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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 



for a few, the cost of road construction and 

 maintenance being equitably distributed beV 

 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. 



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7. To encourage and cheapen Hydro Electric,/ 



development and maintain effective public con- 

 trol over it. 



8. To enact and enforce such J^ohibitor^ * 

 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 - 



