair prices and real
market If we have three square
meals a day for all our people.
That can be obtained through a
fully employed, expanding industry
with real money for real jobs.
BY heroic efforts and against
every obstacle, our farmers have
increased food production by one
third. 1t will not be easy to main
tain balance during the changeover
from war to peace. 1t is going to
take ingenuity, teamwork and the
unhesitating will of government to
maintain prices and wages and in
come without undue initiation or
shrinkage from the present scale.
We i'm America have had the
American standard of living-we
have had more to consume than
any other nation because we pro-
duced more. We must again have
the courage to push forward as our
forefathers pushed beyond the from
tiers of their day.
Despite our war prosperity, mil
lions of families in America still do
not get enough of the right things
to eat. We have still further to go.
We must never go back to the
scarcity theories and shrinking
economy of the New Deal years.
We must go forward and develop
the great American market for our
farm products through improved
diet for the American people. If we
can keep set on. this objective, we
shall need, not a reduction, but an
increase in food production. We
must not go back to those dismal
days in the middle age of the New |
Deal when two families out of five |
in America were living at the I'M
dernourished level of less than $50 |
a week.
Asks End of Generalities
Let us have an end of generali- !
ties about the abundant life from a |
government which for eight long |
years promoted a chattering fear
of production.
For this we need a government .
in Washington whose primary in
terest is not in fighting within it.
self, not in teaching people to feed
a family of five on a relief income
of $500 year.
Before us lies the immediate
practical prospect and reality of
jobs-the business of making
things and doing things-real jobs
for real money, real prices in a real
market.
This must be the fundamental
which provides three square meals
a day for our people, as well as
cars, washing machines, radios,
tractors, highline power, running
water, education and all the unde-
velOped realities which lie within
our reach.
To these fundamentals, produc-
tive and a prosperous agriculture
is essential to the future of Ameri-
ca. That future we can and will
achieve by the constructive pro-
gram l have outlined since the be-
ginning of this campaign. And in
doing so, we must again restore
the freedom of the individual farm
er from dictation and control by
his own government. The farmers
of our country have broken new
frontiers in their productive power.
1t is our solemn duty to equal their
by going forward with
a productive, growing and secure