The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-07-20

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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 i'm
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
to carry into immediate effect and
operation the Platform of the Tails
man, which is as follows:
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES ON THE LAND.
l. 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 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 home of his own
on the land.
BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS.
2. That the New Zealand system of
Land Taxation and Land Purchase
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set
tiers Act, shall be adopted in this
country, to the end that land shall be
subdivided into small holdings in the
hands Of those who will till it for
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
loan HOMECROFT.
3. That Rural Settlement shall be
encouraged and the principle of Pro-
lection for the American Wageworker
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 ex-
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 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
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 agrl-
culture and Homes on the Land, and
'or the protection Of those Homes from
either food or drouth, shall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for the
exclamation Of swamp and overfowed
ands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plant
lew forests, and build the great reser.
'oirs and other engineering works
necessary to safeguard against over
low and save for beneficial use the
lood waters that now run to waste.
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
5. That the National Government
hall build the irrigation works neces-
airy to bring water within reach of
ettlers on the arid lands, the cost of ,
UGH works to be repaid to the govern
nent by such settlers in annual in
tallments without interest, and that
he construction Of the great irrigation
7orks necessary for the utilization Of !
ne waters Of such large rivers as the Z
Columbia, the Sacramento, the Colo.
lido, the Rio Grande, and the Missouri
nd their tributaries, shall proceed al
ipidly as the lands reclaimed will be
tilized In small farms by actuaJ 9
sttlers and homemakers, who win re. I
ny the government the cost Of con. :,
.ruction of the irrigation works. ana !,
lat the amount needed each year for ' J,
instruction. as recommended bv the :.
ecretary Of the Interior, shall be !. .
ade available by Congress as lean | :
ON the general treasury to the Re. Z
amation Fund, and repaid ffosat I