Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-07-06

land as fast as 1t Is needed to give
every man who wants a Home on the
Land 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 well
fare Of our Workers is of more con-
sequence than the mere accumulation
OF Wealth; and that Stability of Ma
tiCnal Character and of Social and
Business Conditions is of greater i'm
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, 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,
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 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 a 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 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
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 thar
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as permanent home anG
cultivates with his own labor and Sc
provides therefrom all or part of the
support for family.
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR NOMINATING.
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 frou
either flood or drouth, shall build no
only levees and revetments wher
needed, and drainage works for tn
reclamation Of swamp and overhowe
lands, but shall also preserve existin
forests, reforest denuded areas, pla1
new forests, and build the great resel
yoirs and other engineering work
necessary to safeguard against ovel
flow and save for beneficial use th
flood waters that now run to vast,
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
5. That the National Governmer
shail build the irrigation works nece,
sary TO bring water within reach Z
settlers on the arid lands. the cost Z
such works to be repaid to the govern
ment by such settlers in annual II
stallments without interest, and tha
the construction of the great irrigatio
works necessary for the utilization {
the waters of such large rivers as th
Columbia, the Sacramento, the Col,
rado, the Rio Grande, and the Missouri
and their tributaries, shall proceed q
rapidly as the lands reclaimed will I
utilized in small farms by actu,
setuers~and homemakers, who will r