The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-01-15
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 Radford
Lecturer National Farmers Unto

Lecturer National Farmers Union
The farmer is the paymaster OF
industry and as such he must meet
the nations payroll. When industry
pays it's bill it 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 it
will rest upon the soil. No dollar
will remain suspended in midair; ii is
as certain to seek the earth's surface
as an apple that falls from tree
When farmer buys 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 applies to
all articles of use and diet of him
self and those engaged in the SUBJ
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
$12,O00,0 100000, and 1t is safe to esti-
mate that 50 cents on every dollar
goes to meeting the expenses of SUBJ
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
cial and other servants.
The Farmers Payroll and How He
Meets Il.
The annual payroll OF agriculture
approximates $12,009,90 1000 A por-
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, $1,252 900, 900;
manufacturers, $4,365, 900, 900; mining,
s655, 100000; banks, 100000, 900 !;
mercantile $3,500,000, 900, and a heavy
miscellaneous payroll constitutes the
remainder
1t takes the corn crop, the most
valuable in agriculture, which sold
last year for 1882. 100000. to pay Off
money derived from our annua. sales
of livestock of approximately $4,000
100000, the yearly cotton crop. valued
at $920,000,000; the wheat crop
which is worth $610,000,0O0, and the
oat crop, that is worth $44O,000,0 900
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
the farmer has only few lunches OF
vegetables. some fruit and poultry
which he can sell and call the pro
ceeds his own.
When the farmer pays off his hell
he has very little left and to mee
these tremendous payrolls he has
been forced to mortgage homes. wori
women in the field and increase the
hours of his labor. We are. there
fore, compelled to call upon all in
dusfries dependent upon the farmers
for subsistence to retrench In thei
expenditures and to cut off all un
necessary expenses. This course il
absolutely necessary in order to avoi'
a reduction in wages, and we want
! If possible, to retain the present wag
scale paid railroad and all other in
\ dustrial employees.
We will devote this article to
discussion of unnecessary expense
and whether required by law or pei
/ mitted by the arrangements of tn
a concerns, is wholly immaterial. w
d want all waste labor and sextrav'
o gance, of whatever character. cut on
Q We will mention the full crew bill