The San Francisco call., 1910-09-07
PLANK
CAUSE OF ONLY
near RUPTURE
Bell Averts Fight by Framing
NOnCOmmittal Clause for
Adoption

or the greatest agricultural district in
the west it will not be amiss for me TO
say something of the relation that ex-
lists between the farmer and the state
government Being compelled to con-
tribute his portion toward the admin
fstration OF his state, the farmer is ii
rectly interested in the quality of pub
lie service that is provided. and in the
cost of that public service. If public
institutions are conducted in a waste
full or extravagant manner, the farmer
as well as every other tax payer must
bear the brunt: therefore. those who
are tilling cur soil assert their national
right when they demand that the rapid
ly increasing cost of running this state
government be cut down.
GROWTH OF EXPENDITURES
During the last 10 years our appro-
priattons have doubled while the pOpu-
lation has increased not over 90 per
cent. There is something radically
wrong when public expenditure in
creases faster than population. when
the opposite rule should prevail
mans right to own land ought to be
coupled with present or prospective
citizenship. No man should be per-
mitted to claim one acre of our soil in
Zee simple, absolute. unless he be a
citizen of our country. or entitled un-
der our laws some time to have his
American citizenship. Land ownership
is the very bulwark of American insti-
tut1ons, and l can not conceive of a
greater peril to American ideals than
TO admit aliens to the ownership of
land who never can be admitted to all
the rights that citizen of our country
enjoys.
ASIATIC EXCLUSION
The races OF Asia. whose naturaliza-
tion is impossible. should never be al
lowed to gain a foOthOld on our soil
believe that the federal government
should forbid Asiatic Immigration OF
any character, but in the absence of
the nation acting in the matter I be-
lleve that our state should exercise all
It's reserve powers to protect itself
against the Asiatic immigration.
L heartily favor the subdivision of
large tracts of land so that the home
seeker and the home builder may have
an opportunity TO take advantage of
our soil and climate. Irrigation and
in general the reclamation of lands
now lying almost waste are creating
new homes
SMALL HOMES NEEDED
Let us encourage every movement
that will increase these small homes
All navigable streams are natural reg
ulators of transportation charges and
the efficiency of these streams must be
kept to the highest point. Keep your
steamboats, plying through these great
valleys, make water transportation
just as easy as possible, and YOU will
ind more effective control of freight
rates than ever can be done by man
date or law.
Il believe in compulsory education.
that is, that every child must be com
PEELED to attend one school or another.
until he has obtained enough eIemen-
tary training to make him a useful
and upright citizen.
MORE TEACHERS NEEDED
Our school rooms must be less
crowded. This means an increase in
the number of teachers. Those who
teach our schools must be carefully
selected and paid in proportion to the
responsible work in which they are
engaged. The two great movements
that have led in the uplifting and i'm
provement of millions of people are the
elevation of women and the elevation
of labor. Through organized labor,
perpetual industry peace will finally
come. The good will and cooperation
which is manifested within the labor
unions themselves is being carried
to a larger field of action, that Of
unifying the interests of employer and
employe."