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skies for rains that never come,
of black dust clouds rising in
the western sky. And all this
is an American tragedy that we
who travel the backroads can
see too plainly.
II is high time our growing
urban population understood the
economics and the realities of
the farmers situation. And I'm
not sure a Government as pre-
occupied with big business as
this one can tell it, or will tell
it or can even understand 1t. l
have tried to tell it because I
think it is important that Amer
leans understand one another:
and I think that is the very
special responsibility Of candi-
dates for public Office, especially
the only Office elected by all
the people of our blessed land.
But more than the farm pro-
gram is involved in this election.
We want to get on with i'm
proving our schools, our health,
our social security. our roads,
with strengthening small bust
ness and developing our natural
resources for the benefit of
everybody-with all the tasks
which lie before us in the new
America. And we will do it,
with Democratic leadership, for
these problems can be solved,
Just as the farm problem can
Where there's a will. there's a
way, and because the Demo-
cratic Party has the will, We'll
find the way
No Real Peace
We hear much talk of peace
these days. But you know as
well as that there is no real
peace so long as half our tax
dollars go for arms, so long as
the world is filled with storm
and steel.
In the last four years our
prestige in the world has suf-
fered from succession of cratic
acts and slogans, threats, and
bluster. Our emphasis has been
on military pacts, not economic
developments in areas that crave
peace and progress above all
else. Nations the world around
have come to question our in
tentions, our wisdom and our
leadership.
AT a time when Communist
influence is spreading, when the
great irresistible current of ma
tionalism is sweeping over the
world, at time when the old
order is changing dangerously
before our very eyes, it is not
enough to tell us to relax and
that all is we'll; it is not enough
10 leave the image of America
obscure, its purposes indistinct.
Let's present another, truer
picture Of America to the world.
The picture of these peaceful
fields; the picture of the love
OF peace in the schools and
churches Of this TRANQUIL,
friendly land; the picture of the
desire of all Americans to live
IN harmony with every neighbor.
And let's do more; let's use the
resources that We have to build
the true conditions of peace.
In doing that, nothing we have
is more important than the
great abundance of the peace
full. productive fields of Iowa
and of the great heartland of
America.
Above Politics
The issue of peace is above
politics. There is no peace par.
ty in the United States, lust as
there is no war party. NO Amer
lean wants war. I know that
some Republican leaders are
counting on selling themselves
to the farmers as the party of
peace. They hope that this
slogan will make farm people
forget their farm record. But
those who fool you on farm
policy make a poor risk on for
eign policy.
Our God-given abundance is
a strong weapon in our hands
for spreading democracy and
freedom at home and abroad.
You who open the soil to the
seed know the urge to album
dance in natures vast resources.
Let us work together to spread
It's benefits, to build a higher
and more meaningful standard
OF living for the generations
which will follow us on this land