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lands rssialmsN. * h reqaUji a, _ National Irrigation Act ests of the town will pay the burden of taxation, and the amount of each SAVE THE PUBLIC LANM kw tax payer will be less in proportion to HOMEMAKER8, “ f carry on government. & OUR HOME TOWN. Learn by Doing. Work Together. 6. That not another acre of tha 18 THE SAVING A REAL ONE? A Department Devoted to Village lie lands shall ever Iiereaft» u While the country household, in granted to any state or terriS. , Betterment. looking over one of the big catalogues Give every Man a Chance. any purpose whatsoever or to anr "* and sending an order for $50 worth of RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD. other than an actual settler who?1 goods, may be able to figure out an built his home on the land and liS immediate saving of five or six dollars, I.- «My ideal of civilization is u very high «net but the approach to it is on it for five years, and that no m even after they have paid the freight, f.a New England town of some two thousand inhabitants, with no rich land scrip of any kind shall «7? there is no question as to the final out THE SLOGAN OF THE HOMECROFTERS IS ‘man and no poor mun in it, all mingling in the »aine society, every child B at the same school, no poorhouae, no beggar, opportunities squat, nobody issued, and that the Desert Land Lt. come, if the practice is persisted In by too proud to aland aloof, nobody too humble to be ahut out. That’s New $« Every Child in a Garden-Every Mother in a Homecroft, und Indi- all the people of any particular local and the Commutation Clause of th . England as it waa fifty years ....................... The civilization that lingers vidual, Industrial Independence for Every Worker in a Homestead Law shall be made to «7 ity. The home town will suffer, the 11 beautifully on the hillsides of New England, and neatlea sweetly in the '1 valleys of Vermont, tlie moment it approactiea a crowd like Bouton, or a home market will fall to increase, if form to the recommendations of th Home of bis Own on the Land.” J million men gathered in one place like New York, rota. It can not stand it does not decrease, as will also the Public Lands Commission apn0|nt7 £ the greater centers of modern civilization. ”- Wendell l‘blllipa. value of the farm lands. Undoubtedly by President Roosevelt and of th. Tt ia a well-known fact that the cities are rapidly sapping the strength Message of the President to Congrea the catalogue houses can sell goods “A little croft we owned-a plot of com, of the village communities and the country towns by destroying local A garden stored with peas and mint and thyme. cheaper than the average country r trade and undermining the local spirit. The very life of the country And flowers for posies, oft on Sunday mom. PLANT FORESTS AND CHEAT® * town depends upon the checking of this purulyzlng force and the protec store, for they do a cash business,— Plucked while the church bells ranr their earliest chimee." tion of local interests. — It ordswortn. FOREST PLANTATIONS. you send on your cash with yorr The only way thia can be accomplished is by aronaing local sentiment order. There is no risk in the cata 7. That the Timber and Stone t*. “The Citizen standing in the doorway of his home—contented on his threshold, his family I in favor of the improvement of local environment, tlie beautifying of home logue or mail order house business. surroundings and the maintenance of LOCAL BUSINESS by LOCAL shall be repealed, and that all tmh gathered about his hearthstone, while the evening of s well spent day closes In scenes and sounds that are dearest - he shall save the Republic when the drum-tap is futile and the TRADE. Possibly if you arranged to do business lie timber lands shnll bo Included h barracks are exhausted." — Henry . Grady. on the same basis with your country To that end the editor of thia departneut desires to keep in touch permanent Forest Reserves, the tltk with the active members of Civic and Local Improvement Associations, merchant—cash down with your pur to the land to be forever retained bv and every one interested in the improvement uud the protection of rurul “The slums and tenements of the our fast increasing population in In- the get almost as favor- chase—you could i National Government, stumt»,, village life. homes on the land—home great cities are social dynamite, cer dividual But the country merchant able prices, crofts, however small, owned by the only of matured timber to be soil What is being done in your town to encourage small industries and to extend credit to every is supposed tain to explode sooner or later. The occupant, where every worker and his and young timber to be preserved for for home employment ? What ia doing along the line of street improve ment und the beautifying of private lawns and public parks? one; he has bad bills which I.'* never only safeguard against such dangers family can enjoy individual Industrial future cutting, so that the forests will I consequently must make collects and Are your local merchants receiving the support of the local trade? iudei>endence.”—George H. Maxwell. be perpetuated by right use; a greater percentage of profit on the is to plaut tlie multiplying millions of that the National Government ehall Ezperience, plane and suggestions will be welcomed by the editor of things he sells. thia department and so far us possible given place in these columns. by the reservation or purchase of n- Every community which is imbued fating forest lands, and tbe planttn» J with the spirit of building up its own of new forests, create In every state Industries and of supporting its home National Forest Plantations from HOMECROFTS EDUCATION greatest good for the greatest number, town with local pride, Is sure to be the which, through all the years to come, COOPERATION OPPORTUNITY the farms of each agricultural area most prosperous; there can be no gain a sufficient supply of wood and timber surrounding a town should support saying this fact. can be annually harvested to supply ENORMOUS STRUCTURES TO HE that town to their uttermost. tbe needs of the people of each state from -be Forest Plantations in that ERECTED 11Y MONTGOMERY THE HOME GARDEN. KEEP THE MONEY AT nOME. state. H ARD AND COMPANY AND Every dollar that the farmer spends OTHERS. CONTROL AND USE OF (fflj The Story of the Boy and His Little in the town indirectly comes back to Plot of Ground HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS CONTENTS ARB GRAZING LANDS. Suggests Question Whether Giant him in the way of benefits. The town At the age of five every boy is by THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF ABSORBING INTEREST 8. That all unlocated public lands Catalogue Houses are Benefit or grows, it supports better stores, more instinct a gardener. If guided by op not otherwise reserved shall be re Detriment to the Farmer and the churches, better schools to which he portunity, example and intelligent di The Brotherhood of Man served from location or entry under can send his children, furnishes bet rection he will dig, plant and develop Country Generally. any law except the Homestead Law, near-at liand markets for his prod an interest in growing things; lacking Charity that is Everlasting Chicago Is to have the greatest build ter and shall be embraced in Grazing ucts, and finally Increases the very The Secret of Nippon ’ s Power these the call of mother nature leads ing the world ever constructed forcom- value of his farm land. As a good Il serves snder the control of the Secre to mud pies. Given a square yard of mercial purposes. It will have a floor tary of Agriculture, who shall be em Lesson of a Great Calamity the Dry Goods Reporter as mellow ground, a tiny hoe and a hand space of 50 acres—a good sized farm. lustration, to issue annual Licenses to that such an agricultural town ful of beans, a healthy five year-old The Sign of a Thought powered It is to be 10 stories high, including the sumes graze stock in said Grazing Reserve«, has a population of 1000, its support boy will have a combination that ex basement, and were it to be all coming but such licenses shall never be issued from the country tributary to stretched out on one floor it would it. The life of the town is its retail cels anything yet designed in “nature a longer period than one year on This bOfilf Is thfi first Of fl Series Money, nnd should pny more heed to for cover 13 of the big city blocks in the trade. If It secures the entire purchas study.,” agricultural lands or five years on that will Chronicle the Progress of the raising up and training Men who will grazing windy city. It will be 900 feet in length ing business of the farmers, it must of lands, and all lands classified From five to ten the world begins to MOVEMENT be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the wel and 270 feet wide and will be built of necessity grow rapidly. But Mont dawn. He looks up and out; he sees and HOMECROFT as grazing lands shall be subject to fare of our Workers is of more con inform all who wish to co-operate steel and concrete. The cost will bo Ward and Co., Sears, Roebuck and imitates, but does not reason. He with it how they may do so through sequence than the mere accumulation reclassification at the end of every five $2,500,000. The present building oc gomery and Co., others of the enormous should play without hindrance. If the tlie formation of local Homecrofters’ of Wealth; and that Stability of Na years; that no leases of the public cupied by Mongonicry Ward and Com mail order and houses semi out their great square yard of ground be enlarged to Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote tional Character and of Social and grazing lands shall ever be made by pany is a huge affair, but is stated to or five pound catalogues describ a rod, the handful of beans to a collec Town and Village Betterment, stimu Business Conditions is of greater im tlie National Government, and that be entirely inadequate to the needs of four ing everything the sun. Suppose tion of Seeds (the kinds for sale in the late* home civic pride and loyalty to portance to the people of this country tlie area of the homestead entry shall this enormous mail order house, and that Instead of under spending his $000 a grocery stores are best as these have home institutions, Industries and trade, as a whole than any other one ques never under any circumstances be en so this new pile is to be constructed. year In his home town, each farmer in brilliantly colored pictures on the pack improve methods and facilities of edu tion that is now before them; and we larged to exceed 160 acres. It seems to be the time of big com- tlie community diverts 50 per cent of ages and the boy learns thereby what cation in the local public schools, and believe that the only way to Preserve RESERVE STATE LANDS FOR merlcal houses in the great centers of his trade from his town and sends manner of a thing he is to expect), this new opportunities “At Home” such Stability, nnd to Permanently HOMESTEAD SETTLERS. the country. Another idg firm is to a year to the catalogue houses; $300 square rod will be the play ground to create it that will go far to check the drift of Maintain our National Prosperity, is erect a building on Chicago avenu . ’ ’cans tliat H ilf of the business of the a surprising extent. 9. That the public land states shall to carry into Immediate effect and trade and population to the cities. which will contain a million sq ini is gone. On the basis of one hun Ho may not plant the kinds you ex operation the Platform of the Talis administer the state lands under a feet—200 feet by 800 feet; Sears, 1!<: town The first Gild of the nomecrofters man, which is as follows: system similar to and In harmony one hundred and fifty square pect or want him to plant, as his view buck and Company is a big Chicago dred or of territory to support the town, point is different from yours. It is un ha« been established at Watertown, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND with tbe national public land system business rival of tho Montgomery Ward miles above outlined, and that each state estimated that there are five wise to insist on any given plan. Let Massachusetts. The Gildball, Shops HOMES ON THE LAND. firm, and has Just also been lncori r- it can be farmers shall enact a State Homestead law in the district. Three this garden be his own. If it has been and Gardens are located at 143 Main ated to do business in New York, with hundred 1. That children shall be taught for the settlement of lands owng by illars a year in trade from entirely to carrots or cabbage let it re Street, where the Garden School is a capitalization of $ 10,000,000, pay in - hundred of the farmers means that one main carrots and cabbage, for they are now fully organized and over one gardening nnd homecraft in the public the state, and that state lands shall the State incorporation tax of $2u,000, each hundred and fifty thousand dollars more to him than your choice variety hundred children are at work in the schools, and that Homecraft and be disposed of only to actual settlers TO BE 1’ROII) OU. Garden Training Schools shall be such lnw, and that all state These are fine projects, and at fir1 annually is taken from the home town. It is unwise to expect careful pains- Gardens. The departments for train established by county, municipal, under lands shall at all times remain open ing in Homecraft and Village Indus thought may make ono proud of Amei state, and national governments, tries are being Installed. The Weavers where every boy and every man out to Homestead Entry. lean business institutions, but wl t 1 are already at work at the looms. the real effect of the success of th work who wants employment where UNITED OWNERSHIP OF LAND It Is not designed to build here an of gigantic commerical houses ui n tli he can gain that knowledge, can learn AND WATER. Isolated Institution, but to make a country's prosperity? How du ; th r how to make a home and till the soil 10. That It shall be tbe law of every model which can be duplicated in any business affect the country nieidi.' and get his living straight from the state and of the United States, that town or village in the country. the country banker, (lie country to ground, nnd where every boy would beneficial use Is the basis, the meas Itself and in fact the country p< Copies of “THE FIRST BOOK OF be taught that his first aim in life ure, and the limit of all rights to who are the patrons of the great n THE HOMECROFTERS” can be should be to get a home of his own water, including riparian rightr, and order houses. What creates the villa obtained by sending twelve two- , on the land. that the right to the use of water for the town, the thriving city? Wli t cent stamps with your name and BUILD nOMECROFTS AS NATION irrigation shall Inhere In and be ap keeps it a live and bustling center i address (carefully and plainly AL SAFEGUARDS. purtenant to the land Irrigated, so that ‘.her than a dead congregation of a f written) to The Homecrofters’ Olid 2. That the New Zealand system of the ownership of the land and the houses with one or two miserable of the Talisman 143. Main St., Land Taxation and Land Purchase water shall be united, and no right to stores? It is the patronage and sup Watertown, Massachusetts. nnd Subdivision, and Advances to Set water as a speculative commodity port, is it not, of the surrounding conn There is New nope and Inspiration tlers Act, shall be adopted in this ever be acquired, held or owned. try homes. Towns are bul.t up < I; for every Worker who wants a Home country, to the end that land shall be when they have support from an ngrt- of his own on the Land In the subdivided into small holdings in the cultural territory, if agricultura is tho CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE hands of those who will till it for a surrounding industry, which is tin THE COMING PEOPLE. HOMECROFTERS' which is as fol livelihood, and labor find occupation case in nine out of ten Instances. But lows: lu the creation of homecrofts, which "Outward changes, economical and conversely, the richness of the s 1 “Peace has her victories no less re will be perpetual safeguards against political, more or less marked, are alone does not make the mostvaluuble the political evils and social discontent always going on in the forms and or nowned than war. ” farms. resulting from the overgrowth of ganizations of society. But to-day one THE MARKET FOR PRODICIS EDUCATION cities and the sufferings of unem can make a specially strong argument There must be a good market for th« CO-OPERATION ployed wage-earners. that great and radical changes are Im farm product; if the farm is adjacent OPPORTUNITY pending. No one can believe that PROTECTION FOR THE AMER to * live growing town supporting ac HOMECROFTS existing conditions will continue in a ICAN HOMECROFT. tive nnd well-to-do-people, tho market We believe that the Patriotic Slogan for the farmer’s products will 1 h > ac S. That Rural Settlement shall be world where all things move and of the Whole People of this Nation GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH MOTHER EARTH. Waste, extravagance, political tive and the prices good. If the town should be “Every Child In a Garden— encouraged and the principle of Pro change. corruption, fierce mercantile rivalries, be a dead one, he will have to turn tection for the American Wageworker Every Mother in a Homecroft — and In In the course of ten years, thlsmeans taking effort and constant care from elsewhere to dispose of his products, di« ldual Industrial Independence for and his Home applied directly to the colossal monopolization of wealth and and perhaps Incur heavy transporta one and one-half million dollars. Aver a boy of this age; encourage it but do Every Worker in a Home of his Own Home by the Exemption from Taxa of tbe industrial plants of the world, tion charges in their shipment. This aging the profit on this amount at not compel it on the Land,” and that until he owns tion of all Improvements upon, and masses of dreary poverty,—these are fact Is set forth unmistakably in the twenty |» t cent. It means ,.iat in ten He can be taught by example ail of such a Home, the concentrated purpose also of all personal property, not ex natural subjects for profound, patri years ’ time three hundred thousand the needs of plant growth but his hoe and chief inspiration to labor in the life ceeding $2,500 in value, used on and otic and humane concern. Is not tha last census figures which show that in a small area of to United States, the dollars profits are taken from the town. ing and weeding may be superficial. of every wage worker should be his in connection with, every Homecroft old social and industrial machinery, regions where factories abound.—a dis Now, on the other hand, should the If you ask him he will allow you to dig determination to “Get an Acre and or Rural Homestead of not more than the competitive or wage system, show trict comprising but little over 10 per farmer. Instead of sending away his in his garden to loosen the soil deeper Live on it.” ten acres In extent, which the owner ing signs of breaking down beneath cent, of the United States—the value money to the foreign place for goods than his strength permits. It is wise We believe that the Slums and occupies as a permanent home and Its load? “The question is quite fair whether of the farm lands is over half that of ho requires, give all his trade to the to do this for tnere must be carrots Tenements and Congested Centers of cultivates with his own labor and so nit of the arable land In the entire home town, its business would be Im and cabbage to harvest or there will population in the Cities are a savagely provides therefrom all or part of the any system Is just that permits Indi mediately doubled, and with twice the viduals to roll up Immense fortunes as country. The farms in these regions be no play ground here next year. deteriorating social, moral and polit support for a family. are located close to the factories, employment for the people. Year af If the boy of five has been allowed ical influence, and that a great public ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL- the result of lucky speculations, or of ter year, the profits made by the mer the rise of land values about a great which afford a profitable home market the run of a garden, if at eight he has movement should be organized, and ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING. chants would be retained In the town, a garden of his own, at ten he will love the whole power of the nation and city, that permits other Individuals to 4. That the National Government, inherit almost unlimited money power, would seek Investment in starting new gardening and will have absorbed an tlie states exerted for the betterment Industries, and at the end of the ten- amazing store of knowledge, and to of all the conditions of Rural Life, and as part of a comprehensive nation as men once Inherited duchies and year period, instead of a town of one him may be Imparted at this age in a to create and upbuild Centers of So al policy of internal improvements kingdoms, while millions of working- thousand, there would be a lively city way and manner that will awaken the cial and Civic Life in Country and for river control and regulation, men, with small wages, live close to of from two to three thousand, and the purest and best that Is in him, the Suburban Towns and Villages, where and for the enlargement to the tlie danger line of debt, or even of cold utmost possible extent of the every acre of farm land within the mystery of life. Trade and Industry can be so firmly area of the country available for agri and starvation, and are liable to be trade radius of the town would be en that they cannot be drawn culture and Homes on the Land, and thrown out of employment for months A pumpkin plant on a compost heap, nnebored hanced in value from ten to twenty Into the Commercial Maelstrom that for the protection of those Homes from at a time. sending its vigorous shoots over the dollars. “When in the face of natural wealth, now steadily sucking Industry and either flood or drouth, shall build not weeds, climbing where it cannot creep, is ENRICHING THE BIO CITIES. Humanity Into the Vortex of tbe only levees and revetments where never so abundant, and forces of pro firtisting its snake like head through Great Cities. It can be plainly figured out that the the garden fence, is a thing of wonder needed, and drainage works for the duction augmented indefinitely by We believe that every Citizen in reclamation of swamp and overflowed science and invention, so many almost Individual farmer who would divert to a boy if he is but taught to see it, halt his trade to Chicago, New York or and when its great golden blossoms this Country has an inherent and lands, but shall also preserve existing fall to reap any benefit from the re some other foreign city, in the course appear there is a still greater wonder Fundamental Right to an Education forests, reforest denuded areas, plant sources which surely belong to the which will train him to Earn a Liv new forests, and build the great reser race, it must at least be confessed that of ten years would send away three unfolded. ing. and. if need be, to get his living voirs and other engineering works our present system, both of production thousand dollars. If it were possible Boys of twelve and fourteen mav de straight fn>m Mother Earth: and that necessary to safeguard against over and of distribution. Is not intelligently that he could save ten per cent on this amount, in ten years’ time he would sert the garden for the ball field or the lie has the same right to tbe Opportun flow and save for beneficial use the or humanely managed. Its results do save three hundred dollars. His ..nl.v fishing rod. and tt is well they should, ity to have the Work to Do which will flood waters that now run to waste. not represent an ideal democracy, a brotherhood of man.”—From “The I'll! > compensation would be a dead home for the serious time of life is coming afford him that living, and to earn not Coming People”, by Chas. F. Dole. RECLAMATION AND SETTLE town, poor schools, a poor home mar soon and play days should bo as many only r. cor'ortr.ble livelihood, but !<>«»«> and long as school and home duties enough more to enable him to be a ket. and no increase in the value of his MENT OF THE ARID LANDS. will permit. But a garden for a bov at Homecrofter and to have a Home of .J'ti'vUn.« It* National Government Tt behoove« everyone Wh'B has eyes HUGE CHICAGO MAILORDER real-estate holdings. On the other hand, by giving his this age may be a greater factor in his his Own, with ground around it shall bnlld the Irrigation works neces to see and ears to bear and a brain STORK TO RE DESERTED training for life than at anv other, for sufficient to yield him and his family patronage to the home town, even FOR LACK OF ROOM. sary to bring water within reach of with which to think to atudy the tre I though he must pay the merchant ten I by this time the “root of all evil" has a Living from tbe Land as tbe reward settlers on the arid lands, the cost of mendous social problems with which entered his soul; he has learned that for his own labor. for all the agricultural products. Ro , per cent more than the foreign house, such works to be repaid to the govern- we are face to face to-day. that the greatest factor In land value ' the remit would be like this: On ac- money Is essential In order to procure Whether they are settled right or We believe that the Public Domain ment by such settlers in annual In tho many things a boy must have, and is the nearness to good markets. It ! count of Increase tn farm values, one is the most precious heritage of the stallments without Interest, and that wrong will affect every member of the the garden, which to this time has becomes plain, therefore, that the bet i hundred and sixty acres of land worth people, and the surest safeguard the the construction of the great Irrigation community. No one can escape the ter the home town can be made, the ten dollars more per acre, sixteen hun been a recreation field, a place of won nation has against Social Unrest. Dis works necessary for the utilization of evils that will result from a wrong derful possibilities in the way of good more valuable is the farm land tribu dred dollars; or. thirteen hundred dol turb, nee or Upheaval and that the the waters of such large rtvera as the settlement and everyone will be bene- tary to it In the purely agricultural lars better off in ten years than If he things to eat and pumpkins for jack-o’- Cause of nnmnnity and the Preserva Columbia. the Sacramento, the Colo fitted by a right settlement. lanterns, may bo a most fertile field sections, the average country town Is gave half his patronage to the foreign tion of Social Stability and of onr Free rado. the Rio Grande, and the Missouri Nothing Is more Important than that located in the center of from 75 to 150 concern. His home town is a lively of revenue. Institutions demand that the absorp and their tributaries. shall proceed as we should get started right. There is square miles of territory: that Is the one, all public Improvements, all mod Whatever tho crop the proceeds tion of the public lands Into specula rapidly as the lands reclaimed will be gnldance and Inspiration In every line town Is supported by the trade result ern conveniences, high schools, to should be wholly bls own. If he has tive private ownership, without settle In small farms by actual of “THE COMING rEOPLE.” by ing from that area of farms. Accord which he could send his children produced the crop wholly by his own ment. be forthwith stopped: and that settlers and homemakers, who will re Chas. F. Dole. Tn order to bring this book within ing to federal statistics the average cheaply, good churches, good roads, | efforts. There Is but one way that he the nation should create opportunities pay the government the cost of con- farmer spends $627 a year for supplies and everything that can add to the com can learn the value of money and that for nomecroftcra by building Irrlga- rJ’T!!on of th* ,rrf «ration works, and the reach of all. a popular edition has —clothing for his family, household fort and happiness of its residents, Is by earning it The wise tree of tlon and drainage works to reclaim that the amount needed each vear for Just been Issued by the Homecroftera utensils, food that he does not grow and those who reside near It Not money must also be learned bnt that land as fast as It Is needed to give construction, as recommended by tbe Gild of the Talisman which can be bad every man who wants a Home on the Secretary of the Interior, shall be for 25 cents, postage Included. Remit himself, farm Implements etc withstanding. that the farmers’ land Is is outside the sphere of gardening. l jtnd a chance to get It. Now It must be evident that if a plan enhanced In value, his taxation will be made available by Congress as a loan by postal money order, express nlnnfT From address of Prof CranefleM. were to be follow«,«! looking to the but little greater, as tbe business iuter- "t »" • Nation we from the general treasury to tbe Re order or postage stamps to “THE Wise. Agr. College should be less ,h absorbed with Making clamntlon Fund, and repaid from HoMECROKTERR. 143 Main St. Watertown, M BE A HOMECROFTER why of th MAIL ORDER BUSINESS. ... ..... ■ 1 a THE FIRST BOOK n HOMECROFTERS —_ ____________ ... . «
