FORESTRY AND HOMECROFTS | ADDRESS OF GEORGE H, MAX- WELL, DEAN OF THE HOME-« CROFTERS GILD OF THE TALISMAN, Before the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, at St. Paul, Minn, June Fourth, 1906. MADAME PRESIDENT AND D GATES~LADIES AND GE MEN: When I received the invitation to be with you here to-day and speak upon the subject “Forektry and Home crofts,” as it Is announced on the program, I felt that the occasion was one of so much importance, and the opportunity one which I so greatly ap- preciated, that I gought to do some thing which I rarely do, and that was to at least think out a speech in ad vance, I was asked for a manuscript of it for the press, but 1 felt that it was unsafe to give it because 1 never did that yet that something didn't happen that made me lay aside my speech and talk about something else, I have a speech , epared which was planned to last for half an hour, there it is (holding np a card). Now, I have fifteen minutes to speak, and I am going to save that speech for some other occasion, in some other place, and talk to you about something which has been snegested to me here this morning by the address we just listened to from Mr. Mills, I was born in California and spent my life there (applause from the Cali- fornia delegates) until within a very few years when my work in the Na- tional Irrigation Movement took me away from my native state, Bot I want to take advantage of thi portunity to stand here and mak plea for the preservation of ti Temples of God-—the Big Tre California. (Applause.) I question very much whether those who are here to-day realize the pe that is yours, in bringing about 1 action, whether it be in congression or state legislation. We often that this is a government of the ple, and that it is controlled by votes. So it is. But behind the © is the thought of the people public opinion whic trols country. The vote tering of that opinion; an of the people which precedes opinion and brings about reform in my Judgment, often a ti springs from the minds of the women of the country rather th from minds of the men of ti I am free to say that in my years, and before I had a perience and opportunities servation, I was not a believer | ing the ballot to the wome at not here to make a plea for to- day, because 1 am not so much hm pressed with the Importance of it as others who think that the ballot is the main thing. It is the conversation of the home circle and the thoughts that spring most often from the minds of the mothers of the country that con trol this country. (Applause.) And although I believe to-day that the status of the man and the woman, so far as their rights of citizenship and rights before the law are con-| cerned, should Le the same, TI want to lay that conclusion before jon simply as a basis for the broader statement that women ean control this country by the power of thought without the ballot. If the women wh are here to-dey and those who are af. filiated with you in this great organi zation, would take up one or tw things as the result of this ont and go hence and agitate it in ey home circle, and In every club, and in every village and through the columns of newspaper in the land, and by e respondence, you could accompli within the next twelve months te great things which would be of accomplishment sufficient year of hard work for your tion, and that is, first, to save the trees of California (Appla second, to secure the passage bill providing for forest re the White Mountains and on the palachian Range. If those great trees in Californi were once destroyed they uld 1 be replaced in centuries and probably never. They were there when Chris walked the earth. They were ther when Rome shone resplendent In her glory. They were there wher Carthage nestled amid green and vineyards on the southern shores of the Mediterranean. They were there when Palmyra, with all her mag cence, was the meeting place of the caravans traveling between Asia and the Mediterranean country. And to day they stand there pleading with thelr out-spreading branches against ruthless destruction to satisfy greed of man We may go back through history and ruined city after ruined shows how ephemeral Is everything that man builds. Did is never occur to you, has it never occurred to those who are Interested in uplifting and increasing the power for good of the DELE- NTLE- have S op Wor Fit il h eon is merely a dtl " : e Lho10 1 : i. th 0 0 orence women s and city, a recor for orga Use; of 1 SOTVeS church, and in carrying its misstonary | ©™ work Into the cities and into the slums and Into the tenements, where, God knows, It is needed most of anywhere on this earth-has it never occurred to you that a child nurtured in the tene- ments and In the slums and in and trolley-cars and things that man | has made, lives where there is nothing | to create a conception of a ligher power, and lacks the influence of the splendid manifestations of nature, which are the most convincing revela- tion that we have that there Is a Creator, and that there Is a God, and that there should be a faith in religion in the heart of every man. pIf yon want to make this a religious nation, as you must If 1t Is to be pre- served, you must get the children of the cities back to nature, and under the spell of Ms Influence, or at least rear them In an environment where they can see and be convineed by the miracles of nature's mysteries that there Is “a God who Rules the world and Rolls the ages on.” (Applause) And =o through you 1 appeal not only to the women of the country, but to the churches of the country, to put Foe peoeny |Hfiuence, not on'” to save and | (Applause) Bs the | city | the | City flats, and seeing nothing around | it but bricks and mortar and asphalt | I those great trees In California, but to | nid this whole great movement for the | preservation of the forests we have, by their right use, for the planting of new forests, and for the septtering ry] [ this great nation, in every state and territory, of forest plantations that, when they come to maturity a genera- tion from now, will supply every state with wood ands timber of every kind for every purpose from Forests and Tree Plantations within its own bor- ders. I have no time today to go into de- tails, but If you will go into the South and see the actual conditions with ref. to thé water supply on the streams flowing from the Appalachian mountains, and study the beauties of that country, you will be converted in an instant to the necessity for the creation of the Appalachian Forest ve- worve: and the same thing is true of the proposed “Vhite Mountain Forest tion in New "ingland. Those serves are comparatively small in the amount of money in- If we can throw money to the a manure spreader throws it of the back of a wagon into tha build the Panama canal and » the conquest of the erence Reserva Re things volved birds, ns out Reid, 1 n that we ean at least spare v to perpetuate the for. ests that God gave us and for the pres. ervation of all th e Internal Resources at home, (Applause.) anot thing, and that women who are here to- go to their homes from this and take up and study the of the development of and New Mexico under a policy which will for national control the forests and the water sup- ply wh the only things that keep that gre country from going the you would save infamy of join- Mexico In the In the face great wrong accomplished. All should rise up and because it Is tiny and develop- mm of all the re- : of those ter- legislative n | 1s] nas, and 1 mai I Ono th r country 1 ntain ut If the 14 oul her w couvention, possibilities Arizona reserve ch are desert, m from tl} na and joint yosi Ld NN eT SEW statehood, tion that be Philippine | to build huge battleships, | Learn by Doing. “A little croft wa owned a And flowers lor Oleg, 0 “The Citizen standing in the dc gathered about his hearthsions, whi sounds that ars dearest he shall barracks are exhausted.’ —Zenry HW. Grady “The great of cities are social dynamite, the oer- The only safeguard against such dangers is to plant the multiplying millions of slums and tenements | tain to explode gooner or later. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES The Brotherhood of Man This book Is the first of a Series . | that will Chronicle the Progress of the the ever pled prevail rge a of worst pre with by pro- New ¢ English hood bil ontrol of such thout any pos- , 4 land grant on aneres to th and graft on with as they r in closing: ww If you political institu if you trace it It lies In its original place or other, In the there was not the right kind of a home and the right kind of a mother. If you find man of Seong and sterling character (Or 8 Ww n either) you trace it ba and you will find that it was because there wag the right Kind of a mother, ud ght kind of a home We a good deal lately hind the gun™ kK" and ml the * our fi d ¢ fan mroe, fact that ft some you upon and as much importance behind the Home!” | that you ean another all of thew to | y the right kind of | ul of mothers irougaout one his great and urs, you must for every Ww il lives by Lis toil to have hoa me of his own on the HOMECROIT, hovever sm You ry irden s« how make nan a land--a all mast train eve child hools to Kn« in "WwW grow and get n of t se train all first great home of of ground garden at “God bossor rd man il he put whom sight and very man id should live the Lond, and es A woman a howe in the m The great mo HS fairly under way, known as HOMECROFT MOVEMENT, poses to do that ‘y thing, Creed and Platform ¢* the sfters tells how it may be done. The slogan of the Homecroft Move ement w» now pro | ment is: “Every Child In a Garden—Every Mother In a Homeecroft—and Individ ual Industrial Independence for Every Worker, in a Home of his Own on the Land.™ . Is not that a Cause which should | have the ardent and enthusiastic sup. port and cooperation of every man | and woman, and especlally of every mother In the land? a like length and | beautiful | it who | to plant | Eden; | he | the ground | every | and | fdst | the | and the | Home | HOMECROFT MOVEMENT and inform all who wish to co-operate with it how they may do so through the formation of local Homecrofters' Circles, Clubs or Glids to promote Town and Village Betterment, stimu- late home pride and loyalty to | institutions, industries and trade, mprove methods and facilities of edo- cation in the local publie schools, and { create new opportunities “At Home" that wiil go far to check the drift of trade and Population 1 to the cities, civie ome The first Gi 1d of the Homecrofters has been established at Watertown, Massachusetts. The Gildhall, Shops and Gardens are located at 143 Main Street, where the Garden School is now fully organized and over one hundred children are at work in the Gardens, The departments for train- ing In Homecraft and Village Indus. are being installed. The Weavers nre already at work at the looms. It is not designed to bulld here an isolated Institution, but to make a model which ean be duplicated in any town or village in the country. Coples of “THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HOMECROFTERS” can be ob tained by sending twelve two-cent stamps with your name and address (carefully and plainly written) to The Homecrofters' Gild of the Talisman, 143 Main St, Watertown, Massa- chusetts, tries : There 1s New Hope and Inspiration | for every Worker who wants a Home of his own on the Land in the CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE | HOM ECROFTERS' which Is as fol lows: “Peace has 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 “Every Child In a Garden Every Mother in a Homecroft dividual Industrial Every Worker In a Home of his Own on the Land,” and that until he owns such a Home, the concentrated purpose and chief inspiration to labor in the life of every wage worker should be his determination to “Get an Acre anl Live on It." We believe that the Slums and Tenements and Congested Centers of population ln the Cities are a savagely deterforating social, moral and polit- | leal Influence, and that a great public | movement should be organized, and the whole power of the nation and the sintes exerted for the betterment { of all the conditions of Rural Life, and | to create and upbulld Centers of ¥o- clal and Clvie Life In Country and Suburban Towns and Villages, where Trade and Industry can be so firmly anchored that they cannot be drawn | into the Commercial Maelstrora that | Is now steadily sucking Industry and | Humanity Inte the Vertex of the Great Cltles, We believe that every Citizen In this Country has an Inherent and Fundamental Right to an Education | which will train him to Barn a Liv- ing, and, If need be, to get his living straight from Mother Earth; and that he has the same right to the Opportun- ity to have the Work to Do which will afford him that living, and to earn not only a comfortable livelihood, but Independence for THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HONECROFTERS J a. George H. Maxwell CONTENTS THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN CHARITY THAT I8 EVERLASTING THE SECRET OF NIPPON'S POWER LESSON OF A GREAT CALAMITY THE SIGN OF A THOUGHT 4 This bhnok will be mailed to any atdresd enough more to enable him to be a Homecrofter and to have a Home of his Own, with ground around It sufficient to yield hig and his family a Living from the Land as the reward for his own labor. We believe that the Public Domain Is the most precious heritage of the people, and the surest safeguard the nation has against Seecial Unrest, Dis turbance or Upheaval, and that the Cause of Homanity and the Preserva- tion of Social Btability and of our Free Institutions demand that the absorp tion of the public lands Into speenln- tive private ownership, without settles two cont The Homecrorters Gild of the Tallsman 148 Main Steoet. Watertown. Mass, in the United A ig on receipt of twelve ment, be forthwith Ruby and Jun the nation Antion shold create for Homecrofters by building min tion and ern VY BE A HOMECROFTER Give every Man a Chance. cm oor —— THE SLOGAN OF THIE HOMECROFTERS 18 “Every Child in a Garden—Every vidual, Industrial Independence for Every Worker in a Home of his Own on the Land,” A garden stored with peas and mint and thyme. Plucked while the church b wrway of his home ie the evening gave the Repu THE FIRST BOOK -.. HOMECROFTERS HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS CONTENTS ARE OF CEORCE H. MAXWELL Executive Chairman of the National Irrigation Association Charity that is Everlasting The Secret of Nippon’s Power Lesson of a Great Calamity -and In- J) Work Together. Mother in a Homecrofl, and Iadi= —- plot of eorn, - Sunday morn olis rang their earliest chimes.” Wordsworth, contented of a well biic wher on his threshold, his family spent day closes in tcones and the drum-tap is futile and the a ————— —— ARTS 0 T—— 53545555 OT 32 pay the government the cost of con- struction of the hrrigation works, and that the mount needed each year for construction, as recommended by the Secretary of the luterior, shall be made available by Congress as a loan from the general treasury to the le. clamation Fund, and repaid from lands reclaimed, as required by tue National Irrigation Act SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS FOR HOMEMAKERS, 6. That not another acre of the poh. llc lands shall ever hereafter be granted to any state or territory for any purpose whatsoever, or to any one other than an actoal settler who has built his home on the land and lived on it for five years, and that no more land scrip of any kind shall ever be Issued, and that the Desert Land Law and the Commutation Clause of the Homestead Law shall be made to con- form to the recommendations of the Public Lands Commission appointed our fast increasing population In In-| dividual bomes on the land-—home crofts, however small, owned by the occupant, where every worker and his fully ean enjoy tudividual industrial independence,” —George H, Maxwell ABSORBING INTEREST BY | shall be | lie by President Roosevelt and of the { Message of the President to Congress, PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE FOREST PLANTATIONS, 7. That the Timber and Stone Law repealed, and that all pub- timber lands shall be Included in permanent Forest Reserves, the title to the land to be forever retained by the National Government, stumpage only of matured timber to be sold, and young timber to be preserved for A that the Natioual Goverment shall, by the reservation or purchase of ex- isting forest lunas, and the planting of new forests, creale In every stale National Forest Plantations from which, through all the years to cowe, a sufficient supply of wood and timber can be anuusily barvested to supply the needs of the people of each state from .be Forest Plaptutious in that state, UNITED OWNERSHIP OF AND WATER. 8. That it shall be the law of every state and of the United States, that beneficial use is the basis, the meas. ure, and the lhmit of all rights to water, including riparian rights, and that the right to the use of water for irrigation shall inbere In and be ap- purtenant to the land irrigated, so that the ownership of the land and the water shall be unitéd, and no right to water as a speculative commodity ever be acquired, held or owned RIGHT OF APPROPRIATION FOR BENEFICIAL USE. 9. That it shall be the law of every state and of the United States, that all unused and unappropriated waters are publie property, subject to appro- priation for a beneficia: use, first in 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 irri. LAND gators therein shall control the distri- bution of the water, future cutting, so that the forests will be perpetuated by right use; and JUST PUBLISHED A POPULAR EDITION OF ‘THE COMING PEOPLE’ BY CHARLES F. DOLE The Sign of a Thought land as fast as it ls every man who wants Land a chance We Lelie should be Money needed to give a Home on the to get it | hat, as a Nation, we! absorbed with Making ud should pay more heed to ralsing up and training Men w will be Law-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- | ticunal Character and of Rocial and Business Conditions Is of greater im- portance to the people of this country ns 4 whole than other one ques tion that is now them; and we believe that the only way to Preserve such Btubility, and to Permanently Maintain our National Prosperity, is to carry Into immediate effect and operation the Platform of the Talis man, which is as follows: EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND HOMES ON THE LAND. 1. That children shall be taught gardening and bomecraft in the publie schools, and that Homecraft and Garden Training Schools shall be wetablished by county, state, and national governments, where every boy and every man out of work who wants employment where he can gain that knowledge, ean learn how to make a home and till the soil and get his living straight from the ground, and where every boy would be taught that his first alm in life should be to get a home of his own on the land ve less Wo any before BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION. | AL SAFEGUARDS. That the New Zealand system of Land Taxation and Land Purchase and Subdivision, and Advances to Set tiers Act, shall be adopted in 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 labor find occupation in the creation of homecrofts, which will be perpetual 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. 2. 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 upon, and also of all personal property, not ex «ling $2500 in value, used on and in connection with, every Homecroft or Rural Homestead of not more than ten acres in extent, which the owner occuples as a permanent home and enitivates with his own labor and so provides therefrom all or part of the support for a family. ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING. That the National Government, part of a comprehensive nation. policy of internal lmprovements for river contrel and regulation, and for the enlargement to the utinost possible extent of the area of the country available for agri culture and Homes on the Land, and for the protection of those Homes from either flood or drouth, shall build not only levees and revetments where needed, and drainage works for the reclamation of swamp and overflowed lands, but shall also preserve existing forests, reforest denuded areas, plant new forests, and bulld the great reser. o i ae al RECLAMATION AND SETTLE- MENT OF THE ARID LANDS, 5. That the National Government wil ld the tigation works interest, and that the construction of the great Irrigation works necossary for the utilization of the waters of such large Temi aa 10 Seri ray utilized In small farms b a settlers and homemakers, who will re municipal, | Author of ** The American Citizen" “1 of the prese THERE IS IN IT THE INSPIRATION OF HICH AND PATRIOTIC IDEALS It shed common-sense nation to-day "he Religion of a Gentleman;” ‘The Spirit of Democracy,” etc. HIS remarkably interesting and stimulating book has been everywhere welcomed the thought Most t day as a valuable con- ribution to t. bn in its upon the conditions that confront the ght, clear and convincing, ptimism, y. Everyone who reads it will go forward with a ion of the fut of our country and with renewed and faith in THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE. Theodore C. Wil late Master of the Hackley New York, in a San Frau isco $ that “ ht with a transparent simplicity ly readable It 81 It has the rare eloquence of perfect ease and clearness.” ur uic learer vis courage ams, School, it gives the and charm pape Tr, de clares profoundest th that it friend, The Lon Hy oe make universal eaks as a fnend toa don Spectator calls it “a healthy and virile 3 The Bradford (England) Observer, speaking of its reality and reasonableness, says it is “ a very revelation.” These are only a few from hundreds of encomiums com. mending the book for its timeliness. It should be read by all who fecl the pressure of 3 THE TREMENDOUS SOCIAL QUESTIONS OF OUR TIME. ice twenty-five cents (postage included). Remit by order or postage stamps, the Talisman, Publishers of [HE COMING PEOPLE” wirsrows. ws WATERTOWN, MASS. QEEING |S BELIEVING IT IS NOT AN EASY MATTER to make a million people believe that so good a magazine as Maxwell's Homemaker Mag- agine canbe published for ten cents a year, But we are doing it because the magazine ; —— speaks for itself and tells its own story, postal money order, expres to The Homecrofters Gild of 1] S money A ° — a Here is what one of our subscribers at Crockett, Texas, wrnies ‘The March number of your excellent magazine is before me. It is certainly filled with helpful articles, and I would be glad to know that every family in Texas had the benefit of its teachings. The first article in this number, * A Homecrofter's Garden,’ should be preserved for reference. Tur Arnaz * Hearts ix Tie HoMR," IF CAREFULLY FOLLOWED, WOULD SAVE SICKNESS IN EVERY FAMILY. Anything that 1 can do to assist you in extending your circulation in Texas will be gladly done,” Our circulation has grown so satisfactorily that with the April number we were able to enlarge the magazine and add several new features, and it will continue to improve every month. If you have not yet seen the magazine, write for a free sam convince you that for only few cents a year you ie copy. Jt wil genuine value thad any other magazine that is published to every one who is really studying how to make the home life better and happier, how to lighten the housekeepers labors, how to bring up the children and keep them and the whale family well and strong all the time, and do it all on a moderate income, “The Delights of Gardening” in the April number would open the door of & new life in many a family if they would read it. And here are some of the other Departments: Stories and Sketches, Little Folks ia the Home, Home The Home Garden, Garden Noles, Editorial Comment Study, Music in the Home, Entertainiog in the Home, Care of the Home, Health in the Home, Home Cooking, Bailding the House (with plan and design for a cottage home), Home Haadicraft, Home You will get this April number and in addition Oxx Wrnove Yean's Susscuirrion, covering twelve copies of the magazine, one each month for twelve months, if you or [orl pat ons dilkie ch Jiu: doe ‘cont thumps inion with MAXWELL HOMEN ARAL address (write GAZINE, 1400 Fisher Building, Ghienge, ftto M Do. It Now—Don't. Delay
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