The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-13

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 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, IL
to carry into immediate effect and
operation the Platform of the 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
AiC NAiA sum llAtlb hllOh AtdSC, cam lCuill
how to make a 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 1t for a
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.
3. That Rural Settlement shall be
encouraged and the principle of Pro- |
lection for the American Wageworker |
md his Home applied directly TO the |
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
lion of all improvements upon, and |
also of all personal property, not eX-
aeeding $4,000 in value, used on and
N connection with, every Homecroft
Or Rural Homestead of not more than
ZEN acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
,ultivates with his own labor and so
provides therefrom all or part of the
support for a family.
OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR NOMINATING.
4. That the National Government,
Is part of a comprehensive nation
Il policy of internal improvements
or river control and regulation,
ind for the enlargement to the
Utmost possible extent of the
urea of the country available for agrl-
culture and Homes ON the Land, and
or the protection of those Homes from
,ither food or drouth, shall build not
,nly levees and revetments where
leeded, and drainage works for the
of swamp and overfiowed
ands, but shall also preserve existing
0rests, 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
ood 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- ,
ary TO bring water within reach or ,
ettlers on the arid lands. the cost OF ,
rch works TO be repaid to the govern
tent by snch settlers In annual I'M ,
ailments without interest, and that ,
he construction OF the great irrigation :
orks necessary for the utilization or !
Re waters of such large rivers as the I
the Sacramento, the Colo
do. the Rio Grande. and the Missouri !.
nd their tributaries. shall proceed as
Ipidly as the lands reclaimed win be !
tIiized In small farms by actual =
filters and homemakers, who viii re-
~ the government the cost OF con- =,
ruction of the irrigation works. and &
G. the amount needed each year for =
as recommended by the =
scretary Of the Interior, shall be ;,
ade available by Congress as loan =
ON the general treasury to the Re- +
amati0n Fund. and repaid from =