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Show IIII.OMZITIO.V AMI IVDCSTRIKS The frri.'iit m-.p.d of the state is more prol U'mts to go upon the un-u.7'-'l l;inds of the slate and make them productive. To bring down the high cost of i living, to produce more of the necessities ne-cessities of life we must encourage families to make homes on the land. To accomplish this result and de-i de-i velop the state industrially, speculative specu-lative prices of land must be eliminated. elimin-ated. To get colonies of five or ten or twenty families to locate on land near towns, the land must be productive pro-ductive and the price must not be prohibitive and terms easy. Real estate speculations in lands at two hundred to five hundred dollars dol-lars an acre with big commissions and high rates of interest and taxes make' this impossible. ' Land Is only worth from the standpoint stand-point of production, what a family can produce out of the soil by labor, deducting taxes, interest and cost of upkeep on land and improvements. There should be land open to colonization colo-nization on these terms in the vicinity, vicin-ity, or in marketing distance from every city and town on the Pacific coast. Commercial clubs should try to find openings for colinization of land in tracts of from 50 to 1,000 acres and let them be filled with families of laboring people. In these clays of social discontent, of foreign wars, of bread riots and revolutions, it is just as important to keep alive the idea that real producers pro-ducers are needed and industrial development de-velopment must continue. Many communities are land-poor and production-poor. The problem is to bring over-valued, over-taxed and under-productive lands within reach of landless families who need homes and employment. I |