The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-07-06

land as fast as it is needed to give
every man who wants 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
tional 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.
l. 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
auH rnt hic l;uin~ Ctro ;ohf fra,,, fhn
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 NATIONS
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
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
ICAN HOMECROFT.
8. 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 Homecr0ft
or Rural Homestead of not more than
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
cultivates with his own labor and SO
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 improvements
for river control and regulation,
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent Of the
area Of the country available for agri-
culture and Homes on the Land, and
for the protection Of those Homes from
either food or drouth, shall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for the
reclamation Of swamp and overfowed
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plant
new forests, and build the great reser.
voirs and other engineering works
necessary to safeguard against over
flow and save for beneficial use the
food 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 OF
settlers on the arid lands, the cost OF
such works to be repaid to the govern.
ment by such settlers in annual in
stallments without interest. and that
the construction Of the great irrigation
works necessary for the utilization OF
the waters Of such large rivers as the
Columbia. the Sacramento, the Colo.
RADIO. the Rio Grande, and the Missouri
and their tributaries. shall proceed az
rapidly as the lands reclaimed will be
utilized in small farms by actual
settlers and homemakers, who will re-