Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-06-28

land as fast rs II is needed to give
every man who wants a Home on the
Land chance To get IL.
We believe that, as 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 well /
fare OF our Workers Is of more con- /
sequence than the mere accumulation |
Of Wealth: and that Stability of Ma |
tiGnal 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
10 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
g. rdening 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 n home and till the soil
and get his living straight from the
ground. and where every boy would
Ice taught that his first aim In life
should be TO get home OF his own
ON the land.
BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS.
.. 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 IL for a
livelihood, and labor find occupation
In the creation Of homecrofts, which
will he perpetual safeguards against
the political evils and social discomfort
resulting from the overgrowth OF
cities and the sufferings Of unem-
ployed wage-carners.
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
lCAN HOMECROFT.
2. 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 I'm 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 anc
cultivates with his own labor and sc
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 a comprehensive nation
al policy OF internal Improvement
for river control and regulation
and for the enlargement TO tn
utmost possible extent of tn
area of the country available for agri
culture and Homes on the Land, ant
for the protection of those Homes fror
either food or drouth, shall build no
only levees and revetments wher
needed, and drainage works for tn
reclamation of swamp and overtiowe
lands, but shall also preserve existin
{ forests, reforest denuded areas, plar
: new forests, and build the great reese
voirs and other engineering WORK
{ necessary TO safeguard against owe
[ flow and save for beneficial use I'll
a Hood waters that now run to vast
T. RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
!. MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
:. That the National Governmer
Shall build the irrigation works nece
n sary 10 bring water within reach {
e settlers on the arid lands, the cost
e such works to be repaid to the govern
3 ment by such settlers In annual II
e stallments without interest. and tn;
l. the construction OF the great irrgatio
e works necessary for the utilization
= the waters OF such large rivers as II
l. Columbia, the Sacramento, the Col
p RADIO the Rio Grande. aud the Missouri
It and their tributaries, shall proceed {
IS rapidly as the lands reclaimed will |
l. utilized in small farms by actu
n settlers and homemakers, who win r