Show B boj A A H ch M E ottto OtT TT birc learn by doing work together give every man a chance I 1 I 1 TUB TIM SLOGAN slag jn OP TIM THE IS every child in is a uzumi k 1 cry mother in u 11 mill indi for every 11 aricer in a u home or his own on the land I 1 A little crot croft we owned a plot c of corn A reardan garden stored with peas and mint and thyme and flowers for oft on sunday morn plucked while the tha church bells balls rang their earliest chimes 11 the citizen standing andine st in the doorway of hla his home cont contented entel on his threshold I 1 d his faill family athe fathered ea r 0 d about his hearthstone while the evening of a well spent day closes in n acen scenes ejaz and sounds d that are ara dearest he ha shall save fave the republic when the drum tap Is 13 AU futile tile and the tha bar liacas are exhausted 1 henry it brady the slums and tenements or of tile our fast increasing population in individual great cities are social dynamite certain leS 01 on the aliu laud latiin ciomo crofts however small owned toy liy tho aliu to explode sooner or litter later the where every worker and ills only safeguard against such dangers family can enjoy enady individual industrial I 1 ril Is to the millions of independence george il II maxwell 1 i r I 1 I 1 EDUCATION k I 1 ON I 1 I 1 I 1 II 11 THE FIRST BOOK THE OF HOME CROFTERS HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS ARE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF ABSORBING INTEREST the brotherhood of X man an charity that is everlasting the secret of Mip pons power lesson of a great calamity the sign of a thought this book la tho first of a series that will chronicle the progress of the MOVEMENT and inform nil all who wish to co cooperate with it how they may do so BO through the alio formation of local circles clubs or gilds to promote town nud arid 1111 village age betterment shimu gatei home hoino civic pride arid loyalty to home institutions industries indu stiles arid and trade improve methods arid and facilities of education in the local public schools arid and creao new opportunities at 11 home orric tl that t will go far to check the drift of ado and population to the cities tho the first gild of the lias has been established at watertown waterloo n massachusetts the Gild guildhall hall shops arid gardens are located at malu street where the garden school la Is now fully organized and over one hundred children are at work in the tha gardens tito departments for training in and village indus tries tiles nio are being installed the weavers me are already aheady at work ork at the looms it Is riot not designed to build liere here an isolated institution but to make a model which crin ann be duplicated in ili a any ri y town toimi or llaga lit in the country copies of THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HOME CROFTERS can bo obtained by sen dinic nie twelve two cent stamps with your namo name and address carefully and plainly written to the Home crofters cald of tho the talisman main st watertown Vator town massachusetts there Is yew now hope alope and inspiration tor for every ceri worker who wants a home of ills his own onn on oil the luna land it in all AND PLATFORM or run which Is as follows follow peace lifts has her victories no less renowned than in war EDUCATION N COOPER OPERATION cooperation CO OPER A TION opportunity wo we believe that the patriotic slogan of the whole people of this nation should be evory child in a garden avery ia cry mother alother in a Iloine croft and individual industrial independence for lery every worker lit in it iloine of his own on the land find and that alint until lie owns a ilonie tile concentrated concentrate purpose ind chief inspiration to labor lit in the life of every wage worker should bo be ills his determination to 1 get nil air acre ani lle live on it wo we believe that the slums and tenements and congested centris 8 of population in ili the cities lire are a savagely deteriorating social moral tind find political influence anti and that a great public movement should bo be organized organ led and tile tho whole power of tile nation arid the states exerted for the betterment of all the conditions of rural life arid and to create and centers of social arid and civic life in ili country arid and suburban towns and villages chero acro trade and industry Indu can call be so firmly anchored that they cannot bo be drawn into tile the commercial Mael maelstrom that Is now steadily dlly bucking Bucl lue industry Indu and into the vortex vertex of the great cities wo we believe that every citizen in ill tills this country has haq till an inherent find and fundamental right to an education which will train ailin to earn a alv ll 11 ing arid and if need be to get ills his living straight glit front from mother earth arid and that ho lias has the same right light to the opportunity to have li i 0 the alio work to do which w will w afford him that living 11 ing and to earn riot not only r cot cop livelihood but enough more to enable him to be a arid to have a home of his own with ground around it sufficient to alela him arid and ills his family a living from tho the land as the reward for tits ills own labor wo we believe tint that tile the public domain la Is the most pre precious clow herlt heritage of tile tho people and the alio surest tho nation has against social unrest disturbance tur bance nanct or upheaval and that flint the cadie of Ilu marilty arid the preservation of social stability arid of our free institutions demand that the absorption of the public lipids into speculative ellia private ownership without settlement ile be forthwith stopped and that the nation should create opportunities for hornet by building irrigation air and drainage works to reclaim ian land ns as fast na gig it la Is needed to give every man who wants a 0 home on tho the lunt land it cliance chance to get it wo e eliat as a nation wo we should bo be less absorbed with making I 1 money and should pay more laced to i using raising up ill and training mon men who will w lie law abiding citizens that the welfare of our Is of consequence than the accumulation of arid that stability or of national character mid and of social arid and business conditions Is of greater importance to the people of this countr y its as it a whole thrill mi ally other otil er ono oil 0 question III C s that Is 18 now before them find and we believe that the only wai to preserve such buch stability gilld to permanently maintain our national prosperity Is to carry cany into immediate diate effert anti operation the Plat forin of tho the talisman which Is us its follows ED EDUCATION IJ C T JON employment AND HOMES ON THE LAND 1 that ch children ildron shall be taught gardening arid and in ill thc jhc public s chlois and that and garden training schools shall be established by county municipal state and national governments whore where every ecly boy and every nun out of work who wants employment where he enn can gain that knowledge call leun learn liow how to make it a home and till me koll hou arid pet get ills living straight from the ground and whore where every boy would be taught that his list first aim ill in ill life should he be to got a homo home of his own ow u on oil the land BUILD A AS NATIONAL safeguards 2 that the new Zea lanil system of lar tit taxation tati oll and jalad land pun 1131 E hasp and suh subdivision division and adantes to set tle alois 18 att ait shall he be adopted in ill tills his country counti to tile the ond that luid land slinia sli ill be subah aided into sin amill all holdings in ili the hands bands of those who will till it I 1 lor or a livelihood and labor ihor 1 find in hi the ci creat catlon loll of l ort 4 will lie perpetual d 1 tle the political OVIN ells and lulal sot resulting from the overgrowth ol of cities and the sufferings of encin aloyed wage earners cai nois protection ron FOIL jiin AMERICAN I 1 ck ilo A r 1 3 that rural settlement shill shall sh ill le be encouraged arid the principle plo of protection for the american or arid and ills home applied directly to the iloine homo by the front taxation of nil all improvements and all alo so of till all personal property pi opert riot not exceeding 0 2500 in value used on oil atilt in ill count connection atlon with every Iloine croft or rural ri I 1 r a I 1 of riot not itkor indio 0 ten tell acres in extent which the owner occupies 0 as a permanent honie home arid cultivates with ills his own imbor and so provides all or art p rt of the support for a fa family nilly enlargement or OP ARII AREA IA AVAILABLE roll FOIL 1 that the national government as put part of a national policy of internal implements for river ilor control and and for the enlargement to till alir utmost possible extent of tile area of the country available nal lable tor for agriculture arid and homes on oil tile the land and for tile the protection of those thoe from either cither flood or drouth drout li shall build riot not only levees and chiru needed arid and drainage works for alio th 0 of swamp abild overflowed linds lands but shall niso also preserve pio ire ex exiling iding forests reforest denuded anas tirva 4 now new forests 1010 arid build the great reset doirs and other oilier works to safeguard overflow ocr arid save sao for beneficial use the waters that now rull inn to was waste t a reclamation bation AND n settlement INT or OF THE ARID LANDS 5 that tile Nat national lonal agn eminent shall build the irrigation works nices sary sarv to bring water within reach or of settlers on oil the arid linds the cost of such works to lo be repaid to govern anent by such settlers sett leis in ili linnual ln in without interest and tint that the construction of the great gie it irrigation works necessary for alie of tile W waters at c r 8 of such large hi go i rivers ivors n as tin lit columbia the sacramento the polo colo trade rado tile 11 rio ao 10 grande find and tin the missouri and their tributaries tributa ries proceed as rapidly as tile lands landi reclaimed will lie he utilized in ill small farms by fietti actual al settlers arid homemakers who will repay rep p ay iy the government the lie cost of construction st of the irrigation works and hint the amount needed eccli e tell year veir for construction as recommended by bv tito secretary of tile interior shall lie bo made available aval lable 1 by congress ns as n loan from the general treasury tren sury to the reclamation clu cla matlou mation fund and repaid from 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 lands 1 as required by the 1 y national Natio nul irrigation act f I 1 I 1 1 SAVE till PUBLIC LANDS FOR FOB 1 homemakers G that not another acre of the pill lie ile 1 lands ands shall ever hereafter liere after bo be granted to tiny state or territory for any purpose whatsoever or to any ono one other than nn an actual settler who has built ills his homo home on oil the land arid and lived I 1 on oil it for ho five years all and that no more 1 I land scrip of any kind shall ever be issued and that the desert land law and the commutation clause of the i homestead estead law shall bo be mado made to con forin fonn to the recommendations of the I 1 public limb lands commission appointed by president roosevelt and of the message lessage of the president to Cori congress gress I 1 PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE FOREST plantations 7 tint that the timber and stone law hall be repealed and that all public timber lands shall he bo included in pernin nent forest reserves the title to to the 1 land ind to lie 10 forever retained by the national government stumpage kiil or of matured timber to be set sold and young timber to bo be preserved for future cutting so that the forests will ile bo by right use and that the national government shall by the reservation or purchase of existing forest lands and the planting I 1 of new forests create in every state national forest plantations from which through all the years to come it a suin clent lelent supply of wood and timber cin can bo be annually harvested to supply the needs of the people of each state from he forest plantations to in that state CONTROL AND USE OF GRAZING LANDS 8 that nil all public lands I 1 riot not otherwise reserved shall be reserved from I 1 location cation 0 or entry under any law lav except the homestead law and shall be lit in grazing re he servos serves under the control of the secretary t try of agriculture who shall bo be empowered to issue annual licenses to graze stock in said brazing reserves I 1 but such licenses shall never be issued for a longer period than one year on oil agricultural lands or five years on grazing lands anti and all lands classified fig as grazing lands shall be subject to reclassification classification at the end of every live years tint that no leases of tho public grazing lands shall ever be made by tile national gover government it men t and that tire area of the homestead entry shall liever under trader any circumstances bo be en barged lii god to exceed acres RESERVE STATE stain LANDS FOR HOMESTEAD SETTLERS 0 9 tint that the public land states shall administer the state lands under a system sini similar flar to and in ili with the national public land system above outlined and that each cadi state shall enact a state homestead law I 1 for tile settlement of lands land owned by the state late and that state lands shall be 1 disposed of only to actual settlers sett lois under such law and that nil all state 1 lantig lands shall at nil all times remain open 1 to homestead eltiy arnit UNITED E D OWNERSHIP OF F LAND AND WATER 41 10 vint it shall bo tho law tito and of th alio 0 united tunit e 1 I 9 states t a s eliat za fa ue Is thu tha basis the mens uie tire and the limit of all rights to water nater including rh liaf and that the right to the nse me of water for irrigation lirly atlon shall inhern in and bo be ap pur tenant to tile land irrigated so PO that lie hie ownership of the land aind anti and tile the anter shall be uni teil and no ilo right to water as a speculative commodity over ever bo be acquired held or owned |