Crittenden press., 1906-07-05

Money, and should pay more heed 10
raising up and training Men who Will
be LAVA biding 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 10 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 bomecraft 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
he taught that his first aim in life
should be to get home OF his own
on the land.
AL SAFEGUARDS.
Q. 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 be perpetual safeguards against
the political evils aud 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
and his Home applied directly 10 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 i'm extent. which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
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 comprehensive nation
al policy of internal improvement,
for river control and regulation
and for the enlargement TO the
utmost possible extent of thu
area of the country available for agri
culture and Homes on the Land, anC
for the protection of those Homes from
either flood or drouth, shall build no
only levees and revetments wher'
needed. and drainage works for th'
reclamation of swamp and overtiowet
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plan
new forests. and build the great reser
yoirs and other engineering works
necessary To safeguard against over
fiow and save for beneficial use thu
flood waters that now run to waste
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
5. That the National Government
shall build the irrigation works neces
sary to bring water within reach o
settlers on the arid lands, the cost o
such works to be repaid to the govern
ment by such settlers In annual In
stallments without interest, and tina
the construction OF the great irrigation
works necessary for the utilization o
the waters OF such large rivers as tn
Columbia, the Sacramento, the Colo
RADIO, the Rio Grande, and the Missouri
and their tributaries, shall proceed a
rapidly as the lands reclaimed will b
utilized I'm small farms by actua
settlers and homemakers, who will re
pay the government the cost Of cor
struction OF the irrigation works, an
that the amount needed each year 10
construction, as recommended by tn
Secretary of the Interior, shall
made available by Congress as loa
from the general treasury to the Rs
, clamation Fund, and repaid froI