The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-27

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forests, and for the scattering through
this great nation, in every state and
territory, of forest plantations that,
when they come to maturity a genera
ton from now, will supply every state
with wood and timber of every kind
| for every purpose from Forests and
| Tree Plantations within its own bor-
| ders.
have no time today to go into de-
tails, but IL you will go into the South
and see the actual conditions with ref
erence to the water supply on the
streams flowing from the Appalachian
mountains, and study the beauties of
that country, you will be converted
in an instant to the necessity for the
creation of the Appalachian Forest re-
serve; and the same thing is true Of
the proposed White Mountain Forest
Reservation in New England. Those
Reserves are comparatively small
things in the amount of money in
volved. If we can throw money to the
birds, as a manure spreader throws 1t
out of the back of a wagon into the
| field, to build the Panama canal and
manage the conquest of the Philippine
Islands, and to build huge battleships,
L maintain that we can at least spare
money enough to perpetuate the for
ests that God gave us and for the pres
ervation Of all the Internal Resources
Of our country at home. (Applause)
l maintain another thing, and that
is that IL the women who are here to-
day would go TO their homes from this
convention, and take up and study the
possibilities of the development of
Arizona and New Mexico under
| policy which will reserve for national
control the forests and the water sup
ply which are the only things that
keep that great country from going
back to the desert, you would save
| this nation from the infamy of join
ing Arizona and New Mexico In the
bonds of joint statehood. In the face
of your opposition that great wrong
| could never be accomplished. All
women in the land should rise up and
protest against it, because it Is
abandoning the destiny and develop
ment OF the foundation OF all the re-
sources for homemaking of those ter
ritories to the unrestrained legislative
control Of a legislature which will be
dominated by the most evil political
influences that ever existed in any
state-the offscourings of the worst
political rOttennesS that ever pre-
vailed In Pennsylvania, coupled with
the iniquities that will prevail by
reason Of the fact that so large a pro-
portion of the population of New
Mexico cannot even speak the English
| Language. The joint statehood bill
proposes to give to the control of such
a legislature as that, without any pos
sible check hlnderance, land grant
| Of about twenty million acres to
| grab and speculate with and graft on
and practically to do with as they
please. Applause)
| l only want to say in closing: If
you find crime anywhere; II you find
a man gone wrong anywhere; If you
find political corruption or anything
| going wroL.; In our political institu-
tions, you will Fl d, If you trace 1t
back, that the fault lies In its original
source, at some place or other, in the
fact that there was not the right
kind of a home and the right
kind Of a mother. If you find a
man OF strong and sterling character
Tor a woman either) you trace it ba,
and you will find that it was because
there was the right kind of q mother,
and the light kind Of a home.
We have heard a good deal lately
about the ''man behind the gun" and
the "man behind the pick" and ''the
man behind the ballot" and the imam
behind" a great many her things.
but l want to tell you that you can
pile them all one upon another like
Ossa upon Pelion and all of them to-
gether are not OF as much Importance
as the Mother behind the Home!'
| (Applause)
If you are to have the right kind of
homes and the right kind of mothers
everywhere throughout ne length and
breadth of this great and beautiful
country of ours, you must make it
easily possible for every man who
works and lives by his toll to have a
home of his own on the land-a
HOMECROFT, however small.
You must train every child In
garden schools to know how to plant
seeds and make things grow and get
food directly from the BOSOM of
Mother Earth. You must so train all
boys and girls that their first great
ambition will be to get q home OF
their own with a piece OF ground
| AROUND IL large enough lOr SdiuSh.
The Good Book tells us that God
planted a garden eastward in Eden
and there he put the man whom he
had formed. And out of the ground
made the Lord God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight and
good for food"
God intended that every man anc
woman and every child should live
next to nature and on the Lind, anC
every man who marrles a woman
should put her in home in the mids
Of a garden.
The great movement which is now
fairly under way, known as The
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT, pro
poses to do that Wy thing, and thu
Creed and Platform CO the Home
crofters tells how 1t may be done.
The slogan Of the Homecroft Move
ment Is:
"Every Child in a Garden-Ever!
, Mother In a Homecroft-and Individ
ual Industrial Independence for Ever,