Democratic National Campaign Committee The farmer remembers longer than the elephant
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09532.04 Author/Creator: Democratic National Campaign Committee Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 1936 Pagination: 1 p. : 33 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
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The Farmer Remembers
Longer
Than the Elephant
OLD DEAL
This Is a Picture of Republican Days When -
Wheat was 48 cents per bushel, corn 24 cents, cotton 6 cents per pound
It cost more to raise a pig than it brought at market
The family Ford rusted in the bar- no money for gas.
The district school was closed- no pay for teacher. In 1933 alone, 2,000 rural schools closed.
The country bank was closed- 2,834 country banks failed from 1931-1933
Farm riots terrorized the countryside.
Some 900,000 farms were sold by foreclosure or for unpaid taxes.
Farmers appealed to Washington in vain.
Farm Cash Income Dropped Under 4 1/2 Billion (1932)
NEW DEAL
This Is a Picture of Democratic Days When-
Dollar wheat is back, corn more than doubled in price, cotton doubled.
A hog brings up to $10,00 per hundredweight.
New autos speed over new farm-to-market roads.
Rural schools have been built or repaired by word relief. Federal grants of $21,000,000 opened rural schools in 33 states.
Bank failures (34 in 1935) are lowest in 15 years.
Homesteads are saved and debt-burdened farmers refinanced by easy government loans (F.C.A)
Huge surplus crops which can no longer be exported were cut by farmer cooperation under the A.A.A
Washington will continue to help the farmer under the Soil Conservation Act.
Farm Cash Income Has Risen 2 1/2 Billion (1935)
Balance Your Benefits
KEEP FARM RECOVERY AND ROOSEVELT
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
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