The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-01-29
PAYROLL Of
CIVILIZATION MET.
BY FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
BY Peter Radford
y GSSI VNuUTVTU
Lecturer National Farmers Union

Lecturer National Farmers Union
The farmer is the paymaster OF
industry and as such he must meet
the nations payroll When industry
pays its bill it must make a sight
draft upon agriculture for the amount,
which the farmer is compelled to
honor without protest This check
drawn upon agriculture may travel to
and fro over the highways of COM
merce; may build cities; girdle the
globe with bands of steel; may search
hidden treasures in the earth or
traverse the skies, but in the end it
will rest upon the soil No dollar
will remain suspended in midair; it is
as certain to seek the earth's surface
as an apple that falls from a tree
When farmer buys a pillow he pays
the man who mined the metal. the
woodman who felled the tree, the
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped it into an ar
ticle OF usefulness, the railroad that
transported it and the dealer who
sold him the goods He pays the
wages OF labor and capital employed
in the transaction as well as pays
for the tools machinery. buildings,
etc. used in the construction of the
commodity and the same appliea to
all articles of use and diet of him.
self and those engaged in the sub
sidiary lines of industry.
There is no payroll In civilization
that does not rest upon the back
of the farmer He must pay the bills
all of them
The total value of the nations
annual agricultural products is around
$l2 O0O,O00,00O, and it is safe to esti.
mate that 95 cents on every dollar
goes to meeting the expenses of sub
s1diary industries The farmer does
not work more than thirty minutes
per day for himself; the remaining
thirteen hours of the days toll he
deVotes to meeting the payroll of the
hired hands of agriculture, such as
the manufacturer, railroad, CONNER.
cial and other servants.
The Farmers Payroll and How He
Meets 1t.
The annual payroll of agriculture
opportunities $12,0OO,OOO,OOO. A por.
ion of the amount is shifted to for.
'ign countries in exports, but the
otal payroll of industries working for
he farmer divides substantially as
ollows: Railroads, $1,252, 100000;
manufacturers. $4,365, 900; mining.
655,OOO,OOO; banks, $20O.OO0,OO0;
mercantile $3,500,000, 900, and a heavy
payroll constitutes the
1t takes the corn crop the most
aluable in agriculture, which sold
asst year for 1892, 100000, to pay off i
ne employees of the railroads; the
honey derived from our annual sales
livestock of approximately $4,000
100000, the yearly cotton crop, valued
$92O,OOO,OOO; the wheat crop.
hich is worth s61O,OOO.OOO, and the !,
at crop, that is worth $440,O00,OOO.
re required to meet the annual paw.
oil OF the manufacturers. The
loney derived from the remaining
APPLE crops is used in meeting the
ayroll OF the bankers, merchants.
C. After these obligations are paid.
lie farmer has only few lunches of
egetables, some fruit and poultry
hich he can sell and call the pro.
eeds his own.
when the farmer pays off his helm
has very little left and to meet
ese tremendous payrolls he has
zen forced to mortgage homes. work
omen in the field and increase the
ours of his labor We are. there.
re. compelled to call upon all in.
lstries dependent upon the farmers
r subsistence to retrench in their
pendituTes and to cut off all un.
eessary expenses This course is
necessary in order to avoid
reduction in wages, and we want
possible, to retain the present wage
ale paid railroad and all other in.
strial employees
We will devote this article to a
of unnecessary expenses
d whether required by law or per
tied by the arrangements of the
ncerns, is wholly immaterial We
mt all waste labor and extraya.
nee. of whatever character. cut out
will mention the full crew bill as