The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-06

land as fast as it is needed to give
every man who wants a Home on the
Land a chance to get it.
We believe that, as a Nation, we
should be less absorbed with Making
Money, and should pay more heed to
raising up and training Men who will |
be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the wei
fare of our Workers is of more con- |
sequence than the mere accumulation |
of Wealth; and that Stability of Ma
tional 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-
tion that is now before them; and we
believe that the only way to Preserve
such Stability, and to Permanently
Maintain our National Prosperity, is
to carry into immediate effect and
operation the Platform of the Tails
man, which is as follows:
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES ON THE LAND.
1. 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,
where every boy and every man out
of work who wants employment where
he can gain that knowledge, can learn
how to make home and till the soil
and get his living straight from the
ground, and where every boy would
be taught that his first aim in life
should be to get a home of his own
on the land.
BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS.
9. That the New Zealand system of
Land Taxation and Land Purchase
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set
tlers Act, shall be adopted in this
country, to the end that land shall be
subdivided into small holdings in the
lands of those who will till it for a
livelihood, and labor find occupation
in the creation of homecrofts, which
will be perpetual safeguards against
the political evils and social discomfort
resulting from the overgrowth of
cities and the sufferings of unem-
ployed wage-earners.
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
ICAN HOMECROFT.
encouraged and the principle of Pro-
and his Home applied directly to the
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
ton of all improvements upon, and
also of all personal property, not eN-
ceeding $500 in value, used on and
in connection with, every Homecroft
or Rural Homestead of not more than
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
cultivates with his own labor and so
provides therefrom all or part of the
support for family.
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING.
4. That the National Government,
as part of comprehensive nation
N 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 ngri
culture and Homes on the Land, anC
for the protection of those Homes from
either flood or drouth, shall build no
only levees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for thu
reclamation of swamp and overhowe'
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plan
new forests, and build the great reser
necessary to safeguard against over
flow and save for beneficial use tn
flood waters that now run to waste
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
. MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
3. That the National Government
"hall build the irrigation works neces
sary to bring water within reach O
settlers on the arid lands tbo cnct n
: such works to be repaid to the govern
: ment by such settlers in annual ir
stallments without interest and tina
= the construction of the great irrigatio
works necessary for the utilization c
the waters OF such large rivers as th
: Columbia, the Sacramento, the Coli
: RADIO, the Rio Grande, and the Missour
and their tributaries, shall proceed q
rapidly as the lands reclaimed will /
: utilized in small farms by actu:
settlers and homemakers, who will r