1887: President Grover Cleveland was a Conservative Bourbon Democrat that did not believe that the government should ever help people under any circumstances. This week Central Texas drought sufferers learned that Cleveland vetoed a bill that would have provided $10,000 in seed to help farmers recover from the long dry spell. “Cleveland explained that the drouth was a local problem.”
C. Richard King. Wagons East: The Great Drouth of 1886. Austin: The University of Texas, 1965
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