The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05
PAYROLL Of
MET
BY FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
BY Peter RaGforS

LIT GCATST NdIltUdl Il e. LLlS-~ Ce-A-AA
The farmer is the paynaaster OF
industry and as such he must meet
the nations rryroll. When industry
pays it's bill it must make a sight
draft upon agriculture for the amount,
which the farmer Il compelled to
honor without protest. This check
drawn upon agriculture may travel to
and fro over the highway OF COM
merce; may build cities; glrdle the
! globe with bands of steel; may search
hidden treasures in the earth or
traverse the skies, but in the end 1t
Wi. rest upon the soil. No Collar
will remain suspended in midair; it is
as certain to seek the earth's surface
as an apple that falls from tree.
When farmer buys plow 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 usefu,ness, the railroad that
tran ported it and the dealer who
sold LIN the goods. He pays the
wages of labor and capital employed
in tho transaction as we'll as pays
for tie tools. machinery, Buildings,
ETC., used in the construction CT the
commodity and the same applies to
all articles OF use and d,ct Of him.
self and those engaged II the sub
sidiary lines Of industry.
There 10 I'D payroll IL civilization
Inn hack
, of the farmer. He must pay the bills
all Of them.
The total value OF the aation's
annual agricultural products is around
S12,0O0,00 900, and It is safe to esti'
mato that IS cents ca every dollar
, goes to meeting the expenses Of sub.
sidiary industries. TIC farmer does
: not work more than thirty minutes
per day for Himself; the remaining
thirteen hours Of the days toll he
, devotes 70 meeting the payroll of the
4 hired hands Cf agriculture, such as
, the manufac t1rer, railroad, CONNER
: cial and other servants.
:. The Earma.'s Payroll and How He
Q Meets 1t.
$ The annual payroll Of agriculture
Q approximate5 s12,Cco,0o0,O0o. A por.
ton Of the amount is shifted to for
Y eign countries in exports, but the
g total payroll OF industries working for
the farmer divides substantially as
y follows: Railroads, $1,252, 100000;
y manufacturers. $4,365,000,000; mining,
Q s655, 100000; banks, $200,OO0,O00;
e mercantile $3,500,OO0,000, and heavy
a miscellaneous payroll constitutes the
d remainder.
y It takes the corn crop. the most
II valuable in agriculture, which sold
70 last year for $1,692, 100000, to pay OF
the employees Of the railroads; the
money derived from our annual sales
of livestock Of approximately $4,000,
10000, the yearly cotton crop, valued
9 at S920,000,000; the wheat crop
. which Is worth 500, 100000, and the
J oat crop, that is worth $44O,OO0,OOO
, are required to meet the annual pay
J. roll OF tho manufacturers. The
! money derived from the remaining
= staple crops Is used in meeting the
J" payroll of the bankers, merchants
g. etc. After these obligations are paid
II the farmer has only few punches o
s. vegetables, some fruit and poultr!
Il which he can sell and call the pro
u ceeds his own.
r When the farmer pays of his hell
- he has very little left and to NEE
ID these tremendous payrolls he ha
- been forced to mortgage homes, worl
r. women in the field and increase tn
a. hours of his labor. We. are, there
m fore, compelled to call upon all In
re- dustries dependent upon the farmer
9 for subsistence to retrench in thei
u expenditures and to cut off all ur
g necessary expenses. This course
n absolutely necessary in order to avoi
q a reduction in wages, and we wan
., II possible, to retain the present wag
st scale paid railroad and all other II
10 dustrial employees
OF We will devote this article to
10 discussion of unnecessary expense
and whether required by law or pc
~ mlited by the arrangements OF tn
ht concerns, is wholly immaterial. W
az want all waste labor and extrav'
sl' gance, of whatever character, cut GU
We will mention the full crew bill