NATIONAL FOUNDATIONS,
PATRIOTISM IS TIME OF I'EAIE
ShEHEIt TO SOLVE OVK
XA TIOSAL I'NOItLEMS.
W Muftt Plant forests. Orsanit
Better School, Make Monica tor
Workers and Hear the Children
Clou to Nature-Menace of Great
Cltlea. ,
At t lie commencement exercises of
the Michigan Agricultural College on
.linn Both, IInni, mi address hum do
llverod by George II. Mux well, Dcnn
of Inn Ilomecrofter Olid of tlte Tails
miin n ml Executive Mm Irinii ti of I lie
Xntlonnl Irrigation Assm-lullon.
Tin key-note of tin address of Mr.
Mm well wns tho Idea that we should
bring to the constructive work of
our social niiii commcrclnl lift In time
of pence, Hut MillliO fervent patriot
Ism ii ml devotion to the public werv
In Hint would Inspire tlm whole tin
Hon If ww wiro In tli throes of n
liltMxIy conflict with thi coplo of
Homo other country.
In llliiHtrntlon of this he re
ferred to our forest resource.
'I'll!' WIIHteflll IlllprOVlllcllCC with
which we Imvn swept tin for
est Ollt Of CllstclICO WIIN Contrasted
with thi elaborate cure with whlrh
wo have Imllt fort mention nml na
vies nml iiliH-l our unities. Ami
yet. snld Mr. Maxwell, wo huvo little
l fi'iir from nny foreign foo. Hut
wo Imvo much to four from Iho
wreck nml ruin thnt will Inevitably
follow tho deal ruction of our forest.
Destroy tho foroat nml over Im
mense nren flood nml ilroulh will
destroy Iho furiiiN,
Destroy tho forest nml you will nt
tho mi mi' time destroy mniiy of our
most Important Industrie ly tho ex
IiiiiimIIoii of our supply of wkm or
IIiiiImt.
licMtroy n city hy liomiiiiriliiient or
tire nml It enn he rcliullt In a few
j our more bountiful thun over.
Destroy n foroNt on the plain mid
It iimy tnko morn than a generation
to restore It
HcHtroy ii forest on the mountain,
where the Moll In thin uml xor. und
II tuny tnke centuries to restore the
forest If It en ii ever lie done at nil.
'I'lio destruction of tin- fnrcHt rover
leave the mountain sides ho oXxmcd
to eroMlou that tho rook ure w-nshed
"iKHTitiv tmi: roni:tTH
wii.i, iu;sritov
hnro of noil, nml rcforoKtutlon liecomoa
linpoHHlhle
We me told hy exxTtM, and no one
coiitrmlli tN tho Htnteinent. that nt the
proNciit rate of consumption, our en
tire forcNt rcNoiirccN will exhausted
In Ichh than forty years. I have re
cently noon It Htated nt thlrty-flve
yoiiri. If we nro to tuard anaiiiHt
th In national danger the Tlmlier uml
Stone J.nw miiht he rcM'iiliil, uml nil
pnlille tlmlier land Included In perm
anent KoroHt lEeKervcM. the title to the
hind forever retained ly tho National
Jovcriimcut. htiiiupace only of ma
lured tlinlx-r hold, ami youiiK tlmlier
preNerved fir future cllttlliK. ho thnt
the forcNtM will he perpetuated liy
rlKht use; mid the National (Jovern
uieut miiit. hy the reservation or ur
cIiiino of ox 1st I ii); forest In nils, mid tho
plant inj; of new forests, create 111
eery Htate Nntloiial Forest Planta
tions from which, through nil the
years to come, a hiililcicnt Niipply of
wish I mid tlmlier can he iinnually
harvested to Hiipply the needs of the
jM'ople of each utate from the Forest
Plantations In that Htate.
I'nlesH we take time liy tlio fore
lock tho next generation will nee the
Fnlted StateH practically a treeless
nation, without woisl or tlmlier for
tho uses of our people, mid devastated
year nfter year hy ruliioiiH oods. Al
ready the Hcarelty of tinilier Is helnif
felt mid every man who lmlldn u
homo must pay the Increased cost. In
Michigan I understand that hoiiio of
your most Important Industries nro
crippled liy the s!mrtn.'i of tlmlier.
And yet, In the (. of tills con
dition which Is nothlui; more than 8
crisis threatening the complete do
struct Ion of one of our greatest ro
NoiireeH as a nation, Conurcss busies
Itself with u multitude of matters of
Infinitely less importance uml refuses
to repeal the Timber uml Stone Act,
under which the Inst remnants of our
unreserved national forest lands nro
belnt: fed Into the insatiable maw of
the timber speculators for less thun
one-tenth of their actual vuluu.,
We are told by (lie men In Congress
who make Committees and shape leg
islation that tho money cannot be
Hpared to acqulro nml nave from do
td met Ion tho Calaveras ISij: Trees In
California, or to create the White
Mountain mid Appalachian Forest lie
nerves, uml preserve their forest re
aourcoH nnd save the water power
used In tho inanufacturliiK Industries
of Nov England uml tho South; and
the same uien In the same moment re
fuse to slop the most shameless wuste
of a nation's resources that ever dls
prueed a national lawmaking body by
refusing to repeal tho Timber and
Htonu Act.
Not only this, but In Arizona and
New Mexico where the forests are the
very life of the country, the Joint
Statehood Jttll proposed to give u float
grant of Hcvornl million acres
which tho land speculators who would
control thn legislature would use to
get control of nml destroy every Mere
of unreserved timber Innd In those
t err I tor leu. The country owe a lclt
of urn l II udo l Kcniitoi' liurroiigh of
your Htuto for hi nld In irevontliiK
thnt Mil from passing the Somite.
It seem Incredible thnt these
thing should ho done by Coiigro,
hut thorn uro reason for It.
In tho flrnt plueo thn people nt
Inrgo tnko no Iriterent In Hut pi enerva
tion or their own properly.
"What I everybody's business Ih
nobody's business."
In thn second phi en wn hnve not
yt't. o a jMH.ple, rlen fur enough
nhovn tho morn worship of Mammon to
reniizo Hint wo uro ilclllwrntely sac
rlflclng to thn Golden Calf tho re
source without which wn ennuot ex
iNt iin u tuition.
And worse thun MiIh. wo nro crowd
ing our working people, tioth native
nml foreign liorn. Into nn environment
whom congestion of tmpulutlofi Ih de
ifenernlliiir our workern mid rottlni?
Ihelr ph.VHleiil mid moral flhro.
Where will you find miy eltlwrinhlp
In tho Hlum mid tenement dlntrlctn
of our cIIIoh to whom you enn effect
ively iiptH-at for help to Mop thn wimtn
of our forcHtK? They know tiothlnir
iihotif It mid euro Ick. The flrnt need
of nny tuition In no Intclllicerit cltlwn
Hhlp. mid tho Miium and tenoniontu of
our uront rltlH nro mnelHtroniN Into
which tho cltl.etiKhlp of tho country
M Ix'liiif drnwn to Ita destruction In a
Htendlly lucronHlnK volume.
Wo nro nulTi'rlriu' Junt now from a
fpnxm of national IivmIitIii hecmiHo
what ovorylMMly who ever texk tho
troulito to go nml liKk knew lorm mro
the rovoltlni: comlltloiiH under
which the treat liackcm of f'hlcnco
have l.een operatlm; their plnntM. mid
t.ecauw dlHenHod ment htia lioon Hold
for food.
Hut you may draw the worxl pict
ure flint your ImaiMniilloii enn imlnf
of tho horrorn of tho Hlaut'hterliiir uml
packlm; of meat In thorn en talillxli-
mentH , mid nothing you enn linau'liie
eiiunlH tho horror of Mlchtlng tlm
liven of thouiamU of ehlhlreti who
urn condemned to live find jrrow tip In
tho foul phyHlcnl. WM-Ial mid mornl
in Iiihiiiii that jHTinonfoH the whoh
uluiu dlMtrlct of Pnckliit'town. It In
ii national illxirriue nml In liouud to
prove n national ourfe.
There In only one remedy for thone
Avr noon axu
Tin: faicms."
horrible conditions of life for the
children, uml that Is to get the work
ing people nml their children out of
the slums,'' mid Into the Huhurbs
whore they can have sunshine nnd
fresh ii Ir nnd pure uml nourishing
food from n home garden.
Let us realize once for nil that this
problem of the children of our work
ing people Is our greatest national
problem nml go nt Us solution with
the same patriotic ami self-sacrificing
national heroism that led tho
lloinecrofters of Japan to go Into bat
tle with their lives In their hands, like
hand grenades, to throw at the enemy
that sought to crush out their na
tional life
I't us catch the Inspiration of the
slogan of the Jlomecroftors' Move
ment In this Country, nnd never cease
our work until we have
"Kvory child In n garden Every
Mother In a Ilomecroft and Individ
ual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in u Home of his own
on the I. anil."
The Creed and Platform of tho
Ilomecrofter tells how It may lie done
and anyone who wants a copy of It
can get It without charge by sending a
postal card addressed to mo, at the
Fisher llullillng In Chicago.
Tho (Jront Cities are our most
serious menace In this Country. Our
greatest national danger lies in the
Centrnll.atlon of wealth and imputa
tion nnd trade und Industry. The
hope of the nation Is In the farm nnd
suburban homo und In the country
und suburban town uml village.
I't us go seriously to work to ere
ute and upbuild them. I.ct every
student who goes out from this
splendid Institution go with the spirit
of a soldier to fight the grout battles
of ponce for higher national Ideals,
for a purer public service, for the
preservation of our national resources,
for a better educational system, nnd
above and beyond nil for tho multipli
cation of Homes on the Lund where
the children can grow to manhood
and womanhood In the uplifting en
vironment of u rural community
wliero the evil influences of the cities
enn be forever kept at bay. In such
an environment children can be
reared to citizenship next to Nature
from whence they can draw health
and vigor both moral mid physical for
the discharge of all tho duties of life.
It Is not In the cities that this country
now needs tho Horvlee of tho flower of
Its patriotic manhood. It Is In thn
country where the great national
problem of the Improvement of the
rural life Is to be solved, where morn
lienutlful towns nnd villages nnd bet
ter roads are to bo built, better
schools to be estnlillshed, telephones
und trolley lines constructed, and nil
the Influences put to work that will
soolnllze the country, and drive uwny
the Isolation uml hardships that were
formerly Its drawbacks.
Wo must not only stop und reverse
I'ltiiUTIt
thn irrnnt thin of population thnt hnn
boon drifting from thn conntry to th
elflon, Wf must doeenf rnlljw Industry
nd trndo nn well nn jsipulntlon. The
pnrlotlsm thnt Is Intent In every
heart must find an outlet In every
country town nnd village In thn work
of village Improvement, of crentlng an
environment for human llfn whom
thn highest utility nnd benuty will
surround the entire community, nnd
where n local civic loyalty will prevnll
thnt will anchor the people to their
own heiirthntone mid whore they will
live content nnder their own vine nnd
fig tree.
This loonl prldn nnd lovn of home
nnd the home town Is one of thn
strongest of human feelings when
oncn It in deeply planted. It should
bo cult I vn Nil In every possible wny.
Nothing should bo left undone to
stimulate or cement It. Kvory member
of such n community should cultlvntn
n spirit "f i-omrndeshln and co-miornto
to udvnnco the general welfare of nil.
The merchant, the small tradesman.
the country editor, the Church, should
nil work together to thnt end.
Homo Industry should be encotirnged
In every ismslblc wny. The whole
community should co-oHTnto to pro
tect nnd stimulate the trade of the
town.
The home pniior should be lltiernlly
patronized. There Is no one thing
capable of morn fnr renchlng nnd en
during Influence for good than tho
country press. Ono of the most un
fortunate of modern Influences hns
Ix'en the trend of commercial evolu
tion that has boron so henrlly on the
country editor by the development of
tlio metropolitan family monthly nnd
mnll order papers, filled with tempt
ation for tlio rural jeope to stimulate
tho centralization of wealth nnd trade
In tho cities by supplying their ordin
ary needs from fur distant nnd prnc
tleully unknown sources. This trend
toward the centralization of trade
and Industry In the groat cities walks
side by side with the centrnllr.n tlon tif
wealth nnd population as n menace to
our national future. Tho danger It
threatens enn only bo obviated by
awakening the fwoplo nt Inrgo to u re
nlizatlon of It.
Tho groat centra! mid controlling
thought thnt must rise utxive nil
others ns u national Ideal Is the con
viction that the real bulwarks of the
tuition uro the Homes of Its Citizens
and that the first thought nnd highest
ambition of every young man should
te to establish n HOME, n self-sustaining
Home on the I .and, where he
enn be lndccndcnt nnd enjoy the real
happiness of a well spent life and not
make the mistake that brings disap
pointment nnd misery to so many, of
setting up the nccumul.it Ion of n for
tune us t lie goal of his life's ambition!
It Is n lure which of necessity mast
wreck thousands In order that a few
mny succeed. The man who earns
enough to live comfortably without
luxury, ns every Intelligent and In
dustrloiis man can who hns sufficient
practical education, nnd who docs
his duty to himself, his family, his
friends, his country and to humanity,
Is the man who really succeeds in life
and who gets the greatest happiness
and satisfaction out of It.
To create a human diameter of the
highest type with everything that
Implies, Is the most admirable of nil
human nchlevments nnd that every
man mid woman must mid can do for
themselves.
"A time like this demands KtronfT men.
Orient hearts, true faltb soil reaily banda;
M-n wlimii the lust of office drx-n not kill.
Men whom the apolla of office rannot buy.
Men who pon-i-on opinion nml a will.
Men who bare honor, men wbo will not
He.
Men who ran stand before a demagogue.
And dnmn hlg trenrhrroua flatteries with
out winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the
fog.
Iu public duty and In private thinking."
FOR THE TOWS HEAUT1FVL.
Missouri Women Begin Campaign
for Cleaner Cities and Villages
(Columbia Herald.)
The club women of Missouri have
taken up In earnest tho campaign for
cleaner cities nnd towns. In St.
Joseph and other large towns organ
izations of women have done much to
promote a general sentiment for clean
liness and ore planning more. In Ma
con u women s organization virtually
manages the street cleaning depart
ment, collects the money from mer
chants, superintends the work and
disburses the funds. The members of
the club nt Trenton, a women's club.
huvo started u campaign that Is being
watched with Interest und Imitated in
other towns. At the annual meeting
ut the home of their president, Mrs.
T. N. Wltten, the club discussed plans
for the promotion of u sentiment for
better cure of lawns and gardens.
cleaner streets und i.lleys und general
improvements. The subject of the
opening paper of tho meeting, read by
Mrs. J. A. Asher, wus this appropriate
one; "The Town's Opportunity How
Cun It Do More Than the City for a
lioautiful merlcnn Life?" One of
the plans decided upon was to offer
cash prizes to children In the various
wurds of Trenton for the best show
ings under prescribed conditions, In
the growing of flowers und care of
premises. Seeds for the coiuH'titor!
are to bo furnished practically frv '.'
the club. The inuyor wns asked to
Issue u proclamation for n neral
clcunlug-up day, asking citizens to de
vote a few hours systematically to dis
posing of the accumulated rubbish.
What the women nro doing in some
Missouri towns the school children
have been urged to undertake In others.
At various wurd schools of Joplln the
pupils assisted In the cleaning up of
the grounds In readiness ft the hint
ing of shrubs and flowers. At Perry,
In Halls County, where Professor T.
F. Osborne lias the prettiest public
school campus In the state, the school
children helped In the good work. At
Joplln Principal 8. A. Paker has lieen
a lender In the observance of Arbor
day nnd tho Inculcation of the senti
ment for the clvle beauty.
A town must first be built In t i
wilderness und then made beautiful.
The Missouri wilderness has gone, the
towns ure here und uro now belli j
mude beautiful.
BE A HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together.
Give every Man a Chance.
TIIK MyOO AM OP THfl UOMKCROFTER.H 14
Every Child In Gunlan-Every Mother In n llnmeentfl, and 'mil
'', Itirftmlriitt Intleftetttlenee for Every Worker In u
Home of bin Own on the Land."
A Utile croft w rrwnel a of mrn.
A rardvn ttorcd with t and mint ar-1 thyme.
Arid ftoweri for postal, utt on Sunday morn.
Plucked whil th church Uili rang tK'-ir earliest cHmet."
- U urdnoorlh.
"Tha Cttlrn Handing In the d'jorws? of Ma home-contented en his threthold. his famdr
rsit.ered atul his hearthstone, while the evening of a wa.l spent dy r lores In scenes and
aouf.1s that are desrest he shall save th Republic when the drum-lac it futi: and the
Urreci are as hausted. " H . Ormy.
"The slums uml tenements of the
great cities ure social dynamite, cer
tain to exfil'slo sooner or Inter. The
only safeguard gainst such dangers
Is to plant tho multiplying millions of
I EDUCATION flS I HOMECRDFTS I
OPTORTljNlTY I gjaj! I COOPERATION
THE FIRST BOOK
HAS JUST BKJiN PUBLISHED AM) AMONG ITS CONTENTS ARE
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF ABSORBING INTEREST BY
The Brotherhood of Man
Charity that is Everlasting
The Secret of Nippon's Power
Lesson of a Great Calamity
t his book Is the first Of a Serlo
it will Chronicle the Progress of the
th
I H M IX.' 1 1 0 FT MOVK M K XT
uml Inform all who wish to oo-ijerate
Willi it how they may do so through
tlie formation of local Homocrofters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town nml Village Uetterineiit. stimu
late home civic pride nnd loyalty to
home institutions, industries ami trade,
improe methods and facilities of edu
cation in '.'ie local public schools, and
create new oplMirtunltles "At Homo"
thnt wiil go far to check the drift of
trade and population to the cities.
The first flild of the Homocrofters
has Imhmi established at Wntertown,
Massachusetts The fllldhnlL Shops
and ((.'miens are located :it 11'! Main
Street, where the (iarden Si.-hool Is
now fully organized und over one
hundred children are at work In the
Canton. The departments for train
ing In Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being Installed. The Weavers
nro already nt work ut the looms.
It Is not designed to build here an
Isolated Institution, but to make a
model which enn be duplicated In any
town or villuge In the country.
Copies of "THE FIRST BOOK OF
THE HOMECROFTERS" can be
obtained by sending twelve two
cent stamps with your name and
address (carefully and plainly
written) to The Homecrofters' Clld
of the Talisman 143. Main St.,
Watertown, Massachusetts.
There Is Xew Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Lund in the
'Ki:i:i ANI PLATl'OKM OP TIIK
noMIX'ROFTKKS' which is as fol
lows: "Peace hns her victories no less re
nowned than war."
EDUCATION
CO-OPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
HOMECROFTS
We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People of this Nation
should be "Kvory Child In a Carden
Kvery Mother In a llouiecroft and In
dividual Industrial ludeiiendence for
Kvery Worker In a Home of his Own
on the Land, nnd that until he owns
such a Home, the concentrated puriose
and chief inspiration to labor In the life
of every wage worker should be his
determination to "Cot an Acre anJ
l.lve on It."
We believe that the Slums and
Tenements uml Congested Centers of
population in the Cities are a savagely
deteriorating social, moral nnd polit
ical Influence, and that a great public
movement should be organized, and
the whole power of the nation and
the states exerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Hural Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers of So
cial and Civic Life In Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages, where
Trade ami Industry cun be so firmly
nncbored that they cannot be drawn
Into the Commercial Maelstrom that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity Into the Vertex of the
Croat Cities.
We believe that every Citizen In
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Klght to un Kducatlon
which will train him to F.arn u Ltv- .
lug, and. If need be. to get his living
straight from Mother Karth: und that
he has the same right to the.Opportun
ltv to have the Work to lo which will
afford him that living, and to earn not
only r. cor 'orlable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be u
Ilomecrofter nnd to have a Home or
his Own, with ground around it
suttlclent to yield him and his family
u Living from tho Lund us the reward
for his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain
Is the most precious heritage of tho
people, nnd the surest safeguard the
nation lias against Social Unrest, Dis
turbance or Upheaval, mid that tlio
Cause of Humanity and the Preserva
tion of Social Stability and of our Free
Institutions demand that the absorp
tion of the public lands Into specula
tive private ownership, without settle
ment, be forthwith stopped; and that
the nation should create opportunities
for Homecrofters by building Irriga
tion and drainage works to reclaim
land as fast as It Is needed to give
every man who wants a Home on the
Land a chance to get it.
We believe that, as a Nation, we
should bo loss absorbed with Muking
our fast Increasing population In In
dividual homos on the land home
crofts, however small, owned by the
occupant, where every worker and his
family enn enjoy Indlvidunl Industrial
independence." oorge n. MaxwelL
HOfilECROFTERS
Money, and should pay more heed to
raising up und training Men who will
be I-uw-Abiding Citizens; that the wel
fare of our Workers Is of more con
sequence than the mere accumulation
of Wealth: and that Stability of Na
tional Character und of Social and
Itusiness Conditions is of greater im
portance to the people of this country
as a whole than any other one ques
tion that is now before tliem; and we
believe that the only way to Preserve
such Stability, and to Permanently
Maintain our National Proserity, is
to carry Into iuimeuiute effect and
operation the Platform of the Talis
man, which is us follows:
KDUCATION. EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES ON THE LAND.
1. That children shall be taught
gardening und homecraft In the public
schools, and that Homecraft and
Carden Training Schools shall be
established by county, municipal,
state, and national governments,
where every boy and every man out
of work who wants employment where
be can gain that knowledge, can learn
Low to make a home and till the soil
und get his living straight from the
ground, and where every boy would
be taught that his first aim in life
should be to get a home of his own
on the land.
P.UILD IIOMECHOFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS.
2. That the New Zealand system of
Laud Taxation and Laud Purchase
und Subdivision, and Advances to Set
tlers Act, shall be adopted iu this
country, to the end that land shall be
subdivided into small holdings In the
hands of those who will till it for a
livelihood, and lalior find occupation
In the creation of homecrofts, which
will lie periotual safeguards against
the political evils and social discontent
resulting from the overgrowth of
cities and the sufferings of unem
ployed wage-earners.
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
ICAN HOMECROFT.
3. That Rural Settlement shall be
encouraged and the principle of Pro
tection for the American Wageworker
and his Home applied directly to the
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
tion of all Improvements uion. and
also of all personal property, not ex
ceeding $2..ViU in value, used ou and
in connection will), every Ilomecroft
or Rural Homestead of not more than
ten acres iu extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home uud
cultivates with his own labor and so
provides therefrom all or part of the
support for a family.
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING.
4. That the National Government,
as part of a comprehensive nation
al policy of Internal improvements
for river control and regulation,
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent of the
area of the country available for agri
culture und Homes ou the Land, und
for the protection of those Homes from
either flood or drouth, 6hall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, und drainage works for the
reclamation of swamp and overflowed
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plant
new forests, and build the great reser
voirs and other eugiueering works
necessary to safeguard against over
How uud save for beneficial use the
flood waters that now run to waste.
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
5. That the National Government
shall build the irrigation works neces
sary to bring water within reach of
settlers on the arid lands, the cost of
such works to be repaid to the govern
ment by such settlers iu annual In
stallments without interest, und that
the construction of the great Irrigation
works necessary for the utilization of
the wuters of such largo rivers as the
Columbia, the Sacramento, the Colo
rado, the Rio Grande, and the Missouri,
und their tributaries, shall proceed as
rapidly ns the lands reclaimed will bo
utilized in small farms by actual
settlers and homemukers, who will re
pay the government the cost of con
struction of the Irrigation works, and
that the amount needed each year for
construction, as recommended by the
Secretary of the Interior, shall be
mude nvu liable by Congress us a loan
from the general treasury to tho Re
clamation Fund, uud repaid from
lands reclaimed, as required by the
National Irrigation Act.
SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS FOU
HOMEMAKEUS.
a. That not another acre of tho prh
lie lands shall ever hereafter be
granted to nny state or territory for
any purpose whatsoever, or to nny ono
other than nn nctual settler who hns
built his home on tho land and lived
on It for five years, nnd thnt no mnrv
land scrip of nny kind shnll ever lie
Issued, mid thnt the Desert Land Law
mid the Commutation Clause of the
Homostond I,n w shall be made to con
form to the recommendations of the
Public Lnnds Commission appointed
by President Roosevelt nl of the
Message of the President to Congress.
PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE
FOREST PLANTATIONS.
7. That tho Timber nnd Sfono Law
shall J, repealed, nnd thnt nil pub
lic timber lands shall !e Included In
permanent Forest Reserves, the title
to the lnnd to forever retained by
the National Government, stnmnmrio
only of run t tired tlmlier to be sold,
and young timber to be (reserved for
future cutting, so that the forests will
be wrtM-t tinted by right use; and
that the National Government shall,
by the reservation or purchase of ex
isting forest lands, nnd the olantinir
of new forests, create In every state
National Forest Plantations from
which, through all the years to come,
a sufficient supply of wood nnd timber
enn le annually harvested to supply
the needs of the people, of each state
from .he Forest Plantations in that
state.
CONTROL AND USE OF THE
GRAZING LANDS.
K. That all uulocutcd public lands
not otherwise reserved shall ls re
served from locution or entry under
any law except the Homestead Law,
and shall Ik embraced in Grazing Re
serves under the control of tho Secre
tary of Agriculture, who shall be em
Iowered to Issue annual Licenses to
graze stock In said Grazing Reserves,
but such license shall never be issued
for a longer period than one year on
agricultural lands or five years on
grazing lands, and all lands classified
ns grazing lands shall be subject to
reclassification at the end of every five
years; that no leases of the public
grazing lands shall ever be made by
the National Government, and that
the area of the homestead entry shall
never under any circumstances be en
larged to exceed li0 acres.
RESERVE STATE LANDS FOR
nOMESTEAD SETTLERS.
9. That the public land states shall
administer the state lands under a
system similar to and in harmony
with the national public land system
above outlined, and thnt each state
shall enact a State Homestead Ijiw
for the settlement of lands owned by
the state, and that state lands shall
1e disposed of only to actual settlors
under such law. and that all state
lands shall ut nil times remain open
to Homestead Entry.
UNITED OWNERSHIP OF LAND
AND WATER.
10. That It shall Ik? the law of every
state and of the I'nited States, that
beneficial use is the basis, the meas
ure, nnd the limit of all rights to
water, including riparian rights, ami
that the right to the'use of water for
irrigation shall inhere in and be ap
purtenant to the land irrigated, so th:.t
the ownership of the land and tl.o
water shall be united, and no right to
water as a speculative commodity
ever be acquired, held or owned.
RIGHT OF APPROPRIATION VOVl
BENEFICIAL USE.
11. That It shall be the law of every
state and of the United States, that
all unused and unappropriated waters
are public property, subject to appro
priation for a beneficial use. first la
time being first In right, and that on
all Interstate streams, priority of use
shall give priority of right, through
out the entire course .of the stream,
without regard to state lines, and
that in each drainage basin the ln-i-gators
therein shall control the distri
bution of the water.
- A Uomeerofl Garden.
The Ilomecroft Movement is grow
ing in strength and many leading
newspapers are editorially advocating
the idea that every family, though
living in the city, ought to have a
gut-den. A reader of MAXWEI 'S
HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE. in
Westbranch, Iowa, sends us the fol
lowing editorial clipped from the Des
Moines Daily News, which is so fully
In harmony with what this magazine
stands for that we take pleasure In
reproducing the same. The editor of
the News says:
A little garden, if properly cared
for. will save the city dweller many a
dollar.
But that Is by no meons the chlefest
good. Even if he has more money
than he knows what to do with he
will still find rich profit In wielding
the spade and hoe for ex. rcise. And
the rarest pleasure conies from follow
ing the primal instincts of nature.
It is not alone the plants and flowers
we long for.
An inner something Impels us to put
our hands at work In tuj earth, to
bathe our bodies in the sunshine and
to open our souls In devotion to things
that are not gross, but sweet uud
pure.
To be pitied Is . e man who t'oos
not drink in with delight t- e fragrance
of the dowers after having breathed
all day the stench of u city, and who
does not learn a lesson from the noise
less, orderly, beneficent processes of
nature that are constantly going on
around him.
Every city dweller who has u bit of
ground ought to have a garden.
It may be only live feet square, but
he can plant It In j,reeu peas, succulent
onions, radishes or lettuce, and still
find room for u flower or two to throw
a little color und u little fragrance Into
his life.
There are . nnv reasons, economical,
physical, esthetic and moral, why
every man should bo his owu gar
dener. If he can.
Thousands of dwelKrs In hotels,
flats and tenements can't be. Their
existence Is as dull and cheerless in
the season when all nature la guy as
is that of a bird thut Is caged.
They may laugh und so does tho
caged bird sing. But it Is not truu
living, for all thut.