Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29
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receive his patent promptly, without need
less restrictions or delays.


less restrictions or delays.
We believe that the remaining forests,
coal and oil lands, water powers and other
natural resources still in state or national
control Except agricultural lands) are more
likely to be wisely conserved and utilized
for the general welfare if held in the public
hands.
In order that consumers and producers,
managers and workmen, now and hereafter,
need not pay toll to private monopolies OF
power and raw material, we demand that
such resources shall be retained by the state
or nation, and opened to immediate use ul-
der laws which will encourage development
and make to the people moderate return
for benefits conferred
In particular we pledge our party to re-
qure reasonable compensation to the pub
lie for water-power rights hereafter granted
the public.
We pledge legislation to lease the public
grazing lands under equitable provisions
now pending which will increase the produc-
ton of food for the people and thoroughly
safeguard the rights of the actual home
maker. National resources, whose conse-.
walton is necessary for the national welfare
should be owned or controlled by the ma
ton.
Waterways.
The rivers Of the United States are the
natural arteries OF this continent. We de-
mand that they shall be opened to traffic
as indispensable parts of great nationwide
system Of transportation in which the Pan
anna canal will be the central link thus en-
aiding the whole interior of the United
States to share with the Atlantic and Paci
seaboards in the benefit derived from the
canal.
1t is national obligation to develop our
rivers, and especially the Mississippi and its
tributaries, without delay, under a compre-
hensive general plan covering each river sys-
tenn from its source to its mouth, designed to
secure its highest usefulness for navi CATION,
irrigation, domestic supply, water powe:
and the prevention OF floods
We pledge our party to the immediate
preparation of such plan, which should BE
made and carried out in close and friendly
cooperation between the nation, the states
and the cities affected.
Under such plan, the destructive floods
OF the Mississippi and other streams, which
represent vast and needless loss to the ma
ton, would be controlled by forest conset-
walton and water storage at the headwaters
and by levees below; land sufficient to sup
port millions of people would be reclaime l
from the deserts and the swamps, water
power enough to transform the industrial
standing of whole states would be developed,
adequate water terminals would be provided
transportation by river would revive, and
the railroads would be compelled to cooper
ate as freely with the boat lines as with each
rother.
The equipment, organization and expert
ence acquired in constructing the Panama
canal soon will be available for the Lakes
to-the-Gulf deep waterway and other por-
tons of this great work, and should be uti-
lized by the nation in cooperation with the
various states, at the lowest net cost to the
people.
Panama Canal
The Panama canal, built and paid for by
the American people, must be used primar-
lily for their benefit.
We demand that the canal shall be so OPP
Grated as to break the transportation mon
opoly now held and misused by the trans
continental railroads by maintaining sea
competition with them; that ships directly
or indirectly owned or controlled by Amer
lean railroad corporations shall not be per-
mitted to use the canal, and that American
ships engaged in coastwise trade shall pay
no tolls.
The Progressive party will favor legisla-
ton having for its aim the development of
friendship and commerce between the
United States and Latin-American nations
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