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...Ilene A. Kasson...
Parity in the Market Place. Full income parity is a full share in our country's good times. In a free agriculture, farmers can attain that kind of parity only in the market place. That's what I spoke for at Kasson four years ago: the attainment of that full share for the farmer . . . That's what I have been working for. I shall keep on working for it. And the facts show good progress...
...Deceivers. Turning to domestic policy. Stevenson used "the crisis in agriculture" as his prize example of Republican promise-breaking. He quoted Dwight Eisenhower as saying in his 1952 farm-policy speech at Kasson, Minn.: "The Republican Party is pledged to the sustaining of the 90% parity price support, and it is pledged even more than that to helping the farmer obtain his full parity, 100% of parity." Said
Stevenson: "If an innocent and gullible Miss Minnesota feels aggrieved by these gay deceivers I will gladly be a witness in a breach-of-promise suit against the Republicans, because I was at Kasson that famous day. And I am happy to recall that I did not outbid or even try to match the Republican promises to the farmers." Then Stevenson made the statement that the farm-conscious Minnesotans wanted to hear. Said he: "We must return to the 90% supports which the Republicans thought so well of in 1952, until they decided it was time for a change-after...
...drove into Kasson that day just as General Eisenhower drove out, and I have a vivid memory of the excitement with which I was told that Candidate Eisenhower had not merely endorsed the support of basic farm prices at 90% of parity but had come out for 100% of parity. The distinct and, I fear, deliberate impression he had left was that he favored Government supports of 100% parity, while at the same time endorsing his party's platform pledge to abandon all production controls...