The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-03-11
PAYROLL OF
MET
BY FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
A CALL UPON TIE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
BY Peter Rs dford

by FElCf Fe1FOI9
Lecturer National Farmers Union
The farmer is the paymaster OF
industry and as such he must meet
the nations payroll When industry
Days It's DILL il must make 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 II
viii rest upon the soil No dollar
will remain suspended in mdair II IS
as certain to seek the earths surface
as an apple that falls from a tree
When farmer buys pillow he pays
the mau who mined the metal the
w0odman who felled the tree the
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped II into an ar
ticle of usefulness the railroad that
transported 1t and the dealer who
sold him the goods He pays the
wages OF labor ana capital employed
in the transaction as we'll as pays
for the tools, machinery buildings,
etc used in the construction of the
commodity and the same applies to
all articles OF use and diet OF MIN
self and those engaged IN the sub
sidiary lines of industry
There ls no payroll In civilization
that does not rest upon the back
OF the farmer He must pay the bills
all OF them
annual agricultural products is around
/ 1000 100000 and 1t Is safe to esti.
4 mate that So cents on every dollar
! goes 10 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
devotes to meeting the payroll OF the
hired hands OF agriculture such as
the manufacturer railroad, CONNER
clal and other servants
The Farmers Payroll and How He
Meets Il.
The annual payroll Of agriculture
approximatos $4,000, 100000 A pur
ton OF the amount is shifted to for
eign countries in exports but the
total payroll OF industries working for
the farmer divides substantially as
follows Railroads Sl,25200O 900,
manufacturers $4,365, 900 mining,
$685.. 000.0 900; banks 100000, 900,
mercantile $500. 900 900 and heavy
miscellaneous payroll constitutes the
remainder
II takes the corn crop the most
valuable in agriculture, which sold
last year for 1882, 100000, to pay of
the employees of the railroads; the
. money derived from our annual sales
Of livestock of approximately $4,000,
100000. the yearly cotton crop, valued
at S920.000,000; the wheat crop,
which is worth $6t0000.0O0 and the
! oat crop that is worth SAC, 900, 900.
l are required to meet the annual pay
roll OF the manufacturers The
, money derived from the remaining
staple crops Is used In meeting the
payroll OF the bankers, merchants,
etc. After these obligations are paid,
g the farmer has only few lunches OF
n vegetables some fruit and poultry
which he can sell and call the pro.
ceeds his own.
] When the farmer pays Of his help
! he has very little left and to meet
these tremendous payrolls he mas
been forced To mortgage homes work
women in the field and increase the
0 hours Of his labor We are there.
9 fore compelled to call upon all IN.
: dustries dependent upon the farmers
. for subsistence to retrenCh IN their
p. expenditures and TO cut OF ali IN.
= necessary expenses This course is
absolutely necessary III order to avoid
reduction in wages. and We want
I n possible to retain the present wage
j.. scale paid railroad and all other in.
+. dusIrial employees
; We viii devote this article to a
n discussion Of unnecessary expenses
and whether required by Law OF ner.
mitJed by the mana ements OF the
concerns ls wholly ummaterial We
= want all waste labor aud eNfrava
Eancs Of whatever character. cut out
, Ne viii mention the fun crew dill as