Show B BE A hume CROFTER learn by doing work together give every man a chance SLOGAN BLOOM OP OF tha HOMECROFT ItRa IS every child in is garden every mother lit in a onic cro and fadi Vidu vidual independence fur for ri cry worker lonker Il in tt is of his bis own on oil lie zand laud 11 A little croft wo we ind a plot of corn airan A irden stored with v per pau aej aal mint and thyme thyma and an d i rovers flowers for poles pode oft on sunday morn plucked while the church bells ranc their earliest rl lait chimes 3 it the th alt erl standing stAn dint ai i ill ahe doorway of liti home contented on his hi threshold ills hla family fi battered Ba d about his hh while the tha tenant of 0 a spent day clesos elo in ran sound that are ra dears dari he h shall save bay it clr republic when the th drum up Is futile on nd 2 the barracks barrack are ara exhausted henry W grady the slums and of the our fast increasing population in ln ill great cities tire boci soci 1 1 wv holh hol H 01 on liina colue crofts crofta bolever niall tili fi liy knitt to explode r or itter tito tim occupant where every fofi v worker and liln 0 only illy safeguard t t r h family con enjoy individual and nut rial Is to the millions of oc leor 11 maxinell Mus Max wull ivell EDUCATION E cooperation THE FIRST BOOK THE OF HOME CROFTERS HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS contenti CONTENT ARE TIIE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OP OF ABSORBING INTEREST BY the brotherhood of man alan 11 charity that is everlasting the secret of Alip pons power lesson of a great Calam calamity lly the sign of a thought 1 t this book la Is the first of a n series that will chronicle the Prof irosa ot of tile thi and inform all who wish to operate cooperate co with it how they may do so BO through tile formation of local circles clubs or gilds to promote town and village betterment late into dionio civic arl paldo do and loyalty to dionio ionic institutions industries and trade improve lin provo methods ino thoda and facilities or of education in tho the local public schools anil create now new opportunities at homo that will go far to check the drift of trade and population to the cities tho the first gild of tho the crofters lins has been established at watertown alit massachusetts chu the Gild liall shops shop and gardens gullens tire loe located abed tit at main street whore where the garden school 13 now fully organized and over one hundred children me are at work in tho the gardens Oai dens tho the departments for training n in and village industries tire being Install 1 I tito tho weavers weaver ore me already nt at orl tit nt the looms loom it la Is not devIg designed ned to 0 o build liero here an isolated institution ut to ninke make al a model which can bi be lu in a any ly town or liliie in alio country copies or of ATHU A THU THC FIRST DOCK OF THE can bo ba obtained by condina twelve two cent stamps with your namo and address carefully and plainly written to tho of tho talisman mriln main st watertown town 1 massachusetts thero I 1 Is new hope and inspiration for every c cry worker who wants a home of ills own on on the land in ili aljo AND PLATFORM OP OF which li Is as follows lows peace has her vic victories no less n than wor war EDUCATION OPERATION cooperation CO opportunity wo we believe belli e mat ali nt the patriotic slogan of tile whole people 0 of f tills this nation should be nerv ivery child in n gordon garden E every very mother lit in a homecroft Homec rott t and in industrial independence for every worker lit in a home of ills own on the land lii nd anti and that until lio he owns such a iloine tin the concentrated purpose and chief inspiration to labor in tho the life of L every ve ry wage wae worker should bo be ills hla determination to get an acre anc live on it we vo believe that tho the slum and Teno tenements ments and congested beaters Ceat cra vt ct population lit in the cities are arc a savagely rava gely deteriorating social moral and political and that thata a great public should bo be and tho the nieolo NII olo power of tho the gutlon anti and the ho states exerted for tho the betterment of nil all tile tho conditions of rural life ire and to create and ail centers of so atil dal alli bic life lit in country and suburban towns md and villages whore where trade and industry can be so firmly anchored they cannot bo be drawn into the commercial la elstrom that ji now steadily humanity into int the vortex of the great cities s wo we believe that every citizen in this country lias has an inherent and fundamental right to un all education willell which will train him to earn a lly log ilia anil ir if coed now be to get his living straight from froin mother earth and that liu lie has tina abc right to the opportunity to have the work to do which will afford him that living nna and to earn riot not only c r air livelihood but enough rl anre re to liable enable him to bo be it and to have a homo of ills his own with etli ground around it buni buffi clent to him and ills bis family a living fri ni the land as aa tho reward for lilg ills own lafiora wo belleve believe the public domain Is tile most precious heritage of abo people ond end the surest safeguard the nation has hag against social unrest disturbance tur bance or upheaval and that the cause of liu manity nud and the Pre preserve serva alo alon j of social stability and of our F freo ree institutions dern demand rind that the absorption of the lands landa into speculative private ownership without vit hout settlement Fl bo be stopped and that the nation should create opportunities for by building lion and drainage works to reclaim land nit as fast its ia it Is needed to give every man who wants wanti a blome on tho the land a chance to in get et I 1 it t wo we that as a nation wo we I 1 should bo be less absorbed alth slaking making money and should pay moro more heed to T rising ui till and training men who lio will lo he law la wa w ablaing A bid I 1 lit citizens that tile the wel atel tare fare of our workers Is of more consequence than the more accumulation of wealth and that stability of nn nit leonal character and of social find business Is 1 of greater Ki catir it importance I 1 I 1 to tuo the of this countey ns as a whole than any other ono one flues tion that la is now before them anti and wo ive believe that tile the only way w ay to preserve e such stability and to maintain our national prosperity li Is to curry carry into immediate effect and operation the platform of tile tho tolls man ilion which la its as follows fol lowa EDUCATION employment AND ON tim LAND 1 that children shall bo be taught and boniver aft in tho public schools and that Nome craft all and j garden training schools shall 1 be e established by county count municipal mote and national til governments litra where every boy and every mail out vt of work who ho wants employment where horo lie cau call pain gain that knowledge kno ledRi can call learn liow to enalo a lioio and till tac hol boll and got hit hia living straight from tho ground will atio every boy mould be taught that lili ills first agui it in lire should be to got get a homo of lits bt i own on oll alie land BUILD BOVE CROFTS AS NATIONAL B U safeguards 2 that the now system of land taxation find and land purchase and subdivision and advances to set tiers act shall bv be adopted allup tea in if this country to the end that land shill shall bo be subdivided into small holdings in tile the hands of those who will till it for it a livelihood and labor find occupation in the creation of which will be perpetual B safeguards against the political rilla evils and social discontent resulting from tho the overgrowth of cities and tho the sufferings of unemployed wage earners protection ron FOR jiin aile RICAN 3 that rural settlement shall b be e encouraged and the principle of pio 1110 0 and ills his homo applied directly to tho the nome homo by the exemption from taxation of all improvements upon and alto abo alt o of till nil personal person nl property not exceeding 2500 lit in value alno used on anil and in connection with every or rural homestead of not more than ban ten tell acres in ili extent which the occupies as a homo home 0 and cultivates with etli his UMI own labor and bo 80 provi av ull all or 01 put part of thu the sul port fur for a family 01 AREA k ackil rou FOR 4 1 that the national government as aa part of n littlon at al polley policy of Iti improvements for river control und and regulation alad for tile the enlargement to the utmost possible sible extent of the aroa of tile the country for culture and homes on oil ill alic and for the ilu protection of 80 1101 18 fl aiom oll elther hood flood or drouth drout li shall build nul not only levees and revetments where ann needed and drainage works arks for foi the reclamation of swamp and ovell OMI allu cd d lauds lands but shall also preserve existing forests reforest denuded areas arc is plant new fo ionta and build the great reservoirs ors and other engin engineering Cering necessary iry to safeguard against overflow and save aavo for use uc u c tile the flood waters alera that now run lun to waste reclamation nECLA MATION AND SETTLE MENT ENT or OF TUB ARID landa G S that tho the national government shall build tho the irrigation works necca sary n to brint brina water within apih of settlers on oil the arid lands land the coit co it of such works to bo be repaid to the alio government poi emment eminent by such in ili annial in ili etall ments without interest and ti that it tile the construction of the great irrigation works necessary for tile utilization of tile the waters of such large rivers as tile Coluin columbia bla tho the sacramento the colo rado the rio grande and the souil find their tributaries tributa ries shall us as rup lilly as the lands reclaimed will v bo be utilized in small forms by actual settlers and homemakers bome who will repay the government the cost of construction st of tile tho irrigation works and that the amount needed each year car for construction as recommended by bv tile the secretary of tho the interior shall be mode available by on gresi as aa a loan from the general treasury to the reclamation cla mation rund fund and repaid from rein linda lands as raqu required trod by tile national irrigation act SAVE EW PUBLIC LANDS FOR 0 that not another acre of tho the pott lie linda lands shall ever hereafter bo be granted to any state or territory for ony any purpose whatsoever or to auy any ono oco other than nit mi actual settlor who lias has built ills his home on the land and lived on oil it for five years yeara nud and that no more land anti scrip of tiny kind shall ever bo be issued and that lint tho the desert land LIW law and the clause of tho the homestead law oliell be hindu to conform to the recommendations of tile tho public lands appointed by president ident roosevelt and of the message of the Prem president ident to Cou congress gress PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE FOREST plantations 7 t alint ill timber and stone uw law diall ho bo repealed and mot nil all public timber lands nunly bo be included in permanent forest reserves tho title tu to the lie land to ile ho forever by the lie national government stump ngo ligo aly only of timber to bo be sold lind 3 domig omit timber to ho bo prec nl for future cutting so that the forests will bu be by right use and that tho the national nation il government shall by tho the reservation or purchase or of ex sting forest lands and the planting of w new forests brente lit in every state national forest plantations from which alch through all tho the years to come 1 ii I sunk lent supply of vow wood and timber 4 iti be annually harvested to supply the lir hrdi of tile people of ench state from ho he forest in ili that tate CONTROL AND USE 0 OF F GRAZING LANDS 8 chrit nil public landi riot not reserved shall be reserved from location or entry under tilly liny law except tile liu homestead law mid shall lio ho embraced lit in grazing reserves under tho control ont rol of tho the beare tary of agriculture who shall bo be eni em powered to issue annual to graze stock in ili said paid grazing reserves but such ll consos shall never bo be issued for n longer period than one year on agricultural lands or five years yearn on gaoing lands and nil all landi classified daas lAed us is grazing lands shall be w subject to tit at the end of every five years that tio no lenses leases of tile tho public grazing lands landa shall ever bo be mado made by tile national government and that the urea area of the homestead entry shall under tiller any circumstances bo be en it 11 aged to excecil 1010 acres RESERVE LANDS LAND 14 FOR 0 that tile public land states ahall tho the state matlat under it system similar to and in li armony gitil etli tile tho national public land system above outlined and thit that each state shall enact it strite law for the settlement of linda lands owned by tile tho state and that state lands landa ho be disposed of only to actual settlers sott lera under such liw law anti and that all state I 1 lands ii nt at nil times remain open tu to lium hornet estead tend 1 gitry ji try UNITED OP OF LAND AND ND WA TUll 10 that it shall bo be the law of every state and of alio united states that uso use Is tho the basis the measure find the limit of all rights to water including riparian rights and that tho the right to tho the use of water for irrigation shall where in and bo be appurtenant burten pur tenant ant to tile alio land irrigated so that mat the ownership of the land and water be united and no right to water a u a speculative commodity over ever bo be acquired held or owned RIGHT OP OF appropriation F FOR 0 it beneficial USE 11 that it shall bo be tho the law of every state and of tho the united states that all unused and waters are public property 8 subject to appropriation pria prin tion for a beneficial use first lu in time being first in ili right and that on till all interstate streams str cama priority of use usa shall give priority of right throughout tile entire course of tho the stream vv without regard to state lines and that lit in ench each drainage basin the irrl gators therein shall control the dmetri button of the water |