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WEEKLY JOURNAL OF CHEERFUL COMMENT
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MARCH .10, 1911
Stato Historical Society
A SOLEMN PLATFORM PLEDGE
To the Democratic Members of the
Nebraska Legislature:
The democratic platform of 1908,
and the democratic platform of 1910,
each contained a plank pledging of the
party, if given the lawmaking power in
this state, to establish in southwestern
Nebraska a State Agricultural School.
The platform pledge of 1908 was not
carried out.
It remains to be seen whether the
democratic majority in the present legis
lature will carry out a similar pledge
made in the platform adopted at Grand
Island.
There are many reasons why this
pledge should be fulfilled. Two only
need to be given. First, the democratic
party should carry out its platform pro
mises and pledges. Second, the people
of southwestern Nebraska, where clim
atic and soil conditions are different from
other sections of the state, are entitled
to a school that will teach the young
men and women how best to till that
soil, how to select the best seeds, etc.
The greatest educational asset of
this state is the Agricultural School at
Lincoln, where young men and women
are not only taught the classics, but are
also taught what to do to make a living
and how live. Too much attention can
not be given to education of this kind.
Let us have schools that will fit the young
men and women to fight the battle' of
life on equal terms; teach them how to
be producers instead of drones and
leeches upon society.
Democrats of the Nebraska Legis
lature, your duty to your party, to your
selves as men and to your state, demand
that you carry out the solemn pledge
of your party and establish an agricul
tural school in southwestern Nebraska.
A party is known, not by the pledges it makes,
but by the pledges it carries out to the letter.
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