The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1906-07-12

Money, and should pay more heed to
raising up and training Men who win
be Law-Abiding Citizens: that he vel
fare OF our Workers Is OF more con-
eQuence than the mere accumulation
OF Wealth; and hat Stability OF Ma
fionaI Character and OF Social and
Business Conditions is OF greater Inn
portance TO the people OF this country
as a whole than any other one ques-
ton that Is now before them; and we
believe that the only way TO Preserve
such Stability, and TO Permanently
Maintain our National Prosperity, is
10 carry into immediate effect and
operation the Platform OF he Tails
man, which is as follows
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES ON THE LAND
/. That children shall be taught
gardening and homecraft In the public
schools. and that Homecraft and
Garden Training Schools shall be
established by county, municipal
state. and national governments.
where every boy and every man out
OF work who wants employment where
he can gain that knowledge. can learn
how TO make a home and till the soil
and get his living straight from the
ground and where every boy would
he taught hat his first aim in life
should be to get a home OF his own
on the land
BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS
. That the New Zealand system Of
Land Taxation and Land Purchase
- o-AArt-. - 1-.~n.u -. Cat
tiers Act, shall be adopted In this
country. to the end that land b be
subdivided into small holdings In the
hands OF those who viii till IL for a
livelihood. and labor find occupation
In the creation OF homecrofts. which
VIII be perpetual safeguards against
the political evils and social discomfort
resulting from the overgrowth OF
cities and the sunerings OF unem-
ployed w-age-earners-
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
ICAN H0MEcROFT-
3. That Rural Settlement shall be
encouraged and the principle OF Pro
lection for the American Wageworker
and bis Home applied directly TO the
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
ton OF all improvements upon. and
also OF all personal property. not ex-
ceeding $500 in value, used on and
In connection with. every Homecroft
or Rural Homestead OF not more tina
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
culfivafes with his own labor and so
provides therefrom all or part OF the
support for a family.
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR NOMINATING.
4. That the National Government
as part OF a comprehensive nation
al policy OF internal Improvements
for river control and regulation
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent OF the
area of the country available for agri-
culture and Homes on the Land. and
for the protection of those Homes from
either food or drouth. shall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for the
reclamation OF swamp and
lands. but shall also preserve existing
forests, ~reforest denuded areas. plant
new forests. and build the great reser-
voifs and other engineering works
necessary to safeguard against over
fiow and save for beneficial use the
flood waters that now run to waste.
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
& That the National Government
shall build the irrigation works neces-
sary to bring water within reach OF
settlers on the arid lands. the cost OF
such works to be repaid to the govern
ment by such settlers in annual in
stallments without interest, and that
the construction Of the great irrigation
works necessary for the utilization OF
the wnters Of such large rivers as the
Columbia. the SACRAMENTO the Colo
RADIO. the Rio Grande. snd the Missouri.
and their tributaries, shall proceed as
rapidly as the lands reclaimed viii be
utilised In small farms by actual
settlers and homemakers. who will re-
ray the government the cost Of con-
rtrucfion OF the irrigation works. and
that the amount needed each year for
construction. as recommended by the
Secretary OF the Interior, shall be
msde available by Congress a. \ loan
from the general treasury to the Re
clamation FUND, and repaid from