f any
productive property." He remarked in the Convention that the most
prominent French Marxists, Guesde and Lafargue, had approved the action
of the recent French Socialist Congress, which had "guaranteed the
peasant ownership of his farm," but he would not accept this action as
good Socialism. Mr. Berger offered the same criticism of the French
Socialists, and added that the guarantee would not be worth anything in
any case, because our grandchildren would not be ruled by it.

However, there is a minority ready to compromise everything in this
question. Of all American States, Oklahoma has been the one where
Socialists have given the closest attention to agricultural
problems. The Socialists have obtained a considerable vote in every
county of this agricultural State, and with 20,000 to 25,000 votes
they include a considerable proportion of the electorate. It is
true that their platform, though presented at the last national
convention, has not been passed upon, and may later be disapproved
in several important clauses, but it is important as showing the
farthest point the American movement has gone in this direction.
Its most important points are:--

The retention and _constant enlargement of the public domain_.

By retaining school and other public lands.

By purchasing of arid and overflow lands and the State reclamation
of all such lands now held by the State or that may be acquired by
the State.

By the purchase of all lands sold for the non-payment of taxes.

Separation of the department of agriculture from the political
government.

Election of all members and officers of the Board of Agriculture by
the direct vote of the actual farmers.

Erection by the State of grain elevators and warehouses for the
storage of farm products; these elevators and warehouses to be
managed by the Board of Agriculture.

Organization by the Board of Agriculture of free agricultural
education and the establishment of model farms.

Encouragement by the Board of Agriculture of cooeperative societies
of farmers--

For the buying of seed and fertilizers.

_For the purchase and common use of implements and machinery._

For the preparing and sale of produce.

Organization by the State of loans on mortgages and warehouse
certificates, the interests charges t