The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-07-13

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
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.
/. 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
VI WIN Nho WINS CAlRtOy WHClC
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 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 1t for d
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
ton of all improvements upon, and
also Of all personal property, not ex-
.eeding $500 In value, used on and
in. connection with, every HOmecrOft
Dr. Rural Homestead Of not more than
ten acres In extent, which the owner
as permanent home and
,ultivates with his own labor and so
therefrom all or part Of the
support for family.
OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR NOMINATING.
4. That the National Government,
Is part Of comprehensive nation
II policy Of internal improvements
'or river control and regulation,
md for the enlargement to the
Utmost possible extent of the
lrea Of the country available for agri.
culture and Homes on the Land, and
or the protection of those Homes from
either food or drouth, shall build not
,nly levees and revetments where
leeded, and drainage works for the
Of swamp and overfowed
ands, but shall also preserve existing
orests, 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 I
iood 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 I
ettlers on the arid lands, the cost of q
uch works to be repaid to the govern
nent by such settlers in annual in 9
talIments without interest, and that
lie construction of the great irrigation h
works. necessary for the utilization Of q
he waters of such large rivers as the | T
Columbia, the Sacramento, the Colo O
ado, the Rio Grande, and the Missouri !
nd their tributaries, shall proceed as
apidly as the lands reclaimed will be
tIlized in small farms by actual
ettlers and homemakers, who will re-
'ay the government the cost OF con-
truction of the irrigation works, and
hat the amount needed each year for .
obstruction. as recommended by the
secretary Of the Interior, shall be
made available by Congress as a loan
rom the general treasury to the Re-
lamation Fund, and repaid from