Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-07-13


that will Chronicle the Progress of the
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
and inform all who wish to cooperate
with 1t how they may do so through
the formation of local Homecrofters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town and Village Betterment, stimu-
late home civic pride and loyalty to
home Institutions, Industries and trade,
improve methods and facilities Of edu-
cation ia the local public schools, and
create new opportunities Sat Home
that will go far to check the drift of
trade and population to the cities.
The first Gid of the Homecrofters
has been established at Watertown,
Massachusetts. The Glldhall, Shops
and Gardens are located at 143 Main
Street, where the Garden School is
now fully organized and over one
hundred children are at work in the
Gardens. The departments for train
ing in Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being installed. The Viewers
are already at work at the looms.
1t is not designed to build here an
isolated institution. but to make a
model which can be duplicated in any
town or village in the country.
Copies of "THE FIRST BOOK OF
THE HoMEcROFTERS" can be
obtained by sending twelve two
cent stamps with your name and
address Carefully and plainly
written) to The Homecrofters' Gid
of the Talisman 143. Main St.,
WATERFOWL, Massachusetts.
There is New Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Land in the
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE
HOMECROFTERS' which is as fol-
lows:
"Peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than war"
EDUCATION
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
HOMECROFTS
We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People of this Nation
should be Every Child in a Garden
Every Mother in a Homecroft-a In
dividual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in a Home of his Own
on the Land" and that until he owns
such Home, the concentrated purpose
and chief inspiration to labor in the life
of every wage worker should be his
determination to "Get an Acre and
Live on it,"
We believe that the SIums and
Tenements and Congested Genters Of
population in the Cities are a savagely
deteriorating social, moral and pOlit-
zeal influence, and that a great public
movement should be organized and
the whole power of the nation and
the states exerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Rural Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers Of So
cial and Civic Life in Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages, where
Trade and Industry can be so firmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
into the Commercial Maelstrom that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into the Vortex of the
Great Cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Right to an Education
which will train him to Earn a Liv-
ing, and, if need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth; and that
he has the same right to the Opportun-
ity to have the Work to Do which will
afford him that living, and to earn not
only comfortable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be a
Homecrofter and to have a Home of
his Own, with ground around ii
sufficient to yield him and his family
Living from the Land as the reward
for his own labor.
| We believe that the Public Domain
is the most precious heritage of the
people, and the surest safeguard the
nation has against Social Unrest, Dis
turbance or UpheaYal, and that the
Cause Of Humanity and the Preserva.
ton of Social Stability and of our Free
Institutions demand that the absorb.
ton Of the public lands into specula.
tive private ownership, without settle.
ment, be forthwith stopped; and that
the nation should create opportunities
for Homecrofters by building irriga
ton and drainage works to reclaim
land as fast as ii 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 Malglnl