Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-17
PAYROLL OF
NET
BY FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
"A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
BY Peter Radford

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 tree.
When a 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 il 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
Tor the tools, machinery, buildings,
etc, used in the construction of the
commodity and the same applies 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 resi- 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
$4,000, 000, 900, and 1t Is safe to esti-
mate that 95 cents on every dollar
goes to meeting the expenses of sub
sidiary industries The farmer does
not work. more than thirty minutes
per day for himself the remaining
thirteen hours OF the days toll he
hired hands of agriculture. sueh as
the manufacturer, railroad. CONNER.
cial and other servants.
Tho Farmers Payroll and How He
Meets II
The annual payroll of agriculture
approximates s12,000,00D 900. A por
ton OF the amount is shifted to for
eign countries in exports, but tnt
total payroll of industries working fol
the farmer divides substantially as
follows: Railroads. $1.252, 600. 900;
manufacturers, $4,365, 900 .000 mining
$685., 100000; banks, 100000, 900
mercantile $2,5OO,OOO. 600, ana neav,
miscellaneous payroll constitutes thu
remainder.
1t takes the corn crop. the mos
valuable in agriculture, which solt
last year for $l,692,OOO,000 to pay of
the employees of the railroads; thu
money derived from our annual sale
of livestock of approximately $4,000
100000, the yearly cotton crop. valued
at $4,000 600; the wheat crop
which is worth 500, 900. 900. and tn
oat crop, that is worth $40 600 0oC
are required to meet the annual pay
roll OF the manufacturers. Tn
money derived from the remaining
staple crops in used in meeting tn
payroll of the bankers. merchants
etc. After these obligations are paid
the farmer has only few bunches Q
vegetables. some fruit and poultr
which he can sell and call the pre-
ceeds his own.
When the farmer pays of his hel
he has very little left and TO NEE
these tremendous payrolls he ha
been forced TO mortgage homes. wor
women in the field and increase tn
hours of his labor We are, there
fore, compelled to call upon all II
dustries dependent upon the farmer
for subsistence to retrench in thei
expenditures and to- cut OF all vi
necessary expenses. This course
absolutely necessary in order to avoi
n reduction In wagos, and we wan
Ia possible. 10 retain tlAe present was
lscale paid railroad ami all other Il
aRatTiAi emRAsEoA