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4. To provide equal educational opportunities 

 for all the children of all the people, by greatly 

 extending and improving educational facilities 

 in the rural districts. 



5. To substitute for the policy of expensive 

 Provincial highways, a policy of organized 

 continuous road maintenance, and of making 

 good roads for all rather than high-grade roads 

 for a few, the cost of road construction and 

 maintenance being equitably distributed be- 

 tween city and country. 



6. To promote a system of forestry which will 

 maintain and increase the public revenue from 

 this source, protect and perpetuate our forest 

 resources, re-forest the waste places of Old 

 Ontario, and encourage municipalities to engage 

 in forestation enterprises. 



7. To encourage and cheapen Hydro Electric 

 development and maintain effective public con- 

 trol over it. 



8. To enact and enforce such prohibitory 

 legislation against the liquor traffic as the people 

 may sanction in the approaching referendum 

 and as lies within the power of the Province. 

 Prohibition is an integral part of the Farmers' 

 Platform, and the U.F.O. will use its influence in 

 that direction. 



9. To extend the policy and practice of Direct 



