HARDING WARREN G Typed Letter Signed as President to Lyons R

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"THE RURAL POPULATION . . . IS CONFRONTING ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT TIMES" HARDING, WARREN G. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Lyons Republican editor Charles H. Betts, congratulating him on the 100th anniversary of the Lyons Republican, and asking him to assure his readers that the administration is working to restore prosperity to the rural population. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with integral blank; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, horizontal fold. Washington, 12 July 1921

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". . . To a newspaperman especially, it is gratifying to know of the long and obviously deserved success of a weekly paper such as your own. The weekly press is particularly close to its constituency and has always accurately reflected and powerfully influenced a great body of the American public. Its particular public naturally includes a large portion of the rural population, which at this time is confronting especially difficult times.
"I should like to convey to them the assurance that the administration is making especial effort to relieve the agricultural situation and to restore to the people of the open country that full measure of prosperity . . . so highly essential to the advancement of every interest of the Nation. . . ."